{"id":13652,"date":"2021-12-27T18:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inadesformation.net\/2who-are-we\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:19:43","slug":"who-are-we","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.inadesformation.net\/en\/who-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Inades-Formation, an institution serving common good.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>

We are present in ten African countries: Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Tanzania, Chad and Togo.
Its general secretariat is based in <\/em>C\u00f4te d’Ivoire at Abidjan, Angr\u00e9 10i\u00e8me tranche – cit\u00e9 Gr\u00e2ce.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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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 C\u00f4te d’Ivoire and devoted to the training of middle managers in Africa.\n\nRealizing 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.\n\nInades-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.\n\nToday, Inades-Formation is a social movement at the service of the common good .<\/em> It continues to support producers but also targets all social categories in order to create the conditions for a life of dignity for all.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The actions of Inades-Formation target disadvantaged populations. These are primarily rural populations, including farmers and their umbrella organizations, grassroots organizations, rural adults, women and young people.<\/em>\nTo reach an even larger audience indirectly, Inades-Formation is building the capacities of “multipliers”, i.e. NGO managers, heads of farmers’ organizations, agents of various bodies and farmer trainers.\nAnother target category is made up of decision-makers, administrative and political authorities and civil society.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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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.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning, correspondence courses<\/h2><\/div><\/div>

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.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The project approach and the integrated intervention program for beneficiaries’ projects (APFI)<\/h2><\/div><\/div>

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.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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… The ADOP stage: supporting peasant organizational dynamics…<\/h4><\/div><\/div>

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.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

ADOP was based on the following principles :<\/p>