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OUR VISION

Communities that are informed, mobilized, and take action on their future, both individually and collectively.

Africa faces socio-political, economic, and ecological challenges that impact the existence and well-being of millions of individuals. Among these challenges, some are particularly crucial, such as access to healthcare, education, social justice, citizenship, democratic governance, and environmental protection. To address these issues, RAES NGO believes that local actors and communities are best positioned to find and implement solutions tailored to their problems and improve their daily lives and the future of their children. This principle of autonomy requires informed, trained, and mobilized citizens, as well as an environment conducive to dialogue. These are essential conditions for empowerment and for leading to harmonious social change.

Leverage the potential of media to serve field actors and communities!

Since its creation in 2004, RAES NGO has used media and new technologies to strengthen the health, education, and citizenship sectors in Africa. Prevention and information campaigns, publishing projects, training, radio program production, creation of educational materials, and community mobilizations… RAES NGO, together with its partners, designs tools to serve field actors and communities, enabling them to inform themselves, create spaces for dialogue, mobilize, and act on their future, both individually and collectively.

OUR MISSION

Promote social change and create an environment conducive to informed individual and collective decision-making, based on free, appropriate, and comprehensive information.

Difficulties accessing information or assimilating information that challenges social norms or disrupts established beliefs, lack of concrete and practical arguments to resist social pressures or adapt behaviors to everyday realities: these are reasons that justify the need to support and equip communities to inform themselves and make their own choices.

RAES NGO IN NUMBERS

84

PROJECTS

Projects implemented between 2004 and 2021 in collaboration with communities and partners.

17

COUNTRIES

Countries where RAES has intervened, including 11 in West Africa, 4 in Central Africa, and 2 in North Africa.

10766

AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS

Thousands of educational contents: 806 video productions, including 3 TV series and 2 web series focused on education through entertainment, hundreds of interviews, animated videos, 243 audio contents including 4 radio dramas, podcasts, and radio shows, plus over 10,500 non-media contents: articles, posters, press kits, etc.

HISTORY

2004 - 2005

Establishment of RAES and conduct of the first research in Senegal.

▪️ Establishment of the RAES association; ▪️ Organization of National Reflection Days for health promotion; ▪️ Experimentation and evaluation of innovative technologies and methods for distance education, participatory communication approaches, connecting schools or health centers to the internet, mobile telephony.

2004 - 2005

Establishment of RAES and conduct of the first research in Senegal.

2007 - 2010

Deployment of the first projects in Senegal and the sub-region.

▪️ Creation and management of the first information and training portal for health: keewu.com; ▪️ Production of two radio series for education through entertainment, in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles, and Population Media Center; ▪️ Development of a training method called Sunukaddu, meaning "our word" in Wolof.

2007 - 2010

Deployment of the first projects in Senegal and the sub-region.

2011 - 2016

Specialization in edutainment and integration of Alliance Droits et Santé.

▪️ Design and implementation of the C'est la vie project with the first health education through entertainment series in French-speaking West Africa; ▪️ Technical partner of Alliance Droits et Santé and training of members in social communication; ▪️ Launch of the first digital campaigns on SRHR.

2011 - 2016

Specialization in edutainment and integration of Alliance Droits et Santé.

2017 - 2021

Geographical and thematic expansion.

▪️ Deployment of actions in Central Africa; ▪️ Production of content on new themes: democratic governance and citizen participation, drug use, nutrition; ▪️ Development of a mobile application on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

2017 - 2021