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Fahamu works with a wide range of international organisations both governmental and non-governmental. This area contains information about the people who fund us, the work we do in partnership with other organisations and some of the services we provide for our clients.
AFFORD's mission is to engage Africans and their organisations in the diaspora directly with organisations involved in the processes of development on the continent; and to develop the skills and abilities of African peoples, either temporarily or permanently away from Africa, in ways that will contribute to Africa's development and enhance Africa's contribution to global development. Their vision is an immensely positive one: As Africans, we take full responsibility for shaping and determining our own destiny and for being active participants in shaping the future of all humanity and our common planet. We celebrate the resilience, resourcefulness and self-reliance of the diverse African communities and their organisations in the diaspora and seek to build on that strong foundation. 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 conjuction with Birkbeck College, London University.
African Books Collective, founded, owned and governed by African publishers, seeks to strengthen indigenous African publishing through collective action and to increase the visibility and accessibility of the wealth of African scholarship and culture. ABC is an organisation of 74 independent and autonomous African publishers. It is non-profit making, and supported by government agencies and development organisations. ABC markets and distributes African published books globally outside Africa, and publishes resource material for African book and publishing communities. An average 55% of net sales proceeds are remitted to African publishers. Fahamu has provided content for a book on publishing in Africa.
The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advocacy so as to advance women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa. FEMNET's aims to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGOs focusing on women's development, equality and other human rights. It also aims to provide an infrastructure for and a channel through which these NGOs can reach one another and share information, experiences and strategies to as to improve their input into women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa. Fahamu is working with Femnet to campaign for the Ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Article XIX: Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they work worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information. With partners in over 30 countries, they work to strengthen local capacity to monitor and protest institutional and informal censorship. They monitor, research, publish, lobby, campaign and litigate on behalf of freedom of expression wherever it is threatened. They develop standards to advance media freedom, assist individuals to speak out and campaign for the free flow of information. Fahamu has collaborated with Article 19 to produce campaign materials on the right to freedom of expression, and currently developing distance-learning materials on freedom of information.
The Contact Trust is dedicated to increasing the level of meaningful
public
participation in the development, monitoring and implementation of
national
policy and legislation. Contact strives to increase the capacity of
both
civil society and decsion makers in order to facilitate the building of
co-operative relationships.
The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. The COL has funded an internship position for Fahamu.
Commonwealth Secretariat, located in London, was established in 1965 to consolidate and co-ordinate the many strands of long-standing consultation and co-operation in education, law, science, economic development and other specialised fields. It is staffed by 275 people from Commonwealth countries and is financed by member governments under a system of assessed contributions. The Commonwealth Youth Programme increases contact between the youth of Commonwealth countries, links individuals and non-governmental organisations, and promotes exchange of experiences on youth development policies and programmes. Priorities of the programme are leadership training, youth entreprise development, youth participation, information exchange, technical assistance and exchanges of youth workers and instructors. Key initiatives now include a youth credit initiative; formulation of national youth policies; a diploma in youth work offered in virtually every Commonwealth country; a health programme emphasising AIDS prevention; and conflict resolution workshops. Fahamu has developed an interactive CDROM on Commonwealth values in youth and development for the Commonwealth Youth Programme
Development in Practice is a forum for practitioners, academics and policy makers to exchange information and analyses concerning the social dimensions of development and humanitarian work. It is published quarterly by Carfax Publications on behalf of Oxfam. Fahamu staff have several papers published by Development in Practice, including Development and Rights, Introduced by Firoze Manji, Development in Practice Readers, Oxfam GB, 1998.
DFID The British Department for International Development has supported Fahamu's programme for strengthening the campaigining, advocacy and organisational capacity of human rights and civil society organisations (the Adilisha project).
Directory of Social Change is an independent voice for social change, set up in 1975 to help voluntary and community organisations become more effective by providing practical, challenging and affordable information and training to meet the current, emerging and future needs of the sector. DSC distributes Fahamu’s Writing for change.
Editorial Nordan-Comunidad, based in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a publisher of books for the not-for-profit and development sector. Nordan are co-publishers with IDRC and Fahamu of Escribir para el cambio (Writing for change, Spanish edition).
Equality Now http://www.equalitynow.org/ was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and adds an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse. Through its Women’s Action Network, Equality Now distributes information about these human rights violations to concerned groups and individuals around the world, along with recommended actions for publicizing and protesting them. The Women’s Action Network is committed to voicing a worldwide call for justice and equality for women. Issues of urgent concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking of women, female genital mutilation, and equal access to economic opportunity and political participation. Through Pambazuka News, Fahamu is collaborating with Equality Now in the campaign for the adoption of the Optional Protocol for the Rights of Women.
EQUINET, the Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa, is a network of research, civil society and health sector organisations. Seeking to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health, Equinet identifies critical areas of work and policy issues and makes visible existing unfair and avoidable inequalities in health. Equinet's main aim is to build alliances leading to positive policies on health both the local and regional levels. This is achieved by disseminating information and stimulating an informed debate on equity in health in southern Africa. Fahamu serves on the Equinet steering committee, and is responsible for the development and maintenance of their website and monthly newsletter.
European Union. In implementing its human rights policy, the European Union recognises the importance of the contributions made by international, regional and non-governmental organisations to civil society and to the development of a democracy that upholds political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights. The union values both the expertise which many organisations working to implement human rights possess, as well as their visibly high impact in the field of human rights. The European Union, through the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, has supported a joint project with the University of Oxford for the development of distance learning materials in the Adilisha project.
Ford Foundation: The foundation's Special Initiaitive on Africa has supported Fahamu's Pambazuka News to ensure the dissemination of information about the work of partners of the special initiative and in publishing information on their regional conference on citizenship and identity.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The British Foreign and Commonwealth office has provided funding for the Pambazuka CD that was produced in conjunction with the Kenya Human Rights Commission and for the Training of trainers module. More recently, the FCO has supported the development of course materials on freedom of information jointly developed with Article XIX, the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) and Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC).
Foundation for Human Rights South Africa supported Fahamu's research on human rights training needs of community based organisations in southern Africa.
Gaza Community Mental Healthcare Programme GCMHP seeks to provide and promote clinical and community services to assist those providing mental health care in Palestine. Fahamu has undertaken consultancy work to advise on the development of a five-year development plan and implementation of re-organisation in GCMHP
Geneva Foundation supported the development of course materials on managing health services in complex political emergencies, Engaging with chaos.
IDRC Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is committed to building a sustainable and equitable world. IDRC funds developing-world researchers, thus enabling the people of the South to find their own solutions to their own problems. IDRC has been a generous supporter of Fahamu’s work, including grants for research on the training needs of human rights organisations in southern Africa, support for the development and publication of Writing for change and support for the Adilisha human rights programme, research on media and ICT and a wide range of other activities.
IDRC Books is a leading publisher of international development literature since 1971. Writing for change is published in UK and Europe by Fahamu and in North America by IDRC.
IT Books /Intermediate Technology Publications is the publishing arm of the Intermediate Technology Development Group. They publish about 30 new books each year, on all aspects of development and appropriate technology in addition to the journals, Appropriate Technology, Waterlines and Small Enterprise Development. IT Books are distributors of Fahamu’s CD-ROMs and publications.
JG & VL Joffe Charitable Trust provided Fahamu with core funding support at a critical stage of its development.
Just Associates (JASS) is a strategic support and learning network committed to strengthening the leadership, strategies and impact of organisations that promote human rights, equality and economic justice. Through training, technical advice, action research and other kinds of support, we help people and organisations from the South and North promote active citizen participation, democratic practice and accountability for more equitable and healthy societies. They also enable these groups to work more effectively together across boundaries and differences. Their capacity-building efforts combine political analysis, popular and political education, community development, citizen action, strategic planning, conflict transformation and advocacy. Their work is grounded in a commitment to addressing inequality at all levels through a holistic analysis of power and change, and a focus on rights. As a bridge between groups, they promote reflection, organisational learning and change, and better practice at community, national and global levels. Fahamu works with JASS in the development of one of the Learning for change courses: Action for change: advocacy and citizen participation.
Kabissa: Kabissa is a space on the internet for the African non-profit sector. Kabissa works with African organisations that seek to take fuller advantage of information and communications technologies (ICT), and in particular the internet, in order to achieve their own humanitarian objectives. Kabissa seeks to collaborate with all organisations working in the African non-profit sector, including civil society organisations, small community-based groups, human rights groups, networks, and health and education NGOs. Fahamu is a partner and member of Kabissa. Kabissa was until 2002 a co-publisher of Pambazuka News.
Mazingira Institute in Kenya has been engaged in a wide range of environmental and civil society issues, and has been active in the movement for the growth of democratic freedoms in Kenya. 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.
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. Officially launched in September 1992, MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media, as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration. MISA seeks ways to promote the free flow of information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa. The role of MISA is primarily one of a coordinator, facilitator and communicator, and for this reason MISA aims to work together with all like-minded organisations and individuals to achieve a genuinely free and pluralistic media in southern Africa. Fahamu and MISA are currently developing distance learning materials on access to information in southern Africa.
The New Field Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation have given financial support to Pambazuka.
NOVIB Somalia supported the human rights training programme being developed in Somalia, and is currently assisting in the development of website resources for them for the Strengthening Somali Civil Society project.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is responsible, under the terms of the United Nations human rights programme, for the establishment and strengthening of national human rights institutions (NIs) based on internationally adopted standards. In accordance with relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, a central objective of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to consolidate and strengthen the role which independent NIs can play in the promotion and protection of human rights. Since 1995, OHCHR has directly supported the establishment and strengthening of such institutions which is, in several countries, integrated with technical co-operation projects. OHCHR has developed a reputation for having developed particular expertise in the area of national institutions through its National Institutions Team. Fahamu collaborates with the OHCHR in the provision of distance learning programmes to strengthen the capacity of NIs in Africa.
OneWorld.net OneWorld is a community of over 1000 organisations working for social justice, providing one of the best ‘portals’ for the not-for-profit and development sector. Fahamu is a member of OneWorld.
Open Society for Southern Africa (OSISA) has supported the research on the development of an electronic newsletter similar to Pambazuka News targetted at community based organisations in southern Africa.
Oxfam GB is an independent British organisation, registered as a charity, affiliated to Oxfam International, with partners, volunteers, supporters, and staff of many nationalities. It works internationally as part of a world-wide movement to build a just and safer world. Oxfam has assisted Fahamu in the production and dissemination of the printed version of a special issue of Pambazuka News prepared for the first meeting of the Pan African Parliament.
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.
Reporting the World has been described by The Observer as ‘The nearest thing we have to a journalism think-tank’. Its directors, Annabel McGoldrick and Jake Lynch, are leading figures in the growing global dialogue about peace journalism. They have published widely, including- The Peace Journalism Option; What Are Journalists For?; Reporting the World - a practical checklist for the ethical reporting of conflicts in the 21st century and the TRANSCEND manual, Peace Journalism – What is it? How to do it? Annabel is an experienced BBC reporter and producer in radio and television. She has covered conflicts in the Middle East; Indonesia, Thailand and Burma, and Yugoslavia. She is also training to be a psychotherapist and runs workshops in journalism and trauma.
Training and Research Support Centre TARSC provides training, information, research and capacity support on areas of public health, social policy, food security, social protection, human rights, child rights and social organisation to civic organisations, and through networks to non government and government organisations who work with civic groups. TARSC is a non-profit organisation registered in Zimbabwe. Fahamu has a long association with TARSC, managing their website and electronic publications, and collaborating on a number of programmes including EQUINET and Adilisha.
University for Peace Africa Programme: The University for Peace has the mission: ‘to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace and with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations’. Under the leadership of Dr Graça Machel, Chancellor of UPeace, and Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General, with strong interest expressed by the Secretary-General of the UN, the objectives of the Africa programme are to: Stimulate and support the strengthening of capacities in Africa for education, training and research on peace related issues; Support collaborative research and sound scholarship on issues of peace and security in Africa so as to improve our understanding of the causes and dynamics of conflict in order to improve the prospects for successful prevention; Enhance the participation and contribution of African experts, scholars and policy makers in the international analysis of, and response to, issues of peace and security, in order to promote a better appreciation in the rest of the world of African attitudes and approaches to the mediation of disputes, conflict prevention and consensus building, rooted in African values and traditions. Fahamu and the University for Peace Africa Programme have signed a cooperation agreement and have a range of collaborative activities.
University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education has primary responsibility within the University of Oxford for the development of University's part-time and short distance-learning and international human rights law programmes. The faculty includes many of the most prominent judges, lawyers and academics concerned with international human rights from every region of the world. OUDCE collaborates with Fahamu in the Adilisha project and in a range of distance-learning programmes.
The following organisations are working with Fahamu to campaign for the Ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
National Committee for Human Rights; Djibouti, African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies; The Gambia, Cellule de Coordination sur les Pratiques Traditionelle Affectant la Sante des Femmes et des Enfants; Guinea Conakry, Coalition on Violence Against Women; Kenya, Association des Juristes de Mali, Foundation for Community Development; Mozambique, Sister Namibia, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative; Nigeria, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; South Africa, Women in Law and Development in Africa; Zimbabwe and Togo, and Akina Mama wa Afrika; Uganda.
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