Welcome to OFED
 Empowering women in African rural communities is effectively contributing to poverty alleviation on a continent where more than 70% of the poor live in rural areas, and breaking the cycle of rural poverty in African countries. It draws on rural women's crucial and tremendous contribution to health, nutrition, food security and management of natural resources to initiate the very much needed changes. According to FAO estimates, women account for up to 80% of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rural women not only guarantee the survival and well being of their immediate and extended families, they also constitute the backbone of their communities. Thus, building up their socio-economic capacities by improving their health, providing them education and training, and facilitating their access to credit, agricultural services and markets, is battling hunger, AIDS transmission, an increasing infant mortality rate, illiteracy, land depletion, man and youth migration to cities in the most effective ways. OFED, Organisation pour la Femme Et le Developpement/ Organization for Women and Development, a 501 (c)(3) non profit organization, understands such dynamic and has made women's empowerment its priority.
OFED's activities range from building health and community centers, and increasing access to clean water and proper sanitation, to providing women financial resources and helping them set up small to medium scale income generating economic activities.
In the news
February 13- March 2, 2012: CEDAW, 51st session, Geneva
February 27- March 9, 2012: UN Commission on the Status of Women, 56th session
March 8, 2012 - International Women's Day This year’s theme: Connecting Girls, Inspiring futures.
March 12-17, 2012: 6th World Water Forum - Marseille 2012
March 22, 2012: World Water Day
June 20-22, 2012 - Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
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