We have intimate knowledge and understanding of the situation in Africa. Beside regular visits to Africa, we very closely monitor events in, on or affecting Africa. Being in Wageningen, we are in the midst of the Dutch agricultural and land development expertise. We are also within easy reach of most European centers involved with Africa. We are in active communication with many of these agencies. We should, therefore, be one of the best partner for your work with or in Africa. We can provide you an unbiased and independent advisory support and insight for your work in or with Africa. We have helped to formulate many new programme concepts.
Representation
We play an intermediary role to ensure good communication between the North and South. Where there are problems, we try to help sort these out. We also perform representation roles for the South in the North and of the North in the South. We help to explain the North in the South and vice versa, e.g. in specialist forums, public events, development debates, etc. We try to be as unbiased as practically possible. We should, therefore, provide you with the bridge with your potential or actual partners in the North or South. FemSud has helped to get micro-credit schemes for some of the groups.
Project Development, Monitoring & Evaluation
We were born and grew up in Africa and have extensive professional exposures. Our native and professional backgrounds explain our deep insight into the circumstances in Africa and also of some of the opportunities to address some of the issues. We focus on institution building – identify strengths and weakness and how to help make the local groups self-reliant and live sustainable livelihoods. We can support your work by helping kick-start the activities, or by monitoring and /or evaluating the projects. We are particularly interested in countries ravaged by civil wars, deforestation and famine. We have helped to inject life in some projects which were not making progress.
