ACORD

From 2006, ACORD is changing towards a joint Sudan Area Programme. The Southern Sudan team has been working out of Nairobi, but will move back to Juba. ACORD is currently operating in Khartoum, Red Sea Hills and Kassala, Tali, Maiwut and Juba.

Overall Objective

• To promote advocacy, lobbying and networks, empower Sudanese civil society and increase its ability to lead nation wide, create rights oriented movement, influence policy decisions to protect interests of politically, economically and socially excluded women and men.
• To improve livelihoods, reduce poverty and vulnerability to social, economic and political exclusion, by empowering urban displaced and pastoral groups in Juba, Khartoum, Kassala and Red Sea States to establish self-reliance.
  
• To enhance the inclusion and care of people living with HIV and AIDS and ensure the rights of women and men in Sudan to HIV prevention with special emphasis on youths, adolescents, children and the socially excluded and the marginalized IDPs and refugees.
• To strengthen the capacity of marginalized people of Sudan to live within inclusive society, practicing their rights, creating climate of trust, ensuring partnership, ownership and help in future peace building and sustainability of targeted groups.
• To build the capacity of ACORD Sudan and its partners for enhanced institutional capability as well as in areas of policy and exclusion analysis research, advocacy and knowledge and information sharing nationally, regionally and globally.

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Thematic Focus

HIV/AIDS: ACORD work with a range of partners, including students, PLWHAs, orphans, schoolteachers, sex workers, military personnel, community informants, educators, counselors and communicators, on HIV & AIDS awareness raising, care and support, and advocacy for policy and practice changes. ACORD is building capacity at community level for them to better understand the causes and consequences of the pandemic. A key strategy is also to influence policy makers, tribal and religious leaders to combat HIV & AIDS through changing negative traditional practices. Training sessions, workshops, meetings, radio and T.V. programs and annual celebration against AIDS and FGM were among the methodologies used to raise the awareness of the people and support the advocacy campaigns.

Conflict: ACORD is enhancing the capacities of CBOs and other stakeholders in peace building and conflict resolution mechanisms. The approaches include participatory planning exercises, conflict analysis, mapping, transformation, prevention, and gender focused analytical framework. Research is also to understand the basic roots of conflict and delivery the activities in appropriate manner. Partners include IDPs and their committees, CBOs, teachers and students, youth groups, cultural groups and mobile theatres, community leaders and local government.

Civil Society Capacity Building: ACORD's strategy is to supports associations and groups that come together on a common issue, (e.g. peace and human rights, IDPs, development, Anti AIDS, credit and saving and ROSCA groups, FGM abolition) or based on a common situation/geographic proximity (e.g. village, neighbourhood, youth group, women organisations, PLWHAs, students, farmers etc.) with more capacity and confidence as the primary actors in social change. ACORD's support in capacity building along with material and financial support and facilitation of their legalisation have contributed to the recognition of these associations by the public and the state authorities.

ACORD also works very closely with women/gender organizations and networks on gender trainings, social exclusion, rights-based approaches and in promoting peace building and democracy.

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Who We Work With

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