Invigorating cultural week sporting activities to empower girls and women.
Inviting through applications girls/women groups to participate in cultural week activities and compete in different sports and capacity building prog
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Información de contacto
Title
Mr.
First name
ngando
Last name
monono
Your job title
Project Officer
Name of your organization
Practical Association (PRACASS)
Organization type
NGO
Annual budget/currency
40000.00
Mailing address
P.O. Box 100 Buea
South West Region
Cameroon
Telephone number
+23777832205
F-a-x number
+23733323636
Country
Camerún
Website
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Email address
Alternative email address
Ubicación
Project Street Address
Bokoko Village; Chiefs Palace; Buea; South West Region; Cameroon.
Project City
Buea
Project Province/State
South West Region
Project Postal/Zip Code
100
Project Country
Camerún
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Otro
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All Competitive Sports
What approach does your initiative incorporate?
Capacity Building
Year the initiative began (yyyy)
2008
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Social stigmas and prohibitions
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Name Your Project
Invigorating cultural week sporting activities to empower girls and women.
Describe Your Idea
Inviting through applications girls/women groups to participate in cultural week activities and compete in different sports and capacity building prog
Innovación
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
Inviting through applications girls/women groups to participate in cultural week activities and compete in different sports and capacity building prog
How many people does your innovation serve or plan to serve? Exactly who will benefit?
More than 2000 females (1400 girls aged 18 – 30), as the already registered 25 groups have at list 45 active members each and a multitude of community individuals who shall serve as judges, porters, gate takers, referees, guards, ushers, escorts etc.
Do you have any existing partnerships? If so, please list and describe.
25 female groups have registered to participate/partner with us. We organize weekly meetings to plan the successes of the project to be organized every November lasting for a week.
Guinness Cameroon Limbe branch have signed an MOU with us, to provide, their soft drinks, musical set, canopies, cheers, additional prizes for winners and animate the entire program.
Cameroon Radio Television Cooperation (CRTV), have also accepted to take charge of all publicity.
Cameroon Posts and The Sun News Papers have accepted to give us press coverage.
PRACASS ICT Empowerment Center (PICTEC) has accepted to produce all advertisement materials and to video tape the entire project.
Five dormitory schools and Buea University shall provide lodging.
Working in collaboration with the above partners, we have to decide on the type of sporting activities to be organize as competitions for prizes, type of prizes to be worn, fund raising activities to be organized before and during the program and type of
In which sector do these partners work? (Check all that apply)
How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
Through advertisements over CRTV/news papers, flyers, posters/banners, emails/phone/SMS to individuals, groups, known networks, organizations etc. We also plan to create a website for the project.
In Cameroon and Fako Division particularly, cultural week activities are organized yearly following tribal/ethnic roots. Since we are organize this cutting across all tribal/ethnic and religious groups (to break social barriers/prohibitions), we write official partnership letters to known cultural groups, introducing our program. Our target groups are Moslem and pigmy youths/women associations (to break social stigmas restricting them to socialized with others)
Of the 45 female groups we appealed to, 25 have registered (05 Moslem and 02 pigmy) indicating our impact.
Through organization of mini competitions in communities, to limit participating groups for the final program to 50, in order to safely accommodate them and facilitate management.
Mini prizes shall compose of shields/cups
Impacto
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact
25 groups have registered and with our partners, we are brainstorming on the program. We intend to break social barriers amongst girls/women, races/t
What does impact/success look like? Please list any tangible measures of the impact of your innovation
Impact is significant as 05 Moslem groups (170 active members), are involved in planning the program. They attend meetings with others from different socio-cultural origin/religions, compared to the past were they only congregate with themselves. Our community believes that “Moslems are anti-social and wicked” is gradually fading.
Advertisement programs are raising questions and generating contributions, from diversified youths from different ethnic groups, religions and communities on the program.
These are marginalizing our sensitization/educational campaign, busying our email/SMS networks, with questions from youth/public and answers from organizing committee. There by socializing the entire network and creating friendship amongst Christians, Moslems, varied tribes thereby breaking social barriers/prohibition.
One amongst five girls in our community today is joining a group, to enable her participate in the program. This is awakening social responsibility and in future leaders
Is there a chance that your project could change policy (within an institution or government)?
Yes in Cameroonian schools it’s a policy that; Moslem girls style their hair, as against others who most cut theirs. These have generated augments and conflicts amongst students, teachers and administrations several times.
But with this our network, Moslems and other girls/youths are questioning why? When explained to them, using religion believes, some Moslems girls (in a meeting) said “it’s not fair, for we are all Cameroonian girls and should uniquely do things at list in schools).
The problem was taken to the Buea Imam, who after debates addressed a letter to education delegate stating that; for uniformity purpose and friendship, all Moslems girls most also cut their hair and was implemented.
It’s a taboo for Moslem girls to move without hair scarf, but today we are debating on that with the Buea Imam, who has promised to look on it. Because we ague that the scarf is not only covering their beauty, but making them timid and looking like criminals as they conceal their looks
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow the initiative or expand your intended impact?
Yearly organization of cultural week to create more awareness/impact. Organizing international workshops yearly to showcase our activities, in order for it to be copied and implemented in different communities nationally and globally.
We shall create a website to be advertising our activities to invite partners who may be interested to copy our activities and implement it in their communities.
Yearly we shall train youths who shall be custodians of the activities, charged with responsibility
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Sustenibilidad
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
For now its finance through registration contributions from partners associations and sponsoring organizations namely Guinness, CRTV, The Post and Sun News Papers, PICTEC, 5 dormitory schools and Buea University.
In future in shall be financed from benefits generated from international workshop registrations, fun raising activities; before (during mini competitions) and during the cultural week, as all prizes/awards shall be giving during organized fund raising galas on the closing dates of the events).
Appeal letters to benevolent and philanthropic individuals, institutions, organizations etc, project submissions to donor organizations and showcasing competitions awards like this.
Fuente de financiamiento
Annual budget
From all donors to organize the project is 18.000.000 FCFA = $42857.14
Annual revenue generated
We shall only record these in November after the first program.
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers)
Full time 05 females and volunteers 25 (21 females and 04 boys).
What are the main barriers to financing your initiative, and how do you plan to address these barriers?
Advertisements; if these are not accurately done, many groups shall not be informed to be aware of the program so as to register, the public also shall not be sensitized to be aware of the program and patronize it. So we are collaborating with CRTV, Guinness and PICTEC to ensure that advertisements are fully covered.
Transparency/accountability; if we are not transparent with donors funds we might loss all. So a committee headed by an accountant is in charge of handling finances and submits we
What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?
Organization; how to organize the partnership concerning sharing of responsibility equitable to all partners, scheduling of meetings (when, place, time, duration etc), finance, accountability etc.
Management; how to manage and maintain the relationship concerning, handling of finances (accountability and transparency).
Cultural and religious barriers; different cultural and religious partners, will want the cultural week to be organized following their norms.
These challenges are solved with
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What stage is your project?
Ongoing project .
What was the motivation or defining moment that led to create this innovation? Tell us the story.
As an advocate for change on global controversial issues, I investigated the causes and consequences of social barriers/prohibitions and religious differences, and come out with plausible solutions, to rescue mankind through traditional/cultural, tribal/ethnic and religious cross cutting competitive body on physical and sporting activities, to instigate positive changes in girls, youths, women and community through education/training programs with sports to empower girls, youths, women and community individuals.
My researches on socio-cultural, religious, human rights, social justice, ethnicity and conservational issues plaguing Cameroon, Africa/globally reveals that ignorance/negligence, selfishness/egoism, fanatic practices, crowned by poverty, lack of sensitization/awareness, exposure, education/training and illiteracy are the problems plaguing underprivileged/destitute girls/youths, women and community individuals who are of the majority.
The best practices to combat these ills are sensitization/awareness awakening, exposure, education/training, in relaxed environments interwoven with sporting activities motivated with awards, to release frustration in young people, women and community individuals living below $1 daily.
Investigating world conflicts today (Israel, Palestine, Defoe Sudan, Zimbabwe, Mumbai etc), its evidence that children, youths and women suffer most in the conflicts/wars partly because they are not fully involved in decision making concerning, as a r
Please tell us about the social innovator behind this initiative
I am a graduate of Yaoundé University 1, degree in Biology; diplomas in; Project and Environmental Management on A Gender Perspective and computer education. I am a professional biology teacher in a Government School Buea and project officer of PRACASS/coordinator of ZANAM.
I am the social innovator who is using sports in cultural week activities to educate/train and empower female’s physical body and mentality, to empower them to advocate for their rights and partake in communities, countries,
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22 – 26
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