Main Objective

To promote human rights, governance, conflict prevention and peace building for sustainable development.

Specific Objectives

  1. To empower the community and facilitate recovery, rehabilitation and development for vulnerable/marginalized groups in fragile, conflict-affected and post conflict communities;
  2. To support the processes of conflict prevention, resolution and management, social cohesion, healing and reconciliation in fragile, conflict-affected and post conflict communities;
  3. To strengthen gender mainstreaming in peace, human rights and development in Africa;
  4. To mainstream human rights including the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized groups in peace and development processes in Africa, with a focus on fragile, conflict-affected and post conflict communities;
  5. To support generation and training of capacities for sustainable peace and development in Africa;
  6. To promote good governance and democracy in fragile, conflict-affected and post conflict communities; and
  7. To undertake applied research for support of policy development and training on peace, human rights and development in Africa.