New Event: Public debate on Impacting Africa's Agriculture and Food Sovereignty; Nairobi 3.30pm local time, 2nd July, 2009. Details are available in Events section.
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WORLD REFUGEES DAY, 2009
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"Real People, Real Needs"
On 20 June 2009, Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD) joins the rest of the world in observing the world refugee day by highlighting its efforts to support refugees in Pader, Gulu, Amuru, and Kitgum districts of northern Uganda. |
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African farmers tour Europe to Speak Out on Trade and Agriculture
(2009-04-09)
A Pan African delegation recently traveled to Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, Paris and London to engage European farmers, parliamentarians, civil society and media in discussions regarding the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) both instruments that risk having disastrous consequences on African small scale farmers.
3 farming leaders, 2 national parliamentarians and 2 ACORD staff constituted the African delegation that traveled across Europe between the 2nd and 14 March 2009.
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EVENTS: Launching the Regional Gender Programme
(2009-01-23)
"The hidden war crimes: Challenging the impunity on sexual and gender-based violence in countries of the international conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)".
On 6th April 2009, ACORD launched the regional Gender Project in Nairobi during an event attended by regional women's rights protection groups, civil society and diplomatic representatives. The gender programme is being implemented in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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