Civil society organizations and individuals working in Africa to advance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can apply for the $100,000 ONE Africa Award.
As efforts to eradicate poverty progress and new ideas introduced to bring about change across Africa, there are various NGOs and individuals dedicatedly involved in the processes. The ONE Africa Award provides an opportunity “to highlight the dynamism and achievements of African individuals and civil society organizations who are building a better future for their communities, countries and continent.” It “celebrates and bolsters innovative Africa-led efforts to help advance on or more of the Millennium Development Goals, the world’s blueprint to a better future.”
The award carries a cash payment of up to $100,000.
Individuals, organizations or other groups demonstrating commitment and success in assisting Africans in meeting one or more of the MDGs can apply for the award. “2010 qualified recipients will be engaged in advocacy to promote MDG attainment in health, clean water/sanitation, agriculture, education, gender, economic growth or employment generation for poorer communities. The organizations can be advocacy/pressure groups and think tanks engaged in governance related activities such as the monitoring of flows of resources and/or holding governments accountable to commitments to MDG attainment.”
2010 Award Criteria
- Innovation: Extent to which the individual/organization has designed and implemented an innovative advocacy program that employs new approaches to impact the MDGs.
- Results: Extent to which the individual/organization demonstrates and communicates their ability to impact and advance at least one of the Millennium Development Goals at a community, regional or national level.
- Scaleability: Ability of the individual’s or organization’s efforts to be scaled up and/or replicated by others.
- Accountability: The demonstration of strong accountability mechanisms used to receive community buy-in (i.e. community leadership consultations and assessments and transparency of operations).
- Partnerships: Extent to which the individual/organization has employed creative partnerships to achieve its goal and ensured coordination with other development actors. These partnerships may include public and/or private sector organizations.
Other Criteria:
- Organizations and/or individuals must be Africa-based and indigenous.
- Organizations must show evidence of success in previous projects.
- Organizations must show proof of funding support for previous project activities.
The deadline to apply for the award is 24 September 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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The WEWASAFO is an NGO organization meaning Western Water and Sanitation Forum. It has different activities that include: HIV/AIDS,SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT,WATER AND SANITATION AND GENDER AND SANITATION. We are based in Kakamega which is on the Western part of Kenya. We are working to eradicate poverty in the western province of Kenya so as to provide a sustainable life for marginalized members of the community.
Our mission is working together with marginalized members of the community in Western province to reduce poverty through harnessing and utilization of local resources for sustainable development.
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National Orphan Fund is dedicated to turning around the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children in Zambia by strengthening equitable accesibility to education. it is normally belived that orphans get it all hard to do almost everything. Nothing under the sun come easy and nothing above the soil gives easy but survival is the principle. Policies for HIV/AIDS have been developed and have been effectively implemented only in certain sectors but for the governements everything ends on paper (draft form). These awards should also present an opening for newly established dynamic NGOs with a focus to reach to the community. What is really sad is that NGO work has become more dependent on donor support.
NOF Zambia wants to change this trend of depending on donor funds but work hard to develop viable fundraising ventures and investment in order to have all programmes sustained. 3 out of 5 programmes under NOF Zambia are entirely self sustaining and generate billions.
However, an award of this nature cannot be so bad to get except that the guidelines are so restrictive for us to apply.
Thanx
NOF Zambia
CEO
Ending poverty in the world at large should be the effort of every citizen of the world. We must achieve this by investing on the women and youths of our society. My Foundation, Emma Ekwonna Youth Empowerment Foundation {EEYEF)as an NGO established in Nigeria is poised and dedicated to training and empowering women, youths and physically challenge to help end poverty, create employment, reduce the spread of HIV/ AIDS, promote gender equality, reduce crimes, kidnapping, drug abuse and intake and other related crimes and also promote peace.
Please I am pleading that every peace loving individual should endavour to train and empower at least one woman and one youth. If this is achieved, you will see that the MDG goal to end poverty will be achieved.
Please join me in this campaign. You can have a look at my web blog. (www. eeyef. wordpress. com)
Reach the Youth Uganda (RTY) is a youth focused organization. Her programme beneficiaries are children, youth and women below 30 years of age. RTY implements programmes with support of both local and international partners. These programmes include
Objectives
a. To contribute to the improvement in health status of the youth through school and community based adolescent sexual and reproductive health/HIV/AIDS programs
b. To create opportunities for youth to acquire livelihood and vocational skills for gainful/self employment and self improvement.
c. To promote sustainable community led environment programs.
d. To empower youth with special life skills and abilities to cope with life challenges.
e. To advocate for the rights of the marginalized groups such as women, children and youth.
f. To reduce effect of drug abuse and commercial sexual exploitation among youth 10-24 years.
Current activities
RTY is currently implementing three projects with the following activities
Human Rights Project.
The project is implemented in Kasese and Kalangala districts and the target group are women organizations and youth organizations, religious and Local leaders; prisons, police and judicial officers. Others include primary and secondary school head teachers, students and local leaders. The major activities being implemented under this project include among others
• Sensitization of all those leaders about human rights of children, women and people with disabilities.
• Conducting school debates (primary and secondary) about human rights of women and children.
• Conducting essay competitions in schools about human rights of women and children.
• The project installed suggestion boxes in major villages to enable communities identify and report on cases of human rights. The project collects and analyzes these inputs from the communities and provides feed back to the communities.
• Conducts community dialogues through community based meetings on situation of human rights in their respective communities, causes, predisposing factors, and allow the community to suggest best ways of addressing these issues.
1.3.1 The Child Sponsorship programme.
The project is implemented in Kasese district and the target group are orphan vulnerable children (OVCs). The major activities being implemented under this project include among others
• Providing tuition for the OVCs to enable them access formal education right primary up to University.
• Provide shelter i.e. housing for the children who have no known relatives or guardians.
• Providing feeding, clothing, health care and scholastic and school requirements.
• Meet their healthy needs including supporting children who are HIV+ to access ARVs, counseling and testing and treatment for opportunistic infection.
• Conducting school debates (primary and secondary) about human rights of women and children.
• Training the children in life skills
• Conducting health education including sensitizing children on HIV and AIDS and other sexually related diseases and the importance of personal hygiene.
• Visiting the children in schools and organizing meetings for relatives of such children.
• Participating in district meetings organized for NGOs implementing child related programmes.
1.3.2 Livelihood programme for HIV and AIDS Affected families- Kalangala
The project was planned in such a way that it has multiplier effect. Those families which received goats and chicken each returns two she goats and three chickens. These are distributed to new families. The activities involved in this project are
• Training HIV and AIDS affected families in basic animal husbandry and horticulture and poultry rearing.
• Building the capacity of families in marketing.
• Training families in nutrition to reduce effects of HIV and AIDS and TB.
• Sensitizing communities about HIV, AIDS and TB.
• Linking the families to service providers for counseling and guidance.
• Supporting outreach programmes to enable families’ access VCT services.
• Conducting HBHCT services.
• Distributing goats and chicken to families and
• Monitoring the HIV and AIDS affected families.
1.4 RTY approaches
In implementation of her programmes, RTY uses partnership approach and networking arrangements. The benefits of working with partners are to enhance our strengths and build synergies so as to improve on service delivery and save costs of extra human resource. Through partnership we are able to provide a range of services to the programme beneficiaries whom otherwise we would not have been able to do so. Some of the partnerships and net workings include.
a. Health Units. In Kasese we partner with Alleluia Medical Centre and Health Centre III in Kalangala to provide services to HIV+ and AIDS affected families. Our partners and net works provide VCT services, treatment for opportunistic infections, facilitate HIV and AIDS workshops. They also enable us access free of charge recent information and fats about HIV and AIDS, TB and RH issues including STIs.
b. Youth and women groups. These help us in mobilization of communities and dissemination of information.
c. Technical offices- These include director of health services, gender and community development, local council IIIs and IVs. These provide technical support in terms of facilitating workshops, providing information and giving policy guidance.
d. Local leaders (LCIII’s and IV’s.). These have constituents and large followings. They are leaders of the people who can make the program fail or succeed. They provide political support and these gives our programmes visibility and attract respect and recognition from the population. They also mobilize communities for us.
e. Drama groups. These have human resource. We give them the themes, facilitate them and they through drama and music sensitize communities.
f. Schools- By working with administrators of the schools we are able to access the children and youth in schools with IHIV and AIDS services including information for prevention of HIV.
g. Line NGOs. We network and partner with NGOs in the respective districts to extend services to the people.
Yeah, what my friends said above is right and i agree with what they said which is no body/organization cares about the poor; things are not out there when you really need them. Those great men and women who really care to bring about change for the needy ones deserve award though nobody has ever considered them for one, its OK. There will come a time….