Dear
WCY, Friends, Partners and supporters
we
members of the Executive Managerial Group (EMG) of
the AMWCY held our
meeting from 5 to 14 July 2010 in Dakar, Senegal.
From
the 5 – 7th of July we had the first part of
our meeting with our partners from Save the Children
Finland, ILO, ENDA TM, Plan, Terre des Hommes and
UNICEF. The workshops’, discussions revolved
around the programming of the project "Reducing
exploitation of working children in West Africa”.
This meeting was organized by Save the Children Finland,
to find out the following:
-
An update on the State of the progress of the Project
- Analysis of priorities, opportunities and challenges
to identify towards specific project activities
- Formulate recommendations for future programming
process.
Focus
Group Discussions enabled us to highlight activities
of the goals expected, name partners we can rely on
to conduct these activities and help us with our challenges
etc...
We
identified issues on which we will conduct activity,
which include;
-
Capacity building of the WCY in consulting, listening
and peer mediation so that they are able to prevent
and address violation of child human rights for a
better organization and communication within the AMWCY
and expansion of our movement’s activities in
the rural areas with the ability to advocate for our
activities with authorities and partners
- Strengthen the capacities of youth facilitators
in the AMWCY so that it increases their ability to
address key issues through participatory methodologies
suitable for children.
From
8 – 14th July, we continued our meeting at the
Enda Third World offices. This time, we focused on
the activities of our movement.
We
made the semi-annual budget for planned activities
of our movement and also examined the computer and
training requests presented by some countries. We
analysed the different supporting documents, invoices
and profomas of these countries. We also read and
approved the quarterly reports of the activities of
the movement.
We
met our partners and discussed with them:
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On Friday 9th July,the Regional Advisor of Save the
Children Sweden, Mr. Enyon Gbedema visited us at the
Enda Third World Offices.
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On Monday 12th July, we discussed with Mr. Manuel
Finelli from Save the Children Finland on how the
project of the reduction of the exploitation of Working
Children in West Africa, will be financed.
On
the 13th July, we received a visit from our partners:
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Mr. Mansour Ndiaye of Plan. With him, we discussed
about the creation of a project on the education of
the girls to be submitted to Plan Holland. If it is
accepted, this project will relate to 3 countries:
Benin, Mali and Togo.
- Ousmane SEYE Raymond, Director of PARTNERS SENEGAL
for Democratic Change, with whom we had a discussion
on the possible Contribution that he and his Cabinet
could bring to our movement in terms of capacity building
of the AWCY, so that we enhance our organizational
abilities.
We
took decisions for the WCYA, National Coordinations
and national support structures:
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Countries should update the statistics of their members
and send to ENDA in Dakar before the end of September
2010.
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Before Purchase of any equipment, 3 profomas must
be looked for . Profomas must be presented during
a committee meeting for the selection of the supplier/suppliers.The
Minutes of this meeting must be sent to Enda Third
world office. After the purchase the definitive facture
with the paid and delivered stamp must be also sent
to Enda Third World office.- The support structures
must sign the certificates indicating that the WCYA
and national coordination, have received the support
funds.
Done in Dakar, July 14, 2010
Aziz Traoré, aziztraore18@yahoo.fr,
Benjamine Agbodjan, benrubien07b73@gmail.com
Débora Konan, justdebora02@yahoo.fr,
Khoudia Diop, khoudiadiopejt@hotmail.fr,
Mathieu Ouédraogo, elvisc102@yahoo.fr,
Wilfried Esomba Onguéné, wilfriedson02@gmail.com,
