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Organization: Women's Association for Development and Solidarity (AFDES)
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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade?

Yes :
* Great popular interest in our activities
* Achievement of positive results in the executed projects
* Raising awareness among community members

Measures of success:  
                             
* Women's positive response to illiteracy elimination classes
* Joining of all the girls enrolled in the centre.
* Decrease of the death rates of mothers and children.
* Limitation of plastic waste discharge.

OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?

Institutional constraints:
* Prevalence of partisanship and tribalism
* Difficulty to get necessary funding
* Poor budget of local communities
* Rise in illiteracy among the public electorate
Thematic constraints:
* Conflict between the Association's perspectives and traditional cultural beliefs and practices
* Absence of dynamism and initiative
* Absence of infrastructure for civil work
Legal constraints:
* Complexity and overlap of laws pertaining to civil societies funding.

Human constraints:
* Lack of professionalism
* Weak inter-association partnerships
* Absence of strategies for civil societies


Measures of failure:

* Women unwillingness to take part in illiteracy elimination classes
* Not joining the centre despite the facilities provided
* No change in the death rates of mothers and children
* Spread of plastic waste discharge

ACTIONS: What actions have been undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?

Action Areas:

Employment of human and financial resources in the economic, social and cultural development of the Arab Region through:
* Combating illiteracy
* Promotion of education among girls in rural areas
* Child and mother care
* Environmental conservation of oases: The Ecological Barn project    

Most important activities:

* Training courses
* Communication with the media.
* Forging partnerships with national and international societies and organizations
* Opening channels for communication with government representatives, local communities and the Moroccan Social Forum

ADVICE: What advice would you like to give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade?


PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the global movement for a culture of peace?


PLANS: What new engagements are planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)?


Postal address of organization


E-mail address of organization

afdes2002@yahoo.fr

Website address of organization


Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace

Equality of women

Second priority action domain of a culture of peace


Highest priority country of action (or international)

In the province of Zagora, south of Morocco

Second priority country of action (or international)

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Organization: Women's Association for Development and Solidarity (AFDES)

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