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Fields of action

Our fields of action

In the service of the common good

Inades-Formation works on four (4) fields of action which are: Food systems based on family farming , community microfinance , inclusive governance and resilience to climate change .

Family Farming Food Systems

Since its general assembly in 2013, Inades-Formation has taken a position in favor of food sovereignty and has chosen to promote food systems based on family farming .

Food systems based on family farming produce and make accessible food resources that are healthy for all, produced according to methods of sustainable and responsible exploitation of natural resources. They take into account the well-being and dignity of producers, processors, traders, consumers, rural and urban, men and women. They favor self-determination and promote the redistributive local economy.

Family farming is a sustainable solution in a world where nearly 811 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition (2021 estimates), paradoxically including small farmers and

women farmers victims of the global system based on agro-industry and the search for profit and the grabbing of common goods by a minority. Read more…

Community microfinance

Inades-Formation works alongside disadvantaged populations, particularly rural populations, to find solutions allowing them to access financial savings and credit services. Indeed, these populations do not have access to conventional banking services and classic microfinance, the conditions and service offers of which are beyond their reach.

Thus, among these solutions, is the establishment of self-managed community microfinance structures in a spirit of financial solidarity, making it possible to mobilize savings at the local level, grant loans at a lower cost and offer various other financial services.

Inades-Formation has set up a microfinance model called the Solidarity and Development Fund (Fonsdev) that it experiments with the communities in which it operates. He is also experimenting with GECs and other community microfinance products. Read more…

Inclusive governance

For the past two decades, the countries of Africa south of the Sahara have embarked on the path of decentralization and local development. This should lead to the establishment of decentralized local communities with a view to shared management of local affairs by the State and civil society.

The observation is that the entrenchment of the development of democracy, the establishment of participatory development management, the emergence of active citizenship, the stimulation of local development and the self-promotion of populations do not have not yet systematically had their place. This favors the persistence of major challenges to be overcome, including rampant poverty, food insecurity, famine, climate change, degradation of natural heritage, financial crises and 

energy, soaring prices of agricultural products (especially food), the privatization of living organisms, etc. Inclusive governance is essential to build societies for equitable development and reduce social inequalities.

Thus, by investing in the field of inclusive governance, Inades-Formation promotes the implementation of mechanisms that guarantee good living together at the level of local authorities and interdependence between them. Read more…

Resilience to climate change

Climate change directly affects the food security and sovereignty of populations in Africa and influences living conditions. Its effects are more and more visible in Africa with droughts, floods, rising temperatures, etc. and makes already disadvantaged communities even more vulnerable.

Communities in Africa need to develop their resilience to climate change but also must work to slow down this climate change.

With the structuring program on “climate change”, Inades-Formation intends to give priority to anything that strengthens the creativity of 

communities to shocks and the effects of climate change. Read more…

For a prosperous and influential rural world

Serving the rural world

Since 1975 Inades-Formation has been dedicated to training farmers.

With its vision of contributing to the advent of a prosperous and influential peasant world, and its mission is to work for the social and economic promotion of the populations, by attaching particular importance to their free and responsible participation in the transformation of their societies

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Resilience to climate change

The Climate Change Program:

  • Ensures the maintenance and restoration of plant and animal diversity to ensure the functionality of nature including soil productivity;
  • Promotes initiatives that reduce practices and products that cause greenhouse gas emissions and water and soil pollution;
  • Promotes the development of rural areas for the preservation and restoration of biodiversity and sustainable soil fertility;
  • Promotes the optimal use of water for agricultural and pastoral purposes 26 ;
  • Cultivates responsibility, environmental education, intergenerational solidarity, and citizen awareness at all ages and at the individual and community levels on environmental issues;
  • Promotes entrepreneurship and consumption of local products known for their adaptation to climate change in order to create socio-economic activities to strengthen community resilience;

Actions or alternatives to be supported and/or developed:

  • Community education on environmental management;
  • Rainwater harvesting and management systems;
  • Community dimension of contour and watershed management;
  • Recycling of waste to produce energy (biogas31 ) and manure;
  • Measures to reduce the use of wood-based energy by using appropriate equipment, particularly those that use solar energy;
  • Action research on the valorization of products adapted to the effects of climate change: adoption of drought tolerant varieties and breeds, and large-scale consumption (different dishes) of their products;
  • Promotion of Green CollectiveEntrepreneurship through working groups on the marketing of products from drought-tolerant local breeds/plants

Inclusive governance

The Inclusive Governance program addresses the issues of people’s participation in the management of local affairs.

It is based on the participatory adoption of rules and the systematization of bottom-up mechanisms for citizen consultation in the area of sustainable management of common goods and initiatives that promote sustainable local and global development. The exercise of the different measures (entrepreneurship, infrastructure development, exercise of citizens’ rights and duties, preservation of the management of common goods) is part of the territorial development perspective. Inclusive governance ensures the self-determination of the different communities in terms of development models and the risk of privatization of common goods.

Alternatives to be supported and developed to achieve this

Inades-Formation is therefore working to stimulate and support the development of, among others :

  • Inclusive models of management of strategic commons;
  • Concerted landscape planning and inclusive development of territories;
  • Inclusive models of rural entrepreneurship;
  • Prospective laboratory on the inclusive local economy;
  • Alternative energies;
  • Models of citizen participation in the management of public affairs, planning and management of budgets of decentralized entities through Observatories of Development and Action of Decentralized Administrations;
  • Citizen participation in the control of administrative and democratic governance.

Community microfinance

With community microfinance,financial instruments are used for equitable and sustainable community development by:

  • Offering adapted and accessible financial services to people excluded from the traditional financial system, either individually or in communities;
  • Contributing to local development actions;
  • Promoting the transfer and sharing of financial resources;
  • Building responsible partnerships with other development actors.

Alternatives to be supported and/or developed

  • Research and innovation for the diversification of alternative models of community financing;
  • Designing, testing and disseminating new rural and urban financing alternatives; Large-scale promotion of FONSDEV and GEC;
  • Large-scale promotion of FONSDEV and GEC;
  • Promotion of investments in agriculture and diversification of products adapted to populations excluded from the traditional financial system;
  • Development of community and micro-financial education;
  • Research and innovation for the development of spaces of reflection on the alternative economy;
  • Promotion of the entrepreneurship of youth, women and disabled people in family agriculture and other economic and social sectors;
  • Advocacy for a regulation adapted to community microfinance structures;
  • Implementation of new rules of economic and social management favorable to the development of financial solidarity in the communities

Family Farming Food Systems

In the field of action “food systems based on family farming“, Inades-Formation intends to stimulate and support the development of food systems characterized by:

  • Sustainable production (from an ecological, economic, social and cultural point of view), in sufficient quantity and quality of resources for the healthy and sustainable diet of populations both in cities and in the countryside;
  • The efficient distribution and responsible consumption of food resources in both cities and the countryside;
  • Concern for the “common good” – well-being and a dignified life for all;
  • Citizen control of policies, standards and rules for the production, distribution and consumption of food resources as well as policies for access to and use of essential productive resources (land, seeds, water, knowledge and know-how, information, funding, etc.).

Alternatives to support and develop to achieve this

Inades-Formation develops programs on:

  • agro-ecology to preserve productive potential for current and future generations
  • service centers in collective agricultural entrepreneurship (ECAGRI) to promote the local and redistributive economy
  • the MIS Self-managed by the stakeholders for the participatory control of the market of agricultural products
  • Indicators and tools for improving the organizational, economic, social and environmental performance of farmers’ organizations “IOP”
  • Farmer Audit to improve performance in management and administration within farmer organizations
  • Peasant Seed Entrepreneurship “ESP” to promote peasant control over seeds
  • Sovereign food to preserve the food diversity of populations
  • Youth and Women Entrepreneurship in Family Farming
  • contribution to national, regional and international reflections and campaigns aimed at promoting alternatives to agribusiness

The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee has the most extensive powers on behalf of the National Association in matters of administration. In particular, it has the powers of :

  • Appoint the Director of the National Office and submit it to the approval of the President of the International Association;
  • Ensure the application of the decisions of the General Assembly;
  • Approve the action plan;
  • Approve the Annual Work Plan (PTA) and the corresponding budget;
  • Approve agreements with the International Association;
  • Request audits and assessments;
  • Appoint co-evaluators, as well as co-auditors for management audits;
  • Follow the recommendations of audits and evaluations;
  • Decide on the evaluation of the National Association and the evaluation of the Director of the National Office in consultation with the President of the International Association;
  • Examine the balance sheets and accounts and submit them for the approval of the General Assembly.

NB: The Executive Committee may, as needed, create one or more committees for the finances, the activities of the association or any other object of its choice.

ABCD2 project

Projet ABCD-Un élève un arbre COP28

1. Project title

Supporting the scaling-up of community experiences and citizen monitoring of public policies in response to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (ABCD 2 project)

2. Summary

The project to scale up community experiences and dynamics of citizen monitoring of public policies in the face of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa is the continuation of an initial project to capitalize on these experiences.

In fact, in 2022, with funding from the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation (ABCD), Inades-Formation carried out the project “Study-capitalization of best practices in the face of the challenges of climate change and local governance in sub-Saharan Africa “This project capitalized on 50 experiences, including 31 on adaptation to climate change and 19 on governance, in 11 sub-Saharan African countries.

Based on the results of this pilot project, we have been able to identify and capitalize on some of the living realities of community efforts to combat the problems posed by climate change in Africa. They have been developed by a variety of players, including public services specializing in environmental and climate change management, civil society organizations and farmers’ organizations.

This second phase of the project, which will run for 30 months (2022-2024), aims to (i) scale up these good experiences developed by communities in African countries, in terms of adaptation, mitigation and resilience to climate change and of (ii) support the dynamics of citizen monitoring of the associated policy and regulatory frameworks.

3. General objective

Contribute to the fight against global warming, through the large-scale promotion of local experiences and concerted policy measures relating to adaptation, mitigation and resilience mechanisms for vulnerable populations, especially rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa.

4. Specific objectives

  • Scale up the good experiences developed by communities in African countries, in terms of adaptation, mitigation and resilience in the face of climate change.
  • Support the dynamics of citizen monitoring of related policy and regulatory frameworks

5. Completion period: June 2022 to November 2024

6. Project area

The project is being carried out in 11 countries: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, DR Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Togo.

7. Financial partner

Basque Agency for Cooperation and Development (ABCD)

9. Implementation partners

17 local development organizations with projects that will replicate the good experiences capitalized on in phase 1 of the project. They were selected on the basis of the evaluation criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, sustainability and gender equity, following a call for projects launched by Inades-Formation.

List of organizations and their projects

N°

Country

Organization

Project title

1

Burkina Faso

WMU-CDN

Strengthening women’s resilience to climate change by promoting agroecological practices. Case study of the agroecological farm run by the women of the Union des Groupements Féminins Ce Dwane Nyee (UGF/CDN), Sanguie province, Centre West region, Burkina Faso.

2

Burkina Faso

Inades-Formation Burkina

Strengthening eco-citizenship through environmental education for pupils in the commune of Arbollé in the northern region of Burkina Faso

3

Burundi

Inades-Formation Burundi

Promoting environmental education in schools to tackle climate change

4

Cameroon

FAP NGO CAMEROON

Promotion of Community Initiatives to Protect Common Interest Resources in Cameroon

5

Côte d’Ivoire

CDD-CI

One pupil, one tree to combat coastal erosion and the disappearance of mangroves

6

DR Congo

UWAKI North Kivu

Projet d’appui à la valorisation des semences paysannes dans les unions de Luofu, Kipese et Lubero en territoire de Lubero au Nord-Kivu / RDC. Inspired by the experience of the Union des groupements Naam de Koumbri in Burkina Faso

7

DR Congo

ACOSYF

Grassroots environmental education to tackle climate change in the Kaziba chiefdom in DR Congo

8

Kenya

Inades-Formation Kenya

The scaling up of experiences developed by communities and the dynamics of school-based re-afforestation initiatives to address climate change in Kenya

9

Rwanda

RECOR Rwanda

Affordable solar pumps for small-scale irrigation, a revolutionary technology to help farmers increase their resilience capacity to climate change issues in Rwanda

10

Rwanda

Inades-Formation Rwanda

Replication of the practice of grafting fruit trees to increase the resilience of farmers in the Bugesera district to climate change.

11

Senegal

7A MAA REWEE

Project to promote agro-biodiversity conservation through capacity building and documentation of local seed varieties in Senegal

12

Tanzania

Inades-Formation Tanzania

Promotion of community seed banks for the conservation of agro-biodiversity through capacity building and documentation of local seed varieties in Kondoa and Chemba Districts of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”.

13

Chad

Inades-Formation Chad

Promotion of seed banks, Scaling up the Seeds Savers Network /Kenya experience

14

Chad

ATASANPE Chad

Expand the “One student, one tree” project developed by ACOSYF RD Congo

15

Togo

APAD International Togo

The governance of protected areas: The case of the Agou mountainsides in Togo

16

Togo

Inades-Formation Togo

Continuous and competitive integrated family farming systems for farmer resilience to climate change in Tchamba 2 commune

17

Togo

JVE Togo

Governance of local seed systems among women’s cooperatives in the Assimé classified forest for climate resilience

ACF-AO project

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1. Project title

Feminist Climate Action Project – West Africa ACF-AO

2. Summary

The “Feminist Climate Action in West Africa” project is being implemented in Côte d’Ivoire to contribute effectively to the resilience and fight against the effects of climate change by ecologically sensitive coastal and island communities, with a particular focus on rural women and young people.

It will build the capacity of communities, particularly women and young people, to implement strategies to protect biodiversity and ecosystems, notably through the adoption of agroecological practices, energy diversification and advocacy. It will strengthen the participation of rural women and young people in local governance of biodiversity and climate action.

Funded by Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada, the ACF AO project is taking place in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Togo.

It is managed in Côte d’Ivoire by SUCO and Inades-Formation – Secrétariat Général.

3. Background

Climate change threatens to push nearly a million more Ivorians into extreme poverty, increase the risk of water stress, with more and more regions expected to see more than 10% of their population in water shortage, and increase the resurgence of air- and water-related diseases among susceptible populations (Nationally Determined Contributions, CDN-COTE D’IVOIRE, March 2022). According to the World Bank, by 2050, Côte d’Ivoire will face an average temperature rise of two degrees Celsius, greater rainfall variability and a 30 cm rise in sea level along the coast (World Bank, 2018a).

Climate change affects all development sectors. However, differences between men and women in their relationship with their environment, differences in the composition of economic sectors and unequal access to resources and decision-making will amplify the impacts of climate change on certain categories of the population, including women.

The “Feminist Climate Action in West Africa” project is a response to this reality.

4. General objective

Strengthening climate change adaptation by rural and indigenous women and young people in ecologically sensitive coastal and island regions of Côte d’Ivoire.

5. Specific objectives

  • Increase the influence of rural and indigenous women and young people in climate policy advocacy and in the governance of high-biodiversity ecosystems vulnerable to climate change.
  • Increase the adoption of nature-based solutions such as agroecology, ecosystem and biodiversity protection and restoration, for climate change adaptation, by rural and indigenous women and young people.
  • Strengthen the climate resilience of rural and indigenous women and young people through economic empowerment and energy diversification.

6. Completion date: 2023 - 2026

7. Target audience / beneficiaries: Young people 41% & Rural and indigenous women 59%.

8. Project area

Adiaké, Grand-Bassam, Jacqueville and Grand-Lahou.

9. Project actions

– Diagnose the obstacles and facilitating factors for the active participation of target groups in biodiversity and climate management decision-making bodies;

– Participatory diagnoses carried out by local authorities on the climatic vulnerability of ecosystems and identification of gender-sensitive adaptation measures and strategies;

– Training for rural and indigenous women and young people to strengthen and maintain their participation in decision-making bodies;

– Training of beneficiaries on climate and biodiversity conservation policies;

– Participating communities receive training in business development, inclusive value chains, cooperative management, and direct marketing.

– Village awareness-raising and training workshops on biodiversity-friendly and gender-sensitive mitigation and adaptation measures carried out in participating communities.

– Ecosystem management and development plans designed and implemented in participating communities.

– Technical and financial support to participating communities for the implementation of climate-resilient agroecological practices (micro-breeding, agroforestry, market gardening, beekeeping and oyster farming); to strengthen access to productive water, agricultural inputs and equipment; for the installation of tree nurseries and reforestation of coastal ecosystems.

– Solar and eco-energy equipment for food production, processing and preservation, and training in equipment use and maintenance.

– Women and youth networking and advocacy

– Support and strengthening of savings and credit systems provided to women’s groups.

10. Technical and financial partners

Project funded by Affaire Mondiale Canada and implemented by INTERPARES, SUCO and their partners, including Inades-Formation – Secrétariat Général pour la Cote d’Ivoire.

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