Ensuring all citizens can speak their mind = Peace

In the past three years, Inter Pares counterpart ACORD has set out to ensure that as the United Nations creates a framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals – a global agreement on how to build a better world - the opinions and experiences of those most affected by poverty in Africa are heard.

ACORD held forty-five citizen-led workshops in thirteen countries across Africa, reaching over 4,600 people in some of the most remote and marginalized communities in Africa, including in several countries that have faced conflict in recent years: Rwanda, Burundi, Guinea, Chad, Mozambique, and South Sudan.

In one of ACORD’s workshops in Doroti, Chad, participant Mahamat Amine Richene said:

“We have suffered too much from war and security problems. We want a developed country with strong institutions so Chad can have political stability. Changes of regimes in the war led us to lose everything, and to rebuild each time. Institutions need to be stronger, and to listen to the people.”

Through your support to Inter Pares we have been working with ACORD since the organization was created in 1976, providing funding, and playing an active role in the governance of the organization.

Please make a gift today to support Inter Pares counterparts like ACORD in continuing to empower Africans to build a more peaceful world. To those who have already made a donation this month – we thank you!