Though Côte d’Ivoire’s economy improved in 2025, the country faced major social, security, and nutrition challenges, especially in the north. Forced displacement from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Ghana placed increased pressure on local resources and services, while the Tchologo and Bounkani regions experienced food insecurity, water stress, and restricted essential services.

Acute child malnutrition, waterborne diseases, and insufficient safe drinking water remained serious issues.

Despite these challenges, joint efforts by national authorities and partners including Action Against Hunger gradually improved the coverage and quality of essential servicesthrough an integrated multisectoral response to strengthen communities’ long-term resilience.

This included supporting health, nutrition, WASH, and mental health services, as well as gender equality and food security, and reaching host households and refugees through targeted distributions, community capacity-building, and local coordination mechanisms.

Our projects helped empower women and adolescent girls and improved Health and Nutrition services in Tchologo, while our Yèrètali project helped strengthen household resilience in Bounkani through helping young people integrate socially and economically, listening points, and direct support to communities hosting refugees from Ghana and Burkina Faso. In Abidjan, we helped reinforce priority sanitation infrastructure.

Overall, Action Against Hunger supported more than 20,000 children through nutritional assessments, provided several thousand women with sexual and reproductive healthcare, and strengthened the livelihoods of households through savings groups, income-generating activities, and community initiatives.

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