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			<title><![CDATA[Humanitarian Crisis in Mali]]></title>
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Community members from Léré in Mali, which is one of the violence hot-spots. ACORD has suspended some livelihood activities until the situation becomes stable. Photo/Awa DIOP
ACORD is deeply concerned over the deteriorating humanitarian situation following the Tuareg rebellion led by the National...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:20:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Uganda: Promoting Clean Water and Hygiene]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Thanks to Radio Muhabura, we now feel empowered to talk freely about water and sanitation. Previously, there were fears that exposing the challenges would be interpreted as criticising the government", Alice from Kisoro District in Uganda. ACORD in the South Western region of Uganda is making good ...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:36:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Climbing Mount Heha to Celebrate Women’s Rights]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[As the world celebrated the International Women's Day on 8th March 2012, all roads in Burundi were leading up to the summit of Mount Heha, the highest altitude in Burundi. ACORD together with women's rights organisations, the United Nations, the Ministry of National Solidarity and Gender, the diplom...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:13:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[World Water Day 2012: Putting Food Security on the Agenda]]></title>
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Water and Food Security.
As the world celebrates the World Water Day on 22nd March 2012 under the theme "Water and Food Security: The World is Thirsty because we are Hungry", ACORD joins the rest of Africa in marking this important day. This year's commemoration focuses on the close link between ...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Towards Women’s Rights and Empowerment]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The International women's day, celebrated on the 8th of March, forms an important part of ACORD's calendar as it brings to focus the issues of women's rights and empowerment. The theme for 2012 "Empower women- End poverty and hunger", aims to recognize the importance of securing social progress, hum...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ACORD at the 56th CSW in New York]]></title>
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ACORD Team: Didacienne, Juliet Nakato, Ousainou Ngum, Annette Msabeni, Salina Sanou.
The 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 27th February to 9th March 2012. The CSW is a functional commission of the Unit...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kenya: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["We talk about violence happening out there forgetting that these things are happening to ourselves", this was a statement made by a key speaker from the Gender Violence and Recovery Centre (GVRC) during a thematic hearing on women issues held in Nairobi.
Kenya's Truth Justice and Reconciliation Co...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Towards Social Justice and Development]]></title>
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Social justice and development: Women farmers in Rwanda growing seedlings.
ACORD joins the world in commemorating Social Justice Day this 20th February 2012! Defending rights and promoting justice has being central to ACORD's work across Africa for the last 35 years. ACORD works in common cause w...]]></description>
			<author>David Mudachi &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA['Stop the stigma' song launch!]]></title>
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Kenyan musician Kwame performing the 'Stop the Stigma' song during the opening ceremony of ICASA Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
ACORD, in partnership with the renowned Kenyan artist Kwame, has launched its first song Stop the Stigma, in Addis Ababa, during the 16th ICASA Conference on 4th D...]]></description>
			<author>Caroline Testud &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Putting Leadership on the Front-line to End Sexual Violence]]></title>
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"There can be no peace without peace for women"
The 4th Ordinary International Conference on the Great Lakes' Region Summit opened on 15th December 2011 in Kampala, Uganda with a call to member states to legislate against sexual and gender based violence in all sectors of society. The 2-day summi...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tanzania: Supporting Small-scale Farmers to Build Skills in Food Processing]]></title>
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Monitoring heat level to preserve nutritional quality. Photo by Lokola Ndibalema.
Building skills of small-scale farmers in food processing techniques has been one of ACORD's main focus areas in Mwanza,Tanzania aimed at empowering them with ways to enhance market value for local products and redu...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Towards Zero Tolerance: Sharing Knowledge, Expertise to Halt the Spread of HIV in Uganda]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[ACORD in Uganda joined the rest of the World in commemorating the International World AIDS Day on 1st of December by participating in the National Commemoration Ceremony organised by the Uganda AIDS Commission. There was plenty of activity at the Kololo Airstrip in Kampala, venue where various civil...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Human Rights Day 2011 : Mauritania]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Promoting citizen participation of the communities of the descendants of former slaves in Mauritania
On World Human Rights Day 2011, ACORD would like to pay tribute to those who defend human rights, particularly in Africa, but above to make heard the voice of communities whose human rights are stil...]]></description>
			<author>Vanessa Dupont &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[International Conference on HIV and AIDS 2011]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
ICASA Conference 2011, Addis Ababa, 4-8 December:
Thousands of experts in the fields of HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted infections converged at the Millenium Hall in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where the 16th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA 2011)...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Violence against Women - Building Partnerships for Accountability]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Violence against women is not a side effect of insecurity but insecurity itself" Naisola Likimani, African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)
Some interesting debates took place around issues of sexual violence happening in Africa and how much is being done to end the abuse, e...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Working Together to Tackle Challenges in Agriculture in Africa ]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Citizen driven processes are ultimately the only viable route to any meaningful and sustainable change". During a Pan African policy dialogue meeting on the role of non-state actors, ACORD stressed the need for small scale farmers' engagement for the African Union's Comprehensive Agriculture and De...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.acordinternational.org/news/abuja-conference-on-tackling-challenges-in-agriculture/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Horn of Africa: Millions Facing Drought and Famine]]></title>
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Governments and NGOs are conducting food distributions in affected areas
In what has evolved into becoming one of the worst famines in decades, it is estimated that more than 11 million people from Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia continue to face starvation as a result of prolonged drought. The probl...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:40:36 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.acordinternational.org/news/horn-of-africa-millions-facing-drought-and-famine/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Putting Aid Effectiveness in the Spotlight]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["To attain development effectiveness, we need to ensure that our approach in relation to aid is driven by our mandate to bring about social justice and rights-based development through support to the development of social movements", this was emphasised by ACORD's team leader from Tanzania during th...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:31:09 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.acordinternational.org/news/putting-aid-effectiveness-in-the-spotlight/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lending small-scale farmers a hand in improving farming methods in Mozambique]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Despite the commitment to increase national agriculture budgets to 10%  and to ensure annual growth of the sector by 6%, few countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region have reached these goals", - Elizabeth Mpofu, Chairperson of ESAFF (the Eastern and Southern Africa Farmers' Forum)....]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:27:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ACORD's Film Demonstrates Meaningful Community Participation]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[ACORD's film &lsquo;Iddirs Beyond Funeral' puts in the spotlight the transformations witnessed in community development in Ethiopia as a result of structured social mobilisation. The 21-minute film captures a unique social practice that is adapting to modern day challenges and addressing wider devel...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:14:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Solutions to Farmer-Pastoralist Conflicts]]></title>
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Community leaders from Chari-Baguirmi sign peace agreements and commit to uphold peaceful coexistence.
After months of reconciliation attempts and frustrations, it was a big sigh of relief when in April 2011 elders from communities in Chari Baguirmi Region of Chad put aside their initial resistan...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:10:31 +0100</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.acordinternational.org/news/solutions-to-farmerpastoralist-conflicts-in-charibarguimi/</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Women's Land Rights Conference]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The 3rd Pan African Conference focusing on Land Rights for Women was held on a high note as hundreds of delegates from different African countries converged in Nairobi to attend and share experiences. ACORD, ActionAid and Oxfam with support from more than 10 other partners convened the week-long Afr...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:55:12 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Partnership to Promote Community Peace and Reconciliation in Kenya]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[As Kenya is getting ready for the 2012 elections and the responsible actors for post-election violence in 2007/08 are yet to face justice, it is critical to build community peace and reconciliation to prevent a repeat of violence. The official launch of the Community Peace Recovery and Reconciliatio...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:28:52 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reparations for rape]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Establishing trust funds for survivors of rape is a key part of the mechanisms governments should put in place to genuinely provide them with full and fair compensation for their ordeals." This was one of the findings which Annette Msabeni, ACORD Head of Programme Operations & Dévelopment, and Leon...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ACORD at the 2011 World Social Forum]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The World Social Forum returns to Africa in 2011 in Dakar, Senegal. ACORD has brought a team of 36 people to the forum, of staff and people from partner organisations. We are here to contribute, share, learn and be inspired, and we hope to bring a little of the atmosphere to you through our blog.
P...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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