Women, youth, PWDs, the marginalized and vulnerable groups are capable of taking informed decisions on their health concerns. They are assisted by community- based organizations (CBOs) that are equipped to ensure grassroots access to health information and affordable services

Rationale

• Meeting the basic health needs of people is a fundamental prerequisite for building a sustainable quality of life 

• Lessons from previous health projects consistently identified key indicators that certain health needs are still not being met for many of our constituents

Communities are aware of basic human rights, as well as civic rights and responsibilities. They are able to access these rights from socially and financially accountable service providers, both government and non-government.

Rationale

• The non-participation of some sections of the community in the democratic, development and governance processes had created unfair and unjustifiable opportunities for only a few privileged ones to dominate the socio-economic and political space to the detriment and disadvantage of the excluded majority

Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigents people and children in vulnerable situations

Rationale

• Every child has the right to education and can learn

• Our community success or failure in educating the next generation has a direct implications for economic vitality, health crime rates and other factors determining quality of life

Decision-making on social and economic policies is influenced by information generated from the realities of needs, constraints, and potentials of the youth, women, marginalized/excluded and vulnerable in the society

Advocacy is necessarily a tool for empowerment of the marginalized and excluded especially if it targets them in the identification/analysis of the problem, identification of the solutions and implementation of these solutions

CEDEP has to establish a pro-active advocacy strategy that should start from the grassroots. The monitoring and evaluation of programmes/projects have to incorporate the needs of pursuing an advocacy agenda. Research and publication should be conducted, not solely to project CEDEP’s image but mainly to promote the issues of the marginalized and excluded and achieve the appropriate policies to address these issues

Marginalized and vulnerable groups/individuals are capable of effectively mobilizing material, human, financial, institutional network and appropriate technological resources to sustainably manage small enterprises for secured livelihood.

Individuals have an innate capacity and ability to enhance their socio-economic activity when they are provided with the appropriate knowledge, skills and resources for a secured livelihoods.

CEDEP aims to make its performance indicators gender-responsive to ensure that women, PWDs, youth and men benefit from CEDEP’s programme, projects and activities  

Gender equality and social inclusion forms an integral part of CEDEPs values and it’s also a requirement of donor specific projects. 

Key strategies 

• Train all CEDEP programme staff in mainstreaming gender into CEDEP projects and programmes

• To mainstream gender in all CEDEP programmes, projects and activities

• Measure results of gender mainstreaming through gender sensitive reporting, monitoring and evaluation

• To achieve gender parity in staffing at all levels and good work-life balance