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Since its creation, le Centre National d’Appui au Développement et à la Participation Populaire (CENADEP) has worked to improve the well-being of the most disadvantaged classes by promoting these populations’ democratic expression, popular participation, and self-sufficiency. It also reinforces popular and grass-roots institutions, voluntary economic and social organizations, and the population’s capacity to impose an alternative to unfavorable development policies.
CENADEP, in light of the struggle against poverty and of the promotion of the sustainable development of the Congolese people, advocates for a participative, sustainable, and transparent management of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s natural resources. CENADEP supports social, economic, and ecological durability and sustainability.
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Centre National d’Appui au Développement et la Participation Populaire (CENADEP)
| Democratic Republic of the Congo Tel: 243-9-98-62-58-95 Email CENADEP |
| Mission |
Since its creation, le Centre National d’Appui au Développement et à la Participation Populaire (CENADEP) has worked to improve the well-being of the most disadvantaged classes by promoting these populations’ democratic expression, popular participation, and self-sufficiency. It also reinforces popular and grass-roots institutions, voluntary economic and social organizations, and the population’s capacity to impose an alternative to unfavorable development policies.
CENADEP, in light of the struggle against poverty and of the promotion of the sustainable development of the Congolese people, advocates for a participative, sustainable, and transparent management of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s natural resources. CENADEP supports social, economic, and ecological durability and sustainability.
| Advocacy |
- Advocating for the protection of the Congolese rainforest and against the commercial exploitation of wood.
- Researching alternatives to commercial, industrialized deforestation.
- Monitoring the illegal exploitation of natural forest and mining resources.
- Dispersing information to local communities regarding the Congolese Mining and Forestry Codes.
- Studying the Codes, in order to identify the strengths and reform the weaknesses.
- Submitting to the provincial and national parliaments proposals reforming these weaknesses.
- Encouraging civil society groups’ participation in the development of better enforcement mechanism of the Forestry and Mining Codes.
- Strengthening the capacities of grassroots communities in participative cartography.
- Protecting the indigenous forest communities’ interests, traditional practices, and rights to the forest and mining resources.
- Promoting the respect of national and international norms and laws regarding the exploitation of natural resources.
- CENADEP organizes trainings sessions, seminars, and meetings at which the directors and members of grassroots organizations and support organizations share their experiences in and information about sustainable development, citizen management, and the promotion of a political culture within the population. CENADEP also trains and raises the awareness of these organizations in citizen responsibility, democracy, electoral processes, good governance, human rights, rational and transparent management of natural resources for human security and peace in service of the durable and sustainable socioeconomic development and non-violent cohabitation and conflict resolution.
| Information / News from CENADEP |
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| Networking |
- le Conseil National des Organisations Non Gouvernementales de Développement de la RD Congo (CNONGD)
- le Conseil Régional des Organisations Non Gouvernementales de Développement (CRONGD Sud Kivu)
- le Conseil Régional pour la Formation et le Développement (PREFED)
- le Conseil National des Femmes pour le Développement (CONAFED)
- le Réseau Provincial de Défense des Droits de l’Homme au Congo (REPRODHOC)
- le Réseau d’Organisations de Droits de l’Homme et d’Education Civique d’Inspiration Chrétienne (RODHECIC)
- le Réseau National des Organisations de Droits de l’Homme du Congo (RENADHOC)
- la Dynamique des Organisations de la Société Civile pour la Paix, la Sécurité, la Démocratie et le Développement dans la Région des Grands Lacs Africains
- le Collectif des Jeunes de la RD Congo
- le Réseau des Associations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme (RADHOSKI)
- les Droits Humains Mondiaux (FDHM)
- l’Institut Vie et Paix
- Partenariat Afrique – Canada (PAC)
- Rights and Democracy/ Canada
- Rainforest Foundation UK
- Rainforest Foundation Genève
- NIZA Hollande
- DFID
- 11.11.11
- le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies aux Droits de l’Homme (HCDH)
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