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Action against Hunger – Access to water and sanitation in Zimbabwe

€844,000 grant for the implementation of a project that aims to improve access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene conditions for communities in rural districts located in Southeast Zimbabwe, i.e. 82,000 people spread out over 450 villages. This project comprises the installation of 162 latrines in schools and health centers, a contribution to the construction of 10,500 domestic latrines, the rehabilitation of 137 water points and the construction of 55 new water points. It includes a hygiene promotion program with a “zero open defecation” goal. Coverage for drinking water, health facilities and hygiene conditions should eventually be significantly improved in this country whose Millennium Development Goal indicators declined between 1990 and 2008. This is AFD’s first operation in Zimbabwe.

Frères des Hommes – Agricultural development in Rwanda

€324,115 grant to finance a project targeting poor farmers in Rwanda. It aims to help these communities develop their production activity and to involve them more in the definition and implementation of decentralized agricultural policies, as Rwanda initiated a decentralization process in 2000. The project comprises training in production techniques, diversifying productive activities to generate new income, informing and organizing the producers in question in terms of agricultural policies, as well as dialogue with the responsible public authorities. 5,000 households will directly benefit from the project, including 800 who should see their incomes rise by 50%.

Initiative Développement – Support to mango producers in Haiti

€492,031 grant to finance support for mango producers in the Jean Rabel municipality in Northwest Haiti. This project follows on from two previous operations: one conducted between 2005 and 2008, devoted to the development of mango production, the other implemented between 2009 and 2011 aiming to improve production quality and the organization of producers. The aim of this new project is to strengthen the structure of stakeholders in the industry and establish a marketing chain for both domestic and export markets, particularly in North America. The project targets 7,500 producers and indirectly their families, i.e. 37,500 people, which represents 30% of the population of the Jean Rabel municipality.

Lawyers Without Borders France – Fight against torture and the death penalty in Nigeria

€368,534 grant for the implementation of a project to fight against torture and promote a restrictive application of the death penalty. The project offers legal assistance to 130 people in provisional detention who have been subjected to torture and to roughly 144 prisoners who are either facing the death penalty or have been sentenced to death. The project includes a capacity development component for lawyers on the death penalty and on the United Nations Convention Against Torture, as well as an awareness-raising and information component for the judiciary, civil society and the general public on both of these topics. The project started in 2009 with its fight against torture component and has contributed to opening up the debate on the use of torture in the country to the public. It fits into the abolitionist movement launched in Nigeria in 2004.

Halte aux mines anti personnelles (HAMAP) – Raising awareness of mine-related risks in Mauritania

€47,965 grant for the implementation of a training project on mine-related risks in the Nouadhibou region in northern Mauritania. The project aims to strengthen the skills of a network of local NGOs – RONG – by training trainers. It will raise the awareness of communities in the target areas and reduce the number of mine-related accidents. It will also secure the traditional economic activities of the village communities.

Group for the Environment, Renewable Energy and Solidarity (Geres) – Promoting energy saving in Afghanistan and Tajikistan

€900,000 grant for a project to promote energy as a driving force for local economic development and the fight against poverty. The aim is to contribute to improving living conditions in Afghanistan and Tajikistan by promoting the creation of 130 microenterprises in the housing and energy saving sector. It involves structuring craft industries that promote the widespread dissemination of energy saving technologies and equipment, as well as raising the awareness of institutional actors and training them in how to define coherent regional policies. The project will support the communities and institutions that are to be identified and will implement effective and permanent solutions for improving living conditions. The communities in question are directly affected by a combination of impacts related to climate change, the deterioration of natural resources and economic insecurity.

Amitié franco-afghane (Afrane) – Support for education in Afghanistan

€365,051 grant for a project to support schools in Afghanistan. The program aims to improve the level of education in Afghanistan by supporting a network of schools destined to become reference schools in the cities of Kabul, Charikar and Jalalabad. The thirteen schools will benefit from material support and teacher training with the aim of producing educational packages that can be disseminated. The project involves training and supervising teachers, pedagogical support (provision of appropriate educational materials), training for library and laboratory staff, the equipment of educational units, the construction of buildings and facilities and equipping them with school furniture.

International Catholic Child Bureau (BICE) – “Childhood without Bars” in Brazil, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mali, Peru and Togo

€1,064,205 grant for a program agreement entitled “Childhood without Bars” and its implementation in nine Latin American and African countries. The program will develop and promote juvenile justice systems and practices that comply with national, regional and international standards in the program countries. The program aims to work in synergy with legal actors, civil society, the private sector, universities and the media. Children in conflict with the law will be helped to reintegrate school, the socio-professional environment and their families through extensive work with the young offenders’ families and communities. The existing community systems will be reinforced in order help young people take back control of their lives. This program agreement is based on recognizing children as having the right to training as well as their capacity for resilience.

Comité national de solidarité laïque – Support for education in Sri Lanka

€431,936 grant to finance an education and governance project in the Eastern Province (Sri Lanka). This project aims to develop the management capacities of key education stakeholders, improve the governance of stakeholders and education services, promote greater recognition of preschool and democratize decision-making in primary and secondary education. It will strengthen the nursery school system by improving teachers’ skills and their teaching materials, supporting the creation of parents’ committees and developing the capacities of school administrations and supervisory bodies. As maternal education plays a decisive role in preventing school failure, linkages with primary and high schools have also been planned under the project.

Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (Acted) – Raising youth awareness of sexual and reproductive health in Cambodia

€390,124 grant for the implementation of a sexual and reproductive health awareness-raising project for young Cambodians. This project aims to develop the capacity of local stakeholders to introduce innovative solutions in order to ensure that young people have permanent access to quality information and services. The project is being implemented in both an area that is a source of rural exodus towards cities for many young people and in several poor neighborhoods of Phnom Penh where there are a large number of these young rural migrants. The project is working on the entire sexual and reproductive health chain, from prevention to management, by involving all the key stakeholders (local associations, community organizations, families and public authorities). The first activity component aims to raise the awareness of young people, notably in terms of family planning and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. It also aims to remove sociocultural barriers by working on intermediation with families and communities. The project will also reinforce healthcare services provided by local healthcare centers.

Médecins du Monde – Promoting sexual and reproductive health in Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Haiti, Lao PDR, Liberia, Mali, Niger and Mexico

€2,400,000 grant to finance an international program to promote sexual and reproductive health. The aim is to strengthen MDM’s position in this sector and therefore harmonize and improve the quality of its operations. The objective is also to improve geographical, sociocultural and financial access to sexual and reproductive health services throughout the healthcare continuum (family planning and prevention of sexually-transmitted infections, obstetrical and postnatal healthcare, management of unwanted pregnancies…). The program is supporting ten projects implemented in eight countries. It will reach over 650,000 direct beneficiaries (women and children), including 500,000 in the Sahel countries. The aim is to contribute to increasing the use of reproductive health services by working simultaneously on supply and demand. The program comprises significant capitalization work at all levels and is based on operational, action-research and advocacy activities.

Médecins du Monde – Reducing risks in DRC, Georgia, Kenya and Tanzania

€1,600,000 grant to finance a program that aims to reduce HIV and hepatitis contaminations among stigmatized populations (drug users, sex workers and sexual minorities) in these four countries. This program is based on the approach to reducing risks that MDM developed many years ago. The aim is to empower partners by strengthening their technical capacities and their management. It involves giving vulnerable communities greater access to high-quality medical services (substitution therapy/antiretroviral treatment, primary healthcare, distribution of condoms/sterile kits and HIV and viral hepatitis screening) and conducting prevention activities for these most-at-risk groups. The program also aims to strengthen the methodological tools, action-research, communication and advocacy of NGOs on this topic.

Agronomists and Veterinarians Without Borders (AVSF-CICDA) – Strengthening farmers’ organizations in twenty countries

€4,390,000 grant to finance a program agreement that aims to strengthen farmers’ organizations and entities that support smallholdings in 20 developing countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Comoros, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras Lao PDR, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Niger, Peru, Senegal, Togo and Vietnam). The program focuses on increasing the contribution that smallholdings make to reducing food insecurity and supplies to local and regional markets, job and income creation in rural areas, sustainable natural resources management and biodiversity protection. It will allow AVSF to continue its support to 85 partners in 20 developing countries, mainly farmers’ organizations, and will reach roughly 85,000 families. In addition to the 80 projects supported under this agreement, AVSF will consolidate its cross-cutting advocacy, capitalization and development education activities.

French farmers and international development (AFDI) – Support for farmers’ organizations - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Côte D'Ivoire, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Senegal and Togo  
 
€3,260,906 grant to finance a program agreement that aims to consolidate partnerships to promote smallholdings between farmers’ organizations in developed and developing countries. The objective is to raise the awareness of the agricultural and rural community in France in terms of international agricultural development issues, strengthen the skills of the AFDI network in order to ensure the quality of activities and consolidate the role that farmers’ organizations play in developing countries as a key development actor. The program will be implemented in 11 developing countries and in France. It will increase the capacity of farmers’ organizations to meet the food security challenge. The project will also promote the expertise of farmers’ organizations and mobilize know-how. This project concerns some 50,000 farmers and rural dwellers in developed countries and 48 farmers’ organizations in developing countries.

Handicap international – Integrating the disabled in Madagascar

€500,000 grant to finance a project to allow the disabled to effectively participate in and successfully integrate Madagascan society. The project will contribute to ensuring that Madagascan society integrates disabilities more in the development process and reduces the social and economic exclusion of people with disabilities. The project will be implemented in 9 municipalities. The aim is to develop skills and systems that ensure medical, social, vocational and education services are of good quality, accessible and inclusive. The project will support civil society, notably the movement of disabled persons, in its advocacy towards the authorities and its activities to raise the awareness of the population.

Handicap international – Promoting the integration of disabled children in primary education in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo)

€2,116,951 grant to finance a program agreement entitled “Action for the full participation of disabled children by education”. This program aims to contribute to ensuring that the governments of the six target countries respect their commitments to universal access to primary education. The objective is to involve civil society in the recognition of the rights of disabled children. It involves integrating this issue into the orientations of national education systems and developing the capacities of stakeholders, as well as fostering dialogue on inclusive education strategies. Handicap International has gained field experience in several countries and has conducted a number of studies and capitalization activities on this topic. The program will include concrete measures to highlight and disseminate good practices to associations and devolved education services.

European Institute of Cooperation and Development (IECD) – Social and vocational integration of young people in Madagascar

€349,000 grant to finance a socio-professional integration program for disadvantaged youth through training for occupations in the hotel and catering industry and support to vulnerable families in Fianarantsoa. The project aims to permanently improve living conditions for poor communities in Fianarantsoa Province, with a focus on getting disadvantaged youth into long-term employment in the buoyant hotel and catering industry. The aim is also to help the most vulnerable families, including those of the students in the sector, to set up income generating activities. The youth training will take place at the Saint-François Xavier de Fianarantsoa high school. A hotel-restaurant will be opened for practical training and will eventually generate income to support youth training and the operating of the training center. This project meets strong demand from Malagasy tourism professionals and the lack of skilled staff in this sector.

Cooperation Fund for Youth and Popular Education (FONJEP) – Strengthening development education in France

€772,128 grant to finance the Cooperation Fund for Youth and Popular Education (FONJEP). The aim is to support 30 development education positions in 29 French associations for the period 2012-2014. These positions will be selected through a call for proposals and will strengthen development education provision by local stakeholders in French regions. The system is part of a structuring approach to capitalization, action-research and reflection on practices and impact measurements.

International Center for Development and Research (CIDR) – Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Togo

€1,775,400 grant to finance a program agreement that aims to strengthen service platforms intended to benefit agricultural smallholdings in four Sub-Saharan African countries. With twenty years of experience of operations in the countries concerned by the project, CIDR, in partnership with national NGOs, aims to develop and extend the “ESOP” model. ESOPs are service companies and producers organizations that act as an interface between small producers and markets. This project will allow both ends of the value chain (distribution of inputs, stock management, market research, quality charter, etc.) to better distribute the added value throughout the industry and to offer remunerative prices. It is therefore working to support food security and contributes to combating rural exodus. This approach has already been introduced in the milk, rice and soya sectors and is expected to be extended to new sectors with this project (cowpea, honey and fruit and vegetable production) and to a new country, which is yet to be identified.

En 2008, the WWF launched a project for sustainable natural resource management on the Guyana Shield (French Guyana, Surinam, Guyana and Brazil), with 19% co-financing from the FGEF.

 
The aim of the project was to establish lasting protection for marine and forest ecosystems and to preserve their environmental services to local populations.

The final steering committee meeting, held on 6 and 7 March at Paramaribo in Surinam and attended by AFD and FGEF representatives, highlighted the project’s achievements and successes.

The project activities focused mainly on protected area management, reducing gold-panning impacts, sustainable forest management and the management and conservation of aquatic ecosystems and species.

 All these activities, conducted for governments (developing regulations, capacity-building), businesses and national agencies (improved practice and eco-certification, pilot sites, training in ecotourism) and local communities (more sustainable use of the resources they depend on) were backed up by wide-ranging communication, awareness-raising and educational campaigns.

The project brought significant advances towards mercury-free extraction of gold and the introduction of REDD+ processes.

New protected areas were created and the scientific studies produced brought new knowledge on the environment.

The project also organised numerous workshops for exchanges between different territories. All in all, awareness of environmental conservation issues has clearly emerged throughout the region.

The FGEF will be pursuing its activities for the Guyana Shield, in particular by contributing to the project for a regional REDD+ development platform.