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SFCG's West Africa Regional Strategy
SFCG’s approach in the Mano River Union countries and Côte d’Ivoire (MRU+1) is to employ a regional strategy and a number of multifaceted tools to address four thematic priorities: Leadership, Exclusion, Communication/ Information, and Youth Engagement. In November 2005 SFCG convened a working session with its strategic and operational partners and staff to update its strategy. While looking at the central issue of means and sources of social change in West Africa, partners and staff identified the priority issues for the region and opportunities for leveraging available resources to address these priorities. Identified opportunities include:
- Political transitions occurring at different stages,
- Media landscape liberalisation and diversification,
- Increasing awareness of human rights stimulated by UN presence and resources,
- DDRR successes and failures, lessons learned and best practices, and
- Increasing emergence of women in key leadership positions with prominence of women leaders (especially with Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s election).
Within the frame of these themes and the organisation’s mission, each national programme shapes its own goals, objectives and priorities according to their own context. The November session reaffirmed SFCG’s regional approach and the links between the national programmes and the achievement of regional goals.
SFCG’s West Africa Regional Team manages the regional strategy, providing management, technical and strategic support to the four national programmes. Bringing diverse and complementary skills from within the region, team members contribute both to the achievements of the national programme to which they are attached and to other programmes in the sub-region. SFCG practices a lessons learned-approach as a way to innovate toward sustainable impact, sharing and adapting good practices and creating linkages across the sub-region.
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West Africa Youth Sub-strategy
Building and expanding on four years of experience encouraging and facilitating youth inclusion in Sierra Leone, Search for Common Ground in West Africa’s youth strategy seeks to identify opportunities where youth can have a positive influence on political and social events as they unfold within the sub-region. With offices in Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the seat of its operational base, SFCG targets three main groups: young people who are out of school and seeking livelihoods; youth leaders who are already part of organised efforts to address issues affecting young people; and elders and decision makers who have a big influence on young people, including district council members, educators and paramount chiefs.
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West Africa Refugee Sub-Strategy: Mass Information on
Refugee Repatriation
Search for Common Ground is ideally positioned to roll out a regional strategy for mass information on refugee repatriation. The recent desire and sudden return of refugees into Nimba, Grand Gedeh and Maryland counties from Côte d’Ivoire has generated a demand for information and reporting on the part of SFCG. This write-up seeks to display how SFCG will support the return of refugees into Liberia from the sub-region.
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Search for Common Ground in Sierra Leone
Talking Drum Studio
44 Bathurst Street
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Phone:
+232 (22) 223-479
Fax:
+1 (202) 232-6718
E-mail:
ffortune@sfcg.org
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