ACORD Quarterly Newsletters

The March 2009 issue of "Power of Action" highlights situations in conflict, livelihoods, HIV and AIDS and gender and women's rights as well as Pan African advocacy on food sovereignty in Africa. Click below to download the publication:

This is Occasional Paper No. 1 published by ACORD (Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development) in October 2008. Ideas collected in this publication were made possible through interactions that occurred during the Pan African Conference on Sexual and Gender Based Violence held in Nairobi from July 21 to 23 2008from which the collection of papers presented emerged as a hallmark event in the calendar of works around sexual and gender based violence.

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Theme: HIV / AIDS

World Aids Day 2007 Position Paper

World AIDS Day 2007 Position Paper

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Level: Poster

Theme: HIV/AIDS

Rights of HIV/AIDS persons

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Level: Poster

Theme: HIV/AIDS

Isolation of HIV/AIDS persons

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Level: Brochure

Theme: HIV/AIDS

Understanding HIV/AIDS

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POCAs

A community based response to HIV/AIDS impacts on Households in ACORD program Area, Mbarara district, Uganda.

Looking Back, Thinking forward

ACORD has been implementing a one year pilot project in Tanzania and Uganda, aimed at promoting the rights of PLHAs by helping multiple actors to better understand and challenge HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination. This is a project of its kind that piloted PLHAs as stewards in fighting for their own welfare against a backdrop of
communities and contexts that are wrought with deep-seated stigma and discrimination gainst PLHAs.

Aids Competence in the workplace

Inside Out - AIDS Competence in the Workplace is a thought provoking booklet that offers insight into the dynamic world of HIV and AIDS inside organisations as its title indicates. It explores and documents experiences of how organisations adapt their internal, policies, structures, strategies and resources to respond to the challenges posed by HIV and AIDS.

Hope and Life

In line with its mission of promoting social justice and equality, ACORD decided to undertake research aimed at assessing the extent to which the poorest and most marginalised communities are able to access and benefit from ARVs within sub-Saharan Africa.

Level: Practise series

Good Practices

ACORD, developed andimplemented a pilot project in Tanzania and Uganda, aimed at promoting the rights of PLHAs by helping multiple actors to better understand
and challenge HIV and AIDS related stigma and
discrimination.

Implementing 'Stepping Stones'

This is a guide for practitioners and policy makers that provides a range of ACORD guidelines drawn from both internal and external experiences in using Stepping Stones in its HIV work.

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Level: Compendiun report

ARV community Knowledge, Awareness, Accessibility & the policy environment

This is a study done by Hasap in on ARVs in Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Mozambique in 2006. The studies focused on community accessibility to ARVs, Knowledge and awareness of ARVs and also examined the policy environment within which the ARV program was being implemented

Level: conference report

ACORD Stepping Stones conference report

This is the report of a 2-day conference that took place on the 6th and 7th July in Development House, London (see programme in Annex 3).

This report runs through the discussions in chronological order and records the key issues and conclusions reached in the course of the 2 days. A further shorter report, attempting to capture only the main Highlights of the Conference has also been written and can be downloaded here

Stepping Stones: Conference Highlights

The following are the Key Highlights of a 2-day Conference on Stepping Stones, which took place on 5th-6th July, 2006 in London.

Level: Report

Voices of Youth

This research paper is a product of an inter-country research project entitled ‘Voices of Youth', a key component of a regional initiative called ‘Restoring Peace Project'1.

The research was conducted in Angola in July through October 2006 by Youth Ambassadors of Peace and Citizenship (JEPC), a youth citizenship project implemented by Development Workshop (DW). The Angola research is a third
component of the inter-country research. The other two components were carried out in Burundi and Uganda by ACORD and World Vision International respectively.

EPAs Impact on African Women

This report discusses the consequences of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on African institutions, agriculture and especially on gender aspects. EPAs have been introduced with the aim to freely access ACP countries markets and to create the conditions to increase investments, to eradicate poverty and sustain development. This represents a significant new approach from EU to ACP countries; however this new approach also creates a new inequality.

Linking MDGs & SADC Gender Equality Agenda

This report shows that MDGs have been conceptualized as a framework to ensure gender equality and development. It also links the African and SADC Agenda vision on gender equality in relation with the development.

Africa's Pathway To Gender Equality

This report gives some information on the advancement of the signing, ratification, domestication and implementation of the AU Protocol on African Women Rights.