Our Methods

Areas of intervention

The main areas of E&D's intervention have expanded as it continues to gain greater experience: primary health care, small children's development, help for children in difficult circumstances in urban or semi-urban areas, social action, the fight against violence and exclusion, and community development in urban, semi-urban, or rural areas.

 

Principles of action

• To use the needs we identify in the field to develop our projects, and NOT the expectations of our financers or topics in the news which could touch donors.
• To be directly involved in development projects: E&D does not finance projects if we are not directly involved in the creation and set up.
• To act in the direct interest of the populations of these countries.
• To keep down all administrative costs so that 90% of the funds we collect go directly to the projects and recipients.

Methodology

• To involve the recipient communities and the local partners (be they associations or the state) in each step: targeting the needs, creation and set up of the project.
• To train a qualified local personnel which would eventually run the programs independently.
• To encourage the creation of local structures due to these projects
• To reinforce the capabilities of our local partners (institutions and/or community associations)
• To multiply the South-South exchanges, or interactions between developing countries, between our different teams and local partners.
• To document and capitalize our actions in order to encourage expansion

"Enfants&Développement" will in this way become a permanent actor in a constructive dialogue, working to reinforce the institutional capabilities and the autonomy of our local partners. These partners, once they make the project their own, are then able to educate and train themselves. This brings them skill and confidence in their own abilities, bringing them eventually to the ultimate goal of autonomy.