MISSION STATEMENT FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT:
OUR VISION
We seek a world of peace, patience, comfort and social justice, where poverty is defeated and all people live in unity and security
OUR MISSION:
Our main mission is to provide care and support around the globe to save lives and make life meaningful, defeat poverty and achieve social justice globally.
OUR FOCUS:
Our priority is centered around building a community of peace free of violence, putting women and girl child in the center, because we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal right and opportunity.
We also build a family center approach program that mitigate the impact of poverty on vulnerable households in Africa Continent.
VALUES:
We are proud to be an Organization combining global and local reach. We hold ourselves accountable for living and delivering our values in all we do. We are transparent, credible, innovative, and we champion continuous improvement.
Our service to African continent are characterized by their quality, flexibility and cost effective which leads to the achievement recorded in our program to Africa, thereby consolidating the achievement to sustaining it in every project we implement on African soil.
Our value transform to
INTEGRITY: we are consistent in what we think, say and do.
ACCOUNTABILITY: We deliver on our commitments and are transparent in our reporting to any of our donor.
INNOVATION: We constantly strive to develop new ways to improve the sustainability of all our project across Africa continent.
SELF-IMPROVEMENT: We learn from all our project work in Africa and actively seek for opportunities to improve on it.
FLEXIBILITY: We believe that solutions needs to be tailored to be meaningful to the broad range of African cultures, socio-economics conditions and geographies of our various project site.
PRINCIPLES:
African Development Concept is Independent of Politics, Military, Ethnic or Religious affiliations in providing and promoting global peace, humanitarian space, gender balance, care and support for vulnerable households, disability inclusion and equal opportunity for all. We also provide assistance on the basis of individual need, regardless of race, nationality addressing the right of vulnerable groups, particularly women and girl child globally.
We also program for Orphans and vulnerable children, emergency rehabilitation and reintegration of destitute children back to homes and society and also engage in long term development work
We are also committed to sustainability development goal
We are also committed to protection wildlife management
Ensuring prioritized and focused interventions that address children’s most critical care needs.
SUMMARY OF CORE ACTIVITIES OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT ON CARE AND SUPPORT TO VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS IN AFRICA:
In a move to provide care and support to vulnerable Households in Africa, African Development Concept will provide comprehensive integrated services support with a technical guiding principles on how and when to prioritize specific technical interventions to households.
These prioritized interventions are strategic in nature with a strategic planning processes of implementation. This comprehensive integrated services that African Development Concept will be piloting in Africaare stated below.
EDUCATION: African Development Concept will support efforts to reduce educational disparities and barriers to access schoolamong school-age children through sustainable “systemic” interventions (for example, enrolment of dropout children back to school, provision of school block grants – block grants is an intervention targeted at local authority schools in way that renovation of school building can be done, provision of school desk and chairs, and provision ofkidsclub and instructional material for psychosocial support programs during break period).
Focus will also be drawn to some key area of Education in African Development Concept Programming in Africa such as:
Ensuring children have a safe school environment and complete their primary education and secondary school education
Promoting access to early childhood development (ECD) program
Ensuring personnel create child-friendly and gender-sensitive classrooms where girls and boys are treated equally
Strengthening community- school relationships, including partnering with out-of-school programming, partnering with cooperate firm in their cooperate social responsibility program
Consider supporting post-primary school programming and especially the transition of girls from primary to secondary school which will greatly support girl child education in Africa
Implementing market-driven vocational training for caregivers, older adolescents that are outof school.
PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE AND SUPPORT: Africa Development Concept in his program to Africa will prioritize psychosocial interventions that will build on existing resources ofcommunity facility and place and maintain households in stable and affectionate environments through:
Parents and family support programs
Peer and social group interventions at community level
Mentorship programs for parents, adolescents and children
Community caregiver support programs.
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC STRENGTHENING (HES): In programming for Africa through African Development Concept, HES intervention aims to reduce the economic vulnerability of families and empower them to provide for the essential needs of the children in their care through:
Integration of HES activities with complementary interventions, such as parenting skills
Income promotion using low-risk activities to diversify and stimulate growth in household income
SOCIAL PROTECTION: African Development Concept support for social protection in Africa will aims to reduce vulnerability and risks, foster human capital development, and interrupt the transmission of poverty from one generation to the next through:
Partnering with host-country governments in Africa to initiate, expand, or be innovative in their social protection initiatives at both the policy and operational levels
HEALTH AND NUTRITION: African Development Concept programs in Africa will also aim to improve children’s and families’ access to health and nutritional services through:
A child-focused, family-centered approach to health and nutrition through ECD (Early Childhood Development) and school-based programs in Africa
Effective integration with existing or planned child-focused community- and home-based activities which includes PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission), Care and Support for Children living with Disability, WASH program in Project Implementing communities, Reducing access barriers to health services through HES and social protection schemes, such as health insurance opportunities like CBHIS (community base health insurance scheme for vulnerable Household), Establishing linkages and referral systems between community- and clinic-based programs
CHILD PROTECTION: African development programs will aim to develop appropriate strategies for preventing and responding to child abuse, exploitation, violence, and family separation through:
Implementing child safeguarding policies
Integrating child protection activities
Supporting communities to prevent and respond to child protection issues
Strengthening linkages between the formal and informal child protection systems
Building African government capacity to carry out and improve child protection responses
LEGAL PROTECTION: African Development Concept programs in Africa will aim to develop strategies to ensure basic legal rights for individual, birth registration certificate for every child, and inheritance rights to improve access to essential services and opportunities through:
Raising awareness about birth registration and succession planning for households
Linking birth registration and succession planning to other essential services
Protection against any form of abuse
CAPACITY BUILDING: African Development Concept programs in African mission will prioritize within their country context the following capacity-building and systems-strengthening interventions:
Investing in efforts to build strong leadership and good governance
Pursuing strategies to strengthen the social service workforce
Supporting strategies to improve financing for social service systems
Strengthening information management and accountability mechanisms of the social service system
Supporting coordination and networking within the social service system
RIGHT TO A LIFE FREE FROM VIOLENCE: African Development Concept will be concerned with a global vision of a world without poverty and social injustice which compels us to work toward eliminating gender based violence (GBV). This requires us to address the power of inequalities between women and men, girls and boys, and people of all genders that underpin GBV in African continent and globally. Globally, GBV is an issue that requires focused programming as well as integrated services from ending it across African continent.
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: The world is currently witnessing the highest level of human suffering which Africa took greater percentage.
The role of African Development Concept will be helping conflict region prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Emergency response will also be at the center work of care and support program of African development Concept.
Women and girls are often disproportionally affected by emergencies. In times of crisis, women and girls are often the last to eat when their families run short of food.
Therefore African Development Concept will supporting women and girls in conflict zone.
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Wildlife management is the process of keeping certain wildlife populations, including endangered species, at desirable levels on the basis of scientific, technical and traditional knowledge.
African Development Concept will provide a sustainable wildlife management in Africa with the aim of balancing the economic, ecological and social values of wildlife globally, with a view to protecting the interests of present and future generations through job creation, capacity building, wildlife management and protection of species in African continent.
AGRICULTURE VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT: African Development Initiative will seek to contribute to food and nutrition security, and create shared wealth and jobs in Africa continent.
Part of our core concept is to increase, on a sustainable basis, the income of rural producers of Agricultural produce, entrepreneurs that are engaged in the production, processing, storage and marketing and preservation of livestock.
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