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Modern Advocacy, Humanitarian, Social and Rehabilitation Association

Headquarters address
Organization's name:	Modern Advocacy, Humanitarian, Social and Rehabilitation Association
Organization's acronym:	MAHSRA
Former Name(s):	MADDHUZ International
Address:	Former mezam national hotel building suite 330 savanna junction, commercial avenue North West region Cameroon
Phone:	(00237) 243133088, 674652179
Email:	contact@mahsra.org
Web site:	http://www.mahsra.org
Organization type:	Non-governmental organization
Languages:	French English

Activities

Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Aging Children Climate Change Culture Disabled Persons Environment Extreme poverty Governance HIV/AIDS Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Labour Minority Rights Social Development Sustainable Development Volunteerism Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Millennium Development Goals Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and HIV/AIDS Women in power and decision-making Social Development: Aging Disabled persons Employment Information and Communications Technologies Youth Sustainable Development: Agriculture Capacity-building Climate change Education Gender equality Health Partnerships Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sanitation
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Cameroon Nigeria
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Mission Statement - Advocacy (Human Rights) • Give priority to addressing the most pressing Human rights violations, both acute and chronic and particularly those that put life in imminent peril; • Focus attention on those who are at risk and vulnerable on multiple fronts; • Promote and pay attention to the realization of civil, cultural, economical, political, social rights including the rights to both physical and mental development; there by raising the voices of the marginalized. • Empower groups on capacity building to enhance sustenance and objective focus. • Measure the impacts of its substantive benefits realized through it. - Humanitarian work/Philanthropy • Give priority assistance to the most needy and vulnerable groups of persons in the society such as the PLWHA, Orphans, Disabled and the condemned. • Financing and promoting local and small scaled philanthropic gestures of other organizations. • Encouraging both formal and informal education for the OVC and the less privileged. • Carrying out statistics and substantive measures of the benefits realized through it. - Social Domain • Give priority sponsorships to works of arts that encourage Human rights, Philanthropic actions and positive initiatives on circular and general education. • Build and encourage the organizational and functional capacities of socio-cultural groups. • Encourage and promote media programs that serve in realizing PEACE, RESPECT and HEALTH for all. • Discourage publications and media programs contrary to the respect of basic Human rights and good morals. • Measure the impacts of the substantive benefits realized through its social initiatives. - Rehabilitation • Give priority, concern and assistance to the construction of Orphanage homes, Disable and handicraft centers and provision of better accommodation facilities for prisons. • Promote and market handworks of Disabled and other inmates. • Encourage educational institutions to extend their teaching and moral programs to the rehabilitation and correctional centers. • Ensure that the impacts and substantive benefits realized through the rehabilitation initiatives positively reanimate the lives of the concerned. - Economic • Promote and assist grassroots economic and life subsistence and sustainable initiatives of the less privileged and the most vulnerable groups such as OVC, PLWHA and Handicaps. • Build stable and functional partnerships with the grassroots and other local community socio-cultural groups and associations in line to train, assist and nurture the group leaders to adopt specific policies that positively direct and guides their members towards self reliance and self development activities. • Accommodate and improve on innovative fabrications that promote low income generative activities so as to rise up the socioeconomic importance of the common man. • Measure the impacts and substantive benefits realized and also ensure a stronger national and governmental reaction to the economic plea of the most vulnerable groups and the marginalized.
Year established (YYYY):	2000
Year of registration (YYYY):	2006
Organizational structure:	FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; International programs are negotiated at the highest level of which a board of home base and foreign members called International Member’s Union (ITMU) sit to setup overall implementation objectives and targets for the National Control Unit (NCU), When our particular programs are only within a single country the NCU handles all programs and only sends feed backs to its foreign representatives. The NCU further delegates program implementations to the Primary management Unit (PMU) which then communicates with the following; 1. National selection committee in charge of choosing field action units and offices for programs. 2. Grantees/Project Coordination Units 3. Technical Assistance for program support 4. Financial and Administrative sections/services of MAHSRA. The countries’ head office coordinates all sub units and ensures direct contacts with the beneficiaries. GOVERNING STRUCTURE; Internal Governance • MAHSRA’s OFFICIALS - MAHSRA’s officials of both sexes are democratically elected from amongst the registered members through a secret ballot or show of hand, agreed upon by members before voting commences. - They are elected for a term of three (3) years in office, they may be re-elected, but will not hold their post for more than two terms or six (6) consecutive years except with a general plus vote of confidence to their governance and persons. - In the event of death, resignation or withdrawal for any reason of one or more officials, the MAHSRA’s executive shall replace them provisionally. They may not exercise such full rights unless the vacant posts is over half or its critical to program implementation objectives. Such provisional replacement shall be subject to ratification by the next general meeting and the member(s) appointed should complete the term of office of the official he/she replaces. MAHSRA officials are designated thus:- - Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) - Managing Director (M.D) - Secretary General (S.G) - Secretary (S) - Financial Secretary (F.S) - Treasurer (T) - Technical Adviser (TA) - Legal Adviser (LA) - Communication Officer (CO) Major responsibility of Officials; • THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER - Be of good temperature, honest, with leadership qualities and having a good knowledge of all areas of operation of MAHSRA. - Represents MAHSRA in all acts of civil life. - Convenes and chairman all General/Extra-Ordinary and executive meetings. - Approves all expenditures. - Signs bank cheques - Casts a second vote in case of a tie of vote’s casts. • THE MANAGING DIRECTOR - Assists the Chief Executive Officer on administrative matters. • SECRETARY GENERAL - Is appointed by the Chief Executive Officer from among registered members, based on criteria of professional ethics on bureaucratic democracy and general management skills. - Designs and admits projects / operations of MAHSRA. - Keeps records of all acting and would be members of MAHSRA. - Receives and scrutinizes all official letters of MAHSRA. • SECRETARY - Maintain the minutes book and attendance register of each meeting. - Distributes the invitations and agenda for each meeting. • FINANCIAL SECRETARY - Prepares and keeps all financial records of MAHSRA. . - Prepares the draft budget for approval by the General Meeting of MAHSRA - Signs the Bank Cheques well. • TREASURER - The Treasurer is responsible for the “Treasurer’s Fund”. - Undertakes all payments duly approved by the CEO. • TECHNICAL ADVISER (S) - Advises the Executive/General Meeting of members on crucial matters affecting MAHSRA. • LEGAL ADVISER (S) - Ensures a legal procedural implementation of MAHSRA’s Actions. - Advocates for the rights of registered members and the rights of existence to the best interest of MAHSRA’s Objectives and goals.
Number and type of members:	According to our constitution any physical person can become a member of MAHSRA provided he/she abides to the governing rules in force. The Following categories/types of members presently exist in MAHSRA various fields; 1. Medical field (medical doctors, health specialists and nurses) 2. Financial field (Bankers and Accountants) 3. Social field (Musicians, comedians, writers and Actors) 4. Media field (journalists and pressmen) 5. Business field (local market men and women) 6. Health sector (PLWHA and disabled) 7. Miscellaneous (students, unemployed and social activists).
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Affiliated to Muslim Student Association (MUSAB) Cameroon, Hope Raising Stars (HRS) Cameroon, SAMBA UNIT Nigeria, Human Rights and Resources Management Clinic and Education (HURMACE) Centre Cameroon.
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Fees for providing consulting or research services Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

Additional Information

Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:	Workers and trade unions Children and youth Women Non-governmental organization
Affiliation with other organizations:	British High Commission to Cameroon
Publications:	Do we share equal rights - Stigma free work places, published in 2009 and designed to foster work out put development for workers living with HIV and AIDS.
Statements or documents submitted Commission on Sustainable Development:	British High Commission Yaounde Press Release Launch Anti-HIV Stigma IEC Materials Place/Date: Bamenda, 11 Dec 2009 Status: For Immediate Release Contact: 22220545/ 74652179 (MAHSRA) will launch Information, Education and Communication (IEC) kits to fight stigma against People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) at the Bamenda Congress Hall on Friday 11 December at 3pm. The materials have been produced as part of the project “Up-scaling the Rights of AIDS Sufferers” sponsored by the British High Commission. The project is designed to fight institutionalised and societal stigma against people living with HIV /AIDS and encourage employers and socio-cultural groups to adopt specific policies that protect the rights of HIV-infected workers and group members. Talking ahead of the launch, British High Commissioner Bharat Joshi said: “We all know of the immense damage that HIV/AIDS has inflicted across Africa over the past two decades. I am proud that we are supporting this important project through MAHSRA to ensure that sufferers are not marginalised at a time when they need the support of friends, family and colleagues most.” The prepared package for the event includes teachings on the respect of a code of conduct in workplaces, the presentation of a bilingual monograph on HIV/AIDS, a brochure that addresses the issue of Stigmatisation, a short film and a musical video Album on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS. The improvised package will include drama and musical interludes themed around the Rights of PLWHA at their workplaces, groups, homes and amongst peers.

Advancement of Women

Affiliation with other organizations:	Hope Raising stars (HRS)
Publications:	"We have forgotten" musical women video album by Revolutionary stars. in 2007. local women initiative for women empowerment.