Africa
- Maputo consultation: A new pentecost for Africa (27 May 2010) - Ecumenical Zimbabwe Network: 'New beginning for Zimbabwean Churches and partners' (November 2009, p4)
While Africa is blessed with natural resources such as gold, diamonds, oil, uranium, cobalt, platinum, it is at the same time counting over 340 million people on the continent that live in poverty.
The latest report on the Millennium Development Goals notes that little progress was made in reducing extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Some 38 million children are still out of school with drought, food shortage, armed conflict, child labour and HIV/AIDS contributing to low school enrolment as well as high drop outs. While per capita emissions remain lowest in sub-Saharan Africa it is the African region that is most vulnerable to impacts of climate change and limited capacity to adapt to its consequences.
It is in this context that CIDSE member organisations across the continent are working with thousands of partners for more than four decades.
At the continental level, CIDSE members cooperate in the Facilitating and Networking Unit for Africa (FANU) and in-country work takes place in the following countries:
Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad and Uganda
What we do
Advocacy
- Economic Partnership Agreements
- EU-Africa Strategy
- Aid effectiveness
Urgent actions
- Chad
- Nigeria
- Zimbabwe
- Congo
