evidoria

← Back to browse

Good practice Imported

Action et Humanisme's Digital-Rights Training — Building Disability-Led Web-Accessibility Advocacy Ahead of Côte d'Ivoire's 2025 Elections

Côte d'Ivoire · Abidjan · See the Côte d'Ivoire profile · See the Abidjan profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 30% 88/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

With CIPESA's Africa Digital Rights Fund, Ivorian NGO Action et Humanisme trained 100 disability-rights activists across four regions on web-accessibility standards ahead of Côte d'Ivoire's October 2025 elections.

100 people
Disability-rights activists trained on web accessibility (2025)
Action et Humanisme's Digital-Rights Training — Building Disability-Led Web-Accessibility Advocacy Ahead of Côte d'Ivoire's 2025 Elections

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Action et Humanisme
Period
2020–2025
Keywords
digital rights, web accessibility, disability advocacy, civic participation

Context

Action et Humanisme, an Abidjan-based disability-rights NGO led by Ahouty Kouakou, has worked for over a decade on web accessibility in Côte d'Ivoire. Ahead of the country's October 2025 presidential election, CIPESA's Africa Digital Rights Fund supported the organisation in training 100 disability-rights activists across four regions — Abidjan, Gagnoa, Oumé and Agboville — on web-accessibility standards and election-period disinformation.

Activities

The organisation also ran a public workshop, 'Impulser l'accessibilité des personnes handicapées au web,' in Yopougon in May 2025, where an accessibility expert called on the state to work with the broadcasting regulator (HACA) to enforce web-design accessibility norms.

Results

Reported outcomes are participant-reported awareness gains and stronger engagement with Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalization, rather than independently measured changes in website compliance — a gap the practice itself calls out as unresolved under the country's 2024 electronic-communications law.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — A single grant-funded training initiative (100 activists across four regions) implies a low-cost, bounded programme rather than infrastructure investment.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — The specific training push was concentrated in the months before the October 2025 election, a short, time-bound initiative building on over a decade of prior organisational work.
Staffing & skills
Action et Humanisme

Conditions for success

  • CIPESA Africa Digital Rights Fund grant support
  • coordination across four regions
  • engagement with government's Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalization

Common failure modes

  • no independent evaluation of actual website-compliance changes; gap acknowledged under the 2024 electronic-communications law

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding

Indicative funding routes for practices of this type — always check each programme's current calls and eligibility rules.

Do you run this practice? Claim it — verified implementers get a public contact pathway and can propose corrections.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

Attachments

Similar practices you may find useful