ACORD

Overall objective

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Thematic focus

Civil Society and Good Governance: ACORD will work with partners to strengthen civil society in terms of capacities, institutionalisation and networking. ACORD will also share methodologies and advocate for participatory and people-centred policy making and seek to create space for government-civil society dialogue and accountability mechanisms.

Sustainable Livelihoods: ACORD will support communities in the formulation and implementation of local development plans, and build their capacities in terms of negotiation and advocacy for their rights vis-à-vis the government.
Practical activities related to food security include providing agriculture inputs, training and promoting access to markets. Another example of practical activities is training of women's groups in income-generating activities accompanied with gender sensitization of traditional leaders to change gender discriminating behaviour.

Conflict Prevention and Peace Building: In the aftermath of conflict in DRC, ACORD wants to facilitate community leadership and structures that can transform differences into the value of diversity and tensions into opportunities for innovation. ACORD will support a process of bringing together common aspirations and building on common interests to promote multiple social linkages and community solidarity. In this process, ACORD will draw on similar experiences with social contract in Rwanda. ACORD DRC has previous experience with community/villages human right groups, which provided space for engagement and accountability in areas occupied by foreign troops, both within the village and vis-a-vis the external soldiers and administrations.

HIV & AIDS: ACORD will use participatory action research to stimulate creativity and find practical responses to HIV & AIDS at the household, community, NGO and political levels. This will primarily be done through building the capacities of CBOs, including through training, exchanges, peer education, testimonies of PLWHAs, community mobilization, involvement of local authorities and sensitization and mobilization through independent churches and schools. ACORD will also raise awareness, fight all forms of stigma and discrimination and advocate for policy measures to reduce marginalisation and exclusion of PLWHAs and their families. ACORD believe HIV & AIDS must be approached as a societal and governance issue, which need to be addressed in all sectors.

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Who we work with

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