ACORD has unveiled a new look 2008 Annual Report which features a selection of articles and case studies from ACORD's Pan African and area programmes. The report is in keeping with ACORD's tradition to publish information that presents its Pan African development work and highlight the community voices that influence ACORD's interventions and inform ongoing and planned activities each year.

Download 2008 Annual Report: ENGLISH / FRENCH

 November 2009 was a hive of activities as ACORD in Burundi engaged local partners under the Oxfam umbrella in HIV/AIDS-related awareness. The 2009 World AIDS Day theme, “Universal Access and Human Rights” was hallmarked through joint participation in diverse forms of celebrations.

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One in six people in the world live with constant hunger – not as a result of war or natural disaster, but because of the unequal way that our societies and our global food system is structured. This means that if all the food produced in the world was shared equally we would have enough to feed almost double the world’s current population. But unfortunately that is not the case as millions continue to starve.

Download ACORD's Policy Briefing: ENGLISH/ FRENCH

ACORD in alliance with Action Aid International Africa, The African Women's Development Fund, Urgent Action Fund Africa, Akina Mama wa Afrika, the Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace - Amani Forum and Fahamu hosted the second Pan African Conference on Sexual and Gender Based Violence from 26 to 28 October in Kampala, Uganda. 

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 Take action for Stop EPA Day, 27 September 2009, and tell Africa’s leaders to show bold committed leadership in this time of global financial crisis. Africa needs trade and economic policies that will counter the crisis and support development for African people. EPAs will give us more of the same policies that caused the crisis.

Join Africa Trade Network campaigners around the world by sending an email to your government calling on them to stop the EPA deals!

When legal frameworks established to punish and/or rehabilitate perpetrators of sexual and gender-based violence fall short, performance reviews, analysis and appropriate strategies need to be devised as a response mechanism. The shortfall can therefore be identified to embolden the efforts to end impunity for SGBV. 

Download Judicial Audit Booklet

"I look forward to improving the university programme and methodology in M&E based on the new skills that I have acquired”

From 1st to 19th June, ACORD has engaged 18 junior evaluators (17 Kenyan and 1 Rwandese) aged between 28 and 45 years in an extensive 3-weeks practical training on project evaluation.

The second issue in 2009 of "The Power of Action"; a quarterly newsletter by ACORD is available online. Get updates on Gender, Justice and women empowerment as well as food security and sign up to receive your email copies free of charge. You can download the newsletter in English or French .

African governments must live up to their commitments to invest at least 10% of the national budgets in agriculture, in order to address the current food crisis and break Africa’s present dependency on the whims of the global market. (Download CAADP Policy Brief No.6 - English/French) 

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