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Agriculture
- Oxfam
GB - Land rights in Southern Africa
Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation
that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and
suffering around the world. In recent years Oxfam GB and many
of its partners in Africa have become increasingly involved in
the issue of land rights. This is because access to land, which
remains for many people in Africa the ultimate form of social
security, is being severely threatened.
Art
& Culture
- AfricanColours
- Zimbabwe
'African Colours' is an honourable, spirited, inspirational, playful,
colourful, and funky virtual showcase and promotion of African
artists, online since July 2000.
- 'amaBooks
Publishers - Zimbabwe
'amaBooks is a Bulawayo-based publishing house which started in
2000, with the objective of promoting good writing in English
in Zimbabwe through publication, particularly in Matabeleland.
To date, sixteen books have been published, and 62 writers featured,
the majority previously unpublished.
- Chaz
Maviyane-Davies
The graphic design of Chaz Maviyane-Davies.
- Ghetto
Radio
Reveals
the fuller picture of ghetto life and culture by being a channel
through which ghetto inhabitants, artists as well as regular inhabitants
of slums and ghettos, can tell their own stories (through music,
graffiti, blogs, comments, news items, stories, poetry, etc.).
- Theatre
versus oppression
Theatre versus
oppression is an international collective of educators, counsellors,
theatre workers and artists working with theories of dramatherapy,
counselling and the theories of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the
Oppressed. To this end the organisation works with educational
establishments, health care workers, governments and international
human rights organizations, as well as individuals to develop
training and provide support for specific situations. Interactive
theatre and the arts in general are used as a tool to organise,
analyse and explore resolutions to situations and alternative
approaches. Theatre versus oppression challenges discrimination
and injustice at any level and aims to develop communities who
help to create a better and more peaceful living environment through
intercultural understanding and respect.
- Zimbabwe
- Poetry International Web
Poetry International Web is a collaboration between organizations
and individuals in countries all around the world including Zimbabwe.
Children/Youth
- United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate
for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic
needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
- Women's
World Summit Foundation (WSSF)
WWSF, a humanitarian, non-governmental and international, non-confessional
and non-profit organization with United Nations consultative status
(ECOSOC, UNFPA and DPI), works for a new development paradigm
with and for women and children.
- YouthNet
YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old.
It is a collaboration with the young people whose lives it is
designed to improve. It also includes the energy, insight, and
experience of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers,
the media, health professionals, nongovernmental organizations,
religious and community leaders, and other youth networks.
Civil
Society
- CIVICUS
CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening
citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Our vision
is a worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens
engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity. CIVICUS'
special purpose, therefore, is to help nurture the foundation,
growth, protection and resourcing of citizen action throughout
the world and especially in areas where participatory democracy,
freedom of association of citizens and their funds for public
benefit are threatened.
Conflict
resolution
- The
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
(ACCORD)
An international civil-society organisation working throughout
Africa to bring appropriate African solutions to the challenges
posed by conflict on our continent. Recognised by the United Nations
as a model for Africa, ACCORD's reputation continues to grow,
and the knowledge and experience of the organisation is often
called on from as far afield as East Timor, Cypress and Sao Paolo.
ACCORD was founded in 1991.
- The
Applied Conflict Resolution Organizations Network (ACRON)
was born out of a meeting of leading international conflict resolution
practitioners held in Washington, D.C., in March 1999. Since that
first meeting, ACRON has evolved into a dynamic network of over
25 organizations actively engaged in peacebuilding activities
around the world.
- Global
Peacebuilders
is an online project dedicated to creating opportunities for you
to market and promote the work that you do for peace across the
world. Visit their website to create a profile and highlight the
work you are doing for peace, as well as to read about others'
peace building activities and network with them.
Democracy
- AfriMAP
- Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project
The Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP)
aims to monitor and promote compliance by African states with
the requirements of good governance, democracy, human rights and
the rule of law.
- Centre
for Public Participation (CPP)
The CPP's programme purpose is to strengthen public participation
in governance and advance the achievement of civil, political
and socio-economic rights and poverty alleviation. This is a South
African initiative.
- IFI
Transparency Resource
An extensive information tool on transparency at the International
Financial Institutions (IFIs). This Resource has been developed
to support the Global Transparency Initiative which is an informal
network of civil society organizations focused on opening the
IFIs and promoting higher standards in global governance.
- Inter-Parliamentary
Union (IPU)
The IPU is the international organization of Parliaments of sovereign
States
(Article
1 of the Statutes of the Inter-Parliamenary Union). It was
established in 1889. The Union is the focal point for world-wide
parliamentary dialogue and works for peace and co-operation among
peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy.
- The
Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
The Institute for Democracy in South Africa is an independent
non-profit public interest organisation that promotes democracy
in South Africa. Idasa's mission is to promote a sustainable democracy
by building democratic institutions, educating citizens and advocating
social justice.
- The
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR)
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) was established
to promote reconciliation, transitional justice and democratic
nation-building in Africa by means of research, analysis and selective
intervention. It seeks to understand the causes of conflict and
promote understanding in the resolution of conflict. It provides
situational analysis, it builds capacity, and it produces resources
for social transformation and development.
- Institute
for Security Studies (ISS)
Our mission is to conceptualise, inform and enhance the debate
on human security in Africa in order to support policy formulation
and decision making at all levels towards the enhancement of human
security for all in Africa.
- Partnership
Africa Canada
Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) is a coalition of Canadian and
African NGOs working together on issues of human rights, human
security and sustainable development. In collaboration with its
members and other organizations, PAC undertakes research and policy
dialogue initiatives on issues affecting Africa.
- Southern
African Information Portal on Corruption
The Southern African Information Portal on Corruption is located
within the ISS Organised Crime and Corruption Programme in Cape
Town, South Africa. The Portal is an initiative of the South African
Anti-Corruption Diagnostics project, which is funded by the Danish
Development Agency (DANIDA) through the Embassy of Denmark. The
project focuses on policy recommendation, diagnostic survey work
and various other applied policy research initiatives aimed at
combating corruption in South and Southern Africa.
Education
- Network
for Education and Academic Rights
The Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR) is a membership-based,
non-governmental organisation which facilitates international
collaboration between organisations active in issues of academic
freedom and educational rights, and committed to promoting an
understanding of, and respect for, the values enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Technological
Educational and Scientific Development for Africa (TES-DA)
Our main aim is to develop and provide all encompassing but efficient
and feasible scientific, educational and technological solutions
to benefit occupants living in severe poverty within African countries
in an attempt to promote and create sustainable economic development
within such areas and self sufficiency of individuals, enhancing
their own general living conditions and standards.
Elections
- The
Electoral Institute of Southern Africa
Current civic and political information related to Southern
Africa.
- Southern
African Development Community Parliamentary Forum
The SADC Parliamentary
Forum is a regional organisation that brings together 12 parliaments
of the southern Africa region and represents 1800 Members of Parliament.
A key objective of the Forum is to develop into a regional parliamentary
structure, for the purpose of strengthening the capacity of Southern
African Development Community by involving Parliamentarians of
Member States in its (SADC's) activities.
Food
Security
- Famine
Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)
The goal of the network is to strengthen the abilities of African
countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity
through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and
vulnerability information. FEWS NET is a USAID-funded activity
that collaborates with international, national, and regional partners
to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability
information on emerging or evolving food security issues.
- ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
- World
Food Program (WFP)
Set-up in 1963,
WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against
global hunger.
Visit the WFP's Southern
Africa Crisis webpage
- Zimbabwe
Relief and Recovery Unit
The UN Relief and Recovery Unit (RRU) was established by UNDP
in October 2001 to assist in the co-ordination of the international
response to a worsening food security and humanitarian crisis
in Zimbabwe. The RRU works under the leadership of the UN Resident/Humanitarian
Co-ordinator. The RRU's mission is to improve the focus and impact
of assistance in supporting the most vulnerable people in Zimbabwe,
through greater joint engagement by all stakeholders, and particularly
the Government of Zimbabwe, in needs assessment, planning, monitoring
and in the delivery of humanitarian programmes.
Freedom
of Expression/Media
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Our current
electronic activism campaign calls on Zimbabweans
to rally together for democracy
We
apologise for the inconvenience but this is a revolution.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
International
petitions
In addition to local actions by Zimbabweans to confront the
current regime, many international organisations have launched petitions to
demand respect for human rights and a return to democracy in Zimbabwe. Some
of these include:
- Avaaz
- Every
human has rights
- Human
Rights First
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