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- Democracy and community development
RC is an Italian NGO engaged in the field of international cooperation in the Southern Countries. It is also committed in actions of public awareness and education for development in Europe. RC is independent, secularly inspired, and based on values of solidarity and human dignity. It promotes and implements development programmes.. RC slogan is More diversities, less differences.
The mission and main objectives are:
a) the safeguard and the appreciation of diversity at risk of disappearing (biodiversity of indigenous cultures and cultural heritages);
b) the promotion of fundamental human rights (food, instruction, health, work, good governance, freedom of movement and expression);
c) the increase of civil societies’ awareness about the disparities between the North and the South of the world.
RC’s policies, reflected in the adopted methodology, are the following: active participation of local stakeholders from programming to final project implementation; bottom-up decision making processes; capacity building; women empowerment; focus on sustainability; responsibility and transparency in managing funds.
The main sectors of intervention are:
- social promotion and strengthening of local organizations (capacity development);
- social activities in favour of vulnerable groups (street children, orphans, Palestinian and Iraqis refugees, victims of conflict);
- sexual and reproductive health;
- integration of young women and men in the labour market;
- migrations;
- youth social inclusion;
- rural development,
- natural resources management and protection of environment;
- urban waste management;
- HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment;
- income generating activities and vocational training;
- enhancement of fishery sector;
- micro credit scheme implementation;
- cultural heritage rehabilitation and enhancement.
In Italy, RC works in Lazio, Umbria, Apulia, Sardinia Regions, and collaborates with local NGOs in Sicilia, Campania, Tuscany, Marche, Emilia Romagna, Piemonte, Liguria and Lombardia Regions.
In the framework of its awareness raising activities, RC can spread among civil society and local authorities the values and mission of the ALF Network, can include concrete ALF’s actions in local programmes and promote the participation of all sort of actors in the identification of needs and constraints to be tackled, updated and coherent to the current situation.
We want to join the ALF Network because we share the same values and objectives of human, social and cultural dialogue among Mediterranean communities.
RC has worked in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine, Spain and France with several governmental and non-governmental partners, touching a wide range of beneficiaries.
Joining the Network, we expect to share the stakeholders and the collected best practices with the members, in order to capitalize on the results and to improve the effectiveness of our interventions and of others’ interventions.