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Actions et Développement
Activity : Created by young Beninese, "Actions et Développement" has chosen to specifically help vulnerable groups of population such as women, children and disabled persons. The association's four major lines of action are: - schooling children in rural areas - popularising new information and communication technologies (NTIC) - promoting community initiatives - developing actions to fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
City : Tanguieta
Country : Benin
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The Sponsor

Name : Deborah LOUIS
Brand : CFAO
Note from the sponsor : I have sponsored this project benefitting 212 women organised in 4 groups for the past year, because of the groundroots nature of their initiatives. The approach relies on respect for their natural and social environment, while empowering women by developing income generating activities. The sentence below, extracted from the project description demonstrates the importance of respecting all its components to secure its durability:
“It is essential, not to replace agricultural activities with other locally unknown activities, but to ensure that farming practices continue to be a stable source of income, while fostering environmental preservation. The purpose is therefore to find durable and sustainable solutions that are both easy to apply in practice and appropriate for the communities.”

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Support to women groups and income generating activities

Staff Project /
2009

Field	Professional integration
Country	Benin
City	Municipality of Tanguiéta
Beneficiaries	212 women - Members of women groups in the villages of Firihoun, Mamoussa, Sépounga and Tiélé (municipality of Tanguiéta)
Number	Between 200 and 500

The Project

Purposes

Improve the income and living conditions of the members of women groups in Firihoun, Mamoussa, Sépounga and Tiélé, by creating income generating activities.
Specific goals:
- Raise community awareness and encourage behavioural changes about environmental damage;
- Improve access to water resources needed to develop income generating activities;
- Facilitate access to local markets;
- Increase food resources all year long to avoid period of food shortage in between crops;
- Increase the volume of farm products sold on local markets, by improving transportation means and conditions;
- Enhance the value of farm products sold on local markets by improving their quality via new techniques of production and preservation;
- Contribute to rehabilitate damaged ecosystems;
- Reduce energy losses and wasted time linked to traditional farming methods (contributing to reduce child labour, in particular for girls helping their mothers, and thereby also to improve the schooling rate).
- Increase the availability of financial resources to foster access to primary health care and purchases of school supplies
- Capitalise on experience feedback from the project.