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 US Organizations on Africa and International Organizations

• ADNA: Advocacy Network for Africa (Washington, DC)
  • This site offers general and contact information for US-based, organizations concerned with Africa, as well as an archive of previous "action alerts" and reports; plus, related links. "ADNA is a progressive non-partisan network of 245 US-based organizations - and growing."
  • ADNA Member Organizations
  
  
• Africa Action -- formerly Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) (Washington, DC):
  • Africa Action -- incorporating the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and APIC.
  • Africa Action Home Page (general)
  • Africa Policy Outlook 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2008 | 2009
    
    
  • Policy Documents Archive: arranged by region, 1997-2003
  • Policy Documents Archive, arranged chronologically: 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003
    
    
  • Africa Action Campaign to Stop Genocide in Darfur: Resources & Analysis (Washington, DC)
    
    
  • Africa's Right to Health Campaign
  • Africa at Cancun, WTO Ministerial Conference, September 12, 2003
    -- African Agriculture and the WTO
    -- After Cancun, September 17, 2003
    -- Fifth WTO Minsterial Conference, 10-14 September 2003 (Official website)
    
    
  • US/Africa Trade Wars (June 2003), part 1 | part 2
  • Apartheid Debt and Reparations Campaign -- AfricaAction Briefings, 2002
  • "Weaving the ties that bind": final project report (December 2001) (Imani Contess, former Director of Africa Policy Information Center)
    A report on the prospects for greater influence on US foreign policy towards Africa by activists outside of government.
  • APIC on "Africa and Conflict Diamonds, November 2001"--Part 1 | Part 2
    A summary of background news, reports, and links to pertinent documents and websites.
  • "World Conference Against Racism", August 31-September 7, 2001, Durban, South Africa: Part 1 | Part 2 | Durban Position Paper | Update
  • "Africa's Debt -- Africa Action Position Paper" by Ann-Louise Colgan (July 2001)
  • "USA: Bush and Africa, the Coming Apathy" by Salih Booker (December 13, 2000)
    A brief opinion/analysis.
  • USA-Africa Trade Documents, 1999: Part 1 | Part 2 (USA-Africa trade bills....see also, documents below from ACAS on 1998-99 actions in the US Congress -- including July 1999)
    For current news since January 2001 -- under the Bush Administration -- see: U.S. Dept. of Commerce's AGOA Website below. See also: The Trade and Development Act signed by President Clinton, May 2000 is available from the US Trade Representative.
  • "United States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework" (1999) by William Minter, Senior Research Fellow, Africa Policy Information Center, Washington, DC. Foreign Policy in Focus: Special Report (November 5, 1999).
  • International Policies, African Realities: An Electronic Roundtable (APIC, in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and assistance from Bellanet)
    The Roundtable will run from January 8-May 8, 2000. "The Roundtable will try to use the opportunities opened up by new electronic communication technologies to come up with new ways of putting together and conveying African knowledge. It will experiment with means by which African-initiated content and perspectives can be projected into policy debates on African issues taking place outside the continent."
  • Africa's problems ... African initiatives. (1998) Edited by William Minter
    This online and print publication consists of edited versions of three documents: "African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programs for Socio-Economic Recovery and Transformation" (July 1989) ; "African Charter for Popular Participation in Development and Transformation" (February 1990) ; and, The Kampala Document: Towards A Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa" (May 1991)
  
  
• The Africa-America Institute--AAI (New York and Washington, DC)
  • "[Founded in 1953] The AAI's mission is to expand education and professional training opportunities for Africans, foster greater understanding of Africa in America, and promote mutually beneficial U.S.-Africa relations."
  • AAI Education Outreach and Policy Programs
  • AFTECH Symposium on Workforce Development in Africa
  • African Perspectives on the U.S. Trade Bill (1999)
  • AAI Publications & Resources (General)
  
  
• AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
  The website features AfricaFocus bulletin...offering analysis and "progressive advocacy" on African issues; plus news feeds from BBC and AllAfrica.Com.
  
  
• African Activist Archive Project (African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  The website includes galleries of documents, photographs, posters, audio and video files, and an extensive archives list for the U.S. "[The project] seeks to preserve for history the record of activities of U.S. organizations and individuals that supported African struggles for freedom and had a significant collective impact on U.S. policy during the period 1950-1994."
  
  
• African Services Committee (New York)
  "Founded in 1981 by Ethiopian refugees to give a helping hand to other newcomers, today African Services is a multiservice agency based in Harlem and dedicated to assisting immigrants, refugees and asylees from across the African Diaspora."
  
  
• Afrobarometer (Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town; Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, Accra; and Michigan State University, Dept. of Political Science, East Lansing, Michigan)
  • 'A comparative series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, markets and civil society in Africa.' The site includes: sample surveys and selected abstracts from final reports.
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• AllAfrica Foundation: "Sustainable Africa" Internet Channel (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  • A portal site for news stories and public domain documents relating to "sustainable development" issues in Africa: environment, trade, debt, population, water, climate change, forests, agriculture, etc.
  • Directory of organizations (International, regional, national, and community-based)
  
  
• The American Assembly, Columbia University: "Africa and the U.S. National Interest" (1997) (New York)
  The online version of the published report from the project/conference; plus links. "The American Assembly convened a project on "Africa and U.S. National Interests," at Arden House, Harriman, New York, March 13-16, 1997. It was chaired by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Donald McHenry, and co-directed by Ambassador David C. Miller, Jr,. and former Congressman Howard Wolpe. Mr. Wolpe [was] working on these issues at Brookings Institution and [was] also Special Envoy to the President and Secretary of State for the Burundi peace negotiations."
  
  
• Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) (via University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
  "Founded in 1977, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to: formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa."
  
  
• Black Radical Congress (St. Louis, Missouri)
  A progressive US-based, lobbying organization with global African political and cultural concerns.
  
  
• The Carter Center (Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Carter Center Home Page (General)
  • On-Line Trip Reports, 1997-: including trip reports by Jimmy Carter on Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, etc.)
  • Conflict Resolution Programs (1985-2003): African Great Lakes; Liberia; Sudan; and also, North Korea; Bosnia; and Estonia.
  • Election Reports: including Democratic Republic of Congo; Liberia; Mali; Mozambique; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Zambia.
  • Health Programs
    Includes reports on Africa relating to agriculture (in Ethiopia), guinea worm eradication, the fight against river blindness, mental health, etc.
  
  
• Center for Global Development on Africa (Washington, DC)
  The website features working papers, reports, essays, and news about center activities. "[Founded in 2001 by Edward W. Scott, Jr., C. Fred Bergsten, and Nancy Birdsall] CGD is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community."
  
  
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) -- Africa Program (Washington, DC)
  • An overview of the program, with links to projects, publication information, and news. "The core mission of the CSIS Africa Program is to conduct sustained research and publish analysis on the major elements of U.S. policy toward Africa. The program aims to shape discourse on Africa in Congress, the executive branch, and among private interest groups; to establish linkages with African institutional counterparts; and to build transatlantic alliances on priority African issues."
  • CSIS Online Africa Policy Forum
  • See also: The Middle East and North Africa
  • CSIS news releases (General)
  
  
• Climate Prediction Center: Africa Desk (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Washington, DC)
  
  
• Corporate Council on Africa (Washington, DC)
  • This site offers general information about the council, its members, and activities. "The Corporate Council on Africa, established in 1992, is a non-partisan, tax-exempt membership organization of corporations and individuals dedicated to strengthening and facilitating relationships between African and American individuals and organizations by creating educational, cultural, and commercial exchange opportunities."
  • 7th Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit, September 29-October 1, 2009, Washington, DC
  • US-Africa Business Summit, June 21-24, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland
  • US-Africa Business Summit, June 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC
  • US-Africa Business Summit -- "Building Global Partnerships",
    September 16-20, 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  
• Council on Foreign Relations: Africa (Washington, DC)
  This site offers current news on US foreign policy and general information on the Council's Africa program, including: brief biographical profiles of research fellows at the Council & contact information; selected online texts on projects and policy meetings; and links to related sites. See also the general home page.
  
  
• Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS) (Macro International, Calverton, MD)
  Search especially under "Obtaining Data" for reports on individual countries or the Sub Saharan Africa region.
  
  
• Enough Project: The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity (Center for American Progress, Washington, DC)
  This website features current news, editorials, policy arguments, and campaign information by an advocacy group in Washington, DC...which focuses on US foreign policy towards "conflict areas" in Africa, especially Darfur and Southern Sudan, Eastern Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Northern Uganda, Chad, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
  --See especially: Enough Project publications
  
  
• Environmental Defense Fund on Africa: Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline (New York)
  • Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: A Call for Accountability (June 2002) (PDF)
  • Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: Putting People at Risk = "Projet pétrolier et d'oléoduc au Tchad et au Cameroun peuples et environnement en danger" par Korinna Horta (1999)
  • EDF Library -- General Search
  
  
• Environmental Law Institute: African Environmental Law & Policy (Washington, DC)
  This site offers downloadable research papers and project reports on various African countries, plus country-specific links to environmental law and general information. "...Partnering with activist African NGOs, ELI drafts and advances pragmatic and effective environmental laws and policies, analyzes and identifies options to improve the implementation of existing environmental law, and builds the capacity of local institutions and citizens in Africa to carry out these tasks independently."
  
  
• 50 Years Is Enough: Testimony to the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee Hearing on 'Debt Relief for Africa', Njoki Njoroge Njehu before the U.S. Congress, April 13, 1999 (Washington, DC)
  "50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social- and economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the profound tranformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)." See also, the home page.
  
  
• Foreign Policy in Focus -- A Think Tank Without Walls (Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC ; Interhemispheric Resource Center, Silver City & Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  • FPIF publishes current policy analysis reports and "progressive" editorials on a variety of US foreign policy issues....many deal with US policy towards Africa.
  • Africa Regional Focus, 1997 to present
  • Media Briefing Booklet on the Occasion of President Barack Obama's Visit to Ghana, 7/10/2009
  • Barack Obama and the World
  • Africa Policy Outlook, January 27, 2009
    
    
  • Africa Policy Outlook 2006 (March 2006)...by Salih Booker & Ann-Louise Colgan.
  • "The Crisis in Darfur: This Wolf is Real & Nobody's Listening." By Salih Booker (September 21, 2004). FPIF Global Commentary 2004
    • See also: "When Intervention is Necessary, Who Can You Call?" By Salih Booker (August 5, 2004)
  • "Thabo Mbeki's New Partnership for Africa's Development" by Patrick Bond (March 2002) Discussion paper
  
  
• The Freedom Forum Online (The Freedom Forum, Arlington, Virginia)
  • Current and recent news analysis, with a focus on press freedom and free speech issues; includes a large archive of news reports.
  • Press, power & politics: Africa Media Forum 2000, Accra, Ghana
  • Media at the Millennium: 1999 African Media Forum, Dakar, Senegal
  
  
• Freedom House: Freedom of the Press -- Search By Country (Washington, DC and New York)
  • Draft 2006 Freedom of the Press--Country Reports PDF format
  • Special report: Freedom in Africa today (2006) PDF format
  • Freedom House Home Page
  
  
• Global Policy Forum on the UN Security Council: Diamonds in Conflict, 2000-- (New York)
  A frequently-updated archive of UN documents and policy discussion papers on UN policies toward Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and Liberia. "A group of citizens from several countries founded the Global Policy Forum in December 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations."
  
  
• Global Volunteers Service Programs (St. Paul, Minnesota)
  • "Global Volunteers, a private non-profit, non-sectarian development organization, was founded in 1984 with the goal of helping to establish a foundation for peace through mutual international understanding. Our programs center around a one-, two-, or three-week volunteer work experience in Asia, Africa, the America, the Caribbean, Europe, or the Pacific."
  • Ghana
  • Tanzania
  • GV Home Page
  
  
• The Heritage Foundation on Africa (Washington, DC)
  • Note: Most of the reports are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  • HF on Africa, 1998--
  • HF on the Middle East and esp. Iraq (includes only a few reports for North Africa)
  • HF Home Page
    A search by (African) country from the home page yields some results.
  
  
• HIVAFRICA.ORG (Lazarus Foundation, Oak Park, Illinois)
  A website offering current news about HIV/AIDS in African countries, statistical summaries for Africa in general and for individual countries and contact information about organizations working on HIV/AIDS, and related links.
  
  
• IFES on Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East & North Africa (Washington, DC)
  The website of this consultancy organization includes reports on elections and other aspects of democratic participation and institution building; some regional program web pages also include reports and videos in French or Spanish. "Since our founding in 1987, IFES has worked with election assistance and democratic development in over 100 countries...Every IFES project team partners with local organizations, and every project is staffed by local personnel."
  
  
• Interaction: American Council for Voluntary International Action, Africa Liaison Project
  "In keeping with the Development Fund for Africa (DFA) legislation, and funded by a grant from the AID Africa Bureau, the Africa Liaison Project fosters communication, cooperation and collaboration on development initiatives in Africa among US PVOs, African NGOs and AID. Through case-study workshops and briefings, it addresses issues such as: PVO and NGO capacity building, gender analysis, program design and evaluation, PVO/NGO-private sector partnerships and the impact of AIDS on sustainable development. Annually, 15-20 leaders of African NGO consortia and networks are invited to Washington, DC for one week to participate in the InterAction Forum."
  
  
• International Relations Center (Silver City & Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)
  • Formerly the Interhemispheric Resource Center:
    "Founded in 1979, the IRC is a nonprofit organization supported by foundations, churches, and individual donations. ... to provide information and analysis that increase social and economic justice throughout the world. ... the IRC promotes grassroots involvement to ensure the United States becomes a responsible global leader and partner."
  • See also: Foreign Policy In Focus: Africa (above)
  
  
• Justice Center Web Site, University of Alaska, Anchorage: Crime, Justice & Race in South Africa
  "Providing access to Internet resources on the South African police and on crime in South Africa, this web site is also a resource on the South African criminal justice system as a whole, as well as government, news, general information, history, and human rights." This web site was originally designed to supplement an undergraduate course on policing and race in South Africa.
  
  
• National Democratic Institute for International Affairs on Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa (Washington, DC)
  Consultancy and other activity reports. "The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions."
  
  
• National Security Archive: "The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Information, Intelligence and the U.S. Response." (March 24, 2004) By William Ferroggiaro. Electronic Briefing Books. (George Washington University, Washington, DC)
  
  
• The National Summit on Africa, 1998-2000
  • A series of regional summits on US policies towards Africa, culminating in a national convention in Washington, DC, held in February 2000. "The National Summit on Africa is a two-year initiative aimed at improving levels of public understanding about Africa and U.S.-Africa relations; creating an expanded and broad-based constituency for Africa; enabling a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals to develop a shared Agenda for Action for U.S. relations with the countries of Africa."
  • National Summit on Africa Home Page
  • Resources: "National Summit on Africa's National Policy Plan of Action for U.S.-Africa Relations in the 21st Century" (May 1, 2000) and other documents (downloadable in PDF)
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• Public Citizen--Global Trade Watch: "NAFTA for Africa Bill" (1999-2000) (Washington, DC)
  An advocacy web site critical of the Africa Growth & Opportunity Act of 1998. See also, the general home page for Public Citizen, founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader.
  
  
• Social Science Research Council on Africa (New York)
  • SSRC Africa Program
    "The Africa Program works to promote social science and humanities research on critical issues relevant to the African continent, especially through the creation of linkages of African researchers to international scholarly networks." The site includes information about books related to SSRC projects and selected online publications.
    
    
  • Crisis in the Horn of Africa
    SSRC news analysis forum on Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan.
    -- See also: Making Sense of Darfur by Alex de Waal et al.
    
    
  
  
• TransAfrica Forum (Washington, DC)
  • A foreign policy research and lobby organization, with a focus on Africa and the African diaspora.
  • TransAfrica Forum Media Center: news, op-eds, and links
  
  
• U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) on Africa (Washington, DC)
  "To address the needs and rights of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide by advancing fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing direct professional services, and promoting the full participation of migrants in community life."
  --See also: World Refugee Survey
  
  
• Volunteer, Research, and Work Opportunities in Africa (via National Consortium for Study in Africa, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  
  
• Wilson Center International Center for Scholars: Wilson Center On Demand -- Africa (Washington, DC)
  An archive of videotaped panel discussions and lectures on US Africa policy issues and other Africa-related events.
  
  
• Witness: Human Rights Video Advocacy Web Site (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York)
  General information about the "Witness" program, a video archive catalog, and multi-media, online feature stories which include some on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and, South Africa.
  
  
• World Policy Institute (New York)
  • WPI Home Page
  • "Dollars and Sense: The Business of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Who Benefits?" -- July/August 2001 by Dena Montague and Frida Berrigan.
  • "Deadly legacy: U.S. arms to Africa and the Congo War," by William D. Hartung, Bridget Moix -- New York: Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute, [2000]
  • South Africa as an "Emerging Power" Workshop, Johannesburg, March 1999 (2 short papers and session schedule)