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LIGHT Africa

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Aging
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Business and Industry
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Climate Change
  • Coorporate Accountability
  • Crime Prevention
  • Culture
  • Decolonization
  • Development
  • Disabled Persons
  • Economics and Finance
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Governance
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Habitat
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Industrial Development
  • Information
  • International Security
  • Justice
  • Labour
  • Media
  • Micro-Credit
  • Minority Rights
  • New Global Institutions
  • Peace and Security
  • Religion
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Development
  • Sports for Peace and Development
  • Sustainable Development
  • Technical Cooperation
  • Torture
  • Trade and Development
  • United Nations Funding
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
  • International Trade as an engine for development
  • 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
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Service provision
  • The girl child
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Violence against women
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and armed conflict
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the environment
  • Women and the media
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Population:
  • International migration
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Population distribution and internal migration
  • Population structure
  • Reproduction, family formation and the status of women

    • Public Administration:
  • Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Knowledge Systems and E-government
  • Public Financial Management
  • Public Service and Management Innovation
  • Socio-Economic Governance and Management

    • Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Conflict
  • Cooperative
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

    • Statistics:
  • Civil registration systems
  • Country or region codes
  • Demographic and social surveys
  • Development indicators
  • Environmental Accounts
  • Geographical names
  • Household Statistics
  • Informal Sector Statistics
  • International Economic and Social Classifications
  • International migration
  • Labour and Compensation
  • Poverty statistics
  • Social Statistics and Social Monitoring

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Atmosphere
  • Biodiversity
  • Biotechnology
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • 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
  • Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
  • Mining
  • 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
  • Technology
  • Trade and environment
  • Transport
  • Waste Management
    • Geographic scope: Regional
  • Africa
    • Country of activity:
  • Nigeria
  • Cameroon
  • South Africa
    • 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:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2001
    Organizational structure: - General assembly,(individual and associative membership based.) - Local Networks (Community Based Organizations) - Administrative Council (Board of Directors) - Permanent Secretatiat - Project Committees
    Number and type of members: FOURTEEN + 70 affiliated delegates from community based organizations.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: NWADO, COSADER, PCFS, RNHC, GAVI-CSO CONSTITUENCY,
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fees for education and training services
  • Fees for providing consulting or research services
  • Product sales and business services
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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