OUR VISION
Cofounded in 1963 by Princess Grace, AMADE is built on a vision of a world where children, regardless of their social, religious, or cultural origins, can live safely and with dignity and respect for their fundamental rights.
It is a vision of a world where every child has the opportunity to fully express their potentials.
AMADE's commitment to children is based on the International Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted by the international community.
MISSION STATEMENT
AMADE contributes to implement these commitments through the following missions :
• Protect the world’s most vulnerable children from violence, exploitation, and abuse,
• Promote the development of children by contributing to their access to education,
• Respond to emergency and post-emergency situations,
• Encourage change by raising public awareness and conducting advocacy campaigns.
OUR APPROACH
AMADE runs five programmes targeting problematics that children face. These programmes are illustrated by particular projects undertaken by our local partners.
AMADE has chosen not to operate directly, as local businesses and individuals are better able to provide appropriate, local, effective, and sustainable responses to the problems faced by children in their communities.
AMADE therefore prioritises supporting and strengthening NGOs or social entrepreneurs with proven expertise and a strong development potential, embodied by strong and inspiring leadership and driven by a vision.
These partners are identified after a rigorous and detailed analysis of their governance, their strategy, their operational and financial processes, and their human capital.
OUR POSITION
Each project is monitored and evaluated in the field by our project team. AMADE supervises setting up activities and achieving the set objectives, ensures the granted funding is being properly managed and evaluates the results obtained. AMADE also commissions impact studies.
In addition to co-financing the projects, AMADE accompanies NGOs and social entrepreneurs in their development, reinforcing their capacities to organise, operate and mobilise resources, helping to diversify partners and when possible, adopt sustainable economic models.
These supported NGOs and social entrepreneurs constitute the AMADE network, which meets once a year at AMADE's headquarters in Monaco to encourage the exchange of experiences, identify collaborations and encourage the spread of good practices. Our major donors and partner companies are associated with this network.
TRANSPARENCY
As an approved Monegasque NGO working on International Solidarity (Act N°1.355 of December 23, 2008 - Ministerial Decree N°2010-3441 of July 8, 2010), AMADE's accounts are audited twice a year by an Auditor, as well as by the Expenditure Control Authority of the Prince's Government.
The annual grant allocated by the Prince's Government in the name of operating costs allows AMADE to allocate 100% of the earmarked donations to the projects it supports.
OUR PROGRAMS
DIGNITY FOR WOMEN
• Enable vulnerable girls and women to access menstrual hygiene and prevent sexual abuse,
• Provide medical and psychological care to young girls who are victims of sexual violence and support their social reintegration,
• Promote access to secondary education for girls.CIVIL STATUS FOR ALL
• Raise awareness among the local population and communities regarding the importance and stakes involved in registration from birth,
• Develop international advocacy in favour of universal registration of births,
• Support local initiatives in favour of the declaration and rectification of birth certificates.ENERGY FOR HOPE
• Promote children’s access to affordable, sustainable, and quality energy,
• Support access to digital education,
• Identify, develop, and provide an appropriate digital solution in favour of education, health, and protection.CAPOEIRA FOR PEACE
• Promote the practice of capoeira as a means of accompanying the demobilisation and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups,
• Develop expertise around social capoeira and extend it to the care of vulnerable children: street children, young female victims of sexual violence, internally displaced children, or refugees,
• Promote the development of a community dedicated to the promotion of social capoeira.UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT CHILDREN
• Ensure the protection of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children and provide them with legal, social, and psychosocial support,
• Promote the professional and social integration of young migrants who are able to settle,
• Prevent migrations in countries of origin.
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