P.O. Box 67391, Nairobi, Kenya Fax: (254 2) 542-659 Contact: David Kigozi Membership: International Relevance: The purpose of the organization is to strengthen and advocate for NGOs in the region which are working for the improvement of the quality of life of the disadvantaged and marginalized groups. South-South and North-South networking in favour of the poor.
African Network for Peoples' Empowerment (ANEPE)
: P.O. Box 35169, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Fax: 48224 Contact: J.D. Akumu Membership: International Relevance: The organization which is a network of NGOs from 11 African countries promotes participation of poor and marginalized people in decision making, and elimination of unemployment and poverty.
African Social and Environmental Studies Programme (AGESP):
P.O. Box 44777, Nairobi, Kenya Fax: (254-2) 747960 Contact: Peter Muyanda-Mutebi Membership: International Relevance: In the 17 member countries of AGESP the organization is actively involved in a variety of programmes in the following areas: Environmental education for sustainable development, population education, child survival, protection and development, primary health care, and basic education for all.
ASCOFAM - Benin International
B.P. 03-2049 Cotonou, Be'nin Fax: (229) 321292 Contact: Sanny Sebastien Salomon Membership: International Relevance: ASCOFAM is committed to mobilizing the human and financial resources and placing them at the disposal of village cooperatives and local social welfare agencies in order to aid the disadvantaged groups in rural areas, with a focus on women.
Association de Developpement Communautaire Mokili-Mwinda
(ADECOM) B.P. 142 Kinshasa 20, Zaire Contact: Bazeye Mbela Membership: National Relevance: ADECOM's work includes the promotion of literacy and vocational training for women, as well as providing support to women's economic activities and assisting artisans in urban areas.
Association des Conducteurs de Chariots du Zaire
(ACCZ) B.P. 11.772 Kinshasa 1, Zaire Contact: Okita Lokanga Yungu Membership: National Relevance: The organization seeks to raise the social, economic and cultural standards of cart drivers through promoting self-organization, legal education, access to credit and training activities.
Association Femmes Jeunesse dans l'Environnement Maghrebin
(AFJEM) 9, Latissement Hassania Hay Nahda, Rabat, Morocco Fax: (212-7) 755183 Contact: Noufissa Sbai Membership: National Relevance: The organization's activities relate to raising living standards of urban and rural women and youth, developing employment generating projects, and supporting community level initiatives.
Association for Reproductive and Family Health
(ARFH) P.O. Box 30259, Ibadan, Nigeria Fax: (22) 712164 Contact: Grace Delano Membership: National Relevance: The organization initiates, promotes and monitors qualitative reproductive and family health services to the disadvantaged communities in Nigeria, through inter alia community based approach to the delivery of maternal and child health, information and education on health, population and reproductive health issues.
Association for the Protection of the Environment
5, Hakim Attalah St. Ext. of El Gamme St. Manshiet Nasser, El Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt Fax: 344-0201 Contact: Y. Sawiris/Mary Assaad/Laila Kamel Membership: National Relevance: The association combines its interest in serving the poor, with a particular emphasis on women and children with its interest in protecting the environment, with special regard to solid waste management.
Association Guine'enne des Femmes Chercheurs:
B.P. 561, Conakry, Guinea Fax: (224) 44 31 52 Contact: Tounkara Diallo Kade Membership: National Relevance: The organization seeks to utilize science and technology to improve daily life and working conditions for urban and rural women and promote women participation in decision- making.
Association Internationale pour la Democratie en Afrique
: 08 B.P. 803, Abidjan 08, Cote d'Ivoire Fax: 22 48 57 Contact: Francoise Kaudjhis-Offoumou Membership: International Relevance: The purpose of the association is to promote human rights and democracy in Africa, and the participation of civil society, as well as elimination of racially and ethnically- based conflicts.
Association Lutte B.P. Bukavu
, RDC Contact: Sadiki Byombuka Membership: National Relevance: This organization works in Zaire with families and small groups of the poor in rural and suburban areas in order to promote income-generating activities.
Association pour le Developpement Harmonieux de la Mere et de l'Enfant (ADHAME)
: P.O. Box 14900, Yaounde, Cameroun Fax: (237) 233 632 Contact: Rose Njoh Membership: National Relevance: The organization seeks to promote maternal and neonatal health, and to eliminate violence against women, and poverty.
Association Pour le Progre's et la De'fense des Droits des Femmes Maliennes (APDF)
B.P. 1740, Bamako, Mali Fax: (223) 23 00 25 Contact: Fatoumata Sire' Diakite Membership: National Relevance: The organization is concerned with the promotion and the protection of women's human rights, economic advancement of women through micro-projects and entrepreneurship development and alleviation of poverty.
Centre Congolais pour la Promotion des Droits de l'Enfant et de la Femme
B.P. 141, Kinshasa-Gombe, RDC Contact: A.U.A. Tsasa-Tsasa Membership: National Relevance: The organization promotes women and children rights through seminars, multimedia education campaign, research, training programmes. It also cares for orphans of AIDS victims.
Club for the Promotion of Hygiene, Sanitation and the Protection of the Environment (HYSEP-Club)
P.O. Box 243 Buea, South West Province, Cameroon Contact: Ebone Papul Tiku Membership: Relevance: The main objective of the organization is to protect Cameroon's natural forests and water resources, to promote income-generating activities in rural areas, and to sensitize communities regarding family planning, community development and health.
Comite' d'Action pour les droits de l'enfant et de la femme (CADEF)
B.P. 2653, Bamako, Mali Fax: (223) 22 56 38 Contact: Hadja Assa Diallo Soumare Membership: National Relevance: The organization focuses on the rights of children and women through education and information programmes , seminars, and promotes implementation of UN Conventions of children and Women
Comite' International des Femmes Africaines pour le De'veloppement (CIFAD)
O1 B.P. 5147, Abidjan, C'Ote d'Ivoire Fax: (225) 22 70 23 Contact: Jeannine Bugain Membership: International Relevance: The Organizations concerns itself with the alleviation of poverty, revenue-generating projects, capacity- building, education and training of women
Conseil des ONG d'Appui au De'veloppement (CONGAD)
Sicap Amitie' I Villa No. 3089 bis, Dakar, Senegal Fax: (221) 24 44 13 Contact: Fatoumata Sow Membership: National Relevance: Formation des agents des ong aussi bien sur les plans me'thodologiques, que conceptuels, de'veloppement des capacite's institutionnelles, manage'riales des ONG pour le renforcement de leurs capacite's de mobilisation et de de'veloppement de programmes e'conomiques, sociaux et culturels, en particulier dans les domaines de l'agriculture, de l'environnement, de la sante', de l'hydraulique, de l'e'ducation, du cre'dit, de la de'fense des droits humains.
Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services
P.O. Box 1304 - 11511, Cairo, Egypt Fax: (20 2) 904995 Contact: Nabil Samuel Membership: National Relevance: The organization's activities which are directed at poor, rural and urban areas, include community development programmes in home economics, agricultural services, health care, education and literacy, family planning, empowerment of women, and training for employment.
EMO - BARAKA, Union for Peasant Promotion Baraka,
Sud - Kivu, RDC Fax: (257) 220610 Contact: Kyalumba Lukaba Ibanda Membership: International Relevance: EMO's pilot phase is carried out in East Zaire: Food autosufficiency by farming field for 80 families of 4800 quires for each one; habitat improving by tiling, building 3 health centres, 5 centres for literacy, by creating, saving and credit service for peasants and organizinag products peasant sell.
Empowerment and Action Research Centre
1 Wegbo St. Iwaya, Yaba, Nigeria Fax: 860931 Contact: Adetoun Ilumoka/Doyin Adegbayi Membership: National Relevance: The organization is engaged in research and advocacy on health and social justice issues. It is carrying out activities in the areas of women's health, income generation, AIDS control, human rights and dispute resolution, domestic violence, sustainable development.
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Evangelical Development Co-operative Society Post Office Box X362 FNT, Kumasi, Ghana Fax: 233-51=4132 Contact: F. Akuamoah Afari-Mintah Membership: National Relevance: The organization is engaged in agricultural ventures, tree planting, rural development and the environment and sustainable development issues.
Evangelical Development Co-operative Society
Post Office Box X362 FNT, Kumasi, Ghana Fax: (233-51-4132 Contact: F. Akuamoah Afari-Mintah Membership: National Relevance: The organization is engaged in agricultural ventures, tree planning, rural development and the environment and sustainable development issues.
GHASES - Ghana Solar Energy Society c/o Energy Associates,
P.O. Box 371, UST, Kumasi, Ghana Fax: 233-51-4329 Contact: Jospeh Essandoh-Yeddu Membership: International Relevance: GHASES's objectives include the advancement of the utilization of solar energy in Ghana, the encouragement of solar energy research and application, the promotion of education in the fields related to solar energy, and the collection and dissemination of information relating to solar energy.
Groupe de Recherche, d'Etudes et de Formation "Femmes- Action" (GREEFA)
01 BP 633, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso Fax: (226) 30-67-67 Contact: Mariam Ouedraogo/Marie Pauline Bere Membership: National Relevance: Lutte pour l'atte'nuation de la pauvrete' des femmes et promotion d'emplois productifs a leur profit par la formation en gestion et l'octroi de petits cre'dits (cre'ation d'un environnement propice au de'veloppment social); Initiation d'un Programme d'inte'gration sociale au niveau sous-re'gional par la mise en place du Re'seau Femmes Africaines et Droits Humains/REFAD.
Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour le bien-etre social (GRABS-ONG)
B.P. 04-0172, Cotonou, Benin Contact: Christophe Denadi Membership: National Relevance: The organization's activities promote popular participation, primary health, literacy for rural population, fight against poverty and malnutrion, women participation and rights, and sustainable development.
Guinea Development Foundation
140 West End Avenue, Suite 17G, New York, N.Y. 10023, USA Fax: (212) 496-9549 Contact: Sekou M. Sylla Membership: International Relevance: The organization has established primary health centers in the rural areas of the Republic of Guinea, and is distributing medicines and teaching basic sanitary hygiene. The Foundation also encourages small business enterprises among the rural poor.
Lem Ethiopia
P.O. Box 8632, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Fax: (252 1) 515366 Contact: Costantinos Berhe-Tesfu Membership: National Relevance: The organization's focus is environment and sustainable development, development advocacy, capacity-building, education and training. It operates programmes in areas such as alleviation of poverty, revenue-generating projects, and entrepreneurship development in communities and families, and undertakes education work to promote social integration.
Mauritius Family Planning Association
30, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Street, Port Louis, Mauritius Fax: (230) 208-2397 Contact: Geeta Oodit Membership: National Relevance: The Association plays an advocacy role and networks with socio-cultural organizations to promote social development. It reaches youth with information and education, and addresses the needs of an aging population. 184. Moral Re-Armament, Inc.
Mouvement Fe'minin Alge'rien pour la Solidarite' de la Famille dans les Re'gions Rurales Ecole Fondamentale de Bou-Haroun
(Wilaya de Tipaza) 42425 Alge'rie Fax: (2) 74 75 51 Contact: Hakima Taibouni Membership: National Relevance: The organization promotes activities aiming at family and women in rural and disadvantaged zones, including training and literacy center for women and girls, legal assistance to families, and health care with focus on maternal, prenatal and neonatal care
National Council of Women Societies
(NCWS)/Nigeria 2A Agbani Road, Opposite CP, Enugu, Nigeria Fax: 330611 Contact: Joy Orah Membership: National Relevance: The organization promotes the welfare, and empowerment, socio-economic progress, of women through training and education, and counselling programmes on family planning and family-life issues.
National Union of Eritrean Women
P.O. Box 239, Asmara, Eritrea Fax: 120628 Contact: Askaly Menkerios Membership: National Relevance: The organization is committed to organizing women, raising consciousness, and promoting the socio-economic progress of women. It operates programmes in areas such as health, legal rights, social development and equal opportunities.
National Union of Eritrean Youth
P.O. Box 716, Asmara, Eritrea Fax: 291-1-125981 Contact: Thomas Tewelde Membership: National Relevance: The organization finds jobs for the unemployed, publishes a magazine and newsletters, broadcasts youth programmes in order to ensure high participation in the national development effort. the Union campaigns against illiteracy, conducts seminars and round tables on the constitution, environment and sustainable development, HIV, etc.
Non Governmental Organizations Coordinating Committee of Zambia Bible House
, Freedom Way, P.O. Box 37879, Lusaka, Zambia Fax: (260-1) 227184 Contact: Grace Manyonga Kanyanga Membership: National Relevance: An umbrella body of Zambian NGOs addressing gender concerns. The organization focuses on promoting equal access to services, decision-making and seeks to eliminate violence against women.
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Re'seau Sous-re'gional Femmes Africaines et Droits Humains (REFAD) 01 B.P. 633, Ouagadougou 01, Burkino Faso Fax: (226) 30-67-67 Contact: Bernadette Palle Membership: International Relevance: REFAD seeks to promote social integration and sustainable development in Western Africa from the point of view of the promotion and protection of women's rights.
The Green Belt Movement
, Kenya P.O. Box 67545, Nairobi, Kenya Fax: 504264 Contact: Wangari Maathai Membership: National Relevance: The Green Belt Movement works to create public awareness on desertification and to promote sustainable development by encouraging rural women to plant trees.
Thirty-first December Women's Movement
P.O. Box 065, Osu, Accra, Ghana Fax: 22 03 03 Contact: Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings Membership: National Relevance: The purpose of the organization is the mobilization of women to contribute towards the national reconstruction efforts and raise their level of participation in decision making programs covering education, population control and family planning, health care, environmental protection and income generating activities.
TINIGUENA Bairro de Belem,
Apartado 667, Guine'-Bissau Fax: (245) 252471 Contact: Charlotte Karibuhoye Membership: National Relevance: TINIGUENA promotes popular participation in development and the sustainable management of natural resources. It assists peasants, fisher-folk and women with improved production techniques, transportation and commercialization of products and provides legal support. 249. Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) Netley March, Southampton S04 2GY, UK Fax: (44 70) 386-8544 Contact: G. Roberts/M.Smith Membership: National Relevance: To promote employment, this NGO is providing refurbished quality hand tools to people in 43 developing countries and supports partner NGOs in tool-making programmes. It provides training, seminars and educational materials on the theme of sustainable technologies.
Uganda Association for Social Economic Progress
P.O. Box 14369, Mengo, Kampala, Uganda Fax: 256 41 245 597 Contact: Peter Kiwummulo Membership: National Relevance: The organization focuses on development of rural communities through activities promoting women and youth monilization, access to credit, primary health care education, and adult literacy programmes.
Union des Femmes Methodistes du Benin (UFMB)
B.P. 571, Anavie, Porto-Novo, Benin Contact: Marguerite Fassinov Membership: National Relevance: The organization promotes the empowerment and participation of women in social, political and economic isues, as well as the integration into society of the socially marginalized and disadvantaged groups.
Union de L'Action Femminine
425 Av Hassan II No. 13, Rabat, Marocco Fax: (212-7) 73 82 59 Contact: Latifa Jbabdi Membership: National Relevance: The organization works for a more equitable integration of women in development and in the decision-making process. Activities include programmes on literacy and development, education, violence against women, income-generating projects and information and training services.
Union pour l'Etude de la Population Africaine (UEP)
B.P. 21007, Dakar Ponty, Dakar, Senegal Fax: (221) 25-59-55 Contact: Aderanti Adepoju Membership: International Relevance: The main aim of the Union is the furtherance of the scientific study of population in Africa. To this end, it fosters collaboration among persons engaged in the study of population matters, stimulates interest in population matters in Africa and disseminates scientific information dealing with population matters.
United Nation of Youth Sierre Leone
12, Mecheaux Street, Freetown, P.M.B. 38, Sierra Leone Fax: 31-2990-27126 Contact: Ahmed Alhaji Sanusi Koroma Membership: International Relevance: The organization has as its goal the empowerment of youth all over the world for positive change, with a particular focus on the issues of street children, environment and sustainable development, global education, the new world order and human relations.
Women Development for Science and Technology Association (WODSTA)
P.O. Box 1167, Arusha, Tanzania Fax: (057) 8085 Contact: Lyne Ukio Membership: National Relevance: WODSTA is dedicated to enhancing the social, economic and political wellbeing of women through application of science and technology. This NGO promotes income-generating activities, encourages conservation, supports women's activities and enhances awareness regarding population issues, family planning and family welfare.
Women in Nigeria
90B Goldie Street, Calabar, Nigeria Fax: 087-220143 Contact: Eka Esu-Williams Membership: National Relevance: The organization is committed to the empowerment of women at the grass-roots level through participatory action, research, analysis, advocacy and intervention programmes. 270. Women, Law and Development Centre/Nigeria 366 Murtala Muhammed Way, P.O. Box 167 Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria Fax: (234 1) 263-5943 Contact: Jadesola Akande/K. Awosika Membership: National Relevance: The Centre seeks to promote women through empowerment and access to decision making through training and education programmes, with special attention to the rural and informal sectors.
Women's Health Organisation of Nigeria
(WHON) 1 Ikorodu Road, Maryland PMB 21178, Ikeja, Nigeria Fax: (234-1) 520-4088 Contact: A. Olukoya Membership: National Relevance: WHON provides technical assistance and capacity building for women's grass-roots groups in addressing women's health and development issues.
World University Service - Zambia
5 Chemin Des Iris, 1216 Geneva (Contrin) Switzerland Fax: (260) 22 3383 Contact: Maimbolwa Muuba Membership: International Relevance: The organization promotes harnessing resources of academic communities in strengthening civil society through education programmes. Its aims are the university and education for all, education for refugees, women and education, human rights.
Y.W.C.A. National Council
P.O. Box 1504, Accra, Ghana Fax: (233-21) 665 960 Contact: Kate Parkes Membership: National Relevance: Activities which are directed at women and girls relate to: poverty alleviation - health and family planning, education and training; expansion of productive work, formal and informal; training resources and technology; small business and self employment.
Youth Resource Development Council
31 Allen Ave., P.O. Box 987, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria Fax: (234 1) 493-6704 Contact: Margaret Aninyei Membership: National Relevance: The organization's activities focus on the economic empowerment of rural women, education regarding the rights of the girl-child, management of resource centers for youth and rural women.
Zambia Association for Research and Development
P.O. Box 37836, Lusaka, Zambia Fax: 260-1-222883 Contact: Olive K. Munjanja Membership: National Relevance: The main purpose of this NGO is to empower women and improve their visibility and status in society through research, analysis and advocacy that highlight their role in development.
Zambia Council for Social Development Farm
215 a, Lusaka/Mongu Road, Lusaka West, Zambia Contact: Andrew L. Kambinda Membership: National Relevance: The organization coordinates and strengthens the activities of constituent NGOs for a more effective effort in the eradication of disease, hunder, ignorance, poverty and unemployment. It advocates and lobbies for development policies that maximize development, with particular reference to marginalized sectaors. This NGO advises governments, donors and national NGOs with rgard to alleviation of poverty, employment- generation and revenue-generating projects
Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)
288 Herbert Chitepo Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe Fax: 720331 Contact: Judith Chikore Membership: National Relevance: The organization aims at the improvement of the status of women through collection and dissemination of information on gender issues, gender training, lobbying and advocacy.
