Who are we ?

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 countries in Africa including: Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Tanzania, Chad and Togo. Its general secretariat is based in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire .

Our history

Inades-Formation was created in 1975 by the Jesuit fathers. It was born from the African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES) itself created in 1962 in Côte d’Ivoire and devoted to the training of middle managers in Africa. Realizing the need for training in the agricultural world, which brought together nearly 80% of the population, the Jesuit Fathers will orient themselves towards this target and offer them courses and supervision. Correspondence courses for agricultural training in fundamental French are given and booklets for the training of women in the village, the Agripromo review (1973) intended for agricultural trainers and animators are produced. The impact was considerable and it became necessary to create national offices in the different countries, French-speaking and English-speaking, where correspondence courses were held. In 1975, Inades-Formation was created and this branch of INADES activities was entrusted to it. Inades-Formation will therefore continue the training programs given to farmers and the production of educational books, while working in the same spirit as the founding fathers: respect for human dignity, the spirit of service, selflessness, the promotion of the integral development of man and of every man. Today, Inades-Formation is a social movement at the service of the common good . It continues to support producers but also targets all social categories in order to create the conditions for a life of dignity for all.

Our target audience

The actions of Inades-Formation target disadvantaged populations. These are primarily rural populations including peasants with their umbrella organizations, grassroots organizations, rural adults, women and young people . Inades-Formation, to indirectly reach an even larger public, reinforces the capacities of “multipliers”, that is to say the heads of NGOs, the heads of peasant organizations, the agents of various organizations and the peasants. trainers. Another category of targets is made up of decision-makers, administrative and political authorities and civil society.

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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1980

1990

2016

nowadays

Governance

The governing bodies of the international association Inades-Formation are the General Assembly and the International Board of Directors . The 10 national associations are represented on the International Board of Directors. The executive body is the General Secretariat .
The general Assembly

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.

PCAI

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

PCA-BF

Mr. OUEDRAOGO Benoît

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Burkina Faso

Mr. MASUGURU Apollinaire

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Burundi

PCA-Cameroun

Mrs. WANDOU Marthe

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Cameroon

PCA-Kenya

Mr. MBOKOTHE Gabriel

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Kenya

PCA-Congo

Mr. MAGANGA Jean-Baptiste

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Congo

PCA-Tanzania2

Mr. VEDASTE Avemariya

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Rwanda

PCA-Tanzania

Mr. KATUNZI Alphonse

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Tanzania

Mr. YOYANA Baniara

Chairman of the Inades-Formation Tchad Board of Directors

PCA-Togo

Mr. AYESSAKI Boukari

Chairman of the Board of Directors Inades-Formation Togo

PCA

Mrs. BERE Celestine

Treasurer – Member of the International Board of Directors

Father LOROGNON Serge, sj

Society of Jesus (COJECI)

The General Secretariat

Sena

Mr. ADESSOU Kwaku Sena

General Secretary

Julian

Mr. YAO Koffi Julien

Director of Administration and Finance

Richard-DP

Mr. SAHINGUVU Richard

Director of Programs

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Mr. MOUMBAGNA Mama

Head of mission

Pascal

Mr. BARIDOMO Pascal

Advocacy officer

Tuo

Mr. TUO Foungnigué DAGNOGO

Computer Engineer

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Mr. KOUAME Alphonse

Food Systems Project Officer

loroux

Mr. LOROUX Stéphane

Land manager

asoko

Mr. ASSOKO Mallet

Research and Advocacy Officer

marcel

Mrs. MOROH ACHI Marcelle

Communication Manager

Emmanuel

Mr. SANOU Emmanuel

Accounting Manager

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Mr. GONE Aristide

Bio-Factory project Coordinator

brunda

Mrs. KONAN Brunda

An accountant

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Mrs. BELLE Aurélie

Associative life assistant

carine

Mrs. KPENOU Carine

Executive assistant

Seated

Mrs. BANHORO LY Aïssétou

Bilingual executive assistant

Mariam

Mrs. BLECHIE Mariame

Executive assistant

clement

Mr. KONAN Clément

Driver

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Mr. MAMBO Henri

Service Agent

panka

Mr. COULIBALY Panka

Consultant Driver

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SAADEV

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).

ADOP

... 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.

APFI

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.

Correspondence courses

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 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

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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FondAfrica is a particular instrument of Inades-Formation’s financing strategy. FondAfrica a formulé sa vision à moyen terme ainsi qu’il suit « In 10 years, thanks to the income from the funds collected by Fondafrica, Inades-Formation will have increased its self-financing capacity for services rendered to the African rural world to 40 % ».

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