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.Senegal
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.”Romania
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.India
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.Afghanistan
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.Uganda
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.Nepal
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.Mexico
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.India
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.Kenya
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.Mexico
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.South Africa
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.Nigeria
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.”Mali
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.Nigeria
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.Kenya
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.Nigeria
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.Nigeria
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.Indonesia
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.Guatemala
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.”Nigeria
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.”Kenya
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.Bangladesh
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.Egypt
Azza Mohamed Said El Ashmawy
Dr. Said El Ashmawy enrolled in the CEDPA workshop at the urging of the Secretary General of the National Council. Expecting to learn more specific strategies for youth development and reproductive health, she expressed how much she enjoyed sharing experiences with the other participants. “I have learned many things here, especially how to see children as assets. They are assets we can use, even if they’re young,” she explained. Dr. Said El Ashmawy is a health planner for the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood. She works as a medical supervisor for children in vulnerable areas of Egypt, teaches health education in order to raise awareness around childhood and motherhood issues, and also performs research in the field. Her organization is currently employing a program that works to provide services to underprivileged youth, improve working conditions, and educate youth and their parents.Philippines
Mary Grace Granado
Granado patiently waited nearly 12 years to participate in a CEDPA workshop. In 1991, she visited a CEDPA office and immediately knew that the YDRH workshop “was the course for me.” Granado finally made it to the workshop in 2003. She had heard a lot about the asset-based approach, but was unsure how to implement it. “The workshop synthesized what I’ve been doing back home,” she explained. “It helped put everything into place, giving direction to my work.” Granado oversees the day-to-day operations of the University of Bohol Family Care and Lying-In Center in the Philippines. Grace works on establishing youth-friendly health and other services for youth aged 13–24. She plans to raise consciousness around gender and adolescent issues through education and training. The workshop spurred Granado to see young people as assets who can help her achieve these goals. “The Filipino culture highly values child development,” notes Granado. “We even have a law where we uphold youth participation. Up to the highest level of the government, the legislative body, we have youth representatives. But we haven’t prepared the young people to really participate.” She wants to “take the culture’s value of youth participation and use it to harness the leadership potential of young people.” As a hobby, Granado occasionally writes and has recently produced a musical act dubbed “For Young Girls Only.”Kenya
Mary Wanjiku Kairu
Kairu is a prime example of an empowered woman leading the way for change. She describes herself before participating over 20 years ago in a Women in Management workshop as “a timid, reserved and inexperienced woman wanting to be empowered.” After a series of moves to positions in the national and international organizations, including serving as a program coordinator for CEDPA’s East Africa regional office, Kairu consults for international agencies on advocacy issues from women’s health to legal rights and policy issues. She attributes her career successes “to CEDPA’s unique way of building my management and leadership skills.”Malaysia
Zuraidah Mian
Mian recently returned from a two-week mission to Southern Sudan. Working for the Malayasian Medical Relief Society (MERCY Malaysia), she spent her time in the regional capital of Juba assessing the needs for hospital reproductive health care unit. She writes, “I am still affected by what I witnessed in Juba—and my visit was only confined to the tertiary hospital—a teaching hospital, mind you, so I can imagine how much worse it is in the outlying and rural areas.” On staff with MERCY Malaysia for nearly two years now, Mian heads the planning and development team, developing funding programs and pursuing partnerships. MERCY Malaysia comprises medical relief teams dedicated to providing humanitarian aid in crisis and non-crisis situations. Mian is featured in CEDPA’s training video, Voices of Women Leaders.India
Manju Agrawal
Nominated as a steering committee member for the Indian government’s planning commission on women’s empowerment and child development, Agrawal will help develop a campaign focusing on promoting the health and safety of Indian girls. She also advocates against domestic violence in Uttar Pradesh and serves as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Action Network. And Agrawal belongs to Oxfam International’s State Education Management Committee. Agrawal currently heads the Amity Institute of Behavioral and Allied Sciences and teaches at Amity University in Uttar Pradesh. Agrawal's book The World of Adolescent Girls was recently published in Hindi and English and is available at major booksellers in India.Russia
Tatiana Gritsenko and Svetlana Zvereva
As businesswomen active in their community, Gritsenko and Zvereva volunteer in the Youth Palace (Junior Chamber). Currently, they’re designing what is possibly Russia’s first Leadership School for Girls, adapted from the Russia School for Leadership. They both agree on how valuable the CEDPA’s training workshop was in promoting leadership development for women.India
Sunita Arora
Arora joined CEDPA/India as its program officer in 2002, where she’s responsible for managing, implementing, and evaluating adolescent projects. Arora remodeled the training department of the reproductive health division and transformed it into an open, interactive group. At the moment, she is working in partnership with many agencies to implement training and establish a network of NGOs throughout India. Arora came to the Youth Development and Reproductive Health workshop wanting to learn about more than just training methods and approaches to development. She explains, “The Youth workshop has opened my eyes. Whatever I saw in the past, I used to see with blinders on. Now, I have a broader perspective.”Tendayi Westerhof
Organization: Public Personalities Against AIDS TrustCountry: Zimbabwe
ppaat@mweb.co.zw
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Svitlana Moroz
Organization: All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDSCountry: Ukraine
svetamorozgen@mail.ru
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Proscovia Namakula
Organization: National Forum of PHA Network in UgandaCountry: Uganda
pnamakula@hotmail.com
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Fauzia Matloob
Organization: Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition AssociationCountry: Pakistan
pavhna@super.net.pk
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Chhiring Doka Sherpa
Organization: SHENA SAMAJCountry: Nepal
Snehasamaj@enet.com.np
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Jane Mbugua
Organization: Women and Law in East Africa – Kenya ChapterCountry: Kenya
wlea@kenyaweb.com
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Irene Kpodo
Organization: UNDP-CEECountry: Ghana
irenekpodo@yahoo.co.uk
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Inviolata Mwali Mmbwavi
Organization: National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in KenyaCountry: Kenya
inviom@yahoo.com
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Florence Gachanja
Organization: UNFPA/KenyaCountry: Kenya
florence.gachanja@undp.org
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Zeenat Sultana
Organization: Bangladesh Center for CommunicationsCountry: Bangladesh
zsultana@bangladesh-ccp.org
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Svetlana Zvereva
Organization: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Junior Chamber InkCountry: Russia
sv_zv@list.ru
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Zuraidah Mian
Organization: Malaysian Medical Relief SocietyCountry: Malaysia
zu@mercy.org.my
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Tatyana Gritsenko
Organization: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Junior Chamber InkCountry: Russia
tasha_gr@inbox.ru
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Lady Nne Bassey Abraham
Organization: Our Ladies Development CentreCountry: Nigeria
oladec_co@yahoo.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Norma Munguia Aldaraca
Organization: Legal and Environmental ConsultingCountry: Mexico
nrbild@prodigy.net.mx
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Ivy Josiah
Organization: Women’s Aid OrganizationCountry: Malaysia
ivyj@pc.jaring.my
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Laila Juari
Organization: Matahari FoundationCountry: Indonesia
leilajuari@yahoo.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Cut Hasniati
Organization: Lembaga Bantuan Hukum AnakCountry: Indonesia
chasniati2000@yahoo.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Dahlia Helaly
Organization: Save the Children – EgyptCountry: Egypt
dhelaly@savechildren.org.eg
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Megan Nykyforchyn
Organization: World Hope InternationalCountry: United States of America
megan@worldhope.net
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Siphiwe F. Hlophe
Organization: Swaziland Positive LivingCountry: Swaziland
hlophess@hotmail.com
Workshop(s): WomenLead in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS 2005 (WLEAD 1)
Ratana Nuankaew
Organization: Population and Community Development AssociationCountry: Thailand
pda@pda.or.th
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Jeanette McDonald Atherley
Organization: Asociacion Mujer y Familia Siglo XXICountry: Panama
jeanmavil@hotmail.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Giannina Guell
Organization: Operation Smile – HondurasCountry: Honduras
gguell@hotmail.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Margarita Elobo
Organization: 8th European Fund of Development: Civil Society ComponentCountry: Equatorial Guinea
beriba1@hotmail.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Carolina Dougan
Organization: Sorpresas UnicasCountry: Equatorial Guinea
fernandotogha@hotmail.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Roxana Segovia
Organization: Fundacion MamonalCountry: Colombia
direccion@fundacionmamoral.org.co
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Ivonne Convers
Organization: Fundacion Juan Felipe Gomez EscobarCountry: Colombia
juanfelipe@enred.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Shanshan Chen
Organization: Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural WomenCountry: China
shanshanchen@163.com
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Jala Garibova
Organization: Azerbaijan University of LanguagesCountry: Azerbaijan
jala.garibova@adu.edu.az
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Luciana Malamud
Organization: Fundacion El OtroCountry: Argentina
comunicacion@elotro.org.ag
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Hirondina Armando Cucubica
Organization: Save the Children – AngolaCountry: Angola
hcucubica_msh@snet.co.ao
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Andreia de Azevedo Rabetim
Organization: Centro de Integracao Empresa Escola do Rio de JaneiroCountry: Brazil
rebatim@cieerj.org.br
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Paulavette Atkinson
Organization: National Council on Substance AbuseCountry: Barbados
paulavette@ncsa.org.bb
Workshop(s): Global Women in Management 2005 (GWIM 40)
Xiaoping Tian
Organization: CEDPACountry: United States of America
ntian@cedpa.org
Workshop(s): CEDPA Staff
Ketty Jaramillo
Organization: CEDPACountry: United States of America
kjaramillo@cedpa.org
Workshop(s): CEDPA Staff
Sue Richiedei
Organization: CEDPACountry: United States of America
srichiedei@cedpa.org
Workshop(s): CEDPA Staff
Laurette Cucuzza
[08/20/2012]