Partners
Fahamu’s mission is to strengthen human rights and social justice
movements but it is a mission we cannot carry out alone. We therefore
work and network with a wide range of international organisations both
governmental and non-governmental. This area contains information about
the work we do in partnership with other organisations and some of the
services we provide for our clients.
Pambazuka News is perhaps the most significant expression
of the networks that Fahamu works with. It is produced by a pan-African
community of some 300 citizens and organisations – academics, policy
makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society
organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators.
These are too many to be listed here, but a list of authors is
available on the Pambazuka News website.
AFFORD
Fahamu has provided courses by distance learning to members of African
diaspora organisations in the UK in collaboration with AFFORD. Fahamu
has also contributed to AFFORD's Africa Without Borders course run in
conjunction with Birkbeck College, London University.
See the website for this organisation
African Books Collective
Fahamu has worked with ABC in the publication and distribution of a number of books.
See the website for this organisation
ARTICLE 19
Fahamu has collaborated with ARTICLE 19 to produce campaign materials on the right to freedom of expression and has developed distance-learning materials on freedom of information.
See the website for this organisation
Association for the Prevention of Torture
Fahamu has collaborated with APT and the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to develop and run distance learning courses on the Prevention of Torture for national human rights institutions throughout the world in English, French, Spanish and Russian.
See the website for this organisation
China Development Brief
Fahamu has collaborated with CDB in the development of joint initiatives on China’s role in Africa.
See the website for this organisation
Development in Practice
Fahamu staff have several papers published by Development in Practice, including Development and Rights, introduced by Firoze Manji. The latter is a member of their editorial advisory board.
See the website for this organisation
Editorial Nordan-Comunidad
Editorial Nordan-Comunidad are co-publishers with IDRC and Fahamu of Escribir para el cambio (Writing for Change, Spanish edition).
See the website for this organisation
Equality Now
Fahamu collaborates with Equality Now in the successful campaign for the adoption of the Protocol for the Rights of African Women and they continue to work together on the protocol’s effective implementation across the continent.
See the website for this organisation
EQUINET - Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
Fahamu was a founding member of Equinet and served on its steering committee until 2006. Fahamu developed Equinet’s website and newsletter, Equinet News.
See the website for this organisation
Focus on the Global South
Fahamu collaborated with Focus in the launch of the African Perspectives on China in Africa book at the World Social Forum in Nairobi in 2007, and jointly organised a meeting on China in Africa in Shanghai to bring together African and Chinese activists and academics. The pages from this conference appear in the jointly published China's New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective.
See the website for this organisation
Gaza Community Mental Healthcare Programme
Fahamu has undertaken consultancy work to advise on the development of a five-year development plan and implementation of re-organisation in GCMHP
See the website for this organisation
IDRC Books
Fahamu's CDROM Writing for Change is published in the UK and Europe by Fahamu and in North America by IDRC.
See the website for this organisation
Just Associates (JASS)
Fahamu worked with JASS in the development of one of the Learning for change courses - Action for Change: Advocacy and Citizen Participation.
See the website for this organisation
Kabissa
Fahamu helped in the establishment of Kabissa to provide free web hosting for African not-for-profit organisations and is a member of Kabissa.
See the website for this organisation
Mazingira Institute
Fahamu has had a long association with Mazingira, including providing inputs on the mission on land and housing rights supported by the Habitat International Coalition.
See the website for this organisation
Nigerian National Human Rights Commission
Fahamu has worked with the commission to enhance the capacity of their staff to investigate, monitor and report on human rights violations.
See the website for this organisation
Open CourseWare Consortium
Fahamu is a member of OCW and has made two of its courses available online for free as part of the OCW cooperation.
See the website for this organisation
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and Fahamu worked to develop a number of distance learning courses. The department awards certificates to those attending these courses.
See the website for this organisation
PAMONET
PAMONET is a network of some 50 organisations in Africa who use mobile phone technologies for social justice. Fahamu is a founding member of the network.
See the website for this organisation
Penal Reform International (Malawi)
Penal Reform International (Malawi) and Fahamu have collaborated in the provision of courses by distance learning for paralegal workers in Malawi on investigating, monitoring and reporting on human rights violations, an initiative supported by the British Council.
See the website for this organisation
Solidarity for African Women’s Rights
Fahamu is a founding member of SOAWR, a coalition of some 26 organisations formed to promote the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. Fahamu serves on the steering group, and is involved in a range of media work with SOAWR, including the Media for Women's Rights project. Fahamu has produced books with SOAWR about the campaign, including Grace, Tenacity and Eloquence: The struggle for women's rights in Africa, Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa and its French translation, Vulgarisation du procole de l'union Africaine sur les droits des femmes en Afrique. It has produced publicity materials for SOAWR and developed the coalition's website.
See the website for this organisation
Tactical Technology Collective
Fahamu collaborates with TTC in the development of a toolkit for the use of mobile phone technologies for social justice
See the website for this organisation
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
Fahamu worked with FEMNET on the successful campaign for the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa and continues to
work with them on the campaign to ensure that the rights enshrined in
the protocol are available to all women in Africa. The Media for Women's Rights (MEWOR) is a collaboration between Fahamu and FEMNET, together with
some 20 other organisations in east and west Africa. Fahamu became a
member of FEMNET in 2007.
See the website for this organisation
The Directory of Social Change
The Directory of Social Change distributes Fahamu’s Writing for Change CDROM.
See the website for this organisation
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
Fahamu and MISA have worked on the development of distance learning materials on access to information in southern Africa.
See the website for this organisation
Training and Research Support Centre
Fahamu has a long association with TARSC, managing their website and electronic publications, and collaborating on a number of programmes including EQUINET.
See the website for this organisation
University for Peace Africa Programme
Fahamu and the University for Peace Africa Programme have signed a cooperation agreement and have a range of collaborative activities. Fahamu has developed two courses with them: The Role of the Media in the Rwanda Genocide and Gender, Violence and Conflict.
See the website for this organisation
WITNESS
Fahamu is one of the Allies of WITNESS' new online hub.
See the website for this organisation
