PEACE ACTION CAMPAIGN

Programme orientations are the following :

•  Promote peace culture,

•  Improve women intervention capacity through training and Education,

•  Participate in women housing construction activities according to the theme adopted during women international day « shelter for every woman »,

•  Reinforce women economic power.

Planend activities for this programme are the following :

Promote peace culture

•  Intensify CAP actions through different organisations of the collective and grassroot groups,

•  Start CAP activities in different areas (Communes) and Zones not yet covered

•  Continue concertations at national level and partners involved in the preparation of national policy in peace education field,

•  Prepare panafrican conference activities ( 1996 in Kigali on the theme « Gender, Peace and Development »),

•  Inter-relationship with programmes considered as concrete actions that CAP has highlighted,

•  Involve the programme in the country's sector based policies

Promote justice, security and equality.

Improve women intervention capacity through training and Education

•  Training regional coordinators,

•  Training member organisations leaders of the collective,

•  Training of trainers in member organisations, in regions and areas (Communes).

Participate in housing construction activities

•  Study the feasibility of the programme set up,

•  Identify accomodation need,

•  Look for construction sites,

•  Promote mutual cooperation and solidarity among member Associations which have construction in their attributions,

•  Pressurise the Government so that it puts up a habitat policy.

Reinforce women economic power

•  Promote credit and saving system as well as mobilise for a guarantee fund,

•  Play an active role in the revision of inadequate and obsolete laws,

•  Explore other intervention domains for women to be self reliant,

•  Conduct some Researches on technologies that help women to alleviate their household duties,

•  Sensitize women to be more aware and arise their consciousness towards their socio-economic development.

INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION The aim of this programme is to provide the collective and member associations, opportunities through exchange of information, techniques and actions so as to reinforce their objectives realisation capacities. This programme has an objective of setting up a news cell to promote communication between members and partners radio programmes, written press (media), library and documentation, news bulletin on NGO's and the governement. INSTITUTIONAL REINFORCEMENT Collective reinforcement consists of : •  Fullfil legal procedures, •  Develop human ressources, •  Develop management systems and procedures (programming, planning and reporting) •  Reinforce programmes conception capacities that help the collective to fullfil its mission •  Reinforcement of member associations had the following priorities : •  Fullfil legal procedures, •  Develop human ressources, •  Develop management systems and procedures, •  Reinforce capacities that help associations to achieve their objectives. N.B :Only CAP and IEC programmes are operational the « Institutional reinforcement » programme has not yet got funds.