Equal Access International

“The 990 form was prepared by the outside accounting firm and reviewed by senior management officials. A copy was sent to each board member before filing with the irs.”

“Pursuant to the written conflict of interest policy, employees are expected to use good judgement to adhere to high ethical standards and to avoid situations that create an actual or potential conflict of interest between the employee's personal interests and the interests of equal access. Employees unsure as to whether a certain transaction, activity, or relationship constitutes a conflict of interest discuss it with their supervisor or the ceo for clarification. Any exceptions to this guideline, including failure to disclose any conflicts or to seek an exception, will result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. The board is required to annually disclose any conflicts of interest. If a conflict of interest were to occur, the member would recuse himself/herself from discussing and voting on the matter.”

“The process for determining the president/ceo's salary included a review and approval by the independent board members who used comparable salary data. The board member's decision was documented in the minutes and personnel files. The last review was conducted in march 2017. The president/ceo, along with a board member, determined the salaries for the other officers using comparable salary data and contemporaneously documented their decisions in the personnel files.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Tech camps brought together more than 200 youth from different communities in the priority zones to create national youth advocacy networks, learn advocacy techniques, and be trained in the use of social media, and techniques for filming, editing and uploading videos using smartphones. Youth video competitions conducted in synergy with the camps in niger and burkina resulted in the production of 14 user-submitted videos in niger and 16 in burkina, amounted to a total of several thousand views and 160 hours of online viewing. With the support of the u.s. Embassy in chad, equal access continued to work collaboratively with four radio stations in amtiman, bousso, guereda, and massenya. Ea-chad provided trainings to radio personnel and radio station committee members throughout 2017 to ensure that they have the skills to continue producing, broadcasting, and managing their stations. In february 2017, ea-chad finished building the newest and fifth community radio station in karal. The inauguration of the station took place in early july 2017 in which the american ambassador to chad and other embassy representatives, the sultan of hadjar lamis, the governor of karal, as well as representatives from the hcc and communications minister joined eai celebrated the newest station. This station demonstrated reaching nearly 80 km out of karal and provides information to people who live surrounded by terrorist threats and a lack of information. Ea-chad also provided funds to reconstruct a radio tower that fell in massenya at one of our other radio partners, radio mourgoudida.”

“Planned activities to take place include media production and community engagement, radio psas and programs, mobile theater performances and post-performances discussion groups, university engagement and mobile shuras, and online engagement through social media production and monitoring. In december eai held the first cag meeting and organized the stakeholders workshop. Further program activities extended into 2018.”

“Funds returned to donors -262,548.”