About us
Common Directions Foundation for Peace and Development (CDFPD) is a Sudanese NGO, nonpolitical and non – sectarian and officially registered at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
Mission
our mission
Common Directions Foundation for Peace and Development is a national institution established in February 2008, to contribute to peace building, establish social democracy and contribute to improving health, education, water, community development, youth and women development, support for refugees, IDPs and returnees, protection of children and people with disabilities, and attention to the environment and climate change targeting the Sudanese society It works according to the approach of positive participation with communities, adopting community initiatives and networking between different sectors to ensure a more developed, prosperous and stable future
Vision
our Vision
We look forward to achieving sustainable community development in an environment that guarantees respect for human rights and social peace.
values and principles
values and principles
volunteer
Justice
equality
credibility
Institutional
Transparency
Share
accounting
cooperation
Commitment to human rights
Taking into account gender
the responsibility
our Objectives
Objectives
•Promoting human resources development through hands-on skills transfer training to raise the level of community awareness of peace issues and support of woman, youth & Children issues & human rights and reducing the cessation of gender-based violence
•To accelerate, strengthen and promote broadened participation of Anti-conflict Civic Actors to safeguard common identity & capitalize on social cohesion heritage to contribute towards peace building and conflict resolution
•Analysis conflict and gender sensitivity to build community peace to improve Raising awareness of the culture of civic education (democracy - human rights - good governance - citizenship - transitional justice)
•Capacity building of the organization and institutional development
•boost local efforts to start civilian process to reduce Fears and/or threat of disintegration and radical separatist views & calls, need to be timely & firmly addressed in a collective approach.
•achieving amazing successes by local initiatives led by youth, women, community leaders, local civil society organizations and grassroots groups in West Kordofan to mitigate the effects of conflict thought to expand participation
•necessity of increasing the space of civil society and civil voices, qualifying them, training them, building their capabilities, coordinating and networking among them to reach common points and formulating a unified local vision are among the priorities
•widen participation of all actors, stakeholders, swing groups and the hard-to-reach citizens to reduce respond to wide disinformation, hate speech, and diminishing of sense of the Sudanese common identity.
•Contribute to the local communities’ efforts to enhance social cohesion through promoting the culture of accepting the other and combat racism and hate speech and to stand in solidarity with affected by conflict to increase community cohesion and speed of local response
•The generation gap between native leaders and youth groups needs to be bridged with trust on youth force to change, as well as native systems to prevent conflicts are imperatively important to be activated to help
•using Participative Theater for raise awareness among grassroots community members about concepts, principles and mechanisms and alternative ideas that promote the culture of accepting the other, and peaceful coexistence. social values
Resources
Our Resources
CDFPD has experienced enthusiastic Executive Director, Regional Director, who supervises a number of departments: Finance, Admin, HR & M&E. and programs that include a number of project coordinators in different sectors Peace, protection, agriculture, education, health, nutrition, environment In addition to community movers in all localities and members of the Peace Network in addition to a number of youth and community leaders as volunteers building their capacity assisting in the implementation and project deliverance and sustaining activities outputs at community level.
CDFPD has a committed Trustee Board of seven members who contribute to the NGO on monthly basis. In addition to theirs and volunteer’s contribution, CDFPD also raised funds through proposals to different donors and UN agencies and INGOs to reach desired goals and objectives of promoting the right to basics of life: peace, protection, food, water, shelter, healthcare, education in a peaceful community, with long-term progress key