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From Sylvie Siyam, of PROTEGE QV, Cameroon:
Our organization, PROTEGE QV that means Promotion
of Technologies that Guarantee Environment and
a better Quality of Life, is a Cameroonian NGO
created in 1995, and registered in conformity
with the local regulations in 1996. PROTEGE QV
aims to promote individual and collective initiatives
to induce rural development, to protect environment
and to improve the well being of the community.
- We use information sharing,
training (through workshops) and research, as
vectors to implement our projects. We have three
main programs: CLEAN AND SAFE ENERGY, MICRO-ENTERPRISE
PROMOTION, LOCAL GOVERNANCE.
- We work in collaboration with
government and other NGOs. We are members of
some networks: APC Africa Women (AAW), NETAID
network, Community Creation Content network
(C3net).
PROTEGE QV has a wide experience in training:
- Workshops to reinforce the
capacities of political women for the legislative
elections 2002 (1998, 1999, supported by United
States in Cameroon through the Human Rights
Program)
- Training of 30 women groups
leaders on how to implement and run micro-enterprises
(1998, supported by German Cooperation in Cameroon,
Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
- Training of the first batch
of Development Volunteers (2001),
Training of disabled to help them create income
generating activities in silk-screen painting
and stamps making (2002-2003, supported by European
Union through FOURMI II program)
- Long distance training of rural
women in the upper Nkam division through radio
broadcasting programs on family health, income
generating activities and local leadership (2003,
supported by Global knowledge Partnership),
- Training of women on the creation
of micro-enterprise based on chicken smoking
in Biyemassi (YAOUNDE) (2004, supported by European
Union through FOURMI II program).
Upper-Nkam Division Open and Distance
Learning Project
Our main project using radio was co-funded by
GKP (Global Knowledge Partnership).
PROTEGE QV, working in partnership with ALTERNATIVE
SANTE another Cameroonian NGO, was one of the
4 winners of the SGSIP Fund 2003 competition.
The project was based on Open and Distance Learning
using radio as ICT. This initiative aims to use
open and distance training programme through radio
broadcastings and videotapes, to empower rural
women in the upper Nkam division in Cameroon (200,000
inhabitants), by giving them the skills to be
able to implement income generating activities,
to improve the health of their families and to
practice effective local leadership. During that
project which was three months long, we realized
24 radio broadcasts with a community radio named
Radio Fotouni, 3 group discussions
and 12 videotapes on three main subjects: woman
and children health, local leadership, income
generating activities.
ICT ENABLED ON-GOING PROJECTS
- Creation of community knowledge
centers in the Upper-Nkam division in Cameroon.
- Creation of a radio station
in the Upper-Nkam division.
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