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Association pour la Défense des Droits de la Femme et de l'Enfant (ADDFE)

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Aging Agriculture Business and Industry Children Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Culture Debt Relief Development Disabled Persons Economics and Finance Education Environment Extreme poverty Family Financing for Development Food Governance HIV/AIDS Habitat Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Indigenous Peoples Information Justice Labour Least Developed Countries Media Micro-Credit Minority Rights Peace and Security Population Private Sector Science and Technology Social Development Sports for Peace and Development Statistics Sustainable Development Technical Cooperation Trade and Development United Nations Funding Values Violence Volunteerism Water Women Women/gender Equality Youth Financing for Development: Addressing systemic issues External debt Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development International Trade as an engine for development Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Mobilizing international resources for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Research Service provision The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and HIV/AIDS Women and armed conflict Women and health Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Women and the media Women and the media Women in power and decision-making Population: International migration Morbidity and mortality Population distribution and internal migration Population growth Population structure Reproduction, family formation and the status of women Public Administration: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Governance and Public Administration Knowledge Systems and E-government Public Financial Management Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Social Development: Aging Conflict Cooperative Disabled persons Employment Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Statistics: Civil registration systems Country or region codes Demographic and social surveys Development indicators Disability Statistics Environmental Accounts Geographical names Household Statistics Informal Sector Statistics International Economic and Social Classifications Labour and Compensation Methodological publications in statistics Official statistics, principles and practices Poverty statistics Price and Quantity Statistics Services Statistics Social Statistics and Social Monitoring Statistical activities classification Statistics on international trade in services Sustainable Development: Agriculture Climate change Demographics Disaster management and vulnerability Education Finance Forests Gender equality Health Human settlements Indicators Information for decision-making and participation Integrated decision-making International cooperation for an enabling environment Land management Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.) Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sustainable Tourism Sustainable development for Africa Sustainable development of SIDS Technology Trade and environment Transport
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Congo Burundi
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	1. Defending women's rights through dialogue, the opening, training, information and the empowerment of women, 2. Build capacity and skills of women while facilitating the access to quality services that guarantee their physical and mental 3. allow women access to opportunities that meet their basic needs 4. Promote gender equity in socio-cultural practices and beliefs of the Burundi population 5. Advocate for the establishment of a legal and institutional framework at all levels operating in good governance and collaboration to promote women's rights. vision Families and the community as a whole Burundian fully recognize the role, values ¿¿and dignity of women and mobilize to fight against violence to women and girls as well as socio-economic development of women. Our objectives are as follows; 1. Organizing training and information of women through functional literacy and the extension of legislation, so that the woman be informed of their rights and better equipped to defend them, 2. foster care circles and women or men and women to discuss and inform each other s on topics of obvious interest as responsible parenthood, the problems of population, the protection of the environment, family planning, health reproduction, the fight against STDs and HIV / AIDS, nutrition, positive participation in a democracy, the sex education and responsible sexuality, 3. Assist and supervise low-income women to obtain and return on small loans so that more and more they are able to rely on itself, which would make them more comfortable to increase their confidence and respect for themselves , 4. Fight against gender-based violence and especially those subject to the respect of women by means of legal assistance, psychological and medical while facilitating the accommodation during the critical period of convalescence and of course the socio economic development in the community participation in promoting and educating the general public on gender and development, 5. Participate in the development of health facilities to facilitate, among other care-related gynecological diseases specific to women and men victims of violence and / or vulnerable 6. Advocacy and communication for the revision of laws and national and international policy to ensure the rights of women in all spheres of national life as well the reporting of violators of women's rights while ensuring the gender balance, 7. Contribute to the cultural appreciation and preservation of positive value by veins of popular theater, educational, recreational science with young people about the stories and legends of the country, traditional dances and other cultural genres as well as the coaching, 8. Help mothers family situation difficult to provide maximum opportunity for their children so that they are not victims of poverty or the disunity of the parents, 9. Participation in the promotion of girls' education in Burundi through the school reintegration of children and vulnerable girls and victims of sexual violence, and the location of businesses vulnerable youth in general, 10. Contribute to the emancipation of women in general and facilitate exchange among women in the world.
Year established:	2000
Year of registration:	2001
Organizational structure:	1. General Assembly of members of ADDF - Election Oversight Committee to monitor the Executive Committee - Election of Executive Committee 2. The Executive Committee has a provincial Coordination Office 3. A staff of the provincial Coordination consists of: - Coordination of activities - Secretariat - Financial service with the charge of finance and accounting - 3 Cashiers - A charge of coordinating the provincial - A charge of programs - A counselor social - A legal adviser - An economic advisor - 4 Box of social houses - 3 Psychologists - 3 nurses - A doctor at half-time - A logistician - 38 volunteers 4. A subcommittee composed of 103 program volunteers 5. Specialized committees within our areas of intervention, a. Legal and Social Commission b. Economic and Financial Committee c. Commission Cultural, sports and coaching youth
Number and type of members:	-
Affiliation with NGO networks:	ECOSOC
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Fees for education and training services Fees for providing consulting or research services Product sales and business services Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants
Funding structure other:	membership fees, donations by individuals, UNDP, Autonomous Port of Mauritania.

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