Women, Peace and Security Initiatives: Southern Africa Region

The Acacia Initiative
2004
Communities and the Information Society in Africa Program Initiative is an international program to empower sub-Saharan communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) to their own social and economic development. This initiative is designed as an integrated program of research and development and demonstration projects to address issues of applications, technology, infrastructure, policy, and governance. Conceived and led by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Acacia supports Canada’s contribution to the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) which was endorsed by African governments as an action framework to build Africa’s information and communication infrastructure. Click Here for more information on the Acacia Imitative.

Africa’s Right to Health Campaign
Aiming to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic affecting the region, this initiative calls for the unconditional cancellation of African countries illegitimate foreign debt, equal access for African governments to access generic drugs and treatments, and the end of discrimination based on race, gender, and HIV status. Click here for the full text of the Resolution and Brochure. For more information visit Africa Action.

HIV/AIDS Initiative
1999
Africare’s HIV/AIDS initiative focus on HIV prevention through education, voluntary counseling, information and testing, and on supporting people already infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS as well as assisting orphans. The education is centered in subjects, such as gender inequity, cross-generational and transactional sex, and stigma reduction, among others. They also seek to support and strenghten capacity building in local communities to mitigate the impact of the epidemic in the region. For more information visit Africare.