7 active projects in
9 countries
30 local
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Africa

Africa - Mali

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Burkina Faso, Mali

2020 - 2022 (Finished project)

Strengthening Intercommunity Understanding and Cohesion

The project targets the resilience of at least 15,000 pastoral and agropastoral households.

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Mali

2019 - 2020 (Finished project)

Pastoral resilience

Strengthening the resilience capacities of pastoralist and agro-pastoralist families affected by pastoral crises to ensure sustainable food security.

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Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo

2018 - 2022

Livestock mobility for better access to resources and markets

West Africa has high population growth. It is estimated that the region’s population (45% of whom are under […]

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Benin, Mali, Togo

2019 - 2022 (Finished project)

Training and professional integration in sustainable construction

180 young people between 16 and 25 years of age, of which at least 20% are young women.
120 young artisans.

Local partners

Ghana
- CLIP (Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships)
  
  Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships (CLIP) est un programme de développement rural au Ghana dont l'objectif est de renforcer les capacités d'auto-assistance et d'améliorer les conditions de vie des populations des communautés rurales des districts de Yendi, Gushegu et Karaga, dans la région du nord du Ghana. Le CLIP a été établi comme un ensemble de mesures visant à promouvoir l'éducation des enfants, en particulier des filles, et à fournir un soutien aux moyens de subsistance des familles dans la région du nord du Ghana.
- Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA)
  
  Ghana Developing Communities Association is an NGO that provides people in northern Ghana who live in poor communities or who are socially excluded with the means to work for social, political and economic development, and to adopt healthy environmental practices for a sustainable way of life.
- CLIP (Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships)
  
  Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships (CLIP) est un programme de développement rural au Ghana dont l'objectif est de renforcer les capacités d'auto-assistance et d'améliorer les conditions de vie des populations des communautés rurales des districts de Yendi, Gushegu et Karaga, dans la région du nord du Ghana. Le CLIP a été établi comme un ensemble de mesures visant à promouvoir l'éducation des enfants, en particulier des filles, et à fournir un soutien aux moyens de subsistance des familles dans la région du nord du Ghana.
- Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA)
  
  Ghana Developing Communities Association is an NGO that provides people in northern Ghana who live in poor communities or who are socially excluded with the means to work for social, political and economic development, and to adopt healthy environmental practices for a sustainable way of life.
Burkina Faso
- RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)
  The Communication Network for Pastoralism has a multi-actor approach and aims to create and stimulate relationships between herders, local rural communities and authorities to address issues relating to pastoralism. The network focuses mainly on aspects that are intangible but nevertheless very important. Those aspects play a key role in the development of pastoralism.
- RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)
  The Communication Network for Pastoralism has a multi-actor approach and aims to create and stimulate relationships between herders, local rural communities and authorities to address issues relating to pastoralism. The network focuses mainly on aspects that are intangible but nevertheless very important. Those aspects play a key role in the development of pastoralism.
- RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)
  The Communication Network for Pastoralism has a multi-actor approach and aims to create and stimulate relationships between herders, local rural communities and authorities to address issues relating to pastoralism. The network focuses mainly on aspects that are intangible but nevertheless very important. Those aspects play a key role in the development of pastoralism.
- RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)
  The Communication Network for Pastoralism has a multi-actor approach and aims to create and stimulate relationships between herders, local rural communities and authorities to address issues relating to pastoralism. The network focuses mainly on aspects that are intangible but nevertheless very important. Those aspects play a key role in the development of pastoralism.
Benin
- ACAD
  The Association for the Atacora and Donga Regions (Association des Communes de l’Atacora et de la Donga, or ACAD) works with Acting for Life to organise agro-pastoral programmes. ACAD wants to develop a programme to support training in stonework, similar to the programme in Togo. ACAD’s role in capacity-building and interfacing with the 13 towns within its association allows it to carry out local initiatives and support the development of the stonework sector in northern Benin.
- Communauté de Communes de la Pendjari
  
  Depuis 2015 les communes de l’EPCI (Etablissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale de la Pendjari) travaillent en étroite collaboration pour asseoir un dispositif d’ancrage territorial augmentant leur responsabilité et leur contribution financière dans la maîtrise d’ouvrage des aménagements pastoraux et infrastructures marchandes et non marchandes réalisés sur leur territoire. Un important appui institutionnel a été apporté par AFL qui est aujourd’hui un partenaire stratégique.
- ACAD
  The Association for the Atacora and Donga Regions (Association des Communes de l’Atacora et de la Donga, or ACAD) works with Acting for Life to organise agro-pastoral programmes. ACAD wants to develop a programme to support training in stonework, similar to the programme in Togo. ACAD’s role in capacity-building and interfacing with the 13 towns within its association allows it to carry out local initiatives and support the development of the stonework sector in northern Benin.
- ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)
  
  Créée en 2003, l’association Entreprises, Territoires et Développement définit et met en œuvre des programmes de développement qui contribuent à la création, à la répartition équitable de richesse entre les acteurs dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, de la gouvernance locale, de la gestion des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement.
- ACAD
  The Association for the Atacora and Donga Regions (Association des Communes de l’Atacora et de la Donga, or ACAD) works with Acting for Life to organise agro-pastoral programmes. ACAD wants to develop a programme to support training in stonework, similar to the programme in Togo. ACAD’s role in capacity-building and interfacing with the 13 towns within its association allows it to carry out local initiatives and support the development of the stonework sector in northern Benin.
- ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)
  
  Créée en 2003, l’association Entreprises, Territoires et Développement définit et met en œuvre des programmes de développement qui contribuent à la création, à la répartition équitable de richesse entre les acteurs dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, de la gouvernance locale, de la gestion des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement.
Norway
- Gestion de l’Environnement et Valorisation des Produits Agropastoraux et Forestiers (GEVAPAF)
  GEVAPAF is a Togolese NGO founded in 2011 that specialises in sustainable development, agroecology and the promotion of local resources. It has sound experience in project management and organising local initiatives. With regard to professional training and occupational integration, GEVAPAF has worked with the Ministry of Grassroots Development, Skilled Trades, Youth and the Employment of Young People and has been recognised as an intermediary organisation for the implementation of the Programme to Support Grassroots Development. The local authorities will help co-finance public works. The Interprofessional Group of Artisans in the Savanes Region of Togo (GIPATO) helps select and assess the training. The Regional Centre for Technical Teaching and Professional Training (CRETFP) will make its infrastructure available for the training. All of those partners will make up the project’s monitoring committee.
- Gestion de l’Environnement et Valorisation des Produits Agropastoraux et Forestiers (GEVAPAF)
  GEVAPAF is a Togolese NGO founded in 2011 that specialises in sustainable development, agroecology and the promotion of local resources. It has sound experience in project management and organising local initiatives. With regard to professional training and occupational integration, GEVAPAF has worked with the Ministry of Grassroots Development, Skilled Trades, Youth and the Employment of Young People and has been recognised as an intermediary organisation for the implementation of the Programme to Support Grassroots Development. The local authorities will help co-finance public works. The Interprofessional Group of Artisans in the Savanes Region of Togo (GIPATO) helps select and assess the training. The Regional Centre for Technical Teaching and Professional Training (CRETFP) will make its infrastructure available for the training. All of those partners will make up the project’s monitoring committee.
- Tin Tua
  Tin Tua is an organisation with strong rural roots that has been promoting sustainable development through literacy, educational innovation and training since 1989. It has been active in solar power for over ten years, founded an agricultural training centre and developed its own modules to support entrepreneurship.
- Instituto Mayor Campesino (IMCA)
  Instituto Mayor Campesino was founded in 1962. It trains smallholders from Cauca Valley and encourages them to participate in public and private forums for discussion. During the 1990s, as the armed conflict in the region intensified, IMCA worked to come up with alternatives to help people live peacefully. Today, IMCA continues its efforts by supporting agroecology.
- OADEL
  The Organisation for Local Foods and Development (Organisation pour l'Alimentation et le Développement Local, or OADEL) was founded in 2003. A member of the Federation of NGOs in Togo (Fédération des ONG au Togo) and the Collective of Associations Against Impunity in Togo (Collectif des Associations Contre l’Impunité au Togo), OADEL is dedicated to promoting people’s right to food through the consumption of local processed foods. It is active mainly in the Lomé and Maritime regions. Its areas of focus include: educating people about the right to food and nutrition; promoting and implementing new approaches to ensuring the right to food; combating policies and practices that infringe upon the right to food; promoting sustainable family farming and food sovereignty through local consumption.
- OCADES Burkina/Bobo-Dioulasso
  An OCADES is a type of Catholic organisation that promotes development and solidarity. There are 15 OCADES in Burkina Faso. OCADES Burkina/Bobo Dioulasso, in the Hauts-Bassins region, develops education-related projects, particularly in the areas of hydraulics and agriculture. It has founded its own agricultural training centre. The organisation is a partner of the Raising Employment Access and Development for Youth (READY) project.
- Gestion de l’Environnement et Valorisation des Produits Agropastoraux et Forestiers (GEVAPAF)
  GEVAPAF is a Togolese NGO founded in 2011 that specialises in sustainable development, agroecology and the promotion of local resources. It has sound experience in project management and organising local initiatives. With regard to professional training and occupational integration, GEVAPAF has worked with the Ministry of Grassroots Development, Skilled Trades, Youth and the Employment of Young People and has been recognised as an intermediary organisation for the implementation of the Programme to Support Grassroots Development. The local authorities will help co-finance public works. The Interprofessional Group of Artisans in the Savanes Region of Togo (GIPATO) helps select and assess the training. The Regional Centre for Technical Teaching and Professional Training (CRETFP) will make its infrastructure available for the training. All of those partners will make up the project’s monitoring committee.
- URFBV
  
  The Regional Union of the Livestock-Meat Sector (Union Régionale de la filière Bétail Viande, or URFBV) in Sikasso is a union of 111 cooperatives throughout the region’s seven cercles. It was founded in 1995 and currently has 3,271 members, including 71 women. Its main activity is to develop the farming and marketing of livestock. Its members include livestock farmers, sellers, finishers, dairy producers and hide and leather merchants.
- Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Belgium
  Founded in 1985, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Belgium works with enterprising livestock farmers from disadvantaged communities in Africa, and gives them the means to lift themselves out of poverty. Thanks to animals, training, equipment and veterinary care, they are able to produce enough food for themselves and for the market.
Togo
- CIDeLS (Convention Intercommunale pour le Développement Local des Savanes)
  
  Le CIDeLS est un cadre de coopération intercommunale pour une gestion concertée des infrastructures agropastorales et autres actions de développement dans l’espace territorial des communes membres.
- ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)
  
  Créée en 2003, l’association Entreprises, Territoires et Développement définit et met en œuvre des programmes de développement qui contribuent à la création, à la répartition équitable de richesse entre les acteurs dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, de la gouvernance locale, de la gestion des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement.
- ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)
  
  Créée en 2003, l’association Entreprises, Territoires et Développement définit et met en œuvre des programmes de développement qui contribuent à la création, à la répartition équitable de richesse entre les acteurs dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, de la gouvernance locale, de la gestion des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement.
Colombia
- ASOPEP (Asociación de productores ecológicos de Planadas)
  L'Asociación de productores ecológicos de Planadas (ASOPEP) a été créée en 2013 et ses axes stratégiques tournent autour du bien-être social, de la durabilité économique et de la préservation de l'environnement. Son action est centrée sur la sécurité alimentaire et le renforcement de l'économie locale par l'accompagnement et la formation des producteurs : formation de formateurs pour le soutien entre pairs, création d'équipes techniques pour les territoires d'intervention. Cette approche permet de mieux comprendre les dynamiques et les spécificités locales.
Guinea
- FREFBV-K (Fédération Régionale des Éleveurs de la Filière Bétail-Viande de Kankan)
  
  La FREFBV-K est une association guinéenne qui œuvre dans la région de Kankan (nord-est du pays). Elle vise à promouvoir l'émergence de la filière bétail-viande pour une amélioration du niveau de vie des membres et des populations de la Région de Kankan. Pour ce faire, la FREFBV accompagne les éleveurs et agropasteurs par l'apport de matériel et d’intrants, par le renforcement des capacités des unions et groupements membres, en soutenant la politique nationale de développement de l’élevage et en assurant l’approvisionnement des marchés à bétail en bovins performants et à coût abordable.
Côte d’Ivoire
- OPEF
  The Professional Organisation of Livestock Farmers in Ferkessedougou (Organisation Professionnelle Des Éleveurs De Ferkessedougou, OPEF) is dedicated to improving the living and working conditions of livestock farmers and transhumant pastoralists. It works to improve the health of livestock and herds, and teaches livestock farmers about best practices.

Africa

Africa - Mali

Strengthening Intercommunity Understanding and Cohesion

Pastoral resilience

Livestock mobility for better access to resources and markets

Training and professional integration in sustainable construction

Local partners

Ghana

CLIP (Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships)

Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA)

CLIP (Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships)

Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA)

Burkina Faso

RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)

RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)

RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)

RECOPA (Communication Network on Pastoralism)

Benin

ACAD

Communauté de Communes de la Pendjari

ACAD

ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)

ACAD

ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)

Norway

Gestion de l’Environnement et Valorisation des Produits Agropastoraux et Forestiers (GEVAPAF)

Gestion de l’Environnement et Valorisation des Produits Agropastoraux et Forestiers (GEVAPAF)

Tin Tua

Instituto Mayor Campesino (IMCA)

OADEL

OCADES Burkina/Bobo-Dioulasso

Gestion de l’Environnement et Valorisation des Produits Agropastoraux et Forestiers (GEVAPAF)

URFBV

Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Belgium

Togo

CIDeLS (Convention Intercommunale pour le Développement Local des Savanes)

ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)

ETD (Entreprises, Territoires et Développement)

Colombia

ASOPEP (Asociación de productores ecológicos de Planadas)

Guinea

FREFBV-K (Fédération Régionale des Éleveurs de la Filière Bétail-Viande de Kankan)

Côte d’Ivoire

OPEF

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