Association pour le développement des initiatives villageoises, ASSODIV
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Background: ASSODIV, founded on September 12, 1987, is comprised of lawyers, economists, sociologists, agronomists and farmworkers.
Objectives: Its objective is to help rural communities achieve integrated development and promote their own initiatives.
Activities: ASSODIV trains farmworkers in the use of appropriate technology, teaches them about their rights, trains paralegals to assist farmworkers, and provides counselling and assistance in a legal aid clinic in Cotonou. It also documents human rights violations, especially illegal detention; intercedes with the authorities on behalf of farmworkers whose rights have been violated; and, where necessary, takes cases to court. It produces radio broadcasts on human rights and provides human rights training to officials as well as to farmworkers.
Mandate
The main objective of ASSODIV is to help rural communities achieve integrated development and promote their own initiatives.
Structure
ASSODIV has a diverse membership, including agronomists, lawyers, economists, sociologists, peasants and others. The organization has eight staff who work in its office in Cotonou and its training center in Tango.
Program
ASSODIV`s program falls into two main areas: socio-economic programs and legal programs. Its main activities are:
- training of youngs peasants on the technique "Houe Manga", which is a cultivating machine imported from Burkina Faso;
- training of paralegals, since 1989. The organization trains people living in the villages to be paralegals so they can help peasants know their rights; and
- a legal clinic in Cotonou where free legal advice is given, and where, if necessary, cases are taken to court.
These latter two activities are performed by lawyers, magistrates and law teachers who are members of ASSODIV and who work on a voluntary basis.
ASSODIV frequently receives information about human rights violations, primarily illegal detention. When ASSODIV receives a complaint, it documents it, investigates, mediates [if possible], and litigates, with the help of members who are lawyers.
ASSODIV is active in the field of human rights education, through radio broadcasts and legal education of village leaders, police, and so on.
The organization has skills in training paralegals and is working on a paralegal training manual.
Objectives: Its objective is to help rural communities achieve integrated development and promote their own initiatives.
Activities: ASSODIV trains farmworkers in the use of appropriate technology, teaches them about their rights, trains paralegals to assist farmworkers, and provides counselling and assistance in a legal aid clinic in Cotonou. It also documents human rights violations, especially illegal detention; intercedes with the authorities on behalf of farmworkers whose rights have been violated; and, where necessary, takes cases to court. It produces radio broadcasts on human rights and provides human rights training to officials as well as to farmworkers.
Mandate
The main objective of ASSODIV is to help rural communities achieve integrated development and promote their own initiatives.
Structure
ASSODIV has a diverse membership, including agronomists, lawyers, economists, sociologists, peasants and others. The organization has eight staff who work in its office in Cotonou and its training center in Tango.
Program
ASSODIV`s program falls into two main areas: socio-economic programs and legal programs. Its main activities are:
- training of youngs peasants on the technique "Houe Manga", which is a cultivating machine imported from Burkina Faso;
- training of paralegals, since 1989. The organization trains people living in the villages to be paralegals so they can help peasants know their rights; and
- a legal clinic in Cotonou where free legal advice is given, and where, if necessary, cases are taken to court.
These latter two activities are performed by lawyers, magistrates and law teachers who are members of ASSODIV and who work on a voluntary basis.
ASSODIV frequently receives information about human rights violations, primarily illegal detention. When ASSODIV receives a complaint, it documents it, investigates, mediates [if possible], and litigates, with the help of members who are lawyers.
ASSODIV is active in the field of human rights education, through radio broadcasts and legal education of village leaders, police, and so on.
The organization has skills in training paralegals and is working on a paralegal training manual.
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