:: A.C.O.R.D: Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development

The aim of the Organisational Development Programme is to try and develop an institution, for which governance, staff and systems reflect its engagement for social justice and development both inside and outside.

In this context, for instance, the programme is ensuring a process of transformation of 500 members of ACORD staff across Africa into active citizens in their own countries and globally.

Northern Programme:

The presence of the ACORD Secretariat in Europe was intended, as primary objective, to ensure strategic leadership and management of programmes in Africa. Its energies, knowledge and means were indeed focused on Africa.

ACORD E.D shakes hands with Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, after signing the ACORD Nairobi Headquarters Agreement

Apart from a few ad-hoc research outputs, which were used as a basis for exchange and debate with the remaining partners, especially in London, and routine administrative relationship with traditional donors (DFID, EU, etc.), ACORD has not been able to build a profile in the North. Today, we have reconceptualised and redefined our presence in the North.

By relocating ACORD’s strategic leadership to Africa, the primary objective of the Northern office is to incorporate successfully the African Agenda in the North, via on-going and active presence in Northern social movements, building relationships with the African Diaspora, engaging in debate, dialogue and influencing on European policies and with countries in the North interested in Africa and marginalised communities.

The aim is also to build stronger strategic relations with traditional funders and allies, through information sharing and discussion fora on problems and issues concerning Africa.

relationship with AU and NEPAD.

ACORD is also involved also in a consortium of Northern organizations in an awareness program on common agriculture policy.


	Geographic Area Programmes These are programmes that are working beyond national borders where necessary, which are self-managed and combining practical activities with research / critical analysis and social action and seeking changes in their particular geographic areas both at local global . Area Programs are defined by a shared/common problem, informed by social exclusion analysis. . ... more

Thematic Programmes
Its aim is to address crosscutting issues, which affect the Africa continent. Thematic programmes in ACORD are about the issues within area programmes and those that go beyond the geographical proximity of the area programmes. They are strategic interventions on interrelated issues to bring about change at different levels - from local to global. They are research-based, link area programmes together that scale-up and amplify the work of area programmes , work around a particular issue.... more


	Social Action Programme The aim of the Social Action Programme is to address policies, systems, attitudes, practices and institutions, which lead to social injustice by supporting people in the margin of African societies into joining and strengthening the African and global social movement, whilst ensuring that ACORD is part of the process, across Africa and globally. ... more

Organizational Development Programme
The aim of the Organisational Development Programme is to try and develop an institution, for which governance, staff and systems reflect its engagement for social justice and development both inside and outside. In this context, for instance, the programme is ensuring a process of transformation of 500 members of ACORD staff across Africa into active citizens in their own countries and globally. Northern Programme: The presence of the ACORD Secretariat in Europe was intended, ... more