What we do

ADPP Guinea-Bissau is moving forward in unison with the power of the neediest people in Guinea-Bissau, creating the future of our common vision in the area of healthcare, education, the preservation of human rights and gender equality, as well as the economic and social empowerment of people.

Benefiting more than 200,000 people a year, the organisation focuses on empowering individuals and communities through development programs in the areas of Health, Education and Agriculture & Environment and Economy & Entrepreneurship.

By promoting the active participation of various community groups, ADPP-GB encourages personal growth and works for a more just and equitable society.

Education is all about learning to know, to understand and then use the understanding to create change with the people in your community, your Country and in the World at large.

That is why ADPP Guinea-Bissau invests in education programs.

Education requires the effort of many actors, and is, therefore, one of the important pillars of social and human development.

Education is an inspiration and a life-long experience. Caring for life in a constant individual and collective learning for creating development in decades to come, where the people in the community are the test and inspiration in the daily work.

Educating oneself for the humble purpose of contributing to the education of others creates personal pride and long-life joy, and personal development never stops.

ADPP Guinea Bissau operates two permanent education institutions:

The Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil and the ADPP Vocational School Bissorã, where youth train themselves for their future and for bringing development to the communities, and where the students have longer periods of community practice as part of their training.

284

teachers have graduated from  Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil

2.681

students have graduated from  ADPP Vocational School Bissorã

Food and food security is essential for the 2 million people living in Guinea-Bissau. About 80% of the population is involved in farming activities.

Most food is produced by small-scale farmers, who consume it and sell a little to the growing cities.

Vulnerability and malnutrition are factors, as storage and processing facilities for later use are limited.

It demands resilience and cooperation between farmers to adapt to the Climate changes.

Furthermore, infrastructure and support to the sector are limited, rain patterns change and wells go dry, which affects production and demands understanding and adaptation.

To adapt, the Small-scale farmers need to work together to be resilient and be supported by tools in the production and processing to secure food for their families and communities.

Since 2008, ADPP-GB has been working with Farmers’ Clubs, using the Farmers’ Clubs methodology

with thousands of farmers constantly developing and adapting to the constant changes to secure food security and protect the environment.

32.000

People reached in 2024

ADPP-GB is  supported or working together with European Union in Guinea-Bissau, African Development Bank, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) & Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), University of California, Davis & USAID, Green Climate Funds, Humana People to People partners and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity and Climate Action. National Institute of Meteorology (INM), Guinea-Bissau Civil Protection Service (SNPC),

By 2030, it is intended to end the epidemics of HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and tropical diseases, and fight against hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other transmitted diseases.

The solutions depend on the greater dissemination of information on preventing, treating or stopping its spread. There is a need for good allocation of resources and the improvement  of the general living conditions of citizens.

The country's health challenges stem from a series of intertwined factors that reinforce the cycle of human poverty. These include an unstable social situation, with one of the lowest scores on the human development index.

The HIV prevalence rate in the country is around 3,8% for the population between 15 and 49 years. HIV 1 and 2 are the most identified in the country.

Furthermore, regarding Sexual Reproductive Health, Female Genital Mutilation of women between the ages of 15-49 who had some form of Female Genital Mutilation is 52,1%. On top of this, 9.000 women die for every 100.000 births.

Since 2009, ADPP-GB has worked with HIV programs and several other Disease Prevention programs such as Sexual Reproductive Health, Female Genital Mutilation, Obstetric Fistula, Zika, Ebola, Covid, and Malaria.

Clean water & sanitation campaigns, as well as vaccination campaigns, have been part of the work.

ADPP-GB is working in the whole country together with the Ministry of Health and NGOs, with the goal of “ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all ages”. Furthermore, ADPP-GB is working with Plan International in 5 regions, focusing on Sexual Reproductive health.

To change the health situation in Guinea Bissau, a strong

People-to-people participation is needed as strong health is central to human happiness, well-being, and economic development. Therefore, community knowledge, awareness and capability are in the first lines of defence.

Supported by

European Union, DHAPP (Department of HIV Prevention Program), Ministry of Public Health (HIV & TB program Global Fund), Expertise France, Plan International, UNAIDS, Camões,I.P., Coalition Plus, GAT, and Humana People to People partners.

92.084

People reached 

People in Guinea-Bissau are highly entrepreneurial, and families and development in the country depend on that. The different ADPP-GB methodologies and services support groups and individuals, in acquiring the understanding and skills to do a successful business.

Entrepreneurship training is included in the ADPP Vocational School, Bissorã, ADPP Teacher Training College, Bachil, and the Farmers Clubs program, which support groups and individuals in acquiring understanding and entrepreneurship skills.

105 young people trained in 15 days of Entrepreneurship supported by the African Development Bank.

In addition, 60 youth trained in entrepreneurship are supported by IFAD.

WACOMP Idea Centre, with the support of UNIDO, has supported the entrepreneurship office at the Vocational School, where youths will be supported to apply for jobs.

The Farmers’ Clubs programs have two purposes: securing the family's food and a better economy, including entrepreneurship training and processing, which empower women to be economically sustainable.

The Entrepreneurship programmes were implemented with contributions and cooperation from UNIDO, African Development Bank, IFAD, Humana People to People Partners and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Guinea-Bissau.

Cashew

ADPP-GB established the Cashew Plantations in the eighties, and in recent years hired it out in plots of 4,15 to 147 farmers who are earning a surplus while paying a fee to ADPP-GB.

A 7-person plantation team operated throughout 2024 to secure and improve the value of the asset, which the plantation represents.

Cashew nuts are part of the cash crop and main export in Guinea-Bissau.

Most farmers have 1-2 hectares of cashew nuts as cash crops.

In 2024, the farmers produced 200 tons of raw cashew nuts. Most farmers delivered the cashew nuts to the cashew-processing centre owned and operated by ACACB (Associação de Clubes de Agricultores Comercial de Bissorã)

Around 60% of the production is processed and sold to Naturkost Ernest Weber, and the other 40% is sold on the local market.

The factory is working on getting more local customers and securing production in 2024.

ADPP Fundraising, 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes sales in Guinea-Bissau

ADPP-GB is engaged in creating sustainable development through the sale of second-hand clothes.

By protecting the environment through the reuse of textiles and shoes. It creates jobs and improves the living conditions for the traders and their families so they can send their children to school and secure their families.

That is why the 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes sale is fundamental in our program bouquet, both for the economy and for environmental protection and sustainability on a global level.

The clothes are sold in big and small bales. By creating the sorting centre in 2020 the clothes are sorted into 145 categories in bales from 15kg, 22,5kg or 45kg which facilitate the vendor's needs. On top of this, it creates 18 jobs in the production.

The project is operated according to an agreement with the Government of Guinea-Bissau.

Since 2020, the 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes Project has sorted the clothes into categories.  This was convenient to the vendors as they got the quality and supply of what they needed in their business.

693

tons were sold

549

tons were sorted into small bales