| ABANTU |
| ABANTU for Development is a non-governmental organisation founded in 1991 by women, for the purpose of harnessing resources to the benefit of African people. Abantu means "people" in many languages, and symbolizes their people-centred philosophy. The main focus of their work is on training, providing information and advice on mobilising resources towards sustainable development in Africa |
| Abundant Life For All Ministries |
| Abundant Life For All Ministries (ALFA Ministries) became a fully registered Voluntary Christian Development Organisation in 2000; working in Uganda to promote rural community development initiatives and projects that focus on community participation, capacity building and ensuring that women, children and youths are the immediate beneficiaries. ALFA Ministries's mission is to improve the social and economic standards of the people living in rural communities and to assist them to achieve their highest potential so that they can become confident, competent, self supporting, with new possibilities for a dignified life by building democratic household and community foundations, capacity building and integrated rural community development initiatives/projects |
| ACACIA-Uganda |
| The Acacia Initiative is an international effort led by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to empower sub-Saharan African communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies to their own social and economic development. The executing agency for Acacia in Uganda is the National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), the institution that is responsible for coordinating research activities and formulating research policies in Uganda. |
| Academy for Educational Development/LearnLink/Dot.Com |
| Within Uganda's aim to improve telecommunication services and education, the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Connect-ED is supporting activities to improve the quality of education. In close cooperation with Uganda's Ministry of Education (UMOE) and within the framework of the U.S. Education for Development and Democracy Initiative (EDDI), this Academy for Educational Development/LearnLink/Dot.Com implemented project is increasing computer literacy among teachers and equipping 9 educational centers throughout the country and a development laboratory at Kyambogo University (KYU).
In addition, Connect-ED worked with a local ISP to set up an unprecedented terrestrial based Internet backbone ranging as far north as Gulu. Connect-ED has worked for 4 years with the KYU to completely enhance their Primary Teacher Training curriculum via multimedia. In conjunction with KYU, Connect-ED has produced online teacher training curriculum based on a student-centered learning approach and the Ugandan core curriculum; it is enabling teachers and student teachers to integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) into the classroom; it has developed a series of free CD-ROMs to complete a subject-based, digital resource library with localized content generated by Ugandans for Ugandan educators; Connect-ED’s 15 staff works together to support training activities at the Primary Teacher Colleges through their web-based Professional Development Learning Environment.
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| Action Line for development (ALFORD) |
| Founded in 1998, Action Line for development is a local Ugandan non-profit making organization, which was formed to improve the social and economic welfare of the people for equal participation in development. Areas of operation include education, health and community development initiatives. Operating in Kampala, Mpigi, Wakiso and northern districts of Uganda, the main target of the organization are vulnerable people and the less advantaged including children, the elderly and the disabled.
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| Action to Support Orphans and Disadvantaged (ASOD) |
| Action to Support Orphans and Disadvantaged (ASOD) was set up in 2005 to make a substantial contribution towards the fight against HIV/AIDS and improve the Health status of the Disadvantaged communities, through interventions in three integrated social services of Education, Health and HIV/AIDS. Thus build human capacity and create synergy between the sectors. The organization focuses on integrated community development targeting orphans, women and vulnerable children. Activities include reception and rehabilitation of vulnerable children, sponsorship for orphans and other vulnerable children, running a community school, promoting vocational and Life Skill Education and youths and women economic empowerment.
CBOs that are affiliated to ASOD include, Agency for Madi Orphans and Widows Organization (AFMOWO) Adjumani District, Buruli Anti AIDS Crusade (BAAC) Uganda Masindi District, Uganda Child and Aid Development Foundation Mukono District, Madi Development Foundation Moyo District and Child Development Foundation Mbale District. |
Aduku Computer Systems  |
| Aduku Computer Systems Inc. is a consulting firm with expertise in emerging technologies, including web development, network design and software solutions. The firm is based in Toronto, Canada, with a regional office in Kampala, Uganda. |
| Advocacy campaign on microbicides to begin. Gloria Katusiime. June 21, 2003 |
| A campaign on the development of safe and affordable microbicides is set to begin in Uganda. This will be the first time that a large-scale campaign on microbicides is launched after years of ongoing research about the efficacy of this product. Microbicides are agents that kill or deactivate disease causing microorganisms, technically known as pathogens and are supposedly developed to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in women.
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| Advocates Coalition on Environment and Development (ACODE) |
| ACODE's mission is to promote a conducive operational environment for environmental civic organisations, to promote environmental litigation as a tool for environmental management, to promote access to enviromental information, and to advocate for community resource rights. |
| AEGiS - AIDS Education Global Information System |
| AEGiS began in the mid-1980s and is a web-based reference for HIV/AIDS-related information. Through a keyword-searchable knowledgebase, AEGiS offers information via HIV/AIDS specific publications and news sources from around the world. In addition, an array of reference materials are offered. Information from African countries is available at http://www.aegis.org/links/africa-index.asp. |
| Africa Expo |
| We are a non-profit corporation devoted to funding several charities in Africa and in the United States so that ALL of the profits will go to these charities. Some are medical while others are educational. Currently, our charities include an orphanage for disabled children, a children's cancer ward, treatment for AIDS victims in Africa, and scholarships to bring African young people to the U.S. for a university education and to send American young people of all races to Africa for a junior year abroad.
Africa-Expo was created for the purpose of providing a showplace for the arts, culture, handicrafts, products and technology of the fifty-five nations of Africa in order to bring wider communication, education, trade and understanding between our two continents while raising funds for our African and African-American charities. The dates for the Africa Expo are December 17-23, 2002.
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| Africa Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (AFWE) |
| AFWE is a Federation of National Associations of Women Entrepreneurs operating in 45 Sub-Saharan African countries. It was founded in Accra June 3rd 1993 and registered in Addis Ababa April 4th 1994, through the initiative of the Africa Centre for Women (ACW) of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. |
| Africa Pulse |
| Africa Pulse is an information portal for the Civil Society sector in the Southern African Development Community. It uses state-of-the-art technology to allow organisations throughout the region to publish content directly to the site, whether it be news of the arrest of a journalist in Zambia, the HIV/Aids crisis in South Africa, a profile of an organisation's work in Tanzania, the devastation caused by a flood in Mozambique, an analysis of the war against Unita, or an election update from Harare. Organisations, academics, journalists, researchers, activists and unions are free to publish any material on the portal that is relevant to the Civil Society sector and to the region. There is space for organisations to alert the sector to events, such as protests, book launches, seminars or campaigns, and to advertise job vacancies. A database of website URLS (website addresses) searchable by category and country on anything from education, conflict and governance, to democracy and human rights also provides a valuable resource to the sector. |
| AfricaBib |
| AfricaBib consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database). It also provides a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography). The databases are maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, Director, Institute for Economic Advancement (IEA) Research Library. |
| African Counselling Network (ACN) |
| The African Counselling Network (ACN) is a network of individuals interested in the development of counselling in Africa. The ACN website provides information for counsellors and other mental health specialists, as well as access to counselling and psychology journals and other counsellor education resources. The site also provides information on AIDS Resources and AIDS Counselling. |
| African Development Foundation |
| The African Development Foundation (ADF) is the principal agency of the U. S. Government that supports community-based, self-help initiatives that alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development in Africa. Established by Congress in 1980, it became operational in 1984. Over the last fifteen years, ADF has funded over 1300 activities in 34 African countries. The Foundation's headquarters are in Washington, D.C. It currently has active programs in thirteen sub-Saharan countries: Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. ADF works with a partner organization in each country in which it operates.
ADF is primarily interested in funding micro and small enterprises,micro-credit, HIV/AIDS education and prevention and community-based Natural Resource Management. The Foundation only funds indigenous African organizations and does not fund scholarships, travel to conferences, governmental or quasi-governmental organizations |
| African Evaluation Association |
| The African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) was founded in 1999 in response to a growing demand in Africa for information sharing, advocacy and advanced capacity building in evaluation. It is an umbrella organization for a growing number of national evaluation associations and networks in Africa. It also involves individuals in countries where national bodies do not exist. In conjunction with the national associations and committed donors, AfrEA has helped develop the concept of an African evaluation community. Two Africa-wide evaluation conferences were held, African Evaluation Guidelines developed and directories for African evaluation expertise and other resources established. Africa's role in evaluation was also advocated from regional and international forums.
AfrEA is in the process of developing, in partnership with UNIFEM, a Special Interest Group (SIG) in Gender and Development. This SIG will focus on the creation and sharing of knowledge for engendering monitoring and evaluation in Africa. Among others, it is establishing an Africa-wide Network as well as Web-based Directory of gender and development evaluators. It will aim to strengthen the effectiveness and gender-responsiveness of development programs and projects in Africa through the use of rights based and results oriented participatory systems of monitoring and evaluation. The network will share information, resources and experiences. It will develop and share gender evaluation tools and methodologies. It will also encourage the implementation of gender-sensitive evaluations across the continent. AfrEA and UNIFEM would like to encourage other partners to join them in this effort.
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| African Gender Institute |
| The African Gender Institute (AGI)'s vision is of Africa as a continent liberated from the legacies of colonial and patriarchal domination, and transformed into a powerful and united region in which women and men are respected as equal, and social justice is a reality for all its people. AGI's mission is to contribute to the realization of this vision by building intellectual capacity and establishing an African resource dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity. |
| African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) |
| The United Nations Environment Programme has initiated an African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) initiative. AREED seeks to develop new sustainable energy enterprises that use clean, efficient, and renewable energy technologies to meet the energy needs of under-served populations, thereby reducing the environmental and health consequences of existing energy use patterns.
The AREED approach offers rural energy entrepreneurs a combination of enterprise development services and start-up financing. This integrated financial and technical support allows entrepreneurs to plan and structure their companies in a manner that prepares them for growth and makes eventual investments by mainstream financial partners less risky. |
| African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) |
| The objectives of FEMNET are (1) to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGOs concerned with women's development; (2) to create a channel through which these NGOs can reach each other and share ideas, knowledge and experiences geared towards improving the condition of African Women; (3) to maintain close working relationships and foster partnership directly or indirectly with governments, UN agencies, the OAU and other bodies with objectives similar to those of the Network; and (4) to publicize the Network's activities and services through publications, awards, exhibitions and the mass media.
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| African Women's Development Fund |
| The newly established African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is a fundraising and grant-making fund which aims to support the work of the African women's movement. The beneficiaries of the fund will be local, national and regional African women's organisations. The AWDF will raise money and make grants for the support of non-profit African women's organisations working for social justice, equity and peace. The beneficiaries of the fund will be African women's organisations working in the following areas: women's human rights; economic empowerment; political empowerment; feminist leadership development. The AWDF will also support programme work to strengthen existing initiatives in the areas of research, public policy debates and analyses, organisational development and capacity building.
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| African Women's Economic Policy Network (AWEPON) |
| AWEPON seeks to strengthen the capacity of women especially at the grass root and national levels to influence the shape of economic policy. AWEPON owes its beginnings to the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) Women’s Desk that initiated faith-based consultations on the impact of economic policies on women. In October 1993, 11 representatives of African women’s organizations that worked on gender issues as they related to economic policy met in Washington D.C to bring together their diverse experiences and strategies on how women could play a direct and pro-active role in increasing awareness among policy makers of the effects of their decisions on women. As a network though, AWEPON was first mooted at the 1994 United Nation’s NGO regional preparatory conference that was held in Dakar, Senegal.
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| African Women's Media Center |
| The African Women's Media Center (AWMC) is a project of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). The IWMF was founded in 1990 with a mission of strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice. The IWMF launched the AWMC in 1997 to provide African women journalists the training, resources and tools they need to compete equally with their male colleagues. |
| African Women. Guide to Internet Resources. |
| An annotated directory of information, on the internet, about women in Africa. Full text articles, women's organizations, bibliographies, discussion lists. Based at Stanford University, California. |
| African Youth Foundation (AYF) |
| The African Youth Foundation (AYF) is a non-profit development organisation based in Germany. AYF was created to aid young people in Africa, as well as African Nationals abroad to undertake projects which will enable them obtain skills necessary for their future livelihoods. The organisation's mandate is to promote youth education for African Nationals abroad and in Africa, as well as gender equality, with a view to mobilising and developing the talents of the youth to contribute meaningfully to national and global development. A concept which will motivate the youth to begin their own enterprises particularly in the informal sectors, other than migrating to other countries |
| Africawoman |
| Africawoman is a fully-wired women-led news and broadcasting service. The service currently operates in four countries - Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe - but will eventually include every African country. It is run by about 40 women journalists and activists. Africawoman's vision is driven by a monthly web-based newspaper that is distributed via the Internet to activists and community radio networks. It creates a distinctive African women's news agenda and enables news written by women to be accessed by rural women, using radio to by-pass the challenges of literacy and distribution. The project also involves training the women journalists in a monthly "virtual newsroom" to plan and write the next edition. Africawoman is funded by the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) and by the British Council. |
| AfroGreenVision |
| This site is dedicated in helping Africans embrace sustainable development. The site contains a section dedicated to African women's resources on sustainable development. AfroGreenVision focuses on three areas: Organic farming, solar energy and environmental protection. |
| afrol Women |
| afrol Women is an African Internet media, covering almost daily African gender news, background presentations and country gender profiles. The site also includes free portal services.
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| Agency for Environment and Wetlands (AEW) |
| AEW's mission is to enhance sustainable development by carrying out research, publication, information dissemination, information sharing and networking in order to achieve sustainable economic and social development in Uganda. |
| Agency for Madi Orphans and Widows (AFMOWO) |
| AFMOWO’s head office is found in Adjumani district of Uganda. The organization’s mission is to look after orphans, widows in their districts and to keep themselves current but not to be polluted by evil (James 1:27). The organization operates in 4 sub-counties in Adjumani district of Uganda and 3 sub-counties in Moyo district of Uganda. Activities are focused on empowerment, involvement of women in income generating activities and HIV/AIDS awareness as well as social counseling. Attention is paid particularly to women (widows) and orphans. |
| Agency for promoting Sustainable Development Initiatives (ASDI) |
| ASDI is committed to sustainable development by increasing incomes of poor agro-based groups in Apac district, Northern Uganda. This is done through appropriate training, savings, credit, marketing, team spirit and active participation with like minded organisations. |
| Akina Mama wa Afrika |
| Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is an international, pan-African, non-governmental development organisation for African women based in the UK with an Africa regional office in Kampala, Uganda. AMwA was set up in 1985 by women from different parts of Africa resident in the United Kingdom. Translated from Swahili, the name means `solidarity among African women', signifying African sisterhood. AMwA coordinates local, regional and international initiatives, and builds the individual and organisational leadership capacities of African women through leadership development programs, networking, information and advocacy. |
| All Africa Women for Peace |
| All Africa Women for Peace (AAWP)'s mission is to advance the participation of women in peace making and development in Africa through research, training, networking and counselling. |
| AMANITARE - African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls |
| AMANITARE - the African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls - was launched in Uganda in 2000, and is coordinated by RAINBO. AMANITARE's goal is to build an influential social movement to institutionalize the recognition of African women's and girls' sexual and reproductive health rights as fundamental to their civil and human rights. AMANITARE is organized into three action groups, each coordinated by an African NGO: Advocating for Freedom from Gender-Based Violence; Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Rights into Health Services; and Reaching-Out to New Generations. |
| American & African Business Women's Alliance (AABWA) |
| AABWA is an organization whose members represent business and professional women from Africa and America engaged in trade and investment. Established in February 2001, AABWA fosters business opportunities and access to markets through networks, linkages, mentoring and leadership development for women. AABWA seeks to increase international and intra-Africa trade and investment by encouraging business partnerships within the African continent and with the United States. AABWA is unique in that it is a business woman's organization and is singularly focused on private sector-led trade and investment promotion between America and Africa.
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| Another Life International (ALiWA) |
| Operating in Wakiso District, ALiWA's mission is to raise many from poverty to prosperity, from ruins to riches and to inspire people to have a reason to live. |
| APC-Africa-Women |
| The Africa regional programme of APC's Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), APC-Africa-Women gathers and works together with women and women's organizations in Africa and all over the world, focusing on African women's empowerment through Information Facilitation, Regional Support, Policy and Advocacy, Training and Research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
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| Asociatia Femeilor Din Romania - Women's Association of Romania (AFR) |
| Asociatia Femeilor Din Romania (AFR) is the first democratic organization for women that started during the December 1989 revolution, as a result of the necessity to organize, represent and defend Romanian women's rights. It is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-political organization, legally established in 1990. AFR has 9350 members in Bucharest and 20 branches in different Romanian counties. During the twelve years of existence, AFR - Women's Association from Romania - the initiator of the national women's rights movement - has become a strong link between organizations, committees and coalitions that work for the benefit of Romanian women |
| Associates for Change |
| Associates for Change is a private consultancy firm based in Kampala, Uganda, which aims to contribute to efforts designed to build peoples' capacities to bring the process of change firmly within their influence and control. Asociates for Change aims to contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of efforts by communities, civil society groups, including women's organizations, and governments by offering the varied expertise of its many associates through training, technical assistance, community mobilisation and action-oriented research.
Areas of expertise include Human Rights with a special focus on women's human rights, Gender and Development, Promotion of Democracy and participation in Governance, Promotion of an efficient Judicial system, Human Resource and Institutional building. |
| Associates for Change (AFC) |
| Based in Kampala, AFC addresses issues of Women's human rights, Gender and Development, Legal literacy, Conflict resolution, and Information and Communication Technology |
| Association for Professional African Women in Communication (APAC) |
| APAC is a forum for reflection, study and action on gender and media issue. A framework of action for new means of practicing communication and for reflecting on the best image of women through media and of communication for the promotion of women and development in Africa.
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| Association for Support to Women Entrepreneurs (ASAFE) |
| ASAFE is the French acronym for Association for Support to Women Entrepreneurs. ASAFE is a non-profit NGO for development whose primary aim is the promotion and development of entrepreneurship. ASAFE's focus lies with small enterprises in general and with small scale production initiatives that generate income and employment in all sectors. ASAFE ensures that all projects and initiatives are both environmentally and financially sustainable. This year, in partnership with the CISCO Networking Academy, ASAFE will set up a Gender Networking Academy.
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| Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) |
| The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.
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| Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS) |
| AAWS is a worldwide organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging scholarship on African women in African Studies, forging intellectual links and networks with scholars, activists, students, and policy makers inside and outside Africa, and participating actively in continental and global debates on issues specifically relevant or related to African women.
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| ATCnet |
| ATCnet's mission is to bring together organizations, social groups, economic and business bodies and individuals in Africa to share and use information and communication technologies. This mission aims at specifically placing the people of Africa in a competitive edge with the world and providing them with tools to enable them make informed decisions for the sake of development and better quality of life.
ATCnet runs a series of HIV/AIDS databases and they encourage all groups working with HIV/AIDS at the grassroots to register as members. All the members will receive Medical supplies and material useful in the fight against HIV/AIDS. A second aspect of this project is that member groups are advertised and promoted as on the ground solution seekers and resources are directed their way, register at http://www.atcnet.org, for further information contact us at
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