Application Form of APDC (Cameroon)

1	Information on your organization *Please explain in why your organization is eligible to be a Member Organization for C-CfA.				(e.g. aim, history, membership, member organisations, activities, network, budget, human resource, etc.)
	STATISTICS AND LOCALISATION /CAMEROON: ·        location: Central Africa ·        population: about 20 millions citizens ·        area: 475 000 km² ·        youthfulness: 60% under 20 years old ·        50% in towns and 50% in rural zone ·        10 provinces (2 English-speaking and 8 French-speaking) ·        14 400 villages ·        SIDA: 5.5% in 2006.   APDC:     In 1999, considering the dangerous consequences of privatisation in the liberalisation process going on in our countries, some personalities from the Cameroonian civil society decided to create an association for the defence of consumers rights named APDC.     Formalised in august 2000, in accordance with Cameroonian law n° 90/053 of 19/12/1990 about the freedom of gathering.     APDC is non lucrative, independent, non political and religions free.   AIM: Contribute to the improvement of life conditions through the defence of consumer’s interests. Develop the regulations, the commercial practices, and consumer’s behaviour.   Method: 1-      Education and information of consumers; the purpose is to inform the consumers on their rights and obligations (seminaries, practice formulary, flyers, and other communications materials about diverse subjects of life, and a newspaper named: Le CONSOMMATEUR). 2-      Settlement amicably of conflicts, and when necessary, lawsuits. 3-      Representation of consumer’s in front of the institutions, to influence on the decisions concerning the protection of consumers. 4-      Collective actions, meetings and forums about current events when necessary.   Sphere of action:      All the problems concerning citizen’s life: economy, life quality, security, environment, health, human rights, ecology...   Partnerships:    APDC looks for partnerships with all the others associations on consumer’s field in Cameroon, Africa, the entire World.    As a poverty fighter, APDC works with all the national and international institutions with the same purposes.   Our partners: Dynamique Citoyenne Cameroon Anti Corruption youth Movement Usagers Solidaires PRODECO ACUB ANUH     NETWORK: APDC is member of several organizations ·              ANEW ·              African Water Network ·              FENAC ·              FEFAC ·              PCPA ·              CIANET ·              INTER RESEAUX ·              NAIROBI WSF ·              WATER JUSTICE   BUDGET: For 2005, USD 10 000.   Human Ressources: 02 Personalities 10 volunteer Experts volunteer/members on different fields. Members: 12 000 person.   APDC trough it’s several actions has followed plural aspects of consumer’s life: OMC conventions, ACP/UE, NEPAD, Citizenship education, VIH SIDA, Water privatisation, electricity…
2	Name, position and contact of a person who is in charge of this commission
	Name: Mr.  NKOULOU MFOULOU PARFAIT Position within the organization: EXPERT e-mail address: nkoulouparfait@yahoo,fr Telephone: [phone]               Fax: Skype name: *Please attach her/his CV.
	Reason why he/she is eligible to be in charge of a representative of your organization
3	Budget allocation for becoming a Member Organization of C-CfA					e.g. its amount and how to be spent (in US Dollar)
	Budget: USD 1 Million.   How to be spent:   Development of the network Setting up of agencies on the rest of the territory Human resources charges and information gathering Specific documentation Social mobilization.
4	List of NGOs that recommend your organization to represent them		*Please fill out at least 10 names of organizations. *Contact should be postal address, telephone number and e-mail address (Website URL, if there is).
	Name1	CGT LIBERTE	Contact	Benoît ESSIGA ([e-mail], [e-mail]) phone : [phone]
	Name2	CSP	Contact	BIKOKO J M ([e-mail]) phone: [phone]
	Name3		Contact	TSANGUEU Julienne PO Box : 6709 Yaoundé ( [e-mail] ) phone : [phone] 26
	Name4	OCOSO	Contact	TIFANG Peter ([e-mail])
	Name5	FOSCAM	Contact	MBALLA MBALLA Jean phone: [phone] 48
	Name6	PCPA	Contact	[e-mail]
	Name7	WESDE	Contact	[e-mail] phone:[phone] 39
	Name8	Dynamique Citoyenne	Contact	COUSSA Leonard [e-mail]
	Name9	LDL	Contact	Charlie TCHIKANDA [e-mail] phone:[phone] 12
	Name10	CSP-Adamaoua	Contact	MPELE phone: [phone] [e-mail]
	Name11	BASC	Contact	Leopold NAMTSAI
	Name12	RISC	Contact	BIKOKO J M phone: [phone] [e-mail]
	Name13	ACAT_littoral	Contact	Kemadjou Bertin phone:[phone] [e-mail]
	Name14	ACIC	Contact	Liman MALOUM BP.594Ydé, phone:[phone] [e-mail]
	Name15	CESAC	Contact	Louis SOMBES phone: [phone] [e-mail]
	Name16	FENASTTRA Cam	Contact	BOULA ATEBA phone: [phone] [e-mail]
	Name17	FCJ	Contact	MBELLE ABEGA J J phone:[phone] [e-mail]
	Name18	CIRCRE	Contact	SOB Anne-Marie phone:[phone] [e-mail]
	Name19	UNAPHAC	Contact	Gabriel ONDOUA phone:[phone]
	Name20	ASSOAL	Contact	Agnès METOUGOU [e-mail]
* You may add more names of organizations if there are more organizations that are recommending your organization.