The coronavirus pandemic demonstrated the crucial role of digital tools in every sector of the economy.  An Ivorian entrepreneur has decided to use those tools to improve the income of informal workers. 

Jevebara is a digital solution launched by Ivorian start-up CogIT Business, this year. It allows informal workers to find work and boost their income. 

“Our goal was to develop a solution that would help us in our daily businesses, allow everyone to find workers but also enable ‘grouilleurs’ [Ivorian slang for starters, ed. note] to prosper,” indicated CogIT founder, Louis Omgba.

The solution has a mobile app available for Android devices only. Through the app, a user can register either as a job provider or an informal worker by following dedicated steps. Once registered, job providers can post jobs and workers can select the jobs they want. The startup acts like a middleman with an escrow account, which releases the payment to the worker, once the job performed is validated. When the payment is released, the worker can then withdraw via Orange Money, MTN Mobile Money or Wave Money. Since its launch on August 27, 2022, the Jevebara Android app has been downloaded more than a thousand times with a rating score of 4.6 out of 5. 

Adoni Conrad Quenum