| Thematic focus and activities
Livelihood: Acord is supporting local NGOS working with a focus on
intermediation on microfinance, capacity building of
CBOs, and basic services in the urban area in
Luanda
and Lubango. In addition, ACORD is actively involved in
advocacy network on land and PRSP issue building on the
knowledge and relationship at community level. ACORD
program manager is one of the leaders of local civil
society on those issues.
Conflict:
ACORD
is tackling the issue of conflict through community
participatory research on conflict as part of a bigger
ACORD project covering 4 countries( Angola, North
Uganda, Sudan, Mali) on community conflict
transformation and a recent initiative on ex- combatants
reintegration in the province of Bie ( Camaculpa and
Katabola municipalities). This consists on supporting
the ex-combatants to access to credit resources,
training in management capacity, information, space for
debate at local level, traditional reconciliation
mechanism to help for their integration in community and
their relation with ex-military and the community. ACORD
also provides capacity building of NGOs to sustain this
process of reintegration of ex-combatants.
HIV/AIDS :
HIV/Aids is mainstreamed in all the projects. It includes
aspect of sensitization, research, training, support to
partners and active participation in networks on
HIV/Aids.
Governance and Decentralization:
The
program is carrying two parallel approaches. One is
about capacity building of local authorities at
municipality level, to prepare them to take over the
effect of effective decentralization and especially,
budget management and planning. In addition, ACORD
provides training to local government on participatory
approaches sensitive to gender. On the other side, ACORD
strengthen the capacity of local NGOs and CBOs to engage
with the local authorities through participation in
bottom up planning, and negociations on community
critical issues like lands.
Who do
we work with
ACORD
through that initiative is working at community level
with IDPs, returnees, EX-combatants and host communities
both in rural and urban areas.
ACORD
in the most of time will support the capacity of CBOs or
NGOS to work with communities. In that capacity, ACORD
is building on that core of CBOs and NGOs, which it
supports and build the capacity, to carry out the agenda
of social action by building their competencies in
policy literacy, accessing to information and building
critical awareness on policy and practices.
ACORD
also is working with local governments actors and other
NGOS like SNV, OXFAM, INTERMON, FONGA, NDI, CARITAS,GPS,
IRSEM, Churches, GAV…
At
national level ACORD is member of the network of
international NGOS.
The
main advocacy issues:
Lands
and PRSP. This is done mainly at province level and
national level |
