WIDCO

The Fon (Chief) of Sehn in Ndu Subdivision in which WIDCO launched the new concept on women empowerment in March 2010 opened up his traditional administrative activities by creating a nine-man committee made of five men, three women and one youth to take charge of the organization of annual cultural festivals in his area of jurisdiction. The committee which as from May 2011 works under the supervision of WIDCO is charged with the responsibility to intensify and revive cultural activities in the area to meet the aspirations of the International Council of Organisations for Festivals, Folklore and Folk Arts ( Conseil International Des Organisations Des Festivals Folklore et D’Arts Traditionnels – C.I.O.F.F) with headquarter in Paris and UNESCO.

In another occasion, HRH Fon Nfor Ngange while attending the graduation ceremony of the Communications and Education Coordinator of WIDCO (Nnoko Naome Dibo) at the Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary (CBTS) Ndu NWR Cameroon invited her to get closer to traditional authorities, tradition and culture of the NWR to identify those aspects of value for promotion and the archaic aspects to advice on how they should be revised without any conflict.

Our Objectives:

• Provide philanthropic and educational services to the women of the target community in Cameroon's rural districts.
• Encourage economic promotion and income-generation for the whole community, eventually on a national and international basis.
• Facilitate research and dissemination of key concepts of national and international economic and social welfare regarding all women, information which can lead to productive policy and social change.

To accomplish the above objectives, WIDCO

• Sensitizes and creates awareness in the community.
• Organizes economic, social and cultural groups with female leadership with the aim of improving the leadership skills of women.
• Collaborates and undertakes activities with related associations and organizations created to promote better health and social welfare of the targeted community.
• Collaborates and undertakes activities with related associations and organizations created to promote gender balance and equality within the targeted community.
• Works with cooperative movements and existing legislation in Cameroon under a shared initiative to fight against poverty and for gender equality.
• Undertakes all legally acceptable activities geared toward more active participation of women in civil society.

1. WIDCO is geared towards promoting only civil society organizations in which both men and women operate together meanwhile reserving such leadership positions as President and Treasurer only for women as the principal action in promoting women civil and political leadership or entrepreneurial skills;

2. WIDCO believes in the existence of God and creation and also that “Woman” was created because of the inability of “man” to survive in an isolated forum and hence that the existence and survival of man is completely compromised in the absence of woman hence the two must be promoted to live together and operate together in the family, civil and political grouping as the only way to lay a firm foundation for social cohesion, conflict reduction and resolution.

3. WIDCO believes that community development that does not evolve from the foundation of the cultures and traditions of any concerned community is not sustainable and hence that the cultural and traditional potentials of any area must be developed first then used as the bedrock for the development of the said community be that development social, economic or political.