Who are we ?
Serving common good
Presentation
Inades-Formation, an institution serving common good. Inades-Formation is a network of pan-African associations governed by Ivorian law which works for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Recognized as a public utility, it campaigns for a more egalitarian and united society, through the promotion of the common good.
We are present in ten African countries: Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Tanzania, Chad and Togo.
Its general secretariat is based in Côte d’Ivoire at Abidjan, Angré 10ième tranche – cité Grâce.
Our history
Our target audience
Our working approach
Our working approach evolves from correspondence courses in 1962 to the SAADEV method to the present day. The scale below better illustrates the evolution of our working method.
At the beginning, correspondence courses
At the time of its creation, in the 1960s, Africa’s challenge was primarily technological, for a public composed of rural adults, farmers, animators and supervisors of the rural world. The emblem of all the efforts made at that time was the red book of Agriculture, administered through correspondence courses. Each course was well thought out from the content to the methods of support for the registered participants, in a constant effort to provide the knowledge and know-how necessary for the implementation of the learners’ activities. For twenty years, these courses have effectively supported the access of many African farmers to agricultural production methods and techniques. The fame of these courses crossed the limits of the African continent, since towards the end of the 1970s, the FAO financed their translation into other languages.
The project approach and the integrated intervention program for beneficiaries’ projects (APFI)
At the start of the 1980s, the organization of the rural world became the major challenge to be met. For the next twenty years, the role of farmers and their organizations in development was to be the order of the day, with sure variations: “democracy and development, gender and development, and women’s access to the means of production and to the products of the family farm”, etc. Thus, the project approach and the approach by intervention program integrated to the beneficiaries’ projects (APFI) have been initiated and used to systematize the taking into account of the needs of the training applicants and to organize these trainings in a more coherent way and to take into account factors other than training.
… The ADOP stage: supporting peasant organizational dynamics…
The 1990s will see particular emphasis on the place of rural people in national development in terms of peasant power, with a strong political dimension. It became clear that beyond production techniques, rural actors needed multifaceted solutions in the face of development challenges that arise in economic, political, social and cultural terms. It also involved a good understanding of international influences on locally experienced issues.
The strengthening of peasant power became a key task in the actions of Inades-Formation for a sustainable development chosen by the organized peasants to take charge of their destiny.
As a result, Inades-Formation questioned its socio-political project and its development approach in relation to the evolutions of the rural world. The first results of this reflection were consecrated in 1995 and gave birth to the development approach ADOP: Accompaniment of Peasant Organizational Dynamics.
ADOP was based on the following principles :
- The centrality of the peasant
- Access to strategic resources and their control
- Strengthening the capacities of peasants
- Partnership to promote the desired changes
- Equity between social categories
- Institutional flexibility
Thus, a vast research and experimentation field has opened up, favoring the emergence of new areas of intervention, including: decentralization and local development, rural financing, rural entrepreneurship, agricultural sector, peasant communication, sustainable management of natural resources, etc. There was also the emergence of new audiences such as decentralized communities, rural communes, disadvantaged urban populations, village communities, etc.
SAADEV: a strategic approach to work for the common good
Since 2016, Inades-Formation has adopted a new work approach, more adapted to the new challenges of the world and more particularly of African societies and responses that the institution proposes: the “Stimulation and Accompaniment of Development Alternatives at the service of the common good, abbreviated “SAADEV”.
Indeed, the current development model has broken down. Dominated by liberal and neo-liberal thinking, the mechanisms on which this model functions convey evils such as individualism, competition, consumerism, accumulation of wealth, covetousness and commodification of nature’s resources, etc., and lead to the loss of values such as solidarity.
As a consequence, this model generates a society marked by :
- the poverty, more and more growing of a majority facing a minority
- a concentration of wealth in the hands of a decreasing number of people
- the increase of inequalities, social exclusion
- food insecurity
- the plundering of natural resources
- environmental degradation, climate change
- the incitement to standardize people’s lifestyles according to the market, at the expense of freedom of choice and consumer rights
- the mismanagement of public goods,
In response to these social dysfunctions, Inades-Formation proposes the choice of a society based on the search for the common good. It is therefore committed to stimulating and accompanying community development alternatives in the service of the common good.
With SAADEV, the scope of Inades-Formation’s activities has been broadened and the target audience is no longer limited to farmers.
The modalities of SAADEV: 3 modalities of application
The implementation of SAADEV is based on 3 modalities of intervention, namely :
- Co-construction and experimentation of practical initiatives in the field
- Co-construction and experimentation of practical initiatives in the field Advocacy for a favourable regulatory framework or the co-construction of values, norms, laws and rules for living together well
- The piloting of studies, research, conceptualization to support creativity, innovation and thinking on development for the common good.
An approach based on 7 foundations – The foundations of our work approach (SAADEV)
Inades-Formation’s “SAADEV” approach to work is based on 7 foundations which are :
- Solidarity ;
- Sustainability (social, ecological, environmental, economic)
- Equity between social categories;
- Citizen control ;
- Re-distributive economies;
- Openness to others, respect of cultural and religious differences;
- RAF (research-action-training).
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Governance
The General Assembly is made up of all associate members, individuals and legal entities. It meets in ordinary assembly every 3 years.
The International Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the International Inades-Formation Association known as the International Board of Directors is made up of a president, representatives of national member associations and elected members.

Mr. RUKUNDO Alexis
President of the International Board of Directors

Mr. TETIALI Digbeu
Managing Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Côte d'Ivoire

M. OUEDRAOGO Benoît
Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Burkina Faso

Mr NINGANZA Emery
Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Burundi

Mme WANDOU Marthe
Chairman of the Board Inades-Formation Cameroun

Mr. MBOKOTHE Gabriel
Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Kenya

Mr MAVINGA Marie José
Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation RD. Congo

Mr. VEDASTE Avemariya
Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Rwanda

M. MANDARA Elisia
Chairman of the Board Inades-Formation Tanzania

Mr. YOYANA Baniara
Chairman of the Inades-Formation Tchad Board of Directors

Mr SABI Iyatan
Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Togo

Ms MUJITO Sophie
Treasurer - Member of the International Board of Directors

Father LOROGNON Serge, sj
Society of Jesus (COJECI)
The General Secretariat

Mr. ADESSOU Kwaku Sena
General Secretary

M. YAO Koffi Julien
Director of Administration and Finance

Mr. KOUAME Alphonse
Director of Programs

Mr NSHIMIYIMANA Manassé
Advocacy and foresight officer

Mr HABIMANA Jean-Paul
Food Systems Project Manager

M. TUO Foungnigué DAGNOGO
Computer Engineer

Mr. LOROUX Stéphane
Land manager

Mrs MOROH ACHI Marcelle
Communication Manager

M. SANOU Emmanuel
Accounting Manager

Mrs. SEYE Andrée Fernande
Project Manager

Mrs KONAN Brunda
An accountant

Mme BELLE Aurélie
Associative life assistant

Mme KPENOU Carine
Executive assistant

Mme BANHORO LY Aïssétou
Bilingual executive assistant

Mme BLECHIE Mariame
Executive assistant

M. KONAN Clément
Driver

M. MAMBO Henri
Service Agent

Mr EBOUKELE Amichia Joseph
Driver

Mrs. GBODO Olivia Francisca
Project Manager

Mr DONGO Fulgence Kouassi
Advocacy Assistant

Mr KOUAME Yao Parfait
An accountant

Mr KONE Samba Aboubakar
An accountant
M. KONAN Clément
Driver
M. MAMBO Henri
Service Agent
Mr EBOUKELE Amichia Joseph
Driver
Mrs. GBODO Olivia Francisca
Project Manager
Mr DONGO Fulgence Kouassi
Advocacy Assistant
