Action Et Développement (AcDev) is a Non Governmental Organisation for Development Support which has been in existence for 31 years. Today, it is recognised as one of the most important Senegalese NGOs with proven expertise and considerable experience in the provision of community health and the creation of demand at the community level.

AcDEV is mainly involved in reproductive health in general, the sexual and reproductive health of young people and adolescents, and the fight against gender-based violence in particular. AcDEV operates in nine regions of Senegal with a national headquarters in Dakar, two permanent regional headquarters in Fatick and Louga and focal points in the remaining regions.

AcDEV has more than 104 staff spread across its intervention zones. Since its creation, the NGO has built five health centres, two reproductive health centres for young people and adolescents, a vocational training centre for young girls, 55 rural huts and maternity units, and a mobile RH/FP team.

The areas of intervention are: strengthening the skills of organisations and actors, advocacy for RH/FP and the SRHR of young people, IEC/BCC, the sustainability of its interventions through the implementation of income-generating activities and the strengthening of women's economic power.

AcDEV goals:

• Improve the living conditions of the target populations through development support activities
• Assist children and poor populations in general in the areas of nutrition, health care, the fight against STIs/AIDS
• Implement the means of sensitization, training and action on the mechanisms of “poor development”
• Promote a partnership with NGOs and national and international institutions while respecting their identity

Learn more about AcDEV here.

Address
204, Cité Fadia-Guentaba
BP: K5049 Pikine
Dakar/Senegal

+221 33-855 88 55 / 77 569 56 26
[email protected]
www.acdev-inter.org