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Rights and Citizenship of Women in Francophone Africa (DCFAF)
Project / Program Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): WID
Title: Rights and Citizenship of Women in Francophone Africa
Donor country/ organization: Canada CIDA
Other donors / organizations involved:
Recipient countries / regions: The project concerns the Francophone Africa region, specifically West Africa. At the national level, the project will be active mainly in four countries of concentration: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso. Activities will also be implemented in other countries, including Senegal.
Executing agencies in recipient countries / regions: CECI. At the regional level, the project impacts on several countries through regional networks and strategies.
Duration: 5 years. The project is scheduled to end in May 2003.
Starting Date: June 1997
Project / Program budget: Cdn$8,800,000
Finance / Type of cooperation: Contribution -- Technical assistance and training

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives

    The objective of the project is to help increase respect for women's rights and their participation in democratic life. The project focuses on three issues: gender equity (legal and social) between men and women, boys and girls, in the family: the elimination of violence toward women; the empowerment of women as citizens.
  2. Activities / contents

    The goal of the project is to improve the effectiveness of regional and national activities, structures and mechanisms designed: i) to protect, promote and defend the rights of women in the family, ii) to eliminate violence toward women, iii) to encourage and empower women to exercise their citizenship.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts

    The project revolves around three components: i) The empowerment of partners is designed to build capacities for analysis and action in promoting and protecting women's rights; for more effective ownership of issues, more democratic operations, greater independence of organizations, and broadening of the types of stakeholders involved. ii) Support for the regional action plan is designed to provide the regional forum with the human, material and financial resources to implement and follow up its self-defined plan of activities. iii) Support for national action plans is designed to provide coalitions with some of the necessary resources that will allow them to implement and follow up their self-defined plan of activities to promote, protect and defend women's rights.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action: With specific emphasis on the integration of women
    • social development (education, health and population, combating AIDS)
    • establishment of solid bases for development (good governance, conflict prevention, peace and security).

III. Contact point:

CIDA Africa and the Middle East Branch
Pan-African and Francophonie Program (BFT): Andrée Poulin 997-1084

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