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Burkina Faso • Direct intervention

Together Through Sport – Play International

Poland, Romania • Intervention through partnerships

The project Together Through Sport, conducted by Play International in partnership with Judeteana Sportul Pentru Toti (Departmental Association “Sport for all”) a Romanian association and the Fundacja V4 Sport (V4 sport foundation) association based in Wroclaw, Poland, aims to contribute to the social inclusion of refugee ukrainian children through the use of physical activity and sport, by providing training to staff of schools and clubs. This project is supported by the European Commission through its Erasmus+ program and Air France Foundation.

Citizen Action Programme

France • Intervention through partnerships

In partnership with OMNES Education, Impact Campus is running the PACT programme, which in 2022 will offer 2,000 OMNES Education students the chance to immerse themselves in social, societal and environmental structures.

Active School

France • Direct intervention

Through its Active School project, PLAY International promotes a healthy lifestyle and encourages children aged 8 to 12 to live together around the themes of health and living together.

VIAVY-CC

Madagascar • Direct intervention

France • Direct intervention

The majority of social entrepreneurs in Europe (91%) want to grow their businesses, but few support organizations (SSEOs) offer specific training in scaling up. This project aims to build the capacity of SSEOs to better support this growth.

The partners will create and test a self-assessment tool and a guide to scaling up, disseminated via webinars, support and an online campaign. New internal training tools will also be developed through peer learning and user testing.

The aim is to reach at least 55 OESSs from outside the consortium, enhance scaling expertise and foster a more dynamic social ecosystem in Europe.

Womxn in business

South Africa • Direct intervention

PULSE is promoting economic development in South Africa through its WomeXn Series programme. Oribi, PULSE’s incubator in South Africa, aims to provide financial support to women entrepreneurs in South Africa, and to support them in their entrepreneurial process through a series of activities, enabling them to develop a strategic network with other impact entrepreneurs.

Sport4Resilience

Kosovo, Macédoine du Nord, Monténégro • Direct intervention

the 3-year Sport 4 Resilience project aims to contribute to the development of civic-minded, tolerant and resilient youth in the face of societal challenges in Kosovo, Northern Macedonia and Montenegro. PLAY International partners with REGSPO (Regional Sport Initiative – Playing Together) in Montenegro and TAKT (Together Advancing Common Trust) in Northern Macedonia.

Together, they contribute to strengthening vulnerable communities through sport, building resilience, promoting education and fostering social cohesion.

Sport Academies

South Africa, Cameroon, Djibouti, Kenya, Liberia, Maroc, Malawi, Maurice, Mauritania, Togo, Sénégal • Intervention through partnerships

This project to support inclusive sports academies in Africa, supported by PLAY International and the Diambars, aims to support academies in building their capacity, developing their expertise in gender equality and education, and creating economic and professional opportunities for young people, to enable them to develop through sport.

Afghanistan Libre

Afghanistan • Intervention through partnerships

Afghanistan Libre aims to promote respect for the rights of Afghan women and girls, to help the most marginalized among them forge a meaningful and equitable future, and to support the development of resilient communities. The association’s activities have been put on hold.

Planète Education Bénin

Benin • Direct intervention

Through its Planète Education project launched in July 2021 in Benin, Planète Urgence participates in the empowerment of local educational actors and raises children’s awareness of the protection of their environment (particularly the climate, biodiversity and forests).

Mada health, sexual and reproductive rights (HSRR)

Madagascar • Direct intervention

Santé Sud‘s Mada SDSR project, in partnership with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Monaco International Cooperation Department (DCIM), aims to promote health, sexual and reproductive rights and child health in the rural areas of Analamanga in Madagascar.

Toutes En Sport

Rwanda , Burundi • Direct intervention

The “Toutes En Sport ” project aims to promote gender equality and strengthen child protection through the practice of sport in Burundi and Rwanda. This program focuses on two specific objectives: to promote inclusive sports practice for all children, especially girls, within their communities, and to strengthen the protection of children, especially girls, to ensure dignified, respectful and safe sports practice.

ECCOZAP

Cambodge • Intervention through partnerships

Through its ECCOZAP project in Cambodia, Planète Urgence aims to strengthen the capacities of Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT) teams to implement prevention and awareness-raising activities concerning Zoonoses, infectious or parasitic diseases transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans.

FOOD-Y – Ateliere Fara Frontiere

Grèce, Italie, Suède, Turquie • Direct intervention

Foster youth employment and entrepreneurial skills using circular economy to find solutions to community’ food waste issues.

AGreenLab

Sénégal • Direct intervention

Le programme AGreenLab vise à soutenir la création et le développement d’entreprises dans les secteurs des énergies renouvelables et de l’agro-alimentaire, en accompagnant 99 jeunes entrepreneurs au Sénégal et au Burkina Faso. PPI a ainsi co développé un programme d’incubation et d’accélération avec 4 incubateurs selon une approche sensible au genre, a fourni un accompagnement individualisé à chaque entrepreneur par le biais de deux experts techniques dans les secteurs ciblés et a mis en place 3 outils de financement innovants.

Meet Africa II

Tunisia • Intervention through partnerships

PULSE and Lab’ess are partners in MEET Africa 2, a support program for entrepreneurs from the African diaspora implemented by Expertise France and financed by the European Union and the French Development Agency (AFD).

Nafass

Maroc • Direct intervention

Through the NAFASS project, the SFB implements employment integration projects by establishing a training school focused on pedagogical innovation and social inclusion. The project is intended for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, distant from employment, and in situations of economic and social precariousness.

Procurement with social and environmental impact

Roumanie • Intervention through partnerships

This project, in which Ateliere Fara Frontiere takes part, aims to promote legislative provisions concerning public procurement with social and ecological clauses, in order to improve the social inclusion of people from vulnerable groups (particularly young people and the Roma) and the quality of life of the population, while reducing the negative effects on the environment.

Hope Center

Liban • Direct intervention

Inspired by the success of the Syrian Hope Centers, L’Oeuvre d’Orient has opened a Hope Center in Lebanon, dedicated to financing, training and supporting vulnerable entrepreneurs. Through this project,PPI reaffirms its ambition to fight extreme poverty by enabling vulnerable people – particularly women and young people – to take control of their economic situation, through the creation or development of Income-Generating Activities (IGA).

Pathways – Groupe SOS Solidarités

Germany, Netherlands, Turkey • Intervention through partnerships

To tackle the lack of education on environmental and climate change in schools, Groupe SOS Solidarités wants to further integrate teaching about environmental sustainability into the education system and promote civic engagement within school communities. Launched at the end of 2023, the Pathways Erasmus+ project involves four European partners: Artemon (Dutch), Deutsche Schule Athen (German), KMOP (Greek) and Ari Inovasyon Ve Bilim Egitim Hizmetleri Anonim Sirketi (Turkish) and aims at creating training content for the educational body, setting up national workshops with the objective of presenting this training and the implementation of initiatives within schools.

Volunteer missions

Mexico, Togo • Intervention through partnerships

Planète Urgence, in partnership with associations with a strong environmental impact, offers volunteer missions which enable it to support the development of local associations thanks to a transfer of skills.

Access to training and entrepreneurship for young people in Casamance

Sénégal • Direct intervention

Jógjëf, the Senegalese incubator for PULSE, a project promoting access to training and entrepreneurship for young people in Casamance. This project, in partnership with UN-CHK, aims to increase the number of job opportunities for young people aged 15-30 in Casamance by improving their access to training, apprenticeships and business start-ups.

Remesh

Roumanie • Direct intervention

Ateliere Fara Frontiere, through its Remesh accessories manufacturing program, allows vulnerable people to integrate the job market, promoting circular economy.

FARE

Cameroun • Intervention through partnerships

En mars 2019, Planète Urgence a initié au Cameroun le projet pilote « Filière Anacarde et Restauration d’Ecosystèmes (FARE) » qui accompagne son partenaire, l’organisation de la société civile CERAF-Nord, dans la mise en œuvre d’un projet de reforestation d’anacardiers (arbres à noix de cajou), de restauration de corridors de migration de la faune sauvage et d’appui à la production et à l’entretien de vergers d’anacardiers en vue du développement de la filière, en faveur de populations riveraines du parc national de la Bénoué.

#GirlsinBusiness

Afrique du Sud • Direct intervention

Launched by PULSE‘s South African incubator, this program aims to encourage high-school girls from South Africa’s townships to become the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

Through sport, I blossom

Senegal • Direct intervention

The “Grâce au sport, je m’épanouis” (through sport, I blossom) project uses sport as a tool for developing skills and raising awareness of societal issues in public secondary schools. It will make it possible to create 3 new cycles in the curriculum to develop the skills of Physical Education and Sport (PE) teachers, while taking account of social and cultural realities, and to strengthen the material resources of each establishment.

Reka

Rwada • Direct intervention

In Rwanda, the REKA (“STOP” in Kinyarwanda) project helps to reduce gender-, age- and disability-based violence against women, children and people with disabilities, while building the resilience of survivors of violence through play, sport and the arts. The aim is to strengthen strategies for preventing such violence and improve mechanisms for caring for survivors.

Don’t phish me – Reconnect

France , Autriche , Slovenie • Direct intervention

With the support of the Erasmus + program, Reconnect has joined forces with a number of European players to carry out a diagnostic study and consider ways of improving the knowledge and training of digital and social professionals in the field of cybercrime.

#EllesEnsemble

France • Direct intervention

Launched by PULSE, #EllesEnsemble is a support programme for women entrepreneurs and those wishing to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure. After 3 successful editions in the Seine-Saint-Denis area, the #EllesEnsemble programme is coming to Marseille to support women who are not yet involved in entrepreneurship, particularly younger women or those living in urban neighbourhoods. Through this programme, PULSE aims to encourage the emergence of projects with a social or environmental impact by women.

APIA – Les Insatiables

Espagne, Belgique, Italie • Intervention through partnerships

Led by Les Insatiables from 2023, the project APIA ambitions to improve the professional care assistants’ theoretical and technical knowledge on the nutrition of people with autism spectrum disorders, in order to better support them in their diet and promote their well-being and independence. The Erasmus+ APIA project is the result of a partnership with Spanish, Italian and Belgian entities and will run until 2026.

Nutrisan

Madagascar • Direct intervention

In 2022, Santé Sud launched the Nutrisan project in Madagascar, in partnership with European Union and the AMADESE association. The aim of this project is to implement actions to reinforce the skills of midwives in the prevention, screening and management of malnutrition. In addition, awareness-raising activities will be carried out in the communities to reinforce knowledge and good practice in terms of nutrition and care.

Professional insertion of refugee from Ukraine in Romania

Roumanie • Direct intervention

Ateliere Fara Frontiere, through its project “Professional integration of a Ukrainian refugee in Romania”, supports the empowerment of vulnerable people in Ukraine. The objective is to facilitate access to the labor market for these refugees through advice and integration.

Samim

Mauritanie, Tunisie, Maroc, Jordanie, France • Intervention through partnerships

Samim, which means “in the heart” in Arabic, is an international project that aims to reinforce the structuring of civil society in response to the challenges of sustainable urban development. The project is funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and implemented by Lab’ess, PULSE‘s Tunisian incubator, in partnership with Ecodev, Bidaya, Tunisian Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Jordan Youth Innovation Forum.

Food systems

Afrique du Sud • Direct intervention

The Food System program aims to unleash the potential of social entrepreneurs to develop and sustain innovative solutions addressing food inequity, insecurity, and unemployment in South Africa.

Afrifoodlinks

Afrique du Sud • Direct intervention

AfriFOODlinks envisions a thriving network of cities in Africa and beyond, in which food systems and nutrition are firmly established on the local governance agenda. Citizen-led multi-stakeholder governance platforms welcome diverse voices to inform policy and urban planning processes that promote food and nutrition security and environmentally regenerative practices.

Passerelles

Mauritanie • Direct intervention

Initiated in 2022 by Santé Sud, the programme is run in collaboration with Pairs Educateur and the Ministry of Health, with the support of L’Initiative and Expertise France. The aim of the project is to support sexual and reproductive health services to strengthen the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria using a gender-based approach.

Sickle cell disease

Mauritanie, Mali • Direct intervention

In order to make the care required by sickle cell disease patients accessible to rural populations, Santé Sud is running the Sickle Cell Disease project to develop a care network driven by community GPs. The project also aims to reduce the cost of caring for patients with sickle cell disease, as well as their follow-up by their families.

AVAL

Côte d’Ivoire • Direct intervention

Finance4All

Senegal • Direct intervention

Finance 4 All aims to strengthen the financial inclusion of economically vulnerable populations in Senegal and Cameroon through more efficient and secure use of digital financial products and services. It aims to improve access to and readability of digital financial services, to facilitate their appropriation by vulnerable populations, particularly women, and to strengthen consumer protection for these services.

NUTRISAN

France, Madagascar • Direct intervention

Santé Sud is working to strengthen the skills of midwives in the prevention, screening and management of malnutrition. Awareness-raising actions are carried out in communities to reinforce knowledge and best practices in terms of nutrition and care.

Santé Sud trains public and community players in the challenges of malnutrition, and supports them in the emergence of multi-sectoral consultation frameworks around this theme.

In particular, community educational gardens have been set up to promote dietary diversification.c

Digital houses Cameroon

Cameroon • Direct intervention

PPI is a partner of the Digital Houses, created by the Orange Foundation. In Cameroon, PPI supports the economic and financial empowerment of women by supporting 17 Centres for the Promotion of Women and the Family, which house the Digital Houses established in the country. In particular, PPI offers training in entrepreneurship and financial education and sets up improved tontines in partnership with Orange Money.

Temeyouz

Mauritanie • Direct intervention

Santé Sud, in collaboration with Médicos del Mundo (MdM) and the Association Mauritanienne pour la Promotion de la Famille (AMPF), conduct the Temeyouz project in Mauritania since 2020. The project aims to reinforce the continuum of sexual, reproductive and child health care and combat all forms of gender-based violence in Mauritania.

WISE – Ateliere Fara Frontiere

Espagne, Belgique • Intervention through partnerships

The project “Social Impact Measurement in Work Integration Social Enterprises”, implemented in collaboration with Società Cooperativa Sociale (Italy), European Network of Social Integration Belgium Enterprises (Belgium) and Escola Superior de Comerc Internacional (Spain), aims to improve the skills for social impact measurement of the work integration social enterprises.

TAPIA

Madagascar • Direct intervention

In addition, Planète Urgence acts on the factors of overexploitation of Tapia forest ecosystem by combining capacity building for the Vondron’Olona Ifotony (VOI) – or local communities – in the local management and protection of these forests, raising awareness of environmental education, and the development of production systems, sources of income that are more sustainable and resilient to climate change. The project also carries out reforestation actions in order to provide an alternative to Tapia wood to meet household energy needs.

MOSOTRY

Madagascar • Direct intervention

In Madagascar, Planète Urgence‘s MOSOTRY project aims to sustainably restore the degraded mangroves of Analalava, and to contribute to strengthening economic resilience and food security in the region. To achieve this, the project reinforce the capacities of grassroots community organisations (VOI), with the aim of protecting their ecosystem, improving their livelihoods and increasing their resilience.

Preventing disability in early childhood in North Africa

Morocco, Tunisia • Direct intervention

In Morocco, 1,58% of children under 5 years old live with a disability, and this number raises up to 3,3% in Tunisia. Santé Sud and its partners in Morocco and Tunisia work on the early screening and support of disability and developmental disorders of children under 5. The project runs two main activities : training & sensitization actions on the two levers of the child’s socialization – the family circle and the school institutions – and secondly advocacy work through the facilitation of networking between civil society organisations and institutional actors.

Engaging civil society towards inclusive sustainable development in Egypt

Egypt • Direct intervention

Through this project, PPI contributes to strengthening the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as governance and development actors in Egypt. PPI more specifically aims at better equipping CSOs in Upper Egypt governorates to play an active role in addressing sustainable development challenges in an inclusive and participatory manner, with a focus on social inclusion of disadvantaged population groups, including women, youth and people with disabilities.

FOWOSE – Pulse

Grèce • Intervention through partnerships

The Erasmus+ FOWOSE (Fostering Women Social Entrepreneurship in Europe) project, in partnership with Women on Top (Greece), Empow’Her (France), Reach for Change (Bulgaria) and Synthesis (Cyprus), aims to promote more inclusive entrepreneurship, particularly among women. The project improves the creation of entrepreneurship training content tailored to the needs of women, testing a number of good practices with the aim of formalising and disseminating them.

E4NEETS – Pulse

Macédoine du Nord, Espagne, Serbie • Intervention through partnerships

The Erasmus+ E4NEETS project (Reinforcement of support structures for NEETs in the entrepreneurial field) is carried out in partnership with Avitem (Agence Française des Villes et des Territoires Méditerranéens durables) (France), Belgrade Open School (Serbia), Cámara Oficial de Comercio, Industria y Servicios de Terrassa (Spain), ML Marseille (France) and National Youth Council of Macedonia (Northern Macedonia). It aims to improve access to entrepreneurship for young NEETs (Not in Employment, Education or Training).

Planète Éducation Bénin

Benin • Intervention through partnerships

Since 2021, the Planète Éducation project, led by Planète Urgence in partnership with Yimma Bénin and CPN Les Papillons, has been helping to raise awareness of environmental protection and build capacity for climate change adaptation among public elementary school pupils in Benin

Jappale Ma

Sénégal • Direct intervention

The Jappale Ma project is part of the national strategy to develop self-employment for young people by setting up incubation facilities in 11 Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) in Dakar and Thiès, as well as 1 within the RESOPOPDEV youth association, to enable 450 young people leaving vocational training to be individually supported and monitored in the development of their business start-up projects.

Let’s PLAY Maths – Play international

Kosovo, Roumanie, France • Direct intervention

This project addresses the challenges faced by schools in teaching basic skills, particularly mathematics, in primary education. The primary motivation behind this initiative is to equip teachers and school professionals with the tools they need to teach mathematics to children aged 6 to 9. Ultimately, the aim of the project is to promote the well-being of both teachers and pupils through these new pedagogical tools.

Let’s PLAY Maths also aims to remove the obstacles encountered by pupils and offer them an innovative and more attractive way of learning through sports activities. The project involves two types of stakeholder:

University students, who are training to become future primary school teachers, with the help of university professors, will learn how to deliver effective pedagogical content in their next classes.
Practising teachers, who will receive training in sports games designed for use in their classrooms.

RISE II – Pulse

Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Kosovo, Macédoine du Nord , Monténégro, Serbie • Direct intervention

Building the capacity of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Western Balkans. In a consortium, PULSE Balkans is supporting six local incubators in the deployment of a regional program to support social entrepreneurship among young people in the six contracting parties of the Western Balkans. In this way, RISE aims to foster the emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs in the region, helping to create innovative solutions to the challenges facing their communities.

Bio&Co

Roumanie • Direct intervention

Ateliere Fara Frontiere’s Bio&Co program promotes social and solidarity economy while encouraging sustainable development, through organic farming and composting. Since 2015, 14031 hamper of organic vegetables have been delivered.

REPLAY “Refugees PLAY United”

Italie • Intervention through partnerships

The REPLAY “Refugees PLAY United” project, promoting the inclusion and integration of young refugees in Italy through sporting activities. It focuses on building the capacity of Italian sports clubs to welcome young refugees.

MERCI

Indonesia • Direct intervention

In Indonesia, the MERCI project aims to restore the mangrove ecosystem inside and outside the Ujun Kulong National Park. The project also conducts environmental awareness and education activities and supports communities to improve their livelihoods.

Refugees PLAY United

Belgique , France, Italie • Direct intervention

The REPLAY “Refugees PLAY United” project, promoting the inclusion and integration of young refugees in Italy through sporting activities began in September 2024 and will last 18 months. The project, funded by the European Commission, is being led by PLAY International teams based in France, in partnership with Italian sports club Liberi Nantes and Belgium-based Think tank Sport & Citoyenneté.

Bio&Co

Romania • Direct intervention

Ateliere Fara Frontiere’s Bio&Co program promotes social and solidarity economy while encouraging sustainable development, through organic farming and composting. Since 2015, 14031 hamper of organic vegetables have been delivered.

Click on Romania

Roumanie • Direct intervention

Ateliere Fara Frontiere’s Click on Romania project aims to recondition computers and distribute them to schools: these donations give children in rural areas access to the technologies they need to work, while creating employment opportunities for people in vulnerable situations.

Sports Academies

Bénin • Intervention through partnerships

This project to support inclusive sports academies in Africa, supported by PLAY International and the Diambars, aims to support academies in building their capacity, developing their expertise in gender equality and education, and creating economic and professional opportunities for young people, to enable them to develop through sport.

Structuration des filières agricoles

Burkina Faso • Direct intervention

Digital inclusion working group

France • Direct intervention

Impact Tank leads a working group dedicated to digital inclusion. The aim of this working group is to study the needs, solutions and challenges in terms of impact measurement, in order to create a repository of common indicators for measuring impact in the fight against digital divides, but also to structure advocacy in favour of the development of social innovations in this field and the measurement of their impact. The working group will produce a report containing concrete recommendations for public policy.

SAFIR

Syria, Tunisia, Palestine, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria • Intervention through partnerships

Through the SAFIR programme, Lab’ess (PULSE‘s Tunisian incubator) contributes to the creation and animation of incubators in the MENA region.

SAFIR is an ambitious programme in favour of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and promote the economic inclusion of young people in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia). Supported by the European Union, it aims to create an environment favorable to the civic engagement of young people and to encourage the development of projects with a social, cultural and environmental impact.

Play International

Rwanda • Offices

Planète Urgence

Equateur, Indonésie, Madagascar, Bénin, Cameroun, Cambodia • Offices

HERO – Acta Vista

Grèce, Croatie, Belgique • Intervention through partnerships

The Eramus+ HERO (Heritage Ecological Restoration for inclusion Opportunities) project is the result of transnational cooperation between Pour la Solidarité (Belgium), Dragodid (Croatia), Boulouki (Greece), BAO Formation (France) and ACTA VISTA (France, lead partner), as part of European Erasmus+ funding from December 2021 to September 2024. This project aims to improve the training of trainers in the architectural heritage restoration sector, specifically around the inclusion of vulnerable people and more environmentally-friendly restoration.

FoWoSe

Bulgarie, Chypre • Intervention through partnerships

The Erasmus+ FOWOSE (Fostering Women Social Entrepreneurship in Europe) project, in partnership with Women on Top (Greece), Empow’Her (France), Reach for Change (Bulgaria) and Synthesis (Cyprus), aims to promote more inclusive entrepreneurship, particularly among women. The project improves the creation of entrepreneurship training content tailored to the needs of women, testing a number of good practices with the aim of formalising and disseminating them.

Mitsinjo

Madagascar • Direct intervention

#Nouveau Cap

France • Direct intervention

Launched by PULSE , NouveauCap is a coaching program for anyone over 45 who wants to give new meaning to their career by exploring the possibilities offered by impact entrepreneurship.

Géolink

Spain • Offices

Solidigital – Reconnect

Espagne , France, Andorre • Direct intervention

Solidigital is a cross-border collaborative project that aims to support people in vulnerable situations using three digital tools: Soliguide, Nidus and Reconnect. The aim is to enhance access, quality and efficiency of solidarity support services for over two million people in precarious situations in seven cross-border territories.

The project was born of collaboration between Solinum, the iSocial Foundation, the Reconnect association, with the Andorra Research + Innovation Foundation (ARI), and iSocial Group member entities Pere Claver, the Resilis Foundation and the Alba Association, thanks to co-financing from the European Union through the Interreg POCTEFA program.

PULSE

Afrique du Sud, Tunisie, Maroc • Offices

SentinELLES

Maroc, Tunisie • Direct intervention

In Morocco, Santé Sud‘s SentinELLES project is a programme dedicated to promoting health, sexual and reproductive rights and gender equality in the Sahel and Maghreb.

Impact Measurement Summit

France • Direct intervention

The Impact Measurement Summit is the very first event to bring together players in the impact economy and the Social Solidarity Economy to challenge economic and political decision-makers. In 2023, the Summit brought together no fewer than 1,600 participants, 5 ministers and more than 140 speakers at the French National Assembly.

2PAI-Bélier

Côte-d’Ivoire • Direct intervention

This project supports 150 actors in the local economy: cooperatives, producer groups, associations and women’s organisations. Initiated by the government of Côte d’Ivoire and financed by the African Development Bank (ADB), this is a programme to structure and build the capacities of organisations and actors in the agricultural sectors in the areas covered by the agro-industrial cluster project in the Bélier region (2PAI Bélier). The aim of the project is to increase food and nutritional security by boosting promising agricultural sectors (rice, maize, cassava, market garden produce, fish and pork) and increasing the involvement of the private sector, young people and women.

TTS : together through sport

Pologne, Roumanie • Direct intervention

Promoting the integration of Ukrainian children into sports classes and clubs in Romania and Poland. Carried out by PLAY International in partnership with the V4Sport Foundation (Poland) and AJSPT (Romania), this project began in September 2023 and will run for 2 years. The program is funded by the European Commission via Erasmus + and the Air France Foundation.

To support professionals in the inclusion of refugee children, after creating sports and play sessions, PLAY will train these education and sports professionals in the implementation of inclusive sessions. The aim is to strengthen the skills of professionals over the long term, so that they can adopt inclusive practices over the long term, enabling all children, local and exiled alike, to play, create links and enjoy moving around.

Shared Horizons

Albanie, bosnie herzégovine, Kosovo, Monténégro, Macédoine du nord , Serbie • Direct intervention

Shared Horizons is a transformative project aimed at fostering sustainable social cohesion and reconciliation in the Western Balkans.

By empowering young people and promoting European, Olympic and Paralympic values, the project seeks to bridge ethnic and national divides, thereby contributing to long-term peace and stability.

MAHAKAM

Indonesia • Direct intervention

The MAHAKAM project contributes to the sustainable restoration of the mangrove ecosystem in the Mahakam delta and Adang Bay Reserve by reducing the vulnerability of communities to the effects of climate change.

CUISCAF

Pérou • Intervention through partnerships

In Peru, Planète Urgence‘s CUISCAF project aims to restore deforested areas by planting shade coffee agroforestry plots, and to raise awareness of sustainable agricultural practices among Cuispes beneficiary communities.

Ejo

Liberia, Senegal, Burundi • Direct intervention

PLAY International, in partnership with Agence Française de Développement (AFD), launched Ejo in 2019, an education-through-sports initiative. This program is deployed in Burundi, Senegal, Liberia and coming soon Ivory Coast. It contributes to make quality education accessible to the most vulnerable groups, such as girls, children with disabilities and minority communities.

Eat@Home – Silver Fourchette

Belgium • Intervention through partnerships

Carried out in collaboration with UNA 47 (France), Bras dessus Bras dessous (Belgium), Pour La Solidarité (Belgium) and Obra Diocesana de Promoção Social (Portugal), this Erasmus+ project aims to improve the diet of people over 60 years old.

WISE – Ateliere Fara Frontiere

Italie • Intervention through partnerships

The project “Social Impact Measurement in Work Integration Social Enterprises”, implemented in collaboration with Società Cooperativa Sociale (Italy), European Network of Social Integration Belgium Enterprises (Belgium) and Escola Superior de Comerc Internacional (Spain), aims to improve the skills for social impact measurement of the work integration social enterprises.

Social service

Maroc • Direct intervention

The “social service” of the SFB project encompasses various forms of assistance aimed at supporting families, single mothers, and individuals facing unemployment or financial difficulties in Casablanca. It provides ongoing aid to those in need, offering exceptional relief when necessary.

Vigie Tottorossa

Mayotte • Direct intervention

In partnership with the Agence Régionale de Santé Mayotte (ARS), Santé Sud leads the Vigie Tottorossa project, an enhanced community-based approach to promoting the overall health of vulnerable populations in Mayotte.

SCORE – Play international

France , Monténégro, Macédoine du Nord , Kosovo • Direct intervention

Play International, a Groupe SOS organization pioneering the use of sport as a tool for education and social inclusion, has launched the Sport Connects against Radicalisation in Europe (SCORE) project. Funded by the European Erasmus + program, this ambitious project aims to use the power of sport to strengthen the resilience of young people at risk of radicalization, whether religious, political or ethno-nationalist, and violent extremism across Europe.

LaboMedCamp

Mali • Direct intervention

In Mali, Santé Sud works to facilitate the setting up of laboratories and trained staff to provide quality diagnostics.

RACINE

Cameroun • Intervention through partnerships

The RACINE project, supported by Planète Urgence, strengthens the capacities of civil society players in Cameroon. RACINE aims to empower them through training and technical support, thus fostering a sustainable and local impact on the protection and restoration of the environment.

Maârif, pre-school establishment offering excellent teaching to all children

Maroc • Direct intervention

In Morocco, the Société Française de Bienfaisance coordinates two pre-school establishments offering excellent teaching to all children, whatever their social background.

Saha Lebes

Tunisie • Direct intervention

The aim of the Saha Lebes project, launched by Santé Sud, is to improve prevention and patient care in the post-pandemic COVID-19 period by contributing to regional and health development in Tunisia.

The 30 minutes of Daily Physical Activity

France • Direct intervention

The 30 minutes of Daily Physical Activity project aims to promote the well-being and health of young people with disabilities by offering them 30 minutes of sporting activity a day. Within ESMS (Etablissements et Services Médico Sociaux), children with disabilities are particularly affected by sedentary lifestyles and obesity, requiring a specific approach.

People Power Inclusion (PPI)

Egypt, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal • Offices

Commun Ground II – La Citadelle

France, Espagne, Bulgarie • Direct intervention

At the heart of this blossoming is the Common Grounds project, whose ambition is to create a transnational dialogue around the regeneration of soils and public spaces. For 18 months, three partner organizations – the Citadelle in Marseille, Gradoscope in Bulgaria, and FundacionRia in Spain – will join forces to explore innovative methods of environmental rehabilitation. This collaborative project will bring together scientists, artists and citizens, with the aim of developing sustainable and artistic practices that respond to current ecological challenges.

Key objectives of Common Grounds include the formation of local groups involving experts and citizens, the selection of three artists for a six-month transnational residency, and the creation of a collaborative methodology broadcast via a three-episode podcast. These initiatives aim to strengthen the transnational creation and circulation of European artworks and artists, while raising public awareness of the importance of soil regeneration.

Société Française de bienfaisance

Maroc • Offices

LEZ4all – Auxilia

Espagne, Belgique, France • Direct intervention

Auxilia, a key player of the SOS Group in promoting inclusive mobility and social and environmental justice, unveils its innovative new project, LEZ4All (Low Emission Zone for all), supported by the European Erasmus+ program. This ambitious project focuses on the social impacts of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in Europe, aiming to mitigate the risks of exclusion for vulnerable communities. In collaboration with leading European partners, LEZ4All aims to develop practical solutions and training tools to improve support for populations affected by environmental policies.

FOWOSE – Fostering women social entrepreneurship through the gender mainstreaming of support structures – Pulse

Bulgarie, Grèce, Chypre, France • Intervention through partnerships

The aim of the FoWoSE project is to increase gender mainstreaming in entrepreneurial ecosystem structures and programs.

To achieve this, the project plans to develop methodological content and the needs of women, and will enable organizations supporting entrepreneurs to set up tailor-made support programs.

Corporate involvement in local and regional development Working group

France • Direct intervention

Impact Tank leads a working group dedicated to the commitment of companies in the territories. The aim of this working group is to study the needs, solutions and challenges in terms of impact measurement, in order to identify and analyse impact initiatives carried out by companies through their commercial activities, CSR actions or sponsorship.

VIAS+ – Groupe SOS Solidarités

Belgique • Intervention through partnerships

Led by Groupe SOS Solidarités, in collaboration with the Belgian association Aditi Vzw, the aim of the VIAS+ project is to improve the knowledge and skills of professionals working with people with disabilities on the subject of intimacy, love and sex (VIAS). This Erasmus+ project started in 2023.

Goal2Include

kosovo • Direct intervention

The Goal2Include project aims to promote education and empowerment through sport, with a particular focus on improving the inclusion of girls and women from marginalized communities. Using soccer as its main tool, the project seeks to develop physical, mental and social skills, while addressing gender disparities and promoting social inclusion.

Digital houses Madagascar 

Madagascar • Direct intervention

The objective of this project is to promote the economic and financial empowerment of Malagasy women through a capacity building action of 20 digital houses set up by the Orange Foundation in Madagascar. Through this project, PPI provides entrepreneurial coaching to 40 micro-entrepreneurs and sets up savings groups on all sites.

Land of opportunity

France • Direct intervention

As part of the “Terrains d’Avenir” project, PLAY International offers training courses for social workers and educators from associations, clubs and federations who work with and look after refugees and displaced persons in the Paris region. This program aims to promote their inclusion, their sense of belonging and define a life project through sport.

SESOScale – Reach for Change – Pulse

Croatie, Lettonie • Direct intervention

The majority of social entrepreneurs in Europe (91%) want to grow their businesses, but few support organizations (SSEOs) offer specific training in scaling up. This project aims to build the capacity of SSEOs to better support this growth.

The partners will create and test a self-assessment tool and a guide to scaling up, disseminated via webinars, support and an online campaign. New internal training tools will also be developed through peer learning and user testing.

The aim is to reach at least 55 OESSs from outside the consortium, enhance scaling expertise and foster a more dynamic social ecosystem in Europe.

PLAY International

Burundi, Senegal, Kosovo, France, Comoros, République Démocratique du Congo , RWANDA • Offices

Youth employability and entrepreneurship Booster in Egypt

Egypt • Direct intervention

In order to address the problem of youth unemployment in Egypt, this three-year project aims to strengthen the inclusion of young Egyptians in a gender-sensitive labour market. To reach this goal, PPI and its partners aim more specifically at strengthening the capacities of civil society in green entrepreneurship support for young men and women in Cairo and Assiut governorates; at supporting young men and women in Cairo and Assiut governorates to start income-generating green activities; and at promoting gender equality in the workplace and the labour market in Egypt.

European network of inclusive and sustainable mobility professionals (EU- NISMOP)

Espagne, Belgique • Direct intervention

The subjects of inclusive mobility and support for vulnerable groups are approached differently in different countries, which is why it is essential to create a common frame of reference. For several months now, Wimoov has been running a European project to support this ambition, alongside Fundacion Ibercaja (Spain), Responsible Young Drivers Vlandereen and RYD Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium).

In concrete terms, this project has two objectives:

– To enable the acquisition of new skills, resources and avenues for innovation, through the exchange of best practices.

– Map the ecosystems of inclusive and sustainable mobility in each of the three partner countries (mobility players, legislative frameworks and operating modes of socio-professional integration schemes)

REJIC

Madagascar • Direct intervention

Hafa Velontegna

Madagascar • Direct intervention

The “Hafa Velontegna” project aims to combat food and nutrition insecurity among children by setting up community savings groups (CSGs). PPI has set up 107 CSGs, mainly for pregnant and breast-feeding women. CSG members receive financial education training on the principles of savings and credit, as well as non-financial services such as the development of income-generating activities, vegetable gardens and awareness-raising on climate change.

Planète Éducation Madagascar

Madagascar • Intervention through partnerships

Launched in 2022 in Madagascar, the Planète Éducation project is helping to empower local educational players and raise children’s awareness of the need to protect their environment (particularly the climate, biodiversity and forests).

Let’s PLAY Maths

Kosovo • Direct intervention

This project addresses the challenges faced by schools in teaching basic skills, particularly mathematics, in primary education. The primary motivation behind this initiative is to equip teachers and school professionals with the tools they need to teach mathematics to children aged 6 to 9. Ultimately, the aim of the project is to promote the well-being of both teachers and pupils through these new pedagogical tools.

SentinELLES/3lnaya

Maroc • Direct intervention

Santé Sud is launching the new “3INAYA” project to ensure that 15,000 adolescents, young people, women and men are better informed of their rights, and benefit from improved quality of care and a specific care pathway. In concrete terms, 3INAYA aims to

Strengthen the quality and coordination of mechanisms for promoting sexual and reproductive health rights, in particular by setting up training courses in 6 health establishments.

Promote a culture of equality and the fight against gender-based violence via the local media, awareness-raising sessions in schools and 36 health centers, or

Developing care for survivors of violence, for example by supporting listening and guidance centers.

#TheCircularSeason

France • Direct intervention

PULSE, through its incubation program #LaSaisonCirculaire, works to train and inform entrepreneurs about sustainable development. This project, which aims to support the development of circular economy entrepreneurial projects in the Paris region, contributes to the ecological transition by promoting existing and innovative solutions developed by entrepreneurs.

PEPS

Comores • Direct intervention

In August 2022, PLAY International launched a new mission in Comoros. The aim of this mission is to set up the Projet « d’Appui à l’Education Physique et Sportive » (PEPS), to integrate sport into the Comorian school system. This project is financed by AFD and the Comorian Ministry of National Education, Teaching and Research, but can also count on the support of the Université de la Réunion.

GAPADOU

Bénin • Intervention through partnerships

Since January 2023, Planète Urgence works in partnership with BEV-ONG ~~Vivia Miel~~, a local NGO specialising in the restoration of forest landscapes and improving the standard of living of local communities, for the protection and sustainable conservation of two sacred forests (the Sacred Forest of Igbo-Dogni in Bassila and that of Sérou in Djougou), through a one-year pilot project.

The aim of the project is to contribute to the conservation and sustainable management of the sacred forests in Bassila and Djougou, by strengthening the social and economic resilience of local communities. GAPADOU also aims to put in place governance mechanisms to support the protection of natural resources and local cultural heritage, while raising awareness of environmental issues among the younger generation and the general public.

3INAYA

Maroc • Direct intervention

In partnership with European Union, Santé Sud leads the 3INAYA project in Morocco. This project aims to reinforce sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and gender equality in the country, including the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) and the protection of survivors. To achieve this objective, the project aims to strengthen the quality and coordination of these mechanisms.

RISE (Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs)

Serbie, Monténégro, Macédoine, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Albanie, Kosovo • Intervention through partnerships

The Erasmus+ RISE (Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurship) project was carried out in partnership with Seeyin (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Arno (Northern Macedonia), Balkan Green Foundation (Kosovo), Nesto Vise (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Smart Kolektiv (Serbia), IEC Technopolis (Serbia) and Yunus Social Business Balkans (Albania). The aim of the project is to strengthen support structures for entrepreneurship in order to open up new areas of reconciliation in the Western Balkans.

#Essentielles

Tunisie • Direct intervention

Lab’ess has launched the #Essentielles program, a 100% female incubation program designed to support women change-makers in and around the Sfax region over a 4-month period. The program offers beneficiaries training, personalized individual support, financing, networking and visibility for their projects in the press and media.

Support for the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Decent Employment in Madagascar (SEEED)

Madagascar • Direct intervention

An integral part of the European Union’s IncuBoost programme, the SEEED project promotes the development of entrepreneurship as a vector for decent employment in Madagascar. It aims to create and strengthen the ecosystem of incubation and support for entrepreneurship in order to offer accessible, high-quality and sustainable support services to malgasy entrepreneurs. Alongside UNIDO and UNCDF, SEEED will support 20 structures in their development.

Pulse

Serbia, Afrique du sud , Maroc , Tunisie • Offices

Resilient Farmers Women In Côte d’Ivoire

Côte d’Ivoire • Direct intervention

Sentin𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴 / 3Inaya

France • Direct intervention

Santé Sud is launching the new “3INAYA” project to ensure that 15,000 adolescents, young people, women and men are better informed of their rights, and benefit from improved quality of care and a specific care pathway. In concrete terms, 3INAYA aims to

Strengthen the quality and coordination of mechanisms for promoting sexual and reproductive health rights, in particular by setting up training courses in 6 health establishments.

Promote a culture of equality and the fight against gender-based violence via the local media, awareness-raising sessions in schools and 36 health centers, or

Developing care for survivors of violence, for example by supporting listening and guidance centers.

Inclusiveness has a Voice

Roumanie • Direct intervention

In 2021, Ateliere Fara Frontiere launches Inclusion has a Voice project, in partnership with RISE and Fretex Pluss Norway. The project aims to promote solutions for integrating disadvantaged groups in urban and rural areas into the labor market, in order to make them independent.

FAGNANKO

Madagascar • Direct intervention

CAMERR

Cameroun • Intervention through partnerships

In Cameroon, Planète Urgence is implementing the country’s largest mangrove restoration project, in partnership with the Orange Group and Sia Partners. The aim of the project is to restore and sustainably manage 1.000 hectares of mangroves in the Cameroun and Ntem estuaries.

Life Circle

Inde • Intervention through partnerships

Impact Business Angels contributes to the care of the elderly in India by supporting and financing the start-up Life Circle. Since 2016, Life Circle has benefited from the sharing of best practices by Impact Business Angels, which has expertise in the medical field.

People Power Inclusion ( PPI )

Liban • Offices

Ateliere Fara Frontiere

Roumanie • Offices

MIARINA

Madagascar • Direct intervention

As part of the prison administration reform programme, the project is helping to improve the living and reintegration conditions of prisoners and the working conditions of prison staff at the Ambositra and Mahajanga prisons. In particular, PPI’s intervention aims to implement an economic support system to encourage post-prison reintegration and continuity of treatment in the targeted prisons.

Santé Sud

Mauritanie, Tunisia, Tunisie, Morocco • Offices

Guinea

Guinée • Direct intervention

Santé Sud leads a project to improve sustainable access to quality healthcare for people living in rural areas of Guinea by promoting the profession of Community General Practitioner (CGP). Santé Sud and its local partners are strengthening and supporting the installation of young doctors in the private sector in rural areas.

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