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No 4 (25 February 2002)

CONTENTS

1. ORGANISATIONAL NEWS
a) Engaging with the emerging African Social Movement
b) ACORD at the Africa Social Forum: declaring an active resistance to globalisation
c) Recent staff changes at ACORD
d) Preparing for ACORD's Pan Africa Workshop (PAWS)

2. PROGRAMME NEWS
a) ANGOLA: Gender training works
b) ANGOLA: A new interactive methodology for understanding and recording our work in the Gambos
c) BURUNDI: Support for gender and social exclusion training
d) CHAD: Support for lowland exploitation and well construction
e) DRC: Bridging the legal divide
f)  DRC: Providing seed credit to counteract effects of floods
g) DRC: Raising awareness on the right to education
h) ERITREA: Expanding and improving our credit scheme
i) ERITREA: Support from EU
j) LIBERIA: Reconsidering our future in Liberia
k) MALI: Kidal's local communities take initiatives to manage pastoral land and resources
l) MOZAMBIQUE: Further funds to weather the storm
m) RWANDA:Support to community development committees
n) SAHEL: Identifying a point of programme entry in Guinea
o) SUDAN: Support from the British Embassy, EU and Jersey
p) TANZANIA: Exploring how agriculture can assist in the fight against urban poverty
q) UGANDA: Programmes obtaining significant support
r) HIV/AIDS: Sharing experiences across our programmes
s) HIV/AIDS: Stepping Stones towards more effective HIV/AIDS interventions
t) GENDER AND CONFLICT: Research provides important lessons for ACORD

3. FUTURE WORKSHOPS, TRAINING, MEETINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS

4. USEFUL RESOURCES

5. ACORD'S MEMBERS NEWS

6. NEWSLETTER & SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS.
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1. ORGANISATIONAL NEWS

a) Engaging with the emerging African Social Movement
ACORD is now launching into a direct engagement with Africa's struggle against injustice. After much discussion on mission, values, methodologies and mandate, ACORD knows that it's efforts needs to go beyond working on the consequences of systemic injustice at the site of the 'wound' in its programmes, with marginalized groups etc. To do this it needs to facilitate a wider analysis of the causes of the issues which it seeks to support people to address and to accompany them through the process of developing responses and building alliances with other groups and agencies i.e. advocacy campaigns, cross boarder/group dialogue etc.

As ACORD emerges as an Africa led International organisation, it is setting in motion inherent processes to generate a global-Africa analysis and programme. In the next six months, ACORD projects and country, area, region and thematic programmes are tasked with establishing common cause among programming staff, with our programme partners, and with African and International activists. Through deeper exploration and analysis of the impacts of global policy on people's lives and sharing knowledge and skills, they will enhance the capacities of programmes, partners and allies and develop strategies to challenge the injustice of global relations. This will not only serve to ensure our projects and programmes are responding to the current global-Africa context but will capitalise on ACORD's unique advantage of its relationship with some of the most marginalized people in Africa to inform African and International activist struggles against systemic injustice. In this way ACORD will become an instrument of support to the emerging Africa Social Movement. Full details are available on http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/No4/Art1.htm

b) ACORD at the Africa Social Forum: declaring an active resistance to globalisation
ACORD and around 200 other civil society representatives from almost every country in Africa participated at the first Africa Social Forum in Bamako (5-9 January 2002.) The Forum was aimed at strengthening Africa's input to this year's World Social Forum and more specifically to assert that "Another Africa is possible". The Africa Social Forum brought together views on many different facets of globalisation and included the denunciation of its effects on the majority of Africa's population. It was agreed that Africa should now speak out and actively resist, with its allies around the world, against the current form of neo-liberal globalisation which is based on Africa's impoverishment. Dave Waller of ACORD has reviewed the Forum http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/No4/Art2.htm , which was covered extensively in Pambazuka News, a weekly electronic newsletter for justice in Africa(www.pambazuka.org). The significance of the Forum for ACORD is outlined at http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/No4/Art3.htm


c) Preparing for ACORD's Pan Africa Workshop
ACORD is developing a series of events during 2002 designed to support the
emergence of a progressive social movement in Africa and the development of
ACORD within that movement. One of these will be a Pan Africa Workshop which will be made up of a series of meetings in
Naivasha, Kenya from 10-18 May 2002. Between May 13^th to 15^th staff, members and representatives of a number of pan African NGOs will consider their analysis of the issues facing Africa and how agencies should respond to them. Programme Managers meeting before and after this will work on developing their skills in managing the changes that they are introducing. There will also be a two day Board meeting while staff will meet to discuss what sort of structure they could develop to provide them with effective representation. Six of ACORD's programmes will be holding preparatory meeting/workshops and in mid April there will be a one week Induction Process of the New Programming Directorate in Nairobi For further details contact the PAWS Project Manager Niki Kandirikirira on e-mail: nikik@acord.org.uk

d) Staff changes at ACORD
ACORD has seen a number personnel changes in the past three months. Micheline Ravololonarisoa has been appointed as Programming Director, Cecile Mukarubuga as Assistant Programming Director (Programme Development), Peter James as Assistant Programming Director (Business), Asha El Karib as Programme Development Advisor (Methodology), Desta Soloman as Programme Development Advisor (Area), Maria Holloway as Systems Co-ordinator, Florence Kiff as Communications and Memberships Manager and France Dusserre as Translator Facilitator. The start date for all of these positions is 1st
April 2002. There will be further interviews in March to complete the Programming Directorate team. Niki Kandirikirira has been appointed as Project Manager for ACORD's Pan Africa Workshop and Mamadou Goita as Area Programme Manager (Sahel 1). Mr. Nduhura Dennis was appointed as the Programme Manager for the ACORD HIV/AIDS Thematic Programme and Sunday Abwola as the HIV/AIDS Thematic Co-ordinator for the Northern Uganda Area Programme. The Funding Department appointed two new Funding Officers - Hannah Bristow and Heather Kiel-Bechara. ACORD's London Office has seen the departure of Richard Ewbank (Regional Programme Officer, Horn of Africa), Zewdi Abadi (Regional Administrator, Horn of Africa), Ruben Pyndiah(Accountant) and Chris Batchelor (Regional Programme Officer).

2. PROGRAMME NEWS

a) ANGOLA: Gender training works
Gender training for staff and partners does lead to real change at the community level. This was the major conclusion of a gender workshop involving all three ACORD programmes in Angola, along with representatives of five partner organisations. This conclusion was backed up by evidence provided by participants showing the impact of their gender-awareness work at the community level, as well as the internal organisational changes achieved. Key examples of impact at both these levels include: steep and steady rise in the level of female representation in decision-making positions within community structures; growing number of women's groups being formed; increasing gender balance and greater equality of opportunities within staff teams.

The uses and limitations of gender tools of analysis constituted a key focus of discussions. Examples were given showing how these tools have been used to influence attitudes and policies at the local level. For example, in one of the peri-urban areas where Ang7 works, school policy on pregnant schoolgirls was revised following a discussion with the Teachers and Parents Commission facilitated by ACORD using selected gender tools. On the other hand, cultural resistance continues to act as a major barrier, especially
among nomadic tribes in remote rural areas, who are hostile to perceived 'outsider' interference with their traditional customs and lifestyle. The need to adapt the tools for such settings and to organise exchanges with other programmes working within similar constraints was emphasised. A fuller report with the main highlights of the workshop can be found at http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/No4/Art4.htm (Angela Hadjipateras, ACORD)

b) ANGOLA: Experimenting with an exciting new interactive methodology for
understanding and recording ACORD's work in the Gambos
Over the last few years, ACORD has been working in partnership with ADRA, a local NGO, on a programme aimed at contributing to the development of the Municipality of Gambos, a pastoral area in the South of Angola. This work has entailed working directly with communities and CBOs, local government and others and has promoted and supported community-driven advocacy initiatives. The experiences and lessons learnt along the way by all the actors involved - from the community level to the higher levels - is stored in the minds and collective memory of these actors and expressed in the form of changed visions and values, perceptions and cultural patterns.

ACORD is currently working with ADRA on the design of a research process and methodology that builds on a professional training methodology in documentation and systematisation applied by ADRA with ACORD support in Benguela province in 1995. Besides enabling ACORD to document its experience of institutional capacity-building in the Gambos municipality, the use of this methodology has a strong transformatory and empowerment potential. It allows those involved in the process to build new knowledge, to take ownership of their experiences, feelings, thoughts, frustrations and sorrows, through developing more active self-awareness and, ultimately moving from a position as agents of social development to authors of their own processes. This journey still lies ahead. Let's see where it takes us! (From a report by Guilherme Santos, Country Co-ordinator, Angola)

c) BURUNDI: Support for gender and social exclusion training
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is supporting ACORD in implementing a gender and social exclusion training project from December 2001 to June 2002.

d) CHAD: Support for lowland exploitation and well construction
ACORD has received a one year grant from Jersey Overseas Aid for lowland exploitation and well construction in Chad. ACORD Chad has also raised money from the Ministry of Social Action for credit activities through rural work.

e) DRC: Bridging the legal divide
PRODECO Kingabwa, ACORD's DRC/04 programme in DRC, in partnership with Réseau des Citoyens Network (RCN) Justice et Démocratie, recently trained 15 para-lawyers to inform and advise the community on legal issues and to bridge the gap between the community members and legal professionals. Over 20 000 people are expected to benefit from the para-lawyers' work during 2002. (Michel OLENGA, Animateur Prodeco)

f)DRC: Providing seed credit to counteract effects of floods.
Farmers in ACORD's Community Development Programme area in Kingabwa, Kinshasa suffered a severe setback when a burst dyke resulted in massive flooding of agricultural areas and a severe shortage of rice seeds. ACORD provided around four tons of seed in the form of seed credit to 198 rice-growing farmers (70% women) belonging to 10 farming associations. Each farmer acquired 20kg of rice seeds. In another group, twenty farmers
received training in producing high-quality certified seed and will grow 400kgs of it to counter the severe degeneration in seed quality in the area. (Daudet NSIMBA, Animateur Prodeco)

g)DRC: Raising awareness on the right to education
ACORD's Community Development Programme (DRC/04) organised a large, human rights awareness-raising campaign in 2001 in Mbamu, Nzadi and Kingabwa/Yaounde to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Particular emphasis was placed on the right to an education which provides the key to enjoying the many other rights contained in the Declaration. The campaign was targeted at 4204 households - approximately 25224 people. It is estimated that of these, 12372 were school-age children, 4390 (35.49%)of whom did not attend school and were not enjoying their rights to an education. (Michel OLENGA, Animateur Prodeco)

h)ERITREA: Credit scheme expands and improves
ACORD Southern Zone Savings and Credit Scheme is going from strength to strength. It  njoyed a 46% increase in membership in 2001, and now has 15,527 clients, 40% of whom are women, in 429 villages in 12 sub-zones and 136 administrative centres. Approximately 93% of the scheme's clients were successful in their undertakings.

One of the scheme's notable achievements was its expansion to Zoba Debub and Maakel, where it received a positive response from the local communities and is likely to have a significant impact on future programmes. The culture of saving is gaining root, particularly in villages such as Emni-Haili, Debarwa, and Kakebda, where clients are saving more and withdrawing less. The scheme also made significant progress in training and women's empowerment, and was extremely successful in introducing livestock insurance. For more
information, refer to the latest Eritrea newsletter at http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/EritreaNewsletterFeb2002.doc

For further details of ACORD's Eritrea programmes, please e-mail Acord Eritrea at neby@gemel.com.er or Acord London at florencek@acord.org.uk.

i) ERITREA: Support from EU
ACORD has received substantial support from the EU for its Central Zone Savings and Credit Project in the Central Zone of Eritrea. This project aims is to improve the living conditions of households in rural agricultural communities through improved access to micro-finance investment and extension services.

j) LIBERIA: Reconsidering ACORD's future in Liberia
Mary Musirika, ACORD's programme co-ordinator in Liberia, has had to leave the country due to the recent state of emergency declared in Monrovia and violence in the city. This is the second time in four months that she has had to be evacuated. In the light of these developments, ACORD has had to seriously reconsider its future in Liberia and how it can ensure its presence in the Forest Zone in general.

k) MALI: Kidal's local communities take initiatives to manage pastoral land
and resources.
More than fifty pastoralists from five communes in Kidal, northern Mali, participated in an awareness building workshop on management of pastoral resources from 23-29 December 2001. Never before had such a large numbers of pastoralists gathered in the region to discuss issues of common concerns. The workshop focused on animal health, a crucial element in furthering their interests and asserting their rights. Healthy animals improve access to markets and opportunities. However, to succeed in this area, pastoralists need to be aware of the legal framework which regulates the provision of veterinary care, such as the pastoral charter, and know how to demand and ensure that the State provides them with the basic health services they require.

l) MOZAMBIQUE: Further funds to weather the storm
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has provided a substantial grant towards ACORD's flood rehabilitation and sustainable livelihoods programme in Inhambane province in Mozambique. Inhambane was one of the provinces most severely affected by the Eline cyclone which devastated the Central and Southern regions of the country in February and March 2000. DfiD has also agreed to support the Panda district livelihood and institutional strengthening programme for a five year period.

DfID, the UK Department For International Development, is providing support to ACORD for a two and a half year programme which supports community development committees to better manage development initiatives in six districts in Rwanda.

n) SAHEL: Identifying a point of programme entry in Guinea
ACORD is about to undertake a thorough analysis to identify a point of programme entry in Guinea. The work will build on ACORD'S experience in the country and will develop in line with ACORD's new vision for the region. It was recently decided that Guinea, being part of both the Sahel and the Forest zone, would be included in both the Sahel 1 cluster, which includes Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso, as well as the cluster in the Forest Zone.

o) SUDAN: Support from the British Embassy, EU and Jersey
ACORD has received funds from the British Embassy in Khartoum to provide a better quality of life for the people of Norayait village in Sudan. It has also had support from Jersey Overseas Aid and the EU for ACORD’s Diversification of Coping Mechanisms of the Beja tribe in Halaib Province, Red Sea Hills.

p) TANZANIA: Exploring how agriculture can assist in the fight against urban poverty
ACORD's Mwanza Urban Livelihood Programme (TAN/ 10) recently conducted a study on the role, constraints and sustainability of urban and peri - urban Agriculture (UPA) in Ilemela Ward of Mwanza City. Although urban and peri-urban agriculture has shown promising results in strengthening livelihood for poor households in and around fast growing urban centres and show great potential for fighting urban poverty, government institutions and structures do not support such initiatives. A report of the study is available at http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/No4/Art5.htm Further information is also available from the Country Co-ordinator, ACORD,PO Box 1611,MWANZA, Tanzania. Email: acordtz@africaonline.co.tz or mulp@africaonline.co.tz

q) UGANDA: Programmes obtaining significant support
ACORD recently obtained support for a number of its initiatives in Uganda. Warwick University provided support for a Domestic Roofwater Harvesting Programme, UNICEF provided a grant to plan and manage community response initiatives aimed at assessing the needs of orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Mbarara District and Bread for the World provided support for the Oruchinga Rainwater Harvesting and Sanitation programme. ACORD also received a grant from Jersey Overseas Aid for the Rainwater Harvesting and Sanitation project.

r) HIV/AIDS: Sharing experiences across programmes
ACORD's HIV/AIDS thematic programme has been heavily involved in building the capacity of programmes through training and exchange visits in the past few months. Ms Angele Diello of ACORD Burkina Faso, spent two month training and coaching in Uganda and Tanzania to improve knowledge and skills in developing HIV/AIDS interventions. She is likely to take the lead in developing the HIV/AIDS theme in the Sahel 1 Area programme, which covers Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania.

Three members of staff from ACORD's Isangi and Opala programmes in the DRC spent a week with ACORD Uganda learning from the Ugandan experience of dealing with HIV/AIDS. They also used the opportunity to analyse HIV/AIDS baseline data from Isangi, which is now being used to develop an HIV/AIDS intervention in the area. The East Africa 1 programme (EAF/1) Officer and Mbarara Programme AIDS Officer visited Isangi in November to assist in the preparation of the programme document for the HIV/AIDS intervention, officially launch the programme, and conduct an HIV/AIDS seminar.

Earlier this month, five ACORD Botswana staff visiting the Mbarara programme in Uganda as well as a number of organisations who deal with HIV/AIDS. The Botswana team used the opportunity to explore how they could implement some of the initiatives planned by the HIV/AIDS thematic programme. Discussion with a senior Action Aid Uganda Stepping Stones trainer generated a lot of interest in learning about the use of the methodology.

s) HIV/AIDS: Stepping Stones towards more effective HIV/AIDS interventions
Less than year ago, at ACORD's HIV/AIDS Conference in Pretoria, it was agreed that ACORD would use the Stepping Stones methodology in its HIV/AIDS interventions. Only seven months later, 13 staff from Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia met in Mwanza, Tanzania for a two week Stepping Stones training workshop. Towards the end of the training, each member presented an action plan for implementing the methodology in their respective programmes.

The Stepping Stones methodology enables communities, programmes and organisations to address communication problems around HIV/AIDS and empowers women and children and other vulnerable groups to make decisions. Due to different needs, interests and experiences, the methodology works in peer groups of same age and gender, which promotes openness in sharing experiences.

The training was followed by a two-day community workshop in Lukobe, a peri-urban village near Mwanza, where the practical application of the methodology was put to the test. One of the immediate effects was community members requesting the ACORD team in Mwanza to train Stepping Stones facilitators in their community. A summary of the workshop is available on http://www.acord.org.uk/e-news/No4/Art6.htm. For a full detailed report of the workshop contact: The AIDS Programme Manager, P.O. Box 280, Kampala-Uganda, E-mail: EAFKLA@afsat.com or The Country Co-ordinator,ACORD-Tanzania, P.O Box 1611 Mwanza, Tanzania, E-mail: acordtz@africaonline.co.tz

p) Gender and Conflict: Research provides important lessons for ACORD
The two-year research process involving ACORD programmes in Mali, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan and Angola, has now reached its final stages and the final report will soon be submitted to Dfid. The research has not only confirmed the importance of understanding the links between gender and conflict, but has also provided some new and different perspectives on the issues.

In broad terms, the research has highlighted the fact that gender is not only about women. The research shows that class, race, ethnic affiliation, language, age, and so on, are equally, if not more, important than gender differences in shaping and influencing the nature and dynamics of social relationships. This finding underpins the need for us to broaden our understanding of gender and the programming implications that flow from it. Secondly, the research enables us to discern more clearly the self-perpetuating processes of violence in society or 'cycles of violence' whereby one form of violence triggers another that, in turn may give rise to further violence. One implication for ACORD is the need to sharpen up our capacity to work on, as well as in conflict and to focus more of our efforts on conflict-resolution processes.

The completion and documentation of the research is not the end of the process. In some ways, you could say it is only the beginning. A further proposal for the dissemination of the research, using a range of participatory methodologies, including theatre and drama, will be developed in order to ensure that the full transformatory and mobilising potential of the research is attained.

The final report, comprising an overview of the overall findings and the methodology applied, the five country case studies and supplementary documentation from relevant ACORD research and programming experience in Eritrea and Rwanda, will be placed on ACORD's website in English, French and Portuguese. Copies can also be provided by the London office. Contact: florencek@acord.org.uk

3. FUTURE WORKSHOPS, TRAINING, MEETINGS, PRESENTATIONS & EVENTS

a) COURSE: STRENGTHENING POLICY AND PRACTICE, July 15-19 2002, Birmingham, UK
SPP is a residential course for staff of international and national agencies with advisory and management responsibility for relief, development, rights, and peacebuilding programmes. The course aims to asisst participants in finding constructive ways of dealing with unpredictable and rapidly changing circumstances. SPP is relevant for those: engaged in the planning, management, and implementation of aid and development programmes; work in developing policies for appropriate responses in complex political emergencies. Major topics include: analysing conflict, evaluating conflict impact, aid and conflict, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, mediation skills and conflict transformation, integrating a conflict perspective into programme planning.
Date: July 15-19, 2002 Location: Birmingham, UK. CONTACT: Responding to Conflict, 1046 Bristol Road, Birmingham, B29 6LJ, UK. Email: enquiries@respond.org Website: http://www.respond.org

Source: Coexistence Noticeboard - newsletter of the Coexistence Initiative www.coexistence.net

b)ODI Lunchtime Discussion meetings: Rethinking "good governance". Why
experience with natural resources challenges the conventional wisdom and how we can do better.

A series of four lunchtime meetings will be held at the Overseas Development Institute in London:

Thursday 7 March:
Breathing life into "good governance" - what does
experience with natural resources tell us about the role of donors?

Wednesday 13 March:
Is "participation" a poor excuse for democracy?
Jon Lindsay, FAO. Case Study: Forests and democratic development in Cameroon.

Friday, 22 March:
Does decentralisation harm the poor? Lessons from forestry in Indonesia, and West and Central Africa.

Wednesday 27 March:
"Bad governance" - can global environmental policy make a difference?

All meetings will take place between 1.00pm and 2.15pm and will be held in the Conference Room at the ODI offices: Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road,London, SE1 7JD. Please reply by email to Diana Evans at meetings@odi.org.uk

c) Dates to look out for:

18 -22 March 2002: International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterey, Mexico. (UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO)

21 - 23 March: "Financing the New Africa Initiative", Organisation for African Unity (OAU) Summit, Dakar

4. USEFUL RESOURCES

a) UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY
http://www.unesco.org/confgen/press_rel/021101_clt_diversity.shtml

UNESCO's governing body, the General Conference, has adopted a new Universal Declaration on cultural Diversity which aims to have a significant impact on humanising globalisation and making it more culturally sensitive. The declaration, adopted in November, supports cultural diversity, cultural rights and the role of culture in development. Main lines of action include fostering the exchange of knowledge and best practice; advancing awareness raising and the development of standards and practices on a national and international level; promoting better understanding of cultural rights as an integral part of human rights; promoting traditional and popular education methods; respecting and protecting traditional knowledge - particularly that of indigenous peoples. Further details and the full text of the Declaration can be accessed at the address above.
Source: Creative Exchange- Promoting creative activity in sustainable development

b) Africa Maps.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html
An extremely useful site for accessing detailed maps of Africa

c) Men, Masculinities and Gender Relations in Development.
www.brad.ac.uk/acad/dppc/gender.html
A new site comprising of abstracts, papers and publications from the ESRC sponsored seminar series (co-ordinated by Dr Frances Cleaver)

d) Publications: God, Oil and Country: Changing the logic of war in Sudan;-International Crisis Group
The war in Sudan is one of the world's longest running, complex and most intractable conflicts. It has often left the international community looking painfully ineffectual - as competing regional peace initiatives have allowed the warring parties to play one off against the other, never addressing fundamental grievances. ICG argues that there is now a unique opportunity to construct a viable peace process. The complete text of the report (250 pages) may be downloaded in pdf format from http://www.crisisweb.org/. The report is also available at cost in printed paperback book form. For further information, contact ICG by email at: icgpress@crisisweb.org To cover production and postage, they charge US$ 15 per book.
Source: CODEP Newsletter

e)Open Democracy
http://www.opendemocracy.net
This is a very informative not-for-profit network aimed at exchanging experiences of democracy, independent of vested interests and political parties. It includes a globalisation archive and discussion area where you are invited to post your response to the question "What should we think about globalisation now?"

f)ACORD Website
http://www.acord.org.uk
The ACORD website is a rich source of information on our work. It includes details about our organisations, our programmes, members and staff as well as our latest news, links to other organisations, useful resources, current and past issues of our on-line newsletter and downloadable versions of our recent publications.

5. MEMBERS NEWS

a)Vredeseilanden (Belgium)recently translated large sections of its website into English. The site was initially conceived as a tool for communication with its constituency, however the English version will now hopefully also open doors for transnational alliance building: www.vredeseilanden.org. Vredeseilanden has been a member of ACORD since 1997.

b)Philippe Painglain, Head of Africa Desk for CCFD and Fabienne Michaleon, chargee de mission, recently visited the ACORD programme in Kidal, Northern Mali. The visit provided the opportunity for CCFD and ACORD to discuss their partnership and its development in the next five years. CCFD, a long time partner of ACORD in Northern Mali, has supported programmes in the area since the early nineties. Future dialogue is expected to be in the form of exchange visits, fora and participation at each other's events.

c) ACORD and Oxfam UK will be co-facilitating a meeting in Kampala on HIV/AIDS mainstreaming for NOVIB's senior regional managers in East, Central and Southern Africa. NOVIB is one of the ten members of ACORD. ACORD will be represented by its HIV/AIDS Programme Manager and Country Coordinator for Tanzania.

d) The EU has provided support for the joint ACORD/CCFD Tali Payam Food Security and Water programme in Juba County. This is a three years and a half programme. CCFD has also agreed to contribute at £ 57’000 as well.

d)ACORD is currently made up of 10 institutional members:

1. Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD)
2. Groupe Devéloppement
3. HEKS http://www.heks.ch
4. Inter Pares
5. Mani Tese http://www.manitese.it/manitese.htm
6. NOVIB http://www.novib.nl/
7. Oxfam GB http://www.oxfam.org.uk

8. Oxfam Hong Kong http://www.oxfam.org.hk/english/
9. Stromme Foundation http://www.stromme.org
10 Vredeseilanden http://www.vredeseilanden.be

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
Moussa Ba
Nigel Cross
Maknun Gamaledin-Ashami
Marie Goretti Nyirarukundo
Maggie Pankhurst
Fernando Pacheco dos Santos

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