WHAT IS FOSDAF?

THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINAIBLE DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRICA

WHAT IS FOSDAF ?

FOSDAF is a non-profit institution focused on mobilizing the resources and skills of African civil society, to promote productivity, innovation, self-financing and the occupation of channels of the economic flow by national actors.

Our initiative stems from a diagnosis of the constraints that impede the economic development of the continent and its diaspora. Chief among these constraints is the dependency mentality and the disproportionate share of foreign aid in financing its development compared to the mobilization of internal resources. This has resulted in a permanent weakening of its capacity for self-development, and hence a continuous increase in poverty, while the top-down development model has proven to be dead-end and totally ineffective.

To break this vicious circle of continued assistance and increasing poverty, African communities must work to take charge of themselves by finding internal solutions to their constraints, in terms of recognizing the value of their resources, their culture and their talents and putting them in synergy to promote their sustainable development.

Development is a science: that of internal dynamics. Africa approaches it as a game of chance.

The resources to finance development are found entirely and abundantly internally, like sap to the plant. Yet Africa, including its own financial institutions, looks almost entirely outside for them.Even monetary sovereignty, as a regalian tool, is misunderstood, and its primary orientation, namely the building of the infrastructure of economic integration, in other words, of national economic power, is ignored.

Thus, bloodless Africa is sailing empty.

FOSDAF aims precisely to reverse this descent to the abyss by triggering the construction of internal dynamics and its full self-financing.

What is our originality?

We approach development as an internal dynamic, an articulation of its original factors and actors in order to instill a sustainable impetus to the economic machine. This internal dynamic takes place through the empowerment of internal actors to occupy themselves the channels of the economic flow and to make it prosper through a permanent increase in creativity and innovation. The common juxtaposition of isolated sectoral projects, regardless of their value or relevance, has an ephemeral impact on target groups, as it takes place in an environment that is not structurally prepared for change.