Akwaba Mousso

What Akwaba Mousso does

Akwaba Mousso is a Côte d'Ivoire-based non-profit association founded in November 2021 in Abidjan by a multidisciplinary group of founders including journalists, jurists, health sociologists, midwives, and gender specialists. It operates the country's first integrated services center for women and children survivors of gender-based violence, co-locating medical care (midwife, physician, gynecologist), psychosocial support, legal and judicial accompaniment, secure shelter, socio-educational activities, and economic empowerment programming within a single facility in Cocody, Abidjan. The operating model is adapted from La Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis and the Panzi Foundation and localized to Ivorian sociocultural realities, with proprietary educational tools such as the Violentomètre en Nouchi.

The organization is funded entirely through institutional grants and donations from a network of 25+ partners, including the French Embassy, UK Embassy, L'Oréal Fund for Women, UNDP, MTN Foundation, the Swiss Confederation, Australian Aid, the Commune de Cocody, and the World Bank. All services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries. Distribution is hybrid: direct in-person service delivery at the Abidjan center combined with remote intake via phone/SMS/WhatsApp/email, plus community outreach in schools, markets, workplaces, and large public events including CAN 2023 and CAN 2024 fan zones and rugby festivals. Programmatic outputs disclosed include 800+ people sensitized during CAN 2024, 224 trained on the Stand Up protocol, 224 participants at the feminist forum, 400 athletes reached at the ORCAS Rugby Festival, and 25 women in the Alpha literacy program.

Revenue is not publicly disclosed; the headcount is approximately 15 employees, and the organization is governed by a Board of Directors that is majority/100% female. There is no parent company, no subsidiaries, no disclosed funding rounds, and no M&A activity. The technology stack is conventional (CMS website, social media, mobile-money donation rails including Wave and Orange Money), with no AI/ML capability. Akwaba Mousso's primary risks are grant renewal concentration in a donor-dependent model and geographic concentration in a single Abidjan facility; its primary strengths are first-mover position, multidisciplinary clinical team, and unusually broad institutional coalition for an organization of its size.

Name

Akwaba Mousso

Legal name

Akwaba Mousso

Website

https://akwabamousso.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Akwaba Mousso operates Côte d'Ivoire's first integrated services center in Abidjan, providing free medical, psychosocial, legal/judicial, shelter, and economic empowerment support to women and children survivors of gender-based violence, funded by institutional grants and a coalition of 25+ partners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Abidjan

HQ country

Côte d’Ivoire

HQ region

Africa

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional grants and donations: Akwaba Mousso is funded primarily through grants and financial contributions from institutional partners (governments, embassies, UN agencies, foundations) and private donors. The organization receives support for center operations, specific programs, and capital expenditures.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Akwaba Mousso is an integrated services center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, providing holistic, free, confidential, and secure care to women and children survivors of gender-based violence. Its services combine medical consultations (midwife, physician, gynecologist), individual and group psychological follow-up, legal information and judicial accompaniment with lawyer support, secure shelter housing, socio-educational workshops, self-esteem activities, and economic empowerment programs through the Mousso Fariman Academy including literacy and entrepreneurship training. All services are delivered by a multidisciplinary team under one roof at the center in Cocody/Riviera Palmeraie.

Product overview

Akwaba Mousso operates a single integrated service center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, offering holistic care for women and children survivors of gender-based violence. The center is organized around three interconnected pathways: the Accès aux droits et aux soins (Access to Rights and Care) pathway providing medical, psychological, legal and judicial services; the Social pathway delivering socio-educational activities and community prevention; and the Autonomie et Réinsertion Économique (Economic Autonomy and Reintegration) pathway supporting financial independence through the Mousso Fariman Academy. These pathways are supported by additional services including a solidarity boutique, educational discussions, self-esteem workshops, and a Violentometer tool in Nouchi language. All services are provided free of charge in a secure, confidential, and welcoming environment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mousso Fariman: Autonomy and economic reintegration program for survivors of violence and vulnerable women, offering vocational training, entrepreneurship support, and literacy programs.
• Académie Mousso Fariman

Products and services

• Centre de services intégrés Akwaba Mousso Integrated service center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire providing holistic care for women and children survivors of gender-based violence. Combines medical care, psychosocial support, legal assistance, judicial accompaniment, and secure housing in one location.
• Parcours Accès aux droits et aux soins Individualized multidisciplinary care pathway offering medical consultations, psychological support, legal advice, judicial accompaniment, social support, and secure housing for women and children survivors of gender-based violence.
• Parcours Social Social pathway implementing socio-educational activities, social protection programs, and community prevention and mobilization initiatives to sensitize populations and promote sustainable change in social norms.
• Parcours Autonomie et Réinsertion Économique Economic autonomy pathway accompanying survivors and vulnerable women through literacy programs, professional insertion, income-generating activities, and women's entrepreneurship support.
• Académie Mousso Fariman Autonomy and professional reintegration academy offering multidisciplinary training adapted to each participant's level and needs, developed in collaboration with Jobo Academy and MTN Foundation.
• Boutique solidaire Solidarity boutique providing donated clothing, shoes, toys, office supplies, and food to women attending the center and shelter. Helps survivors restart with essential items and supports their professional activities.
• Causeries éducatives Educational discussion sessions providing information on women's fundamental rights, the nature and mechanisms of violence, and the impact on health and society. Conducted with credible speakers in a non-judgmental environment.
• Atelier estime de soi Self-esteem workshop in partnership with PsyTrotter, combining analysis of psychological mechanisms with practical exercises to strengthen self-esteem pillars through mirror and fan exercises.
• Foyer d'hébergement sécurisé Secure shelter providing temporary housing for the most vulnerable women and their children, with individual, family rooms and dormitories.

Quantifiable outcome

• 800+ people reached through CAN 2024 awareness campaign
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ambassade de FrancecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe French Embassy supported a major feminist NGO gathering during the 16 Days of Activism against violence against women and girls, with 17 organizations participating and 224 people sensitized to GBV.
• Association des Femmes Juristes de Côte d'Ivoire (AFJCI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAFJCI is a technical partner providing legal expertise and field knowledge to help survivors understand and defend their rights. Founded in 1984, it contributes to reducing inequalities and promoting women's and children's rights.
• Africa Forward FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfrica Forward provides community-proposed and women-led solutions for development challenges at the local level, contributing a perspective different from traditional approaches.
• Commune de CocodycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe municipality of Cocody supported the birth of Akwaba Mousso by voting a three-year subsidy, allowing the organization to establish in the Riviera Palmeraie neighborhood. It also supports solidarity events and donations.
• Collectif des Activistes de Côte d'Ivoire (CACI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAkwaba Mousso is a member of CACI, which brings together over 30 Ivorian and international organizations working to improve women's health and rights in Côte d'Ivoire. They collaborate on various projects and events promoting gender equality.
• EngenderHealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEngenderHealth works in Côte d'Ivoire since 2008, supporting the Ministry of Health and local organizations to improve sexual and reproductive health services, with a focus on comprehensive abortion care and amplifying women's and youth voices.
• La Maison des Femmes de Saint-DeniscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAkwaba Mousso came to La Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis to learn and train before opening its center. The Saint-Denis model — a medico-social unit within a hospital where healthcare workers, police, justice, therapists, artists, and athletes cooperate — inspired Akwaba Mousso, which adapted it to Ivorian realities.
• PsyTrottercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPsyTrotter is the first Ivorian virtual cabinet for psychology promotion, online consultation, and support therapies. Akwaba Mousso recruited its psychologists from PsyTrotter for daily consultations and psychological follow-up. PsyTrotter also supports prevention projects and was present at CAN 2023 fan zones.
• Association Ivoirienne pour le Bien-Être Familial (AIBEF)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAIBEF, a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation since 1979, provides sexual and reproductive health care and advocates for sexual and reproductive rights. It supports Akwaba Mousso on sexual and reproductive health themes.
• Banque Alimentaire de Côte d'IvoireminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Food Bank of Côte d'Ivoire provides food donations distributed through the solidarity canteen for survivors, the shelter where the most vulnerable reside, and to community women and survivors in extreme difficulty.
• Ministère de la Femme, de la Famille et de l'EnfantcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAkwaba Mousso has a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Women, Family and Children. Together they work to ensure the safety and care of women and children victims of GBV. They co-developed the harassment reporting module in the CAN 2023 mobile app.
• Club Abidjan Ville DurableminorGTM or Marketing PartnerThe Club Abidjan Ville Durable brings together many companies involved in Abidjan's urban development. Akwaba Mousso was rewarded by the club for its commitment to defending women's rights and caring for violence survivors, winning the first edition of their Sustainable City Social Action competition.
• Lycée Blaise PascalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA loyal partner since creation, Lycée Blaise Pascal makes food and non-food donations, mobilizes students for solidarity races, offers internships, and hosts awareness sessions on harassment and consent themes.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• La Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis: French medico-social center within a hospital where healthcare, police, justice, therapists, artists and athletes cooperate to support GBV survivors. Explicitly named as the operational inspiration for Akwaba Mousso; the founders trained there before opening the Côte d'Ivoire center.
• Panzi Foundation: DRC-based hospital and foundation founded by Dr. Denis Mukwege offering holistic medical, psychosocial, legal, and economic reintegration services to survivors of sexual violence. Named in Akwaba Mousso's value proposition as a direct model adapted for Ivorian context.
• City of Joy: Bukavu-based center, co-founded with V-Day, that provides survivor-centered healing, leadership training, and economic empowerment for women survivors of sexual violence. Cited by Akwaba Mousso as one of the three internationally recognized models that shaped its design.

Emerging players

• Women for Women International: Global nonprofit delivering a yearlong social and economic empowerment program for marginalized women, including survivors of conflict and gender-based violence. Comparable in combining economic empowerment, psychosocial support, and rights-based training with a structured cohort model.
• African Women's Development Fund: Pan-African grant-making and capacity-building organization funding women's rights organizations across Africa. Comparable as a feminist, Africa-anchored nonprofit operating on institutional grant funding with a similar theory-of-change around holistic women's empowerment.
• HEAL Africa: DRC-based NGO combining hospital-based medical care, gender-based violence response, psychosocial support, and community reintegration programs. Highly comparable integrated-service model in a similar Central/West African francophone context.

Broad incumbents

• UN Women: United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, with extensive GBV programming and partnerships in West Africa. Comparable as the largest institutional player in the same GBV response space; Akwaba Mousso already partners with UNDP and the Ivorian Ministry of Women on CAN programming.
• Médecins du Monde: International humanitarian medical organization running GBV response programs including medical, psychological, and legal support across West Africa. Comparable delivery model (multidisciplinary GBV care) and presence in francophone Africa, but at much larger scale and with a broader health mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@akwabamousso9470
• Facebookfacebook.com/AkwabaMousso
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/akwaba-mousso
• Instagraminstagram.com/akwabamousso

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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