Types of Projects We Develop
The chief purpose of project development is to tackle poverty and capability
deprivation in their different forms, dimensions, manifestations and patterns
in Francophone Africa. Therefore, the projects we deal with are those with
unambiguous development aims, effecting and benefiting Africans. CENFACS
welcomes sustainable projects
falling within the following scopes and scale.
Project Scopes
1. Generally, project scopes that we consider are those relating to the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as defined in the Millennium Declaration in September 2000 by the United Nations.
2. In practice, we focus on the following scopes:
- Housing and resettlement
- Female education and gender equality
- Safe water, irrigation and sanitation
- Child immunisation and nutrition
- Rehabilitation work
- Food security, combating famine and malnutrition
- Social access to services and infrastructures
- Family and income-generating activities
- Educational attainment/accomplishment
- Cultural development
- Women’s, maternal and infant health
- Primary healthcare and welfare
- Environmentally-friendly, sustainable and green developments
- Rebuilding infrastructures and lives as a result of natural disasters, humanitarian catastrophes, widespread diseases, conflicts and wars
- Promotion of economic and social freedoms within the framework of peace process and implementation
- Technological capability-building and small-scale sized industries
- Local initiatives responding to ill-fated effects of globalisation and international free trade
- Capacity building and development
- Community development through local and grassroots organisations.
Project scale
The sizes of the project that we cover include small- and medium-sized scales, and we are interested in their long-term beneficial effects.
Physical infrastructure we promote
- Schools, educational equipment and buildings
- Hospitals, medical equipment and infrastructures
- Rehabilitation/healthcare centres
- Environmental and agricultural infrastructures
- Infrastructures related to clean environment and agriculture
- Infrastructures contributing to the promotion of voluntary sector
- Development-led equipment and poverty-related causes.
Examples of infrastructures we support
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Exclusions
We do not fund the following:
- macro-economic projects/investments
- political parties
- denominational, religious, military, terrorist, rebel, money laundry and intelligence organisations/activities/infrastructures
- political liberalisation movements/activities
- resistance movements/activities
- freedom army fighting activities
- large charities
- scholarships
- projects requiring funds quite out of scale with what we can offer
- projects outside our areas of interest
- projects not seeking to alleviate poverty
- projects increasing poverty, structural social exclusion
- projects that neglect the gender dimension