{"id":3374,"date":"2014-08-14T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:13:04","slug":"partenariats-internationaux-0814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/partenariats-internationaux-0814\/","title":{"rendered":"Dahari is developing its international partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugh Doulton is the Technical Director of Dahari; he has lived on Anjouan for nearly seven years. His responsibilities include\u00a0<\/em>the strategic development of the NGO, fundraising, and the management of international partnerships. In this article, he reflects on the importance of these international relations and details the collaboration between Dahari and its partners\u2014specifically in Mayotte, Madagascar, and R\u00e9union. \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"At Dahari, we place great importance on developing our international collaborations and partnerships. We believe that a blend of knowledge, skills, and experience\u2014from both the Comoros and abroad\u2014will foster the growth of our NGO and help us achieve our objectives. More broadly, we observe a lack of organizations engaged in development and conservation in the Comoros; we hope to reduce both our own isolation and that of the country by assisting other institutions in establishing themselves here.\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Developing and fostering these connections is one of my key roles as Technical Director of Dahari. Even before Dahari was officially established in February 2013, I began traveling between the islands of the Western Indian Ocean\u2014and even further afield\u2014to represent the organization at various meetings and to build or strengthen collaborations on its behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have given presentations on Dahari at conferences and workshops in Mayotte, R\u00e9union, South Africa, and the United States. I have gained insights into Dahari\u2019s development through meetings with similar NGOs in Madagascar and East Africa. I have distributed the organization\u2019s brochure to hundreds of potential partners and donors. And everywhere I have gone, I have encountered a genuine interest in our activities in the Comoros.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But what concrete results do we have from these investments?<\/span><\/p>\n

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From our neighbor\u00a0Mayotte<\/strong>Our partnership with the \"Naturalistes de Mayotte\" (Naturalists of Mayotte) allows us to host approximately 60 tourists per year\u2014an activity that generates income for the NGO, our beneficiaries in the villages, and our partner associations. Through a collaboration with the Chamber of Agriculture and the \"Flore de Mayotte\" (Flora of Mayotte) organization, we are involved in a project focused on the rapid propagation of banana plants, a crop that is vital for local farmers. Last year, we hosted two interns from the Mayotte Agricultural High School, and in the coming months, we plan to develop further training opportunities there for our technicians and beneficiaries. We are also in contact with several organizations regarding the potential export of market-garden produce to Mayotte\u2014an initiative with significant promise for generating substantial income for our beneficiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From the sister \"Big Island\"\u00a0Madagascar<\/strong>\u00a0We are developing an integrated coastal management project in Bimbini in partnership with the British NGO Blue Ventures; we have received financial support from the Swiss Embassy for a market-gardening project; and several local institutions are represented on our advisory committee. Further collaborations are in the pipeline following my recent visit this month, and we hope to be able to share some good news soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In\u00a0la R\u00e9union<\/strong>\u00a0We have developed a strong collaboration with the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), a key partner for Dahari. We serve as the Comoros representative for a regional project on livestock improvement called ARChE_Net, and we hope to soon secure funding\u2014in partnership with CIRAD\u2014from the General Council of R\u00e9union for a project focused on enhancing the NGO\u2019s agricultural interventions across all areas. We also receive support from the R\u00e9union Satellite Station, which provides us with satellite imagery and expertise to assist with fieldwork, spatial planning, and monitoring and evaluation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to mention the\u00a0United Kingdom<\/strong>...where the foundations for Dahari were laid ten years ago through the development of a research project by five English students. We continue to benefit from the close support of our long-standing key partners\u2014the Bristol Zoological Society and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust\u2014in the areas of conservation and institutional development, providing both technical and financial assistance. More recently, we have secured support from researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Kent for our ecological research and the NGO\u2019s institutional development; we hope to further strengthen these ties in the years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to have the support of these internationally recognized institutions, which serve as a guarantee for Dahari, and we hope to soon confirm further partnerships that are currently in development. Thanks to the key international partnerships of the ECDD Project\u2014Bristol Zoological Society, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and Agronomes et V\u00e9t\u00e9rinaires Sans Fronti\u00e8res\u2014we have been able to introduce proven innovations in rural development and natural resource management to the Comoros, which are now being replicated by our local partners. We intend to maintain this momentum with these new, committed partners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hugh Doulton est le Directeur Technique de Dahari, il habite \u00e0 Anjouan depuis pr\u00e8s de sept ans. Ses responsabilit\u00e9s incluent\u00a0le d\u00e9veloppement strat\u00e9gique de l\u2019ONG, la recherche de financements, et la gestion de partenariats au niveau international. Dans cet article il revient sur l\u2019importance de ces relations internationales, et d\u00e9taille la collaboration entre Dahari et ses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notre-organisation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12779,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/12779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"There are no reviews for this movie on this website.","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}