Service d’Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD)
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SAILD is a non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to rural development since 1988 in Cameroon.
SAILD's vision is a fair, just, and supportive world where individuals thrive and live decently from the fruit of their labor in a healthy and balanced environment.
Its mission is to support farmers and communities living near natural resource exploitation areas in their entrepreneurial and agropastoral initiatives for their socio-economic and cultural development and for sustainable management of the resources they depend on.
Structurally, SAILD has two bodies:
- A strategic and guiding body responsible for monitoring the institution's vision and mission. This body consists of the general assembly and the board of directors;
- An operational body responsible for the development and implementation of activities to achieve the institution's objectives through its various entities. This body consists of the general secretariat, including three programs (rural communication, natural resource management, and food security and nutrition), and three regional branches (Bamenda, Bertoua, and Maroua).
Regarding food security and sovereignty, SAILD's interventions revolve around the following axes:
- Dissemination of knowledge related to food security and sovereignty, notably through:
"The Voice of the Farmer" newspaper, a monthly (tabloid and digital) specialized in rural information in the form of technical sheets and farmer experiences: www.lavoixdupaysan.net; - The Documentation Center for Rural Development, which offers various services including a library and agricultural advice through information days, video projection sessions, or the toll-free number "Hello, engineer";
- A network of media (television, radio, print, and cyber) whose capacities are regularly strengthened to improve the quality of disseminated information.
- Capacity building for all actors in the value chain including extension workers to improve agropastoral practices for food security and sovereignty. This is done through the farmer field school approach and exchange visits to successful experiences (model producers, farm schools, training centers...) and through the incubation of agropastoral enterprises for youth and women in particular.
- Networking of actors working towards achieving food security and sovereignty in Cameroon to scale up good practices and lessons learned, harmonize approaches and practices, and engage in concerted reflection on issues related to food security and sovereignty in Cameroon.
- Advocacy for the transformation of food systems towards food security and sovereignty in Cameroon through influencing policymakers and public policies to adopt sustainable approaches such as agroecology.
Region Afrique centrale