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‘‘Imagine Africa '' 

 

General Objective:

The aim of this project is to encourage intellectual and cultural production through the creation of artistic models that seek to enhance the image of culture and arts in Africa, and to link these to the promotion of the acceptance of diversities, as well as to the necessity of understanding the issues of identity or cultural differences, which can lead to conflicts.

Intervention Thrust :

- Reflection and exchange between men and women working in the field of cultural development in Africa, and investigation of the relationships between artistic creativity and peace building;

- Strengthening the activities of the Engraving and Printing Studio ;

- Promoting a space for sabbatical reflection and project development for artists, writers, researchers and professionals; and

- Capacity-building for arts and culture professionals.

Planned Activities:

Workshop for the revival of the Engraving Studio of Goree

Reflection workshop for African female writers

Workshop for the conceptualization of an African Writers Forum

A database listing African artistic and literary figures

Expected Impact :

Enabling African creators to take possession of their imagination and express their commitment to peace issues. The expected outcome is to establish criteria of excellence for the promotion of cultural interactions between Africa and the rest of the world with a view towards greater mutual understanding.  

TRAINING OF SCHOOL MEDIATORS

General Objective:

The general objective targeted by the project is to train primary school children in mediation techniques in a bid to develop in them reflexes for peaceful management and the settlement of disputes. This general objective is divided into three specific objectives:

Specific Objectives: 

 (1) Sensitize a first group of school teachers and initiate them in mediation and peaceful conflict resolution techniques

(2) Ensure the training of other school teachers by their peers nationwide in the same mediation and conflict resolution techniques

(3) Transfer mediation and conflict resolution techniques from teachers to pupils

-Project Duration: 3 years (Extending the project to other African countries)

-Geographic Scope: Senegal

-Execution Partners: School Teachers and Schools in Senegal , NGOs and international organisations

Expected Results:  

1) A national pedagogical cell set up at school to train mediation trainers

2) The initiation of about one thousand school teachers in school mediation techniques

3) The successful training of an initial group of 7,000 school children in mediation techniques nationwide.

Global Impact:

Reduction of the number of violent conflicts in schools  

LEADERSHIP – GENDER AND NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

General Objective: 

This project consists of promoting civil society and grassroots communities by increasing their capacities of action and their standards of production and productivity, highlighting the link between these activities and peace-building in an effort to make use of the lessons and propose a methodology and a pattern.

Specific Objectives:

Step up women's social and political power and management capacities for more organizational efficiency.

Promote a strong and structured lobbying and leadership for women for an efficient commitment of women's organizations according to their real capacities and potentialities.

Strengthen women's competences in the field of New Information and Communication Technologies, to ensure that they become a pressure for the promotion of women's rights and empowerment.

- Project Duration: 3 years

- Geographical Scope: Senegal

- Execution Partners: 13 women's NGOs based in Senegal

- Expected Results

The use of NICT to develop networks of: e-leadership, e-advocacy, e-business and e-networking, with women's groupings and organizations in Africa and throughout the world.

Increasing the exchange of information among conflict and post-conflict-stricken women to combat AIDS, promote a social, political and economic alternative, and thus contribute to poverty alleviation.

- Impact