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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>
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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>
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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 +0000</pubDate>
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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 +0000</pubDate>
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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 +0000</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 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Solutions to Farmer-Pastoralist Conflicts]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[
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 +0000</pubDate>
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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 +0000</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 +0000</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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			<title><![CDATA[WSF 2011: Spotlight on Community-centred Development]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The World Social Forum returned to Africa in 2011 bringing 75,000 people from across the globe to Dakar, Senegal. ACORD participated in order to contribute, learn and connect with activities on all four of the themes on which ACORD works. The Forum was founded in 2001 by social movements and other c...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Put food sovereignty at the core of the EU CAP]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[View as pdf
Proposals from the European Commission to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013 show some signs of fairer distribution of subsidies, according to a coalition of European social movements, farmers organisations, and NGOs. However despite this positive development the com...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taking the lead in community peace-building]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[ACORD's work on peace-building among communities affected by cycles of violence, using the Community Social Peace and Recovery Model (CSPR Model) continues to provide inspiration among community-based organisations and stakeholders interested in or working on matters of conflict transformation aroun...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Learning Forum 2010]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The much awaited Learning Forum for 2010 took place in an institutional, social and political context which has witnessed many changes. It was mainly characterised by the completion of the process of ACORD organisational change. The forum focused on the role of civil society organisations and the ch...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kenya: Sharing Knowledge to Transform Farming]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["Manage your livestock, let them not manage you. It is you who know what they need and what you need from them" This was a message from Mr. Njuguna of Jasho Dairies at a recent innovative workshop in Kenya. The workshop brought together representatives of pastoralists and small scale farmers in the ...]]></description>
			<author>Nashon Tado &lt;no-reply@www.acordinternational.org&gt;</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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