ADEB LONODJI organises its work into nineteen themes grouped in four pillars, supported by two cross-cutting units. Each theme is meant to be led by a coordinator who reports to the membership. This page is the English summary; every theme has a fuller description en français.
We would rather say this plainly than let a well-ordered table suggest otherwise: thirteen of the nineteen themes have no coordinator today. The structure below is what the association has decided to build, not what it already runs. If you are a Bedjond professional, in Chad or in the diaspora, and one of these themes is your field, write to us.
At target level the answer is more qualified, and we would rather give it ourselves: our themes carry forty-two of the one hundred and sixty-nine targets, and four targets central to development are still not among them. We do not claim child stunting (2.2), adult literacy (4.6), child labour (8.7) or the cost of diaspora remittances (10.c). For a rural territory in southern Chad these are front-rank issues, and two of them are already listed among the local problems we track. But none of our themes has put them on its programme, and we will not display a target nobody is working on. Those four are open pieces of work — if one of them matters to you, tell us.
Each theme is set against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals it actually touches — two or three, no more. For each goal we also give the precise target number: the seventeen goals break down into one hundred and sixty-nine targets, and that is the level at which a mapping means anything — “SDG 5” says nothing, “target 5.2, eliminate violence against women and girls” says exactly what is meant. Hover a badge for the full wording. That alignment is our own reading, not a label awarded by anyone, and it can be corrected.
Memory, culture, language and knowledge of the Bedjond people.
Coordinator: Dr Bé-Rammaj Miaro-II, historian
Origins, the history of the cantons, great figures, physical and digital archives, and the systematic recording of oral tradition before it is lost.
Coordinator: Félix Mbété Nangmbatnan
Sara languages — starting with Bedjond — tales, proverbs, songs, rites and festivals, and the protection of sacred sites and burial grounds.
Coordinator: Sylvain Nomaye, computer engineer
Academic work, publications and the Bedjond Digital Heritage programme: digitised archives, a Bedjond dictionary, a virtual museum and a research network.
Everyday life and the future: feeding, treating, teaching, connecting and doing business in Bédjondo.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Support to farming cooperatives and local value chains, improved production techniques, fish farming, and post-harvest storage and drying.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Micro-credit and rotating savings, links with Bedjond traders in the diaspora, mobile money and financial inclusion, and green trades.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Land tenure, reforestation, sustainable water use, climate adaptation, and a green and circular economy — repair, composting, crop residues, solar waste.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Drinking water, electricity through renewables first, and internet access — three priorities the community identified, all still inadequate.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Tracks and roads out of Bédjondo, and planning for a town that grew from a village without ever being planned, waste management included.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Guidance, mentoring, scholarships, sport and culture — and the exodus of young people towards N’Djamena or abroad, which follows from poverty and a lack of openings rather than from any lack of attachment to home.
Coordinator: Odette Tolmbaye
Women’s empowerment, income-generating groups, leadership training, and an effective presence of women in the association’s own governing bodies. The theme also carries the fight against gender-based violence: domestic violence, forced marriage, imposed levirate and abusive widowhood rites, harassment at school. Chad passed an ordinance in 2025 that punishes these acts heavily — up to ten years’ imprisonment for a forced marriage — and almost no one knows it exists: making it known is already an action.
Coordinator: Dr Nestor Alladoumdjim
Prevention campaigns, liaison with health centres, the fight against alcohol abuse — adulterated alcohol above all — and hygiene and sanitation. The theme rests on a published health advocacy brief, tracked indicator by indicator: a maternity unit working day and night with a qualified midwife, a reliable cold chain for childhood vaccination, a basic laboratory to diagnose malaria, typhoid and tuberculosis, an ambulance and an evacuation protocol. Targets 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 answer to that file, not to an intention.
Coordinator: Solkem Ngarmbatina
A mutual-aid fund for bereavement and illness, emergency support, and particular attention to widows and people with disabilities. With Entrepreneurship & Inclusive Finance, this is the association’s anti-poverty theme — not as a slogan, but as a safety net where a death, an illness or a failed harvest tips a whole family over.
Organising, representing, reconciling and connecting.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Community organisation, relations with traditional authorities, access to civil registration, and national recognition of the association.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Conflict prevention and mediation, relations with neighbouring communities, and dialogue between animist practice and Christianity.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Mapping the community’s professionals, links with the diaspora, and encouraging skills to come back to the home territory.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Legal awareness, access to justice, monitoring of human-rights abuses, and support to vulnerable people in their proceedings — including survivors of gender-based violence, where this theme carries effective access to justice and Gender & Women’s Empowerment carries prevention.
A specialised pole created in September 2026.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Civil registration and administrative procedures online, mobile money for farmers and traders, simple tools for schools and health centres, and digital inclusion.
Coordinator: to be appointed
A Bedjond language corpus for future speech recognition and translation, open community datasets, and AI and drones for farming, mapping, health and education.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Training young people in coding, design and office tools, a digital academy, mentoring by Bedjond professionals, and support to online businesses.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Dues, fundraising and transparent management of resources, with regular public reporting to the membership.
Coordinator: to be appointed
Running the association, circulating information, and the long-term digital archiving of every theme’s work.
Sixteen of the seventeen goals are touched by at least one theme. The last one is not, and we leave it empty rather than fill it.
No theme carries it: it is about oceans and seas, which the Mandoul does not have.
Goal titles: Transforming our world — the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, United Nations, 2015. The mapping to our themes is ADEB LONODJI’s own and commits no one else.
Thirteen of ADEB LONODJI’s nineteen themes still have no coordinator. Volunteer, or offer your skills.