Partners

The following organisations are coordinating, supporting and implementing the face-to-face and e-consultations.

African Monitor

African Monitor is a Pan-African organisation which was established in 2006, following the so called ‘year of Africa’ in 2005, when donors promised to increase aid to the continent. Its mission is to be an independent catalyst to monitor development funding commitments, delivery and impact on the grassroots, and to bring strong additional African voices to the development agenda.

African Monitor exists to assess the link between:

• The adequacy and appropriateness of the development processes and commitments;
• The extent to which specific development pledges by African governments and their international partners are being kept;
• The extent to which the implementation of development commitments delivers tangible results to communities, particularly poor and marginalised youth, women, the disabled, children and minorities;
•  How the impact on the grassroots feeds back to all the roleplayers in the development delivery system - from community through to international levels.

African Monitor's overall vision is continent rapidly achieving its developmental potential, whose people lead dignified lives in a just society, where basic needs are met, human rights upheld and good governance entrenched.

For more about African Monitor, refer to www.africanmonitor.org.

Southern Africa Trust

The Southern Africa Trust was established in 2005 to support civil society organisations in Southern Africa to participate effectively and with credibility in policy dialogue so that the voices of the poor can have a better impact in the development of public policies to overcome poverty in Southern Africa.

The Southern Africa Trust believes that an end to poverty is possible in Southern Africa if there is improved institutional capacity, participatory and accountable systems of governance, appropriate public policies across the region to overcome chronic livelihoods insecurity in the context of an HIV/AIDS pandemic, and better international financial and trading systems. The Southern Africa Trust’s vision is therefore that policies and strategies across the region work to end poverty.

The Southern Africa Trust works with diverse civil society organisations from Southern Africa and beyond that promote public policy dialogue with a focus on poverty, especially those with a significant regional presence and impact.

For more about the Southern Africa Trust, refer to www.southernafricatrust.org

ONE

ONE is a campaign and advocacy organisation with more than 2 million members committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Co-founded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is non-partisan and works closely with African policy-makers and activists.

For more about ONE, refer to www.one.org

SANGONeT

The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) was founded in 1987 and over the past 23 years it has developed into a dynamic civil society organisation with a history closely linked to the social and political changes experienced by South Africa during its transition to democracy. SANGONeT is still one of very few NGOs in Africa involved in the field of information communication technologies (ICTs) and continues to serve civil society with a wide range of ICT products and services.

SANGONeT’s ICT services and interventions are shaped by the challenge of strengthening the capacity of NGOs in finding long-term and sustainable solutions in response to Southern Africa’s development problems. NGOs’ capacity for service delivery increasingly requires that attention be given to their ability to use, manage and implement as well as integrate ICTs into their activities.

SANGONeT is responsible for the implementation of the #AfricanAgenda2010 e-consultation.

For more about SANGONeT, refer to www.sangonet.org.za