Women – Peace, Development and Security
ACCORD is involved in on-going efforts to highlight the role of gender in peace and security.
Timeline of achievements
Over the past twenty-eight years, ACCORD has gained experience and expertise across the conflict management spectrum, including a dedicated focus on gender and its nexus with peace and conflict.
Strengthening the Capacity of Women-led CBOs in South Africa
ACCORD aims to strengthen the capacity of women-led Community Based Organisations in conflict management, facilitation, and mediation capacities at the grassroots level.
1325 Seminar Gallery
Please click on the thumbnails to view the gallery of images from the Resolution 1325 Seminar hosted by ACCORD and the African Union Peace & Security Commission from 8-9 September 2010:
Country Programmes
ACCORD has worked in a huge range of countries throughout the African context since 1992. Long term in-country programmes, some with in-country offices, have been run in Burundi, Somalia and South Sudan, and further information on those programmes can be viewed by clicking on the links below. Current Programmes Past Programmes
South Sudan Initiative
ACCORD has been working with South Sudanese stakeholders over the past 12 years. In April 2011, ACCORD entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the South Sudanese government’s Ministry of Peace and CPA Implementation (now reconfigured as the South Sudan Peace Commission). Since 2012 the work has been undertaken through the Republic of South […]
Burundi Initiative
In Burundi in 2014, ACCORD saw the ending of one programme and the start of a new one. After ten years of operation, the Legal Aid Clinic Project (LACP) ended, due to shifts in the funder’s areas of focus, and the consequent reduction of project funding. The close-out phase involved the closing of the four […]
Peacebuilding Multimedia
The African Peacebuilding Coordination Network Training Programme The 2013 APCN training programme consisted of three training sessions – one in Liberia, Burundi and South Sudan. This network was made up of 18 participants from Burundi, DRC, Liberia and South Sudan. The participants were from CSOs, Academica and Government in the countries mentioned above. The programme […]
Somalia Initiative
While ACCORD has been actively involved in supporting the establishment of sustainable peace in Somalia since 1995, in 2013 ACCORD initiated a dedicated programme aimed at supporting the realisation of the Six Pillar Strategy of the Federal Government. ACCORD’s Somali Initiative seeks to contribute to long-term stability, and to better capacitate the administrative elements of […]
The Peacekeeping Unit
Seeking to preserve the peace, however fragile, once fighting as been halted.