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PROMOTION DE L’EGALITE DE GENRE ET DE L’AUTONOMISATION ECONOMIQUE DES FEMMES DANS LES REGIONS DE L’ORIENTAL AU MAROC, DE KAOLACK AU SENEGAL ET DE LA BOUCLE DU MOUHOUN AU BURKINA FASO

A propos de Echos Communication

Echos Communication (www.echoscommunication.org) est une organisation non gouvernementale belge, active dans le domaine de la coopération au développement qui, dans un territoire donné, contribue à mobiliser et relier les acteurs de la société civile et des pouvoirs publics, du Nord et du Sud. Echos Communication accompagne leurs demandes en valorisant leurs potentiels et en renforçant leurs capacités en vue de favoriser leurs projets de développement durable.

Contexte de la mission

Le projet vise à renforcer les capacités des acteurs en les accompagnant dans la mise en œuvre d’activités liées à la participation des femmes à la vie économique, l’accroissement de leurs pouvoir d’action. L’autonomisation économique des femmes est considérée, par le projet, comme la voie fondamentale pour que l’égalité s’établisse entre les deux sexes. La finalité est de renforcer leurs droits, de leur permettre d’avoir la maîtrise de leur vie, d’exercer une influence au sein de la collectivité par leur travail et leur participation à des espaces de concertations et de dialogue. Echos communication et ses partenaires ont ciblés trois régions, Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso, l’Oriental au Maroc et Kaolack au Sénégal, où les inégalités de genre persistent entravant l’accès des femmes sur le marché de l’emploi et de l’auto-emploi en dépit des opportunités économiques existantes.

1. About Search for Common Ground 

Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international non-profit organisation working to end violent conflict and build healthy, safe, and just societies. Using innovative tools, Search seeks to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches, towards cooperative solutions. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, DC, Search is present in more than 30 countries with over 800 employees worldwide. 

2. Context

Fragility and violent conflicts risk undermining global efforts to reach the SDGs. Only 20% of fragile and conflict-affected countries are on track to achieve their targets by 2030, with millions of people at risk of being left behind. While conflict and protracted crises are on the rise worldwide and with increased divisions within and between societies, there is an urgent need to invest efforts in conflict prevention and move away from adversarial approaches to solving conflict towards cooperative ones. 

Despite their best intentions, actions of foreign actors in such contexts (governmental, private, non-profit, media, etc.) have the potential to aggravate existing tensions in local communities and contribute to the eruption of violence if local conflict dynamics are not well understood and taken into account in interventions. In order to reduce this potential negative impact and increase their contribution to positive change, it is essential that these actors (re)shape certain policies and practices that consider more centrally the needs and insights of local communities affected by fragility and conflict.

3. About the project

In light of this context, Search has been awarded funding for an advocacy project in Belgium in the frame of the 2022-2026 DGD programme cycle, titled ‘Promoting Stakeholders in Belgium and Beyond as Champions of Peace and Sustainable Development’. The project aims to shape interventions by policymakers (Belgian, EU, multilateral and international level), the private sector (with HQ in OECD countries) and other development stakeholders (Belgian NGOs/CSOs and international networks) that are conducive to durable peace and sustainable development in FCAS by advocating for policies and practices that:

• Support and regulate sustainable business practices (that are economically viable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly);
• Mainstream conflict-sensitivity (the ability to understand the context, how interventions interact with that context, and to act on this understanding to minimise negative impacts and maximise positive impacts on conflicts);
• Integrate peacebuilding (transforming violent conflict and promoting cooperative solutions). 

While the project aims to promote the approaches mentioned above in general, it also focuses more specifically on the following topics linked to conflict in FCAS:

• Natural resource extraction;
• Climate change;
• Humanitarian-Development-Peace (Triple) Nexus;
• Digitalisation.

While activities are mainly implemented in Belgium, they focus on insights and best practices from FCAS, with a specific attention on the Sahel and Great Lakes regions. The impact we seek to have on communities affected by fragility and conflict in these regions, is that they can live in peaceful, just, and healthy societies as a result of the project. The project serves to (1) capture their insights and best practices and (2) provide opportunities for people living in these contexts to engage with the project’s target audience.