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Pan African Organisation for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:

Economic and Social:
  • Aging
  • Agriculture
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Coorporate Accountability
  • Crime Prevention
  • Development
  • Disabled Persons
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Food
  • Governance
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Micro-Credit
  • Migration
  • Minority Rights
  • Peace and Security
  • Population
  • Refugees
  • Safety
  • Social Development
  • Sports for Peace and Development
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

  • Financing 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
  • Reproduction, family formation and the status of women

  • Public Administration:
  • Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Public Service and Management Innovation
  • Socio-Economic Governance and Management

  • Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Conflict
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

  • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Human settlements
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • Integrated decision-making
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Protecting and managing the natural resources
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Waste Management
  • Geographic scope: Regional
  • Africa
  • Country of activity:
  • Cameroon
  • Ghana
  • 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:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2008
    Organizational structure: PAORP-VWC affiliated women and youths groups form the foundation of PAORP-VWC management structure. Since the groups are many, delegates will often be drawn from the various regions where the NGO intervenes to attend general meeting as representatives. Among these delegates, a fifteen-man board of directors is being elected to run the activities of the organization. This board is headed by a chairperson, an assistant, a secretary and treasurer for a period of 3 years, before new elections are conducted. The board shall influence the extension work of the organization. It shall decide on policies and decisions relating to groups. A supervisor committee is set up from among the delegates to act as police of the B.O.D. it protects and monitors the financial welfare of the board by examining its affairs, performing annual audits and reporting to the general assembly.
    Number and type of members: 10 staff members. Members are made up of mostly women and youth groups including other community stakeholders like. Village elites, chief etc.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: Platform for Social Research and Empowerment (PSRE)
    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
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