ENDA Senegal Expand view BP 3370 54 Rue Carnot Dakar The ENDA Centre is involved in a variety of different projects including; animal traction for water pumping, the use of animal and vegetable waste and oil presses. Runs an AIDS/HIV enquiry service for francophone Africa and is a key networking point for ICASO in West Africa.
Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Support (BASICS) Senegal Expand view VDN X Route du font de Tene PO Box 3746 Dakar Key goals for BASIC II are to achieve increased use of effective, improved and sustainable child health interventions and improving infant and child health and nutrition and reducing infant and child mortality. The resource centre is open to the public. The BASICS II website provides on-line access to electronic documents produced by BASICS and its partners http://www.basics.org
Township AIDS Project (TAP) South Africa Expand view PO Box 4168 Johannesburg 2000 TAP aims to provide information, educaiton and training in behaviour, communication and change; to provide free information in its resource centre which is open to the public; and to provide support and care for PLAs http://www.tap.org.za
Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) Ghana Expand view PO Box 5601 Kumasi CEDEP's overall objectives are; To empower disadvantaged groups, community-based organisations and institutions to work for the rights of their members and ensure the recognition of their needs and capacities by the structures of authority. To sensitise critical actors in society to protect the rights of the marginalised and ensure the recognition of the needs and capabilities of the latter by the structures of authority. To enhance women's ability to improve the quality of their lives through participatory decision-making, access to and control of resources, skills and benefits. To improve the quality of life of the youth through the aquisition of relevant skills and knowledge to enable them to make informed decisions in economic and social matters. To enter into partnership and joint ventures with identifiable organisations for mutual socio-economic benefit. To develop a strong network with other organisations in order to influence macro socio-economic policy http://www.cedepghana.tripod.com
Kuleana Centre for Children's Rights Tanzania Expand view PO Box 27 Mwanza Promotes awareness and advocacy about children's rights, with particular emphasis on the girl child. Facilitates children's right to self-expression, strengthens programming capacity in child rights in Tanzania, provides essential services to and supports the rights of street children in Mwanza, and promotes universal (basic) primary education in Tanzania. Kuleana has a resource centre
Jimma University Ethiopia Expand view P O Box 378 Jimma University with five faculties: Medical Sciences; Public Health; Business; Technology; and Agriculture. Also runs a busy 250 bed rural hospital. Aims to support and educate staff to supply appropriate services. The Resource Centre is not open to the public
ActionAid Kenya Kenya Expand view PO Box 42814 Nairobi ActionAid Kenya exists to facilitate processes that eradicate poverty and ensure social justice and equality. Their vision in the AIDS department is to see that the poor and marginalised communities are empowered to gain control over the causes of their vulnerability to HIV, secure basic rights and needs, live with dignity and achieve sustainable development in the face of AIDS http://www.actionaid.org
Save the Children UK Uganda Expand view PO Box 1124 Kampala SCFUK has a vision of girls and boys exercising their rights and having improved access to quality basic services and of child-led approaches being a cental element of all aspects of Save the Children's work. Its goals are the development of health systems which would lead to appropriate policies, structures, attitude and practices that will improve the accessibility of children and their families to quality services. In Uganda SC supports initiatives aimed at improving the lives of children living with HIV or orphaned because of AIDS http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
Save the Children - UK (SC UK) Kenya Expand view PO Box 39664 Nairobi http://www.savethechildren.org.uk
GTZ Regional AIDS Programme for Africa (GTZ - RAPA) Ghana Expand view PO Box 9698 KIA North Labone, Accra Aims & Objectives: To promote the integration of HIV/AIDS activities in GTZ projects in Africa To contribute to the international partnership against AIDS in Africa (c/o UNAIDS) To share information and documentation with partners
National AIDS Coordination Programme (NACP) Zimbabwe Expand view 2nd floor, Mukwati Building PO Box CY1122 Causeway, Harare NACP id responsible for coordinating the national multisectorial response to HIV/AIDS and TB in Zimbabwe. It is also responsible for coordinating the specific health sector response to HIV/AIDS with special focus on treatment and care, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, counselling and testing, condom promotion and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. The NACP resource centre is open to the public
German Development Cooperation Health Systems Research GTZ-HSR Zimbabwe Expand view PO Box 2406 Highlands Harare The programme has the overall objective to improve reproductive health services and facilitate health care reforms in the Southern African Region through health systems research, within the different countries themselves as well as at an inter-country level. Through this regional approach, it will contribute to the strengthening of communication and collaboration between neighbouring countries (South-South co-operation). Special emphasis is laid on practical, decentralised research, which can be directly translated into action. Resource Centre onpen to the public http://users.harare.iafrica.com/~gtz-hsr/gtz-hsr.htm
World Vision Uganda (WVU) Uganda Expand view PO Box 5319 Kampala This is a Christian, development and child care agency. It believes that all development is integral to improving the well-being of children. Its aims are to contribute to the reduction of infant and maternal mortality rates through community-based programmes and empowerment of the beneficiaries; to improve water and sanitation; to increase education rates; to improve agriculture and the environment and to assist in the development of midro-enterprises. It s resource centre is not open to the public, but it is planned that in the future it will be http://www.wvi.org
Community Based Rehabilitation Programme-Kisumu (CBR-K) Kenya Expand view PO Box 486 Kisumu Aims to address the plight of people witrh disabilities in the community by helping them to maximise their abilities; remove/minimise the stigma associated with disability through education/knowledge about disability and training; and train the disabled for self-help projects and income generation, therefore helping them to decrease the effects of their disability and enhance their integration into mainstream society