India
Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra
KGVK provides health services in rural areas in India. CEDPA partnered with this organization to provide integrated services for reproductive and child health and infectious diseases in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The project assisted KGVK’s hospital and 13 health centers to provide a package of health services, including prenatal care, delivery by trained personnel, family planning counseling and services, sales of health products, child health services, and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria and sexually transmitted infections. Health workers and Village Health Committees educated community members about reproductive and child health, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases through health talks, home visits, street plays and special sessions for youth. The CEDPA/KGVK partnership was also successful in helping the centers to become more financially sustainable. Not only did the community and village health workers participate in the renovation of the centers, but community members who are seeking health care at the centers are now willing to pay for good quality services. Nearly one half of the centers were successful in recovering up to 35 percent of their costs through patient fees. In order to promote HIV/AIDS prevention among industrial workers, migrant workers and high-risk groups such as truckers, CEDPA and KGVK led the establishment of the Jharkhand AIDS Prevention Consortium, a broad-based coalition of industrial, government and NGO leaders. CEDPA supported the Consortium’s work by conducting a study of truckers and their helpers. Although four in five truckers had heard of HIV/AIDS, more than one in four reported behaviors that put them at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.
South Africa
Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 9)
Frank Julie
In March 2006, Julie published The Art of Leadership and Management on the Ground, a handbook for leaders and managers. Based on 25 years of experience in Africa, the handbook covers topics including effective leadership, management, proposal writing, strategic planning and personal money management. Read more about Julie's book on his Web site.Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 9)
Zimbabwe
Westerhof of Zimbabwe received the 2005 Auxillia Chimusoro special mention award for becoming a role model through her candid discussion of HIV/AIDS issues. An HIV-positive activist, Westerhof founded the Public Personalities against AIDS Trust, an organization that encourages public figures in Zimbabwe to declare their HIV status. The award announcement appeared in Zimbabwe newspaper The Standard.
Completed WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Tendayi Westerhof
Westerhof of Zimbabwe received the 2005 Auxillia Chimusoro special mention award for becoming a role model through her candid discussion of HIV/AIDS issues. An HIV-positive activist, Westerhof founded the Public Personalities against AIDS Trust, an organization that encourages public figures in Zimbabwe to declare their HIV status. The award announcement appeared in Zimbabwe newspaper The Standard.Completed WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Ukraine
Moroz conducted a two-day seminar in December 2005 based on CEDPA’s “WomenLead in the Fight Against AIDS” workshop. Moroz is the chairperson of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV in the Ukraine state of Donetsk. Fifteen women, including social workers, psychologists, and clients, participated in the training. Moroz declared, “It was a success, and I feel really proud and satisfied.”
Completed WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Svitlana Moroz
Moroz conducted a two-day seminar in December 2005 based on CEDPA’s “WomenLead in the Fight Against AIDS” workshop. Moroz is the chairperson of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV in the Ukraine state of Donetsk. Fifteen women, including social workers, psychologists, and clients, participated in the training. Moroz declared, “It was a success, and I feel really proud and satisfied.”Completed WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Zambia
Banda directs the Africa Directions Buaze Community Youth Centre in Lusaka. The Centre provides a variety of activities for youth from family planning and HIV counseling to sports and community drama. Read More.
Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1997 (YDRH 6)
Evans Banda
Banda directs the Africa Directions Buaze Community Youth Centre in Lusaka. The Centre provides a variety of activities for youth from family planning and HIV counseling to sports and community drama. Read More.Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1997 (YDRH 6)
Senegal
Lo completed her master’s degree in May 2005 at the School of International Training in Vermont. As part of the master’s program, she had an internship with the Millennium Project in New York, an independent advisory body commissioned by the Secretary-General to advise the United Nations (UN) on strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this role, Aminata Lo had the opportunity to contribute to the Millennium Project’s report: “Investing in Development.” She also assisted in writing a guidebook for women’s constituencies working on the MDGs and during the 49th session of the Commission of the Status of Women, held in March 2005 at the UN in New York. At that meeting, she also organized a panel discussion on “Women and the MDGs.”
Completed Youth Acting on Cairo and Beijing 1996 (Youth Voices 2)
Fatou Aminata Lo
Lo completed her master’s degree in May 2005 at the School of International Training in Vermont. As part of the master’s program, she had an internship with the Millennium Project in New York, an independent advisory body commissioned by the Secretary-General to advise the United Nations (UN) on strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this role, Aminata Lo had the opportunity to contribute to the Millennium Project’s report: “Investing in Development.” She also assisted in writing a guidebook for women’s constituencies working on the MDGs and during the 49th session of the Commission of the Status of Women, held in March 2005 at the UN in New York. At that meeting, she also organized a panel discussion on “Women and the MDGs.”Completed Youth Acting on Cairo and Beijing 1996 (Youth Voices 2)
Pakistan
Completed Women in Management 1990 (WIM 25) Arabic
Hilda Saeed
Saeed was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize June 2005 by the 1,000 Women for the Peace Prize initiative. Saeed was honored as one of 1,000 women from more than 150 countries nominated by the initiative. These women were chosen to represent the untold numbers of women worldwide who are engaged in conflict resolution and peace building. Only 11 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize since it was introduced in 1901. Read More. Saeed also participated in CEDPA's Supervision and Evaluation Training Workshop in 1987.Completed Women in Management 1990 (WIM 25) Arabic
Uganda
Kaddu-Serwadda currently works as the East Africa Representative for Ashoka, a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs. Kaddu-Serwadda works to influence local and international policy related to gender-based violence against children and women. Her active involvement in human rights advocacy against the violation of children and women's rights led to the establishment of a local network of child protection activists and practitioners (Empower Children & Communities Against Abuse - ECCAA), and she currently serves as chairperson of this group. Kaddu-Serwadda explains that "ECCAA is my life," and although she is not as involved in the day-to-day work of the group, she continues to play a strong role in their activities, partnering with local governments and organizations on issues related to HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and other important issues.
Completed Women in Management 2003 (WIM 39)
Debbie Kaddu-Serwadda
Kaddu-Serwadda currently works as the East Africa Representative for Ashoka, a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs. Kaddu-Serwadda works to influence local and international policy related to gender-based violence against children and women. Her active involvement in human rights advocacy against the violation of children and women's rights led to the establishment of a local network of child protection activists and practitioners (Empower Children & Communities Against Abuse - ECCAA), and she currently serves as chairperson of this group. Kaddu-Serwadda explains that "ECCAA is my life," and although she is not as involved in the day-to-day work of the group, she continues to play a strong role in their activities, partnering with local governments and organizations on issues related to HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and other important issues.Completed Women in Management 2003 (WIM 39)
Romania
Draghici is currently working for Ipas as a Policy and Program Consultant. In this capacity, she conducted a reproductive health needs assessment in Tbilisi, Georgia, and promoted the latest Ipas uterine evacuation instrument, the MVA Plus, at the first International Medical Exhibition in Georgia. Draghici also held talks on reproductive health at the Ministry of Health and organized meetings with key nongovernmental organizations working for women's reproductive health and rights. In addition, she worked with UNFPA and the head Ministry of Health official in Abkhazia, a recently independent region, on reproductive health for refugees.
Completed Women in Management 1992 (WIM 27)
Daniela Draghici
Draghici is currently working for Ipas as a Policy and Program Consultant. In this capacity, she conducted a reproductive health needs assessment in Tbilisi, Georgia, and promoted the latest Ipas uterine evacuation instrument, the MVA Plus, at the first International Medical Exhibition in Georgia. Draghici also held talks on reproductive health at the Ministry of Health and organized meetings with key nongovernmental organizations working for women's reproductive health and rights. In addition, she worked with UNFPA and the head Ministry of Health official in Abkhazia, a recently independent region, on reproductive health for refugees.Completed Women in Management 1992 (WIM 27)
India
Arunachalam, President of the Working Women’s Forum, was featured in a May 2005 Washington Post column. A 1980 CEDPA alumna, Arunachalam has worked for 30 years to tap the leadership potential of working women to improve their lives and lift up their families and communities. The Working Women’s Forum has grown to include 700,000 women throughout India. Arunachalam also recently received an award from the Vital Voices Global Partnership for her work to advance women's rights and economic development.
Completed Women in Management 1980 (WIM 5)
Jaya Arunachalam
Arunachalam, President of the Working Women’s Forum, was featured in a May 2005 Washington Post column. A 1980 CEDPA alumna, Arunachalam has worked for 30 years to tap the leadership potential of working women to improve their lives and lift up their families and communities. The Working Women’s Forum has grown to include 700,000 women throughout India. Arunachalam also recently received an award from the Vital Voices Global Partnership for her work to advance women's rights and economic development.Completed Women in Management 1980 (WIM 5)
Afghanistan
Dr. Jalal holds the Minister of Women's Affairs position in the Afghan government. A leader in women’s rights, Dr. Jalal may be best known for her bid for the presidency of Afghanistan against Hamid Karzai in the country's last two presidential elections. During her 2005 visit to the U.S. she met with government officials and served as head of her country's delegation at a major UN meeting. Dr. Jalal was featured in the 2005 documentary Still Fighting: An Afghan Woman Runs for President.
Completed Institution Building 2002 (IB 14)
Massouda Jalal
Dr. Jalal holds the Minister of Women's Affairs position in the Afghan government. A leader in women’s rights, Dr. Jalal may be best known for her bid for the presidency of Afghanistan against Hamid Karzai in the country's last two presidential elections. During her 2005 visit to the U.S. she met with government officials and served as head of her country's delegation at a major UN meeting. Dr. Jalal was featured in the 2005 documentary Still Fighting: An Afghan Woman Runs for President.Completed Institution Building 2002 (IB 14)
Uganda
Watulatsu founded the Foundation for Development of Needy Communities in 1996 to enhance development through effective community participation towards self-reliance for sustainable development in Uganda. Under Watulatsu’s leadership as Chief Executive Officer, the organization continues to grow and expand its work. He promotes and fosters partnerships with a number of international organizations.
Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 9)
Samuel Watulatsu
Watulatsu founded the Foundation for Development of Needy Communities in 1996 to enhance development through effective community participation towards self-reliance for sustainable development in Uganda. Under Watulatsu’s leadership as Chief Executive Officer, the organization continues to grow and expand its work. He promotes and fosters partnerships with a number of international organizations.Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 9)
Nepal
Shrestha is currently working as Honorable Member of the Public Service Commission (PSC). She is only the third woman to serve as Secretary of Civil Service and the second woman to serve in this capacity. With her nearly forty years of experience working on development issues in Nepal, Shrestha is now focusing her attention on increasing the number of women in civil service positions in Nepal. She explained that the CEDPA workshop she attended provided her with new ideas and tools for strong leadership and institutional growth.
Completed Women in Management 1999 (WIM 35)
Urmila Shrestha
Shrestha is currently working as Honorable Member of the Public Service Commission (PSC). She is only the third woman to serve as Secretary of Civil Service and the second woman to serve in this capacity. With her nearly forty years of experience working on development issues in Nepal, Shrestha is now focusing her attention on increasing the number of women in civil service positions in Nepal. She explained that the CEDPA workshop she attended provided her with new ideas and tools for strong leadership and institutional growth.Completed Women in Management 1999 (WIM 35)
Mexico
Martínez was recently featured in the article “Modern-Day Heroes and Pioneers” in the March 2005 issue of the online magazine, Living at Lake Chapala. Martinez is co-founder of the Centro de Desarrollo (Center for Development) in Lake Chapala, Mexico, a local organization committed to women’s health. In Mexico, health is traditionally a very private issue, and for many years women have suffered from a severe lack of information about their bodies, particularly related to sexuality and family planning. Through her organization, Sylvia and her colleagues educate communities through workshoips on nutrition, prenatal care, family planning and other prevalent health issues. Martínez also participated in CEDPA’s Insitution-Building-Spanish Workshop in 1995.
Completed Supervision and Evaluation 1990 (S&E 14) Spanish
Sylvia Flores Martínez
Martínez was recently featured in the article “Modern-Day Heroes and Pioneers” in the March 2005 issue of the online magazine, Living at Lake Chapala. Martinez is co-founder of the Centro de Desarrollo (Center for Development) in Lake Chapala, Mexico, a local organization committed to women’s health. In Mexico, health is traditionally a very private issue, and for many years women have suffered from a severe lack of information about their bodies, particularly related to sexuality and family planning. Through her organization, Sylvia and her colleagues educate communities through workshoips on nutrition, prenatal care, family planning and other prevalent health issues. Martínez also participated in CEDPA’s Insitution-Building-Spanish Workshop in 1995.Completed Supervision and Evaluation 1990 (S&E 14) Spanish
Mexico
Former CEDPA board member Castro is working to bring youth voices to international meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Mexico City. As part of the Youth Coalition, a global network of youth activists, she provides advocacy training to youth attending regional meetings held to review progress in development. Her goal is to help build a common agenda for youth in the region, and educate youth on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) process and how they can use their voices to influence the deliberations and outcomes. Castro also participated in CEDPA’s 2002 Institution-Building-Spanish Workshop as well as a Training of Trainers Workshop in 2001.
Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1997 (YDRH 6)
María Antonieta Alcalde Castro
Former CEDPA board member Castro is working to bring youth voices to international meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Mexico City. As part of the Youth Coalition, a global network of youth activists, she provides advocacy training to youth attending regional meetings held to review progress in development. Her goal is to help build a common agenda for youth in the region, and educate youth on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) process and how they can use their voices to influence the deliberations and outcomes. Castro also participated in CEDPA’s 2002 Institution-Building-Spanish Workshop as well as a Training of Trainers Workshop in 2001.Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1997 (YDRH 6)
South Africa
CEDPA board member Mabele carried the Olympic torch in June 2004 as part of an international torch relay for the Olympics held in Athens, Greece. As part of the South African relay team, Mabele ran with the torch through the streets of Cape Town. She was selected because of her inspirational work as an outspoken HIV/AIDS activist in South Africa. Mabele was the first black woman in South Africa to publicly reveal her HIV status at a time when such declarations were unheard of due to stigmatization and discrimination. Since that time, she has worked tirelessly, founding the Positive Women’s Network, a nongovernmental organization that provides support to women living with the disease.
Completed Women In Management 2001 (WIM 37)
Prudence Mabele
CEDPA board member Mabele carried the Olympic torch in June 2004 as part of an international torch relay for the Olympics held in Athens, Greece. As part of the South African relay team, Mabele ran with the torch through the streets of Cape Town. She was selected because of her inspirational work as an outspoken HIV/AIDS activist in South Africa. Mabele was the first black woman in South Africa to publicly reveal her HIV status at a time when such declarations were unheard of due to stigmatization and discrimination. Since that time, she has worked tirelessly, founding the Positive Women’s Network, a nongovernmental organization that provides support to women living with the disease.Completed Women In Management 2001 (WIM 37)
Nigeria
Mahdi works for the rights of women through the implementation of programs and services at the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), a Nigerian non-governmental organization focusing on the legal rights of women and the actualization of those rights at individual and collective levels. Mahdi helped expand WRAPA to a settlement outside Abuja to provide legal aid and counseling, adult literacy, civic education programs and skills training for women’s economic empowerment. In other parts of Nigeria, Mahdi supervises the WRAPA state focal persons executing the mission of WRAPA at those levels. She also coordinates the law reform advocacy program of WRAPA. CEDPA awarded her with the Ralph Stone Award for her inspirational leadership. Upon receiving the award, she said, “I have a dream for the women in Nigeria to a life free from discrimination, abuse and one full with opportunities. I share a hope and trust in our collective determination that our best future will happen.”
Completed Institution Building 2001 (IB 12)
Saudatu Mahdi
Mahdi works for the rights of women through the implementation of programs and services at the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), a Nigerian non-governmental organization focusing on the legal rights of women and the actualization of those rights at individual and collective levels. Mahdi helped expand WRAPA to a settlement outside Abuja to provide legal aid and counseling, adult literacy, civic education programs and skills training for women’s economic empowerment. In other parts of Nigeria, Mahdi supervises the WRAPA state focal persons executing the mission of WRAPA at those levels. She also coordinates the law reform advocacy program of WRAPA. CEDPA awarded her with the Ralph Stone Award for her inspirational leadership. Upon receiving the award, she said, “I have a dream for the women in Nigeria to a life free from discrimination, abuse and one full with opportunities. I share a hope and trust in our collective determination that our best future will happen.”Completed Institution Building 2001 (IB 12)
Nigeria
Ayodele Obuseh is currently working towards a doctoral degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the United States. He is studying in the School of Public Health's Department of Maternal and Child Health, concentrating on perinatal and adolescent health. The National Institute of Health/National Cancer Institute Fellowship supports Ayodele Obuseh through the school's predoctoral training program in the Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program (CPCTP). He is the first UAB School of Public Health Maternal and Child Health graduate student supported by the CPCTP in its 17-year history. Through his fellowship he is working on women's health, especially related to HPV, HIV and cancer of the cervix, and he also works on a child health development project with the March of Dimes. Ayodele Obuseh previously earned both a bachelor and master degrees in human nutrition from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, as well as a Master in Public Health in Epidemiology and International Health from UAB in 2003.
Completed Institution Building 1997 (IB 8)
Francis Ayodele Obuseh
Ayodele Obuseh is currently working towards a doctoral degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the United States. He is studying in the School of Public Health's Department of Maternal and Child Health, concentrating on perinatal and adolescent health. The National Institute of Health/National Cancer Institute Fellowship supports Ayodele Obuseh through the school's predoctoral training program in the Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program (CPCTP). He is the first UAB School of Public Health Maternal and Child Health graduate student supported by the CPCTP in its 17-year history. Through his fellowship he is working on women's health, especially related to HPV, HIV and cancer of the cervix, and he also works on a child health development project with the March of Dimes. Ayodele Obuseh previously earned both a bachelor and master degrees in human nutrition from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, as well as a Master in Public Health in Epidemiology and International Health from UAB in 2003.Completed Institution Building 1997 (IB 8)
India
Singh passed away September 21, 2004 after a brief illness. Ananta worked for the past eight years at the State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency (SIFPSA) project in India, sponsored by the US Agency for International Development. SIFPSA, a longtime CEDPA partner organization, works in the areas of family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and child healthcare. Prior to working at SIFPSA, Singh gained valuable work experience in many related areas. She started out training teachers in rural parts of India, and then worked to combat water scarcity in villages by installing hand pumps and training women in basic plumbing skills. She also worked for a UNICEF project on rural women's self-employment, as well as for a CARE-India project on slum dwellers' health and hygiene.
Completed Women in Management 1999 (WIM 35)
Ananta Singh
Singh passed away September 21, 2004 after a brief illness. Ananta worked for the past eight years at the State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency (SIFPSA) project in India, sponsored by the US Agency for International Development. SIFPSA, a longtime CEDPA partner organization, works in the areas of family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and child healthcare. Prior to working at SIFPSA, Singh gained valuable work experience in many related areas. She started out training teachers in rural parts of India, and then worked to combat water scarcity in villages by installing hand pumps and training women in basic plumbing skills. She also worked for a UNICEF project on rural women's self-employment, as well as for a CARE-India project on slum dwellers' health and hygiene.Completed Women in Management 1999 (WIM 35)
Kenya
CEDPA board member Asiyo worked with Cecilia Kimemia and Litha Musyimi, with the support of the Kenya’s Minister of Health Charity Nguilu who is also a CEDPA alumna, to organize two events to bring Kenyan alumni together. These Kenyan alumni have now formed a working network of women leaders from Kenya and other East African countries to advocate for critical issues for women and girls including HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation and capacity building for groups at the community level.
Completed Women in Management 1978 (WIM 2)
Phoebe Asiyo
CEDPA board member Asiyo worked with Cecilia Kimemia and Litha Musyimi, with the support of the Kenya’s Minister of Health Charity Nguilu who is also a CEDPA alumna, to organize two events to bring Kenyan alumni together. These Kenyan alumni have now formed a working network of women leaders from Kenya and other East African countries to advocate for critical issues for women and girls including HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation and capacity building for groups at the community level.Completed Women in Management 1978 (WIM 2)
Mali
Madame Traoré has spent the more than 30 years in the service of women and their families, transforming their lives by implementing the first family planning programs in rural Mali. Over ten years ago, Traoré established the first and largest organization in Mali specializing in family planning and adolescent reproductive health care. The Association for Development and Population Activities is now one of Mali's great success stories in the privatization of family planning information and service delivery and a model for sustainability. After attending her first CEDPA workshop, she immediately mobilized other alumni in Mali to launch the groundbreaking Women's Committee for Population and Development Activities, using her position as a government health worker to leverage its attachment to the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The committee was able to propose and launch Mali's first corps of community health extension workers. Two years later, Katibougou found itself firmly embarked on an informal experiment in community-based distribution of contraceptives, responding to a tremendous unmet need. Madame Traoré also participated in CEDPA’s 1991 Supervision and Evaluation Workshop.
Completed Women in Management 1983 (WIM 12) French
Fatoumata Traoré
Madame Traoré has spent the more than 30 years in the service of women and their families, transforming their lives by implementing the first family planning programs in rural Mali. Over ten years ago, Traoré established the first and largest organization in Mali specializing in family planning and adolescent reproductive health care. The Association for Development and Population Activities is now one of Mali's great success stories in the privatization of family planning information and service delivery and a model for sustainability. After attending her first CEDPA workshop, she immediately mobilized other alumni in Mali to launch the groundbreaking Women's Committee for Population and Development Activities, using her position as a government health worker to leverage its attachment to the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The committee was able to propose and launch Mali's first corps of community health extension workers. Two years later, Katibougou found itself firmly embarked on an informal experiment in community-based distribution of contraceptives, responding to a tremendous unmet need. Madame Traoré also participated in CEDPA’s 1991 Supervision and Evaluation Workshop.Completed Women in Management 1983 (WIM 12) French
Nigeria
Completed Women in Management 1993 (WIM 28)
Bernice A. Kolade
Chief Kolade is currently the executive director of Women and Development Movement (WADEM), a non-governmental organization working on the social, political and economic empowerment of women. WADEM also has projects focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, and democracy and governance.Completed Women in Management 1993 (WIM 28)
Tanzania
Completed Women in Management 1979 (WIM 4)
Grace Mtawali
Mtawali consults on Intrah’s PRIME project in Tanzania and Pathfinder International’s African Youth Alliance program in Uganda. In August 2001, she had retired from her full-time position at Intrah, a global health development assistance organization.Completed Women in Management 1979 (WIM 4)
Nigeria
Chief Ogunleye was a visible participant at the 2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. As part of the event’s debate on the world’s economic progress, delegates discussed how gender issues affect poverty. Chief Ogunleye’s participation on this topic was highlighted in an article by the Associated Press on the issues affecting women farmers at the Summit. She stated, “African women in Nigeria, we have no right to land, we can only access [land] through our husbands and sons. It means injustice because if women are the ones planting, working and producing food and have no right to land, they have no right to work in their full capacity.” Chief Ogunleye is a longtime CEDPA partner through her work at the Country Women Association of Nigeria.
Completed Women in Management 1983 (WIM 11)
Bisi Ogunleye
Chief Ogunleye was a visible participant at the 2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. As part of the event’s debate on the world’s economic progress, delegates discussed how gender issues affect poverty. Chief Ogunleye’s participation on this topic was highlighted in an article by the Associated Press on the issues affecting women farmers at the Summit. She stated, “African women in Nigeria, we have no right to land, we can only access [land] through our husbands and sons. It means injustice because if women are the ones planting, working and producing food and have no right to land, they have no right to work in their full capacity.” Chief Ogunleye is a longtime CEDPA partner through her work at the Country Women Association of Nigeria.Completed Women in Management 1983 (WIM 11)
Kenya
In 2002, Ngilu was appointed Minister of Health, one of only three women currently holding cabinet posts in Kenya. As health minister, Ngilu has made it one of her priorities to address women’s reproductive rights. Since 1989, she has been a leader of the Maenbeleo ya Wanawake organization, the national women’s movement. This is just the second time in Kenyan history that women have even been appointed to a cabinet post.
Completed Women in Management 1994 (WIM 29)
Charity Ngilu
In 2002, Ngilu was appointed Minister of Health, one of only three women currently holding cabinet posts in Kenya. As health minister, Ngilu has made it one of her priorities to address women’s reproductive rights. Since 1989, she has been a leader of the Maenbeleo ya Wanawake organization, the national women’s movement. This is just the second time in Kenyan history that women have even been appointed to a cabinet post.Completed Women in Management 1994 (WIM 29)
Germany
Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1997 (YDRH 6)
Uli Gilbert
Uli Gilbert joined the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) regional office in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she focuses on young people and HIV prevention in South Asia. Gilbert previously served as CEDPA/South Africa’s Country Representative.Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1997 (YDRH 6)
Uganda
Completed Institution Building 2000 (IB 11)
Sam Serunkuuma
Serunkuuma is working as an HIV/AIDS advisor under the Ministry of Health and Reproductive Health in the Republic of Kiribati, a Pacific island nation. He is currently working with a task force to create a five-year work plan for obtaining global funding for the program.Completed Institution Building 2000 (IB 11)
Tanzania
Completed Women in Management 1997 (WIM 33)
Esabella Neeso
Neeso works as Program Assistant for Community Home-Based Care at Pathfinder International in Tanzania. Previously, she was employed at the Child Concern Consortium. Neeso also participated in CEDPA’s Youth Development and Reproductive Health Workshop in 1999.Completed Women in Management 1997 (WIM 33)
Ghana
Completed Institution Building 1995 (IB 6A) Spanish
Kwesi Odoi-Agyarko
Dr. Odoi-Agyarko was awarded the United Nations Population Honor for his outstanding work in rural reproductive health programs. As Executive Director of the Rural Help Integrated Project, he has increased male use of contraceptives and improved project management systems and leadership. Also, he promoted community-based reproductive health services and raised awareness of female genital cutting practices in Ghana. Dr. Odoi-Agyarko and fellow award recipient EngenderHealth were honored in a June 2002 ceremony at the United Nations in New York. The Population Honor is presented annually to individuals and organizations that have made profound contributions to the awareness and management of population dilemmas.Completed Institution Building 1995 (IB 6A) Spanish
Tanzania
Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 9)
Irenei Kiria
Kiria continues to work with Youth Action Volunteers. The group is implementing a new project designed to train out-of-school youth on life skills with training sessions based on CEDPA’s Choose a Future! training manuals. In the effort to encourage widespread use of the manual in Tanzania, they are translating it into Kiswahili.Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 9)
Ethiopia
Completed Youth Leaders Program 1995 (YLFP 4)
Abdella Muzein
Muzein established the non-governmental organization Empower Youth-Ethiopia (EYE) in January 2001. EYE works to increase the opportunities for and abilities of young people to make healthy sexual decisions in the face of the AIDS pandemic and to properly harness their unique potential and assets to build their communities. The organization was established by Muzein and a group of professionals and young people. She reports that it is like a dream come true for her, as she has always wanted to establish an organization that addresses the issues and concerns of youth.Completed Youth Leaders Program 1995 (YLFP 4)
Bangladesh
Completed Women in Management 1979 (WIM 3)
Shamsun Nahar Rahman
Rahman continues to work at the Gashful Family Planning and Family Welfare Association, a development organization founded in 1972. The organization works with women, adolescent girls and children that are vulnerable and live in marginalized conditions, focusing mainly in the health, education and financial sectors, as well as building awareness around HIV/AIDS.Completed Women in Management 1979 (WIM 3)
Pakistan
Completed Institution Building 1992 (IB 1)
Meher Kermani
Kermani continues to work for the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA), a non-governmental organization whose aims and objectives involve the social, educational, legal and cultural uplifting of women and children in Pakistan. APWA has provincial and district branches throughout Pakistan and several thousand members, as well as Consultative Status with the Government of Pakistan and affiliation with several international organizations. Meher is currently managing APWA’s projects involving women’s empowerment, reproductive health and primary health care for adolescents and children.Completed Institution Building 1992 (IB 1)
South Africa
Completed Youth Leaders Program 1995 (YLFP 4)
Michael Cuthbert
Cuthbert was recently promoted to Program Director for the South Africa National Council of YMCAs. All matters related to National Program activities are now channeled through his office, including the Better Life Options Program (in partnership with CEDPA), international volunteer programs, and communications programs like the YMCA Digital Computer Studio and the YMCA website.Completed Youth Leaders Program 1995 (YLFP 4)
Denmark
Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1996 (YDRH 5)
Jacob Dal Winther
Winther has worked in his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs since April 2001. He works specifically on humanitarian assistance and is responsible for the Danish transition assistance to Albania, resulting in a recent mission trip to the country. Jacob also works on Denmark’s humanitarian assistance to the western Balkans.Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1996 (YDRH 5)
Niger
Completed Women in Management 1995 (WIM 31) French
Hawa Garba Wonkoye
Wonkoye is a member of the central committee of a political party in her home country’s newly established democratic system. She also serves as Secretary General for the Network of African Women Parliament Ministers-Niger Committee, which is currently working on a project to integrate women into the economic, political and legal development processes of Niger. Hawa also works for a teacher training service that manages 40 schools in the capital city of Niamey.Completed Women in Management 1995 (WIM 31) French
Nigeria
Ismail is currently the National Minister of Women Affairs in Nigeria. During her administration, she published and released the National Policy on Women, and her ministry selected CEDPA/Nigeria as an NGO representative on the National Consultative Committee (NCC) for the Advancement of Women. The NCC was inaugurated last year by the Minister Aisha Ismail combined with a technical team of experts drawn from several ministries, with the goal of ensuring gender mainstreaming in all areas of government. The NCC will work with the technical team to ensure that all aspects of governance are gender sensitive. Minister Aisha Ismail was also actively involved in the CEDPA and Johns Hopkins University-funded affirmative action lobby to the Constitutional Review Committee in 1998, seeking more equitable representation of women in decision-making.
Completed Institution Building 1997 (IB 8)
Hajia Aisha Ismail
Ismail is currently the National Minister of Women Affairs in Nigeria. During her administration, she published and released the National Policy on Women, and her ministry selected CEDPA/Nigeria as an NGO representative on the National Consultative Committee (NCC) for the Advancement of Women. The NCC was inaugurated last year by the Minister Aisha Ismail combined with a technical team of experts drawn from several ministries, with the goal of ensuring gender mainstreaming in all areas of government. The NCC will work with the technical team to ensure that all aspects of governance are gender sensitive. Minister Aisha Ismail was also actively involved in the CEDPA and Johns Hopkins University-funded affirmative action lobby to the Constitutional Review Committee in 1998, seeking more equitable representation of women in decision-making.Completed Institution Building 1997 (IB 8)
Mexico
Completed Institution Building 1995 (IB 6)
Rosa María Vidal
Vidal is currently the Executive Director of Pronatura/Chiapas, which recently received a grant from the Packard Foundation for integrating family planning services and education with natural resource management. Vidal has also worked in recent years with former CEDPA colleague Patricia Sears on Cairo+5 and other related areas. In 1996, CEDPA funded a Pronatura community diagnostic with World Bank funds and they became a Better Life Options partner for three years, which was the first time Pronatura worked in the area of reproductive health.Completed Institution Building 1995 (IB 6)
Botswana
Completed Women in Management 1986 (WIM 18)
Goitsemang Boiteto
In 1990, Boiteto worked in health care in the Kgalagadi District Council under the Department of Local Government Service Management. She found resources scarce and the work demanding and challenging. Without the necessary staff and transport, there was little she could do to improve the delivery of health services to the district. However, after approaching the Permanent Secretary’s Office at the Ministry of Health to voice the needs for her District, she was granted twelve nurses and four vehicles. Since then, she has continued to apply her learned leadership skills in Botswana’s health care system. Boiteto is currently a Matron (Senior Nursing Officer) for the Kweneng District Council and manages about 320 staff members in 35 health facilities.Completed Women in Management 1986 (WIM 18)
Gambia, The
Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1996 (YDRH 5)
Ebrima Saidy
Saidy was accepted to De Monfort University in Leicester, England to complete a Masters Degree in community education with a professional qualification in youth and community development, in the effort to fulfill his dream of a career working with youth.Completed Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health 1996 (YDRH 5)
South Africa
Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 8)
Fulufhelo Ratshikhopha
Ratshikhopha Director of Administrative Services for the Sport, Arts, and Culture Department in Petersburg. She left her position at the Northern Province Youth Commission last December. Ratshikhopha expressed that the Youth Development and Reproductive Health training she attended has contributed in many ways to her development and strength as a young woman. She now has the opportunity to be involved in the process of transforming her country and knows that “regardless of age or gender we all could make a difference given the opportunity.”Completed Youth, Development & Reproductive Health 1999 (YDRH 8)
Indonesia
Dr. Sudomo is Chief of the Health Foundation Sinar Wijaya Indonesia. There she is working on a health program that includes family planning and women’s empowerment programs in cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya, and Malang. In May 2001, she finished her first five-year program at the Health Foundation and soon after started her second five-year program. As part of this second program, she plans to set up facilities for a more permanent family planning clinic and other programs in Malang. In 2001, Dr. Sudomo also conducted a one-day women’s empowerment seminar for 100 people at the National Family Planning Coordinating Board headquarters in East Jakarta. At the seminar they worked on a module for integrating democracy and welfare through the family with women’s empowerment.
Completed Women in Management 1978 (WIM 2)
Sunarti Sudomo
Dr. Sudomo is Chief of the Health Foundation Sinar Wijaya Indonesia. There she is working on a health program that includes family planning and women’s empowerment programs in cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya, and Malang. In May 2001, she finished her first five-year program at the Health Foundation and soon after started her second five-year program. As part of this second program, she plans to set up facilities for a more permanent family planning clinic and other programs in Malang. In 2001, Dr. Sudomo also conducted a one-day women’s empowerment seminar for 100 people at the National Family Planning Coordinating Board headquarters in East Jakarta. At the seminar they worked on a module for integrating democracy and welfare through the family with women’s empowerment.Completed Women in Management 1978 (WIM 2)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Completed Women in Management 1983 (WIM 12) French
Salwa Kadizi
Kadizi has been working in Benin at the University Research Corporation on the Northern Benin project Promotion Integrée de Santé Familiale dans le Borgou since 1999. The project coordinates partners’ efforts in the area, improves access to family health services and logistics, and builds the capacity of health workers. Kadizi is responsible for the capacity building of health workers and is developing a training system, organizing and training teams of trainers, and developing curricula for supervision and training of trainers in the use of family health protocols. Separate from her job, she is also personally involved in combating harmful practices that exist in Northern Benin related to safe motherhood. Previously, Kadizi had received a small grant from CEDPA after attending WIM 12. She used the money to organize the Center d’Cadrement des Femmes en Matière de Développement, where she trained women in income generating activities. In 1987, she joined the Centre for African Family Studies and was based in Nairobi as an Assistant Program Officer dealing with Francophone programs. In 1989, she transferred to the Senegal office and was a trainer in contraceptive technology and training of trainers.Completed Women in Management 1983 (WIM 12) French
Nigeria
Anenih is the National Woman Leader of the People’s Democratic Party in Nigeria. She also co-founded Women Foundation Nigeria (WFN) with two women representing the other political parties in Nigeria. WFN creates opportunities for Nigerian women to network on global women’s issues and works to empower women for increased participation in the political process. They also monitor women’s contributions to the political landscape and encourage women’s activism. Anenih and her colleagues attended a workshop on “The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing” at Michigan State University with a group of eight women from Africa. The program provided an opportunity to learn Internet-based skills, attend sessions on women’s advocacy issues, and meet staff from related organizations in the U.S., including CEDPA, the National Organization for Women, and the League of Women Voters.
Completed Women in Management 2000 (WIM 36)
Josephine Anenih
Anenih is the National Woman Leader of the People’s Democratic Party in Nigeria. She also co-founded Women Foundation Nigeria (WFN) with two women representing the other political parties in Nigeria. WFN creates opportunities for Nigerian women to network on global women’s issues and works to empower women for increased participation in the political process. They also monitor women’s contributions to the political landscape and encourage women’s activism. Anenih and her colleagues attended a workshop on “The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing” at Michigan State University with a group of eight women from Africa. The program provided an opportunity to learn Internet-based skills, attend sessions on women’s advocacy issues, and meet staff from related organizations in the U.S., including CEDPA, the National Organization for Women, and the League of Women Voters.Completed Women in Management 2000 (WIM 36)
East Timor
Completed Supervision and Evaluation 1982 (S&E 3)
Nafsiah Mboi
Dr. Mboi is Director of the Department of Gender, Women and Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a pediatrician and holds a master’s degree in public health with more than 20 years of leadership experience in women’s health issues. When she attended CEDPA’s training, she lived and worked as a medical doctor in Timor and was Chairperson of the community-based organization Village Family Welfare Movement.Completed Supervision and Evaluation 1982 (S&E 3)
Sudan
Completed Women in Management 1992 (WIM 27)
Jedidah Mwawingwa
Mwawingwa is currently working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Southern Sudan, focused mainly on reproductive health and capacity building. Prior to this position, Jedidah worked for AMREF on child survival and development. In September 1994, she joined the IRC in Rwanda, where she was posted for 16 months, then handed off the program to the government. Six months later Mwawingwa came into her current position with IRC Southern Sudan.Completed Women in Management 1992 (WIM 27)
Nepal
Completed Supervision and Evaluation 1987 (S&E 8)
Pravita Rana
Rana has spent the past ten years working in her country’s political system as a member of the Rastriya Parjatantra Party (RPP). She has also become involved in social work in the remote district of Bardia. She ran for office in two general elections and received ten thousand votes, but was two thousand votes short of being victorious. Rana also looks after three NGOs in Bardia, funded by the ASIA Foundation, PACT, and UN Women’s Guild, which works to support women’s groups and community development.Completed Supervision and Evaluation 1987 (S&E 8)
India
Aravali Vikas Sangathan (ARAVIS)
ARAVIS trains youth with CEDPA’s Choose a Future! Issues and Options for Adolescent Girls and Boys module in the Gurgaon district of Haryana. ARAVIS works to overcome poverty in India and improve the quality of life in rural areas through sustainable and environment friendly development. With community participation, ARAVIS helps to enhance people’s lives.
Egypt
National Council for Women (NCW)
The NCW established advocacy networks in four Egyptian governorates to advocate for women’s issues in collaboration with women’s issue organizations and community leaders. The networks include Beni Sweif Network for Women Empowerment, Qena Network for Women Development, Fayoum Network for Women Development and Menia Network for Women Empowerment. NCW enhances the status of Egyptian women and maximizes their contribution to the growth and development of Egypt. Its focus is on narrowing existing socioeconomic gender gaps and addressing women’s strategic needs including social, economic and political empowerment.
Egypt
Association for Family Planning in Alexandria governorate
The Association for Family Planning assesses the impact and sustainability of CEDPA/Egypt’s programs on the beneficiaries of the community. The association conducts poll on the impact of the New Horizons and New Visions programs.
Egypt
Children with Special Needs Association (CSN)
The Association is working toward helping the handicap children in order provide them with a better life and looking for better future for all the community through integrated development. CSN has served more than 10,000 people with a staff of 25 to 30 people.
Egypt
Ahmed Taher Community Development Association (ATCDA)
ATCDA transformed itself from a community charity to a sustainable development organization through its partnership with CEDPA/Egypt. In 1995, ATCDA began to implement the New Horizons program. Subsequently they were given grants to manage a scholarship program and a skills training project. Their staff took advantage of all the CEDPA/Egypt training courses and ATCDA soon emerged as a regional managing partner responsible for New Horizons and New Visions in two governorates. ATCDA also participated in the development of the New Visions program and several staff became master trainers. With CEDPA/Egypt’s assistance, ATCDA received funds from the Japanese Embassy to rehabilitate its existing office and open a second office. ATCDA has now become a major force in the community, serving a broad range of needs. They continue to implement both the New Horizons and New Visions programs and have expanded to new communities.
Egypt
Regional Federation for Non-Governmental Organizations–Aswan
The Regional Federation for Non-Governmental Organizations raises the capacity and life skills of girls and boys through implementing the New Horizons and New Visions programs. The federation also assesses the impact of CEDPA/Egypt’s activities in the Aswan governorate.
Egypt
Young Muslim Women’s Association (YMWA)
YMWA implements the New Horizons and New Visions programs. It also assesses the impact and sustainability of CEDPA’s programs.
India
Action India
Action India works with CEDPA/India on the Stepping Out Together project. Action India provides care to HIV-positive, including treatment for opportunistic infections, counseling. It also promotes awareness with youth through debates in colleges, puppet shows and street plays.
Egypt
Family and Environment Development Association (FEDA)
FEDA aims to benefit the local communities by implementing effective awareness programs through training, field monitoring and data collection.
India
Child Survival India (CSI)
CSI works with CEDPA/India on the Better Life Options and Opportunities Program in the Muslim-majority areas of Delhi. CSI focuses on training marginalized adolescent girls and boys. The organization’s goal is to empower people through training and community mobilization towards social, health and economic issues affecting their development.
India
Prerana
Meaning “inspire” in Hindi, Prerana is a grassroots organization founded by a group of social work students in 1973. Its relationship with CEDPA was set in motion when one member participated in the first Women in Management training course in 1978. CEDPA provides Prerana with financial, technical and managerial support in a long-term partnership spanning more than two decades, which has resulted in the growth and maturation of Prerana into a well-recognized development agency. Today, Prerana has offices in New Delhi and Lucknow and working partnerships in several states of India. In addition to establishing models for community-based distribution of contraceptives, family planning services and life skills for adolescent girls and boys, Prerana itself has become a resource and capacity-building agency for other community organizations in India. Combining vocational training, non-formal education, life skills and family life education, Prerana has reached more than 15,000 adolescents. In a study conducted by CEDPA in 2001, we found that girls who participated in the program married later with 37 percent marrying after age 18 compared with 26 percent of girls in a control group. Prerana now operates 43 self-sustaining independent centers in six villages where the operating costs are fully covered by user fees.
India
S. M. Sehgal Foundation
The S. M. Sehgal Foundation implements the Inspired Young Minds! Issues and Options for Adolescent Girls and Boys project in the Mewat region of India. Established in 1999, the non-profit foundation supports programs designed to promote sustainable development at the village level.
India
Young Women’s Christian Association of India (YWCA)
YWCA of India works with CEDPA/India to research the Adolescent Reproductive Health project.
India
Urmul Seemant Samity
Urmul Seemant Samity supports CEDPA/India’s action-research program to improve reproductive health among young people in rural Rajasthan over three years.
India
MY HEART
MY HEART works with White Ribbon Alliance on the Advocacy for Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality project in India’s Orissa state. MY HEART’s focuses on reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Orissa by strengthening the role of civil society in advocating for safe motherhood issues.
India
Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA)
CHETNA empower women through the White Ribbon Alliance’s State Level Advocacy on Safe Motherhood project in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Established in 1980, CHETNA focuses on improving the lives of disadvantaged and marginalized children, adolescents and women from the rural, tribal and urban areas of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The organization develops training modules and materials and advocates for issues concerning women and youth.
India
Bharatiya Grameen Mahila Sangh (BGMS)
BGMS to implement the Strengthening Muslim Adolescents Project in the Indore district of Madhya Pradesh. Founded in 1961, BGMS trains youth in health issues to encourage better standards of living in rural areas.
Nepal
Nepali Technical Assistant Group (NTAG)
NTAG works with CEDPA/Nepal on the Building Reproductive Health Awareness Among Adolescent Girls in Conflict Affected Districts of Nepal project.
Nepal
Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK)
Established in 1975, AMK is a Nepalese organization that partners with CEDPA/Nepal on our Adolescent Girls Initiative for Their Reproductive Health (A Gift for RH) project. A grassroots organization, AMK develops and promotes women’s social, economic and health status. In addition to A Gift for RH, AMK and CEDPA/Nepal worked together on the Adolescent Girls Groups Anti-Trafficking project to increase the ability of girls to resist trafficking attempts. The project successfully trained Nepalese girls to increase their awareness of trafficking and to protect themselves.
South Africa
Limpopo Community Radio Forum
The Limpopo Community Radio Forum is part of a network of radio stations formed in 1994 to promote rural and semi-urban communities that were not well served by the mainstream media. Over the last 12 years, community radio has impacted and increased how information disperses across South Africa. CEDPA/South Africa partners with Limpopo community radio program to promote women’s rights through the Women's Legal Rights Initiative.
South Africa
Muleide
Founded in 1991, Muleide is a South African community group that educates women on their legal rights. CEDPA/South Africa partners with this organization on the Women's Legal Rights Initiative. Muleide runs workshops in rural and urban areas and invites legal experts to educate women on their rights.
South Africa
Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust (WLSA)
Working with CEDPA on the Women's Legal Rights Initiative, WLSA promotes legal reforms and changes to policies that disadvantage South African women.
Nepal
Nagarik Aawaz
Nagarik Aawaz partners with CEDPA/Nepal to build youth alternatives to violence. The organization was recognized in 2005 by Ashoka's Changemaker Innovation Awards as one of its top three winners that “Build a More Ethical Society.” Nagarik Aawaz trains Nepalese youth displaced by conflict to help reconstruct and advocate for peace in conflict-ridden communities.
Nepal
Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS)
CEDPA/Nepal partners with NRCS on our Building Reproductive Health Awareness Among Adolescent Girls in Conflict Affected Districts of Nepal project. Established in 1963, NRCS is the largest humanitarian organization in Nepal and has a chapter in all 75 districts.
Nigeria
Health Sustenance Action (ASH)
ASH works with CEDPA/Nigeria on the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention in Cross River state. Targeting long distance drivers, the grassroots organization advocates for better communication about HIV/AIDS among this high risk group. It is the first time ASH is working with truck drivers. The organization initially started by addressing behavior that puts rural women and children at risk of HIV infection.
Nigeria
Cares Initiative (CI)
Working on the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project, CI aims to improve lives of 15–24 year-old youths who live in motor parks in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. The organization partners with the motor park’s association of youth traders to reach these youths. Formed in 2000, CI promotes the sexual and reproductive health and rights of youth. In addition to working with CEDPA/Nigeria, CI carries out health education programs in secondary schools and has established adolescent health clubs in the Calabar municipality.
Nigeria
Centre for Positive Development (CPD)
Focusing on commercial sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS in Gombe state, CPD works to educate, counsel and mobilize these groups through the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project. As the coordinating body of people living with HIV/AIDS, CPD provides care and support to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. It has over 400 members spread across the 11 local government areas of the state.
Nigeria
Family Health and Population Action Committee (FAHPAC) Kogi
FAHPAC works with long-distance truck drivers and fishermen to educate them about HIV/AIDS through the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project in Kogi state. Established in 1996, the committee has conducted workshops on experience sharing on HIV/AIDS which encouraged people to share their HIV-positive status publicly. With over committed staff and over 200 volunteers nationwide, FAHPAC provides sustainable integrated health and developmental services to youth and women in rural and urban communities.
Nigeria
Alliance for Community Health and Environment (ACHE)
CEDPA/Nigeria partners with ACHE on the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project. Working in Gombe state, ACHE targets commercial sex workers and Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers and long distance drivers. Among other techniques, the organization trains these groups on interpersonal communication in an effort to integrate gender equality and respect for human rights into HIV/AIDS programs.
Nigeria
DreamBoat Theatre for Development Foundation
DreamBoat uses a multi-media approach to educate youth groups on how to combat HIV/AIDS. CEDPA/Nigeria partners with the theater group on the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project.
Nigeria
Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN)
Targeting women and men aged 20–29 living with HIV/AIDS, NEPWHAN works with CEDPA/Nigeria on the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project in the Federal Capital Territory. NEPWHAN serves as the administrative body of all support groups for people living with HIV/AIDS have registered with this network throughout the country. The network empowers and strengthens support groups and mobilizes people living with HIV/AIDS to organize them into new or existing support groups. Today, NEPWHAN comprises over 140 support groups across Nigeria.
Nigeria
Evangelical Church of West Africa Community Health Programme (ECWA)
Through the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project, ECWA mobilizes the faith-based communities in Bauchi to raise awareness of the pandemic.
Nigeria
Federation of Muslim Women Association in Nigeria (FOMWAN)
The FOMWAN Bauchi State Chapter educates communities on prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Bauchi and Katagum Local Government Areas through the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project.
Nigeria
Hope Waddell Women Guild (HOWAD)
Working to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS among women and youth in Calabar Urban, HOWAD partners with CEDPA/Nigeria on the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project.
Nigeria
Integrated Development Initiative (IDI)
Through the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project, IDI uses peer facilitation and counseling to promote HIV/AIDS prevention among out-of-school youths.
Nigeria
Catholic Archdiocese of Calabar Action Committee on HIV/AIDS (CACA)
Working with CEDPA/Nigeria on the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project, CACA focuses on providing HIV/AIDS education to Catholic communities in Calabar Urban, as well as building the advocacy skills of faith-based organizations in Cross River state.
Nigeria
Initiative for Grassroots Advancement (INGRA)
With over 150 staff and volunteers, INGRA focuses on health education and training through the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project in Kogi state. A non-profit grassroots organization, INGRA targets commercial sex workers in hotels by distributing materials and condoms and organizing group discussions on HIV/AIDS education and condom use. In an effort to reach out sex workers who are semi-literate or illiterate, INGRA has produced and distributed audio and video tapes on HIV/AIDS to them.
Nigeria
Community Health Information Education Forum (CHIEF)
Working with CEDPA/Nigeria on the MacArthur Foundation Safe Motherhood project, CHIEF increases the awareness of the women of Lagos state of obstetric emergencies during pregnancy and childbirth. CHIEF also educates families and other community members to address barriers contributing to maternal illness and death and generates greater support for safe motherhood in the community. A non-profit organization established in 1998, CHIEF primarily responds to the basic reproductive health needs of women and offers antenatal care, maternity or child delivery services and post partum care, including family planning.
Nigeria
National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS)
NCWS partners with CEDPA/Nigeria on the MacArthur Foundation Safe Motherhood project in Borno state. Established in 1958, NCWS serves as the umbrella organization of all woman-organizations, chapters and councils in Nigeria. About 125 community-based organizations are affiliated with the Borno state branch alone. The organizations not only focus on reproductive health, but they work in the areas of youth development, gender and environment, good governance and economic empowerment.
Nigeria
Reproductive Health Initiative Support Association (RHISA
RHISA promotes youth participation in HIV/AIDS prevention and stigma reduction in Bauchi state under the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project.
Nigeria
Rural Health and Women Development (RHWD)
Under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project based in Oron in Akwa Ibom state, RHWD promotes HIV awareness among commercial sex workers.
Nigeria
Positive Action Development Foundation (PADF)
Focusing on care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS, PADF works under the under the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project with CEDPA/Nigeria.
Nigeria
Silverline Development Initiative (SDI)
In Itam and Ibiakpan Junction in Akwa Ibom state, SDI promotes HIV awareness among commercial sex workers through interpersonal communication trainings and campaigns under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project.
Nigeria
Positive Development Foundation (PDF)
Working in Cross River state under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project, PDF targets young National Union of Road Transport workers and long distance truck drivers. The organization promotes positive living among people living with HIV/AIDS through counseling, home based care and palliative care, life management skills and support groups.
Nigeria
Presbyterian Community Development Services (PRESBYCOM)
In partnership with CEDPA/Nigeria under Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project, PRESBYCOM works to sustaining the efforts of faith-based organizations in the Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River state.
Nigeria
Rahama Women Development Program (Rahama)
Rahama focuses on care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS under the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria (GHAIN) project.
Nigeria
Resources and Action for Development (RAD)
Under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project in Akwa Ibom state, RAD works to improve the lives of young motorcycle riders and long distance truck drivers. The organization conducts training and builds the skills of target groups, teaching them resource mobilization and HIV/AIDS intervention.
Nigeria
Youth and Women’s Health Empowerment Project (YAWHEP)
Under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project in Ganaja Junction, Lokoja, Kogi state targets the high risk groups of commercial motorcycle riders and long distance truck drivers. A youth- and women-focused non-profit organization founded in 2000, YAWHEP empowers women and develops youth’s skills through creating public awareness and providing preventive education on pertinent issues. The organization persistently campaigns against traditional practices that are harmful to health and human dignity, including anti-drug abuse campaigns for in- and out-of-school youth.
Nigeria
We-Women Network (We-Women)
We-Women partners with CEDPA/Nigeria on the Under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project in Ugep, Cross River state targeting motorcycle drivers. Registered in 2001, the network is involved in grassroots development, health focusing primarily on women and youth. The network advocates for people living with HIV/AIDS, improving literacy skills, and providing support for small enterprises development.
Nigeria
Women Health and Development Network (WHADNET)
Under the Implementing an Information/Education and Communication Strategy for Safe Motherhood project, WHADNET works in the Minjibir community of Kano state. The network focuses on increasing women’s awareness of the danger signs during pregnancy and childbirth and increasing appropriate and timely use of services for child delivery. WHADNET helps generates greater support for safe motherhood through mobilizing the community to develop emergency transportation plans for women with obstetrical complications. The network also focuses on increasing male involvement in safe motherhood and enlists male volunteers to participate in the project rollout as advocates. In an effort to generate greater community support for safe motherhood, WHADNET conducts advocacy visits and sensitization seminars for community and religious leaders.
Nigeria
Women’s Rights Advancement Protection Alternative (WRAPA)
Working with CEDPA/Nigeria on the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project, WRAPA targets women traders in the Mammy market in Lokoja, Kogi state. A national non-profit organization, WRAPA focuses on advocating and mobilizing communities to promote, protect and realize women’s human rights. The organization also focuses on eliminating all forms of discriminatory practices against women, violence against women, and enhancing women’s living standards. The acronym WRAPA denotes the one or two-piece cloth worn by Nigerian women irrespective of age, tribe or religion, thereby underscoring the national coverage of the organization.
Nigeria
Yes to Life for Women and Children (YLWC)
A charity organization, YLWC works with youth under the Gender and Human Rights Initiative in HIV/AIDS Intervention project. Through disseminating information and promoting the rights of youth under the Nigerian constitution, YLWC acts as a resource center and provides training in HIV/AIDS prevention.
Guatemala
Alvarado is a Mayan educator, nurse and women right’s activist who tirelessly advocates for human rights in Guatemala. Among her many achievements is founding PRODEM, a women’s rights organizations focused on community health. Alvarado is one of the first indigenous women elected to the post-war government of Guatemala. Among her many achievements is being a founder of PRODEM, a women’s rights organization that focuses on community and women’s health. She challenges status quo by declaring, “How can we deny that raising children, making food, selling goods, sharing and teaching religion, isn’t the exercise of leadership in the home, in the family, in the church? We want the women to recognize this and value their innate ability and channel this ability to bring about change.” CEDPA has worked with PRODEM to “exchange views and meet with other groups confronting similar challenges. Our collective responsibility is to improve the situation of women. Through CEDPA, we have been able to exchange ideas, techniques, approaches, explore new ways to move this shared agenda forward.”
Completed Institution Building 2001 (IB 12)
Manuela Alvarado
Alvarado is a Mayan educator, nurse and women right’s activist who tirelessly advocates for human rights in Guatemala. Among her many achievements is founding PRODEM, a women’s rights organizations focused on community health. Alvarado is one of the first indigenous women elected to the post-war government of Guatemala. Among her many achievements is being a founder of PRODEM, a women’s rights organization that focuses on community and women’s health. She challenges status quo by declaring, “How can we deny that raising children, making food, selling goods, sharing and teaching religion, isn’t the exercise of leadership in the home, in the family, in the church? We want the women to recognize this and value their innate ability and channel this ability to bring about change.” CEDPA has worked with PRODEM to “exchange views and meet with other groups confronting similar challenges. Our collective responsibility is to improve the situation of women. Through CEDPA, we have been able to exchange ideas, techniques, approaches, explore new ways to move this shared agenda forward.”Completed Institution Building 2001 (IB 12)
Nigeria
Yolah, a native of Kano located in northern Nigeria, currently heads the commercial lending department at Bank of the North. The only women in management, she’s found that the leadership skills she developed at the WIM workshop have helped her in negotiating daily challenges while working in the male-dominated banking world. She’s found that subtlety is often the best approach in her work relationships, and having developed more confidence during the workshop has helped her present ideas to her male colleagues without feeling intimidated. At the time of the CEDPA workshop, Yolah worked as a journalist covering women’s issues for the local newspaper. She met the then-CEDPA/Nigeria director who convinced her to enroll in the training. She considers the WIM workshop as the equivalent to “a degree in living in the real world.”
Completed Women in Management 1997 (WIM 33)
Aisha Yolah
Yolah, a native of Kano located in northern Nigeria, currently heads the commercial lending department at Bank of the North. The only women in management, she’s found that the leadership skills she developed at the WIM workshop have helped her in negotiating daily challenges while working in the male-dominated banking world. She’s found that subtlety is often the best approach in her work relationships, and having developed more confidence during the workshop has helped her present ideas to her male colleagues without feeling intimidated. At the time of the CEDPA workshop, Yolah worked as a journalist covering women’s issues for the local newspaper. She met the then-CEDPA/Nigeria director who convinced her to enroll in the training. She considers the WIM workshop as the equivalent to “a degree in living in the real world.”Completed Women in Management 1997 (WIM 33)
Kenya
Kenya native Musyimi-Ogana lives and works in South Africa for the The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), which among other priorities, focuses on empowering African women. An economist by training, Musyimi-Ogana advises gender and civil society organizations on women’s issues. She points out, “It’s important that the African continent is engendered. Women have suffered the most from conflict, and they comprise the highest number of refugees.” Previously, Musyimi-Ogana headed the Africa Center in Kenya, which has trained over 500 women and produced training manuals and other publications in ten African countries. She feels that the skills she learned in her WIM workshop helped her advocate for women. A part of CEDPA’s delegation to the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, she developed lobbying skills which have proven useful in her career.
Completed Women in Management 1978 (WIM 2)
Litha Musyimi-Ogana
Kenya native Musyimi-Ogana lives and works in South Africa for the The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), which among other priorities, focuses on empowering African women. An economist by training, Musyimi-Ogana advises gender and civil society organizations on women’s issues. She points out, “It’s important that the African continent is engendered. Women have suffered the most from conflict, and they comprise the highest number of refugees.” Previously, Musyimi-Ogana headed the Africa Center in Kenya, which has trained over 500 women and produced training manuals and other publications in ten African countries. She feels that the skills she learned in her WIM workshop helped her advocate for women. A part of CEDPA’s delegation to the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, she developed lobbying skills which have proven useful in her career.Completed Women in Management 1978 (WIM 2)
Bangladesh
Parvi, Executive Director of Nari Unnayan Shakti (Women’s Power for Development) in Bangladesh presided over International Women’s Day 2006 activities, including several workshops and a mass campaign meeting on “Combating Psychological and Physical Violence against Girls and Women” in Chittagong, Barisal Division. In addition, Parvi, an HIV/AIDS expert, presented at the Asia Regional Consultation on Youth, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Pune, India in February. The meeting addressed the special needs of the Asian youth, especially to ensure their social security. Nari Unnayan Shakti (NUS) has run an HIV prevention and sexually-transmitted infection program for nearly 13 years. Providing services for nearly two million families, the organization has recently started advocating for human rights and supporting Bangladeshi women living with HIV/AIDS. In 2005, the organization conducted 160 workshops with 383 police officers, 159 procecutors, 154 media people, 303 community elite and other target groups. And NUS has rescued and socially reintegrated 40 trafficked girls and provided legal aid to 29 sexually abused girls. At present, NUS provides support for 150,000 people through 115 service outlets in nine districts in Bangladesh.
Completed Women in Management 2003 (WIM 39)
Afroja Parvi
Parvi, Executive Director of Nari Unnayan Shakti (Women’s Power for Development) in Bangladesh presided over International Women’s Day 2006 activities, including several workshops and a mass campaign meeting on “Combating Psychological and Physical Violence against Girls and Women” in Chittagong, Barisal Division. In addition, Parvi, an HIV/AIDS expert, presented at the Asia Regional Consultation on Youth, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Pune, India in February. The meeting addressed the special needs of the Asian youth, especially to ensure their social security. Nari Unnayan Shakti (NUS) has run an HIV prevention and sexually-transmitted infection program for nearly 13 years. Providing services for nearly two million families, the organization has recently started advocating for human rights and supporting Bangladeshi women living with HIV/AIDS. In 2005, the organization conducted 160 workshops with 383 police officers, 159 procecutors, 154 media people, 303 community elite and other target groups. And NUS has rescued and socially reintegrated 40 trafficked girls and provided legal aid to 29 sexually abused girls. At present, NUS provides support for 150,000 people through 115 service outlets in nine districts in Bangladesh.Completed Women in Management 2003 (WIM 39)
Nepal