Our organization
Since 1989, FXB has been a non-governmental organization that promotes access to fundamental rights for the most vulnerable - primarily children - fights extreme poverty and helps local populations adapt to climate change.
What we do
Vision
A world where everyone has a chance not just to live, but to prosper.
Mission
To bring about lasting change in the countries where we operate, in order to eradicate extreme poverty, promote access to fundamental rights and social justice, and help local populations adapt to climate change.
Objective
FXB's actions and programs are structured around four major objectives:
Effectiveness of children's rights
On November 20, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
For the first time, rights have been recognized for all children worldwide: every child has rights to family, health, education, justice and social protection.
All States, with the exception of the United States, have ratified the Convention.
In line with Albina du Boisrouvray's founding commitment to the protection of vulnerable children, FXB makes children's rights the core of its actions, with each of its programs aimed at making them effective in their daily lives, as defined by the Convention.
Eradicating extreme poverty through access to fundamental rights and the empowerment of women
According to the World Bank's latest update in 2022, 700 million people today live on less than $2.15 a day. While poverty is often defined in absolute terms of low income, in reality it is multidimensional.
Institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in partnership with Oxford University, take a broader view of poverty, integrating several non-monetary dimensions such as access to fundamental rights and basic infrastructures.
Poor people face many complex challenges: malnutrition, disease, lack of income, poor or unhealthy housing, illiteracy, lack of drinking water and unfavorable weather conditions.
To eradicate these multiple causes of poverty, a piecemeal approach is not enough. Only a comprehensive approach can combat poverty and provide a sustainable response to the concrete needs of local populations.
Our success in the fight against extreme poverty is based precisely on a pioneering, holistic model of economic and community development based on access to fundamental rights: the FXBVillage model.
Launched in 1991, it provides a comprehensive response to the fundamental causes of poverty over a three-year period, by simultaneously acting on its predominant factors: access to economic empowerment, a healthy home and environment, food security, education and training, prevention and healthcare, and climate resilience.
Fighting poverty also means tackling discrimination, particularly gender discrimination. Women, who are more exposed to poverty, must have access to the same economic and social opportunities as men. Promoting their rights and reducing gender inequalities are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Participants also have the opportunity to acquire key skills in health and social issues, thus promoting their overall development and ensuring the sustainability of the project's impact on their quality of life.
Access to fundamental rights and the empowerment of women are therefore essential levers for eradicating extreme poverty. Activities undertaken within the framework of VillageFXB also strengthen the capacity for action and development of the communities in which FXB operates.
Gender equality and the reduction of gender-based violence
Equality between women and men is not only a fundamental human right, it is also a condition of possibility for a prosperous and sustainable world.
Promoting women's economic justice and rights and reducing gender disparities are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
To meet these objectives, FXB has been working for 35 years to defend the rights of women and children, and to prevent all forms of violence and insecurity against them.
Because women play a key role in the development of their communities, FXB implements specific activities to strengthen their skills, promote their access to sustainable economic opportunities and enhance their role as agents of change, notably by encouraging their active participation in decision-making within their families and communities.
It also involves raising community awareness of domestic and sexual violence and gender equality. Raising awareness is essential to preventing such violence, supporting victims and promoting egalitarian relationships. It helps to deconstruct gender stereotypes and establish social norms that reject violence, thus fostering safer, more inclusive environments.
Adapting to climate change
FXB is convinced, based on a wealth of scientific evidence, that climate change and poverty are inextricably linked, and that the problems of poverty and climate change exacerbate each other.
Although they are the least responsible, the populations of the most vulnerable countries are on the front line of the consequences of climate change.
In fragile countries, anyone can be plunged into poverty when a flood destroys a micro-business or a drought decimates crops or herds. Climatic shocks can reverse decades of work and savings, generating irreversible human and material losses.
To overcome poverty, climate change and its effects on poor populations must be taken into account in development policies.
In light of the disproportionate impacts of climate change on poor countries, FXB is working to promote Sustainable Development Goal 13: take urgent action to combat climate change and its effects.
At the same time, FXB USA runs an education and advocacy program, FXB Climate Advocates, which aims to give young people (aged 13-25) around the world the tools to implement climate solutions in their communities and on a global level.
FXB's action focuses on climate resilience and adaptation measures for local communities, including:
- Empowering women and girls: strengthening leadership and access to sustainable economic opportunities.
- Financial inclusion: strengthening community resilience through Village Savings and Credit Associations, including a micro-insurance system to cope with climatic hazards.
- Sustainable agriculture: promoting ecological and resilient farming practices.
- Diversification of livelihoods: diversification of agricultural activities to better anticipate the effects of extreme weather conditions.
- Vegetable gardens: promoting the cultivation of gardens or fields for self-sufficiency.
- Climate education: raising awareness of sustainable consumption, water saving, recycling, the use of solar lamps and disaster risk reduction.
- Healthy environment: improving water and sanitation infrastructures and promoting solutions such as improved cookstoves to reduce air pollution and deforestation.
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