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{"id":29,"name":"AUSC - African Union Sports Council","description":"<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/\">African Union<\/a>&nbsp;Sports Council is a specialized Technical Office of the African Union responsible for sports. &nbsp;AUSC was established through the endorsement of the Statute of AUSC by the Assembly of African Heads of States and Governments in 2016. Its mandate is co-ordination of the African Sports Movement and being a forum for concerted action between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sportscouncil.au.int\/en\/member-states\">Member States<\/a>&nbsp;for the promotion and development of sports and development through sport in Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>","type_id":"1","image":"\/image\/20240624065442.png","created_at":"2024-06-24T06:54:42.000000Z","updated_at":"2024-06-24T07:00:58.000000Z","organisation_id":"87","banner":"\/image\/20240624065440.png","slug":"ausc","phase":"[\"Agenda Setting\",\"Drafting\",\"Decision-Making\",\"Implementation\",\"Sense-Making\"]","social":null}

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{"id":20,"name":"African Union's Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD )","description":"Our mandate:\r\n\r\nUnleash the potential of women and youth by achieving gender and youth parity, enabling development and fostering meaningful engagement.\r\n\r\nYouth:\r\n\r\nYoung people constitute majority of the population in Africa and have the creativity, vibrancy and capacity to potentially transform Africa.\r\n\r\nGender:\r\n\r\nWomen constitute about half of Africa\u2019s population and are necessary contributors to the advancement of the continent.\r\n\r\nOur priority areas:\r\n\r\nYouth and Gender Transformative Programming\r\n1. Achieve gender and youth parity\r\n2. Safety, health, wellbeing and dignity\r\n3.Women and youth development\r\n4. Engagement\/voices\r\n\r\nMaintaining Strong Foundations\r\n1. Partner and network mobilization\r\n2. Data and Evidence\r\n3. Policies, standards and accountability\r\n4. Communications\r\n\r\nCatalyzing Action in Countries for Scale and Impact\r\n1.Policy advocacy\r\n2.Inter-country learning\r\n3.Peer learning\r\n4.Country technical assistance","type_id":"1","image":"\/image\/20231101095518.jpg","created_at":"2023-10-10T10:59:26.000000Z","updated_at":"2023-12-07T10:43:04.000000Z","organisation_id":"99","banner":null,"slug":"wgyd","phase":"[\"Diagnostic\",\"Design\",\"Execution\",\"Review, Learning and Scaling\"]","social":"{\"twitter\": \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AU_WGYD\", \"website\": null, \"facebook\": \"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AUYouthProgram\/\", \"linkedin\": \"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/au-youth-division\/\"}"}

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{"id":9,"name":"Uganda","description":"<p>National Planning Authority was established by the NPA Act (15 of 2002) in accordance with Article 125 of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda. The Authority was established on backdrop of the need for:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Building the national capacity for visionary and long term planning. The Authority would establish a framework that enable the short and medium term national priorities to be derived from and guided by agreed strategic objectives, long term development goals and perspective vision aspirations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Having in place an institution that will be responsible for ensuring a sustainable and balanced national development by integrating economic, social and political dimensions of development with spatial and environment aspects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Creation of policy and institutional arrangements that will facilitate systematic integration of district plans into national development plans i.e. integrating decentralized and national development planning processes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Establishment of a central forum for participatory development planning through sharing of ideas by different stakeholders and agreeing on courses of action. This would entail putting in place a consistent, efficient, co-ordinated and integrated framework and system of managing national planning for development and service delivery<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/abt1.jpg\">.<\/a><\/p>","type_id":"3","image":"\/image\/20240206092246.jfif","created_at":"2023-02-06T06:46:46.000000Z","updated_at":"2024-02-06T09:22:48.000000Z","organisation_id":"53","banner":null,"slug":"uganda","phase":"[\"Agenda Setting\",\"Drafting\",\"Decision-Making\",\"Implementation\",\"Sense-Making\"]","social":null}

{"id":18,"name":"CDEA \u2013 Culture and Development East Africa","description":"<p>CDEA was conceived after one of its directors, who in her capacity as a member the Commonwealth Group on Culture and Development, participated in drafting the Commonwealth Statement on Culture and Development in 2009, and realized there was need for a civil society organization&nbsp;to hold the East African partner states accountable for the promises they were making at international platforms on culture and development.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The statement urged Heads of Government, to recognize the connections between culture and development to take forward its recommendations through strengthened partnerships.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>CDEA was incorporated on October 19, 2011 and began its implementation in 2012 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. CDEA&rsquo;s Culture and Governance programme was formed to respond to the need for civil society to engage in participatory governance. CDEA&rsquo;s programme activities aim to mobilize and support civil society in East Africa to participate in evidence-based policy advocacy to place culture at the centre of human development.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In 2015, after a strategic planning process, CDEA embraced both its advocacy and service provider roles. CDEA is now a creative think tank based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania that facilitates multi-stakeholders to use culture as a resource to promote creativity and innovation supported by technology to solve the numerous social, political and economic challenges faced in East Africa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The creative think tank is also a hub where science meets art, and art meets other disciplines to innovate &ldquo;out-of-the-box&rdquo; solutions for this and the coming generation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>CDEA&rsquo;s work&nbsp; is aligned to the&nbsp; 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity Cultural Expressions and the African Union Plan of Action for the Cultural and Creative Industries as well as the 1972 UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Our programming is focused around research, incubation and acceleration of the creative industries, support of creative writers through our Writers&rsquo; Lounge and implementation of projects around preserving natural heritage,&nbsp; climate justice,&nbsp; peace and social cohesion, sustainable cities and tourism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In 2018, CDEA received consultative status from the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).<\/p>","type_id":"5","image":"\/image\/20230906072746.png","created_at":"2023-09-06T07:27:46.000000Z","updated_at":"2024-08-05T08:16:39.000000Z","organisation_id":"50","banner":"\/image\/20230906072744.jpg","slug":"tanzania","phase":"[\"Agenda Setting\",\"Drafting\",\"Decision-Making\",\"Implementation\",\"Sense-Making\"]","social":null}

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{"id":24,"name":"Innovation For Policy Foundation","description":"<p>Innovation for Policy Foundation (i4Policy) is a pan-African non-governmental organization that brings citizens, communities and governments together to co-create the future!<\/p>","type_id":"5","image":"\/image\/20231202064422.jpg","created_at":"2023-12-02T06:44:22.000000Z","updated_at":"2023-12-19T07:37:32.000000Z","organisation_id":"65","banner":"\/image\/20231202064420.png","slug":"innovation-for-policy-foundation","phase":"[\"Agenda Setting\",\"Drafting\",\"Decision-Making\",\"Implementation\",\"Sense-Making\"]","social":"{\"twitter\": \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i4policy\", \"website\": \"https:\/\/www.i4policy.org\/\", \"facebook\": \"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/i4Policy\/\", \"linkedin\": \"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/innovation-for-policy-foundation\/\"}"}

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{"id":19,"name":"IDEG - Institute for Democratic Governance","description":"<p>The IDEG is a development and governance solutions think-tank established in Ghana in 2000. The institute strategically focuses on policy research, advocacy, interface capacity building and deployment, and knowledge networking. It has designed and implemented several projects successfully across the country.<\/p>","type_id":"5","image":"\/image\/20230912071648.png","created_at":"2023-09-12T07:16:48.000000Z","updated_at":"2024-01-31T13:21:16.000000Z","organisation_id":"23","banner":"\/image\/20230912071646.jpg","slug":"ghana","phase":"[\"Agenda Setting\",\"Drafting\",\"Decision-Making\",\"Implementation\",\"Sense-Making\"]","social":null}