• Address: 02 Gbégamey PO Box 778Cotonou

CEBEDES

Centre Béninois pour l’Environnement et le Développement Economique et Social

2007

Member since

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Platforms

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Mission

The Centre béninois pour l'environnement et le développement économique et social (in English, "Benin Centre for Environment and Development Economic and Social Council") (CEBEDES-XUDODO) is an NGO which, since 1990, has been committed to the populations of different localities of Benin. Using a process of self-support based on people’s participation, CEBEDES is involved in the fight against poverty, promotion of food security and local development. CEBEDES aims to contribute to socio-economic development, environmental protection and the promotion of cultural heritage in the countryside and cities of Benin.

Objectives

The organization’s objectives include to contribute to reducing malnutrition and achieving food security, building capacity for sustainable agriculture and management of natural resources, promoting citizen participation in local governance and undertaking socio-economic research and training.

Constituencies

CEBEDES' constituencies include marginalized and vulnerable groups in Benin.

  • Address: 02 Gbégamey PO Box 778Cotonou