Annual Report 2008 - The Power of Action

Annual Report 2008 

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

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Burundi: Together for the Prevention of HIV Mother to Child Infection

 

 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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Children in Burundi capital Bujumbura 
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Stand up, Take Action to Free the Hungry Billion

 

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

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Regional Conference on Women Security Sector Governance, Kampala

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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 Pan African Conference on SGBV
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STOP - THINK - RESIST EPAs

 

 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!

 STOP-THINK-RESIST EPAs
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Kinshasa: Judicial Audit Review

 

My Body My Rights, Respect Them


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. 

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Towards Better Project Evaluation: Trainees Drilled in M&E

"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.

 Plastic Recyclers Sacco
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NEWSLETTER: JUNE - AUGUST 2009

Newsletter

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 .

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Press Release: Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security

Coffee Production

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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Request for proposals: Development of Media and Communications Tool

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Public Dialogue on Impacting Africa's Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

ACORD in partnership with Action Aid, FEMNET, Oxfam and World Vision have organised a public forum on Thursday, 2nd July, from 3.30pm to 6pm at the PANAFRIC Hotel in Nairobi.  Discussions will focus on the ongoing food, financial and economic crises as well as the land reform processes and shall seek to recommend strategies and policy decisions that can assure Africa’s food sovereignty. this forum has been dubbed "Another Scramble for Africa and its Impact on Africa’s Agriculture and Food Sovereignty".
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