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African Centre for Community and Development

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Agriculture Biodiversity Business and Industry Children Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Food Governance HIV/AIDS Habitat Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Information Intellectual Property Micro-Credit Minority Rights New Global Institutions Peace and Security Population Private Sector Science and Technology Social Development Sports for Peace and Development Sustainable Development Taxation Policy Technical Cooperation Torture Values Water Women Women/gender Equality Financing for Development: Addressing systemic issues International Cooperation in Tax Matters Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Mobilizing international resources for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Service provision The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Women and HIV/AIDS Women and health Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the media Women in power and decision-making Population: Population distribution and internal migration Population growth Reproduction, family formation and the status of women Public Administration: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Governance and Public Administration Knowledge Systems and E-government Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Social Development: Aging Disabled persons Employment Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Statistics: Development indicators Sustainable Development: Agriculture Atmosphere Biodiversity Biotechnology Capacity-building Climate change Consumption and production patterns Demographics Desertification and Drought Disaster management and vulnerability Education Energy Finance Forests Freshwater Gender equality Health Human settlements Indicators Industrial development Information for decision-making and participation Institutional arrangements Integrated decision-making International cooperation for an enabling environment International law Land management Major Groups Marine Resources Mountains Oceans and seas Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sanitation Science Sustainable Tourism Sustainable development for Africa Sustainable development in a globalizing world Sustainable development of SIDS
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Germany Cameroon United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Goals .To support disadvantaged and underprivileged people especially young people in Cameroon and Africa in particular and the world if possible. .To promote the physical and mental development of these categories of peoples via education, capacity building, training, arts, social capital mobilisation, enterprise approaches etc so as to augment their capacities to resist the shocks and stresses peculiar to such underprovided livelihoods. To create a broad –based synergy and nexus between talented underprivileged individuals and organisations; via communication and IT technologies with potential developers, and sponsors etc in the West so as to reduce poverty and promote inter-cultural dialogue and exchanges. To promote endogenous knowledge systems and development, of local peoples in Cameroon and Africa. Objectives . To raise awareness of the plight of underprivileged peoples especially children in Cameroon and Africa so as to generate action from development agents to reduce their destitution. .To implore the use of universal moral, scientific and local values via broad-based holistic tools in designing projects to fight poverty, in making exhibitions and other events including fund raising to fight the destitution of disadvantaged peoples like abandoned children, orphans, street children, poor peoples, rural women, unexposed artists etc. To identify and support individuals and non profit making organisations working to empower poor peoples and disadvantaged segments of society through exposure in the world wide web, securing of funds for their activities, designing of events and projects to make their activities reach a bigger audience especially in the Western World. .Promote the education of all; irrespective of station, religion or region. Promote arts in all forms as well as multi-media productions and interactive media in Cameroon and Africa and especially among the poor and locally talented. To establish a forum of dialogue between African Centre for Community and Development with other synergies and good will development ambassadors in empowering disadvantaged peoples and mainstreaming them into society. To promote the documentation of livelihoods in audio visual documentaries for radios, TV, World Wide Web and as simulation videos to assist the design and implementation of interventions aimed at reducing poverty in Cameroon, Africa and the world if possible. This will incidentally assist research in social sciences especially with failing projects (Gow and Morss, 1988). Please visit our sites on facebook and Youtube on the links below: http://www.facebook.com/pages/African-Centre-for-Community-and-Development/103686769685856 http://youtube.com/user/AfricanCentreforCom
Year established:	2002
Year of registration:	2004
Organizational structure:	This organization is headed by a director who coordinates the day to day running of the orgnaization, staff and a board of trustees made up of local community based organizations and international experts that help in the shaping of interventions in relevant fields.
Number and type of members:	This organization is having workers and other development based groups. Some can be accessed below; http://community.eldis.org/falcazo/.59b7dd00/?txAllCommunitiesGallery The management of this organization is linked to the following groups: Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org Lift Kids Leadership Think Tank Bright Ideas & Entrepreneurs Consultants Network IDE - International Development Enterprises Green Media Professionals Worldwide Media & Entertainment Professionals Inclusive Development Professionals Friends of Cameroon Sustainable International Development (SID) - MojaLink Non Profit Network - MojaLink ICT Update Sustainable Development Africa Prosperity Connected 21st Century Network World Neighbors Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development Network Business Partners Cameroon Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD) Friends of ICFJ (The International Center for Journalists) Lean & Green Women'sVision Foundation Genesis Facility PM Learning & Certifications PMI Certified Only Prince2, MSP, PPM & P3O Health Care Creative Designers and Writers Rural Tourism Network Writers Land Development Professional's Network Organic Farming for Sustainable Livelihoods Die Stadt der Zukunft Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development (HASD) Tri-State Entrepreneur Project MICROFINANCE BEST PRACTICES Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa (SESSA)
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Eldis Community, land Development Professional Networks,Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development etc

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