Partners & Volunteers

Partnerships

S&VPT has active partnerships with the Government of Benin through the following Departments: MISD (Ministère de l’Intérieur de la Sécurité et de la Décentralisation), MCRI/SCBE (Ministère Chargé des Relations avec les Institutions, la Société Civile et les Béninois de l’Extérieur), MECCAGPD (Ministère d’Etat, Chargé de la Coordination de l’Action Gouvernementale, de la Prospective et du Développement), le CPA&ONG (Centre de Promotion des Associations et ONG) and also with other national NGO's such as Monde-Vie-Liberté – AJECA –Appel-Bénin – AJEDUI - GESEC-Promotion – Iwalewa – CERIAM, OVEJ – SYTO/BENIN, AFA, and some local NGO's, such as ADEFEDES – ESAM – MJCD/ACEF – PADMUR – PEJES, the Commune of Bopa, the Department of Mining and the Environment and the prefecture of Lokossa.

S&VPT also has passive partnerships with the Department of Public Health, the Department of the Family and Social Security, the social Centre of Bopa, the focal point of Mono (ONG ASPIPP), the embassies of the United States, Canada, Belgium and Germany), the MEHU, the MAEP, the MAEIA, the MFE (General Taxes) as well as international NGOs.

We are a member of ReNOProD (Réseau National des ONG pour la Promotion du Développement), ReProMAB (Réseau pour la Promotion du Mouvement Associatif Béninois) and ROBS (Réseau des ONG Béninoises de Santé).

S&VPT seeks to collaborate with any individuals and organisations who have similar aims. Please contact us if you wish to develop a partnership.

Volunteers

S&VPT welcomes volunteers to work with them in Benin from time to time.

An Australian volunteer, Vanessa, recently spent almost 3 months in Bopa. You can read her general activity report in French, or a special report in English on a sexual harassment workshop she attended.You can also read a (slightly fictionalised) report of an S&VPT visit to an outlying village in English.