Livelihoods
To increase economic sufficiency of the rural house holds through engagement in productive and sustainable agriculture and skills development for income Generation through opening up Income Generating Activities (I.G.A’s), credit service for the rural poor and distributing emergency relief items. To increase access to farm tools and inputs for rural house holds in terms of procuring
and distributing appropriate agricultural tools and inputs and providing appropriate sustainable agricultural training. To increase care, protection and preservation of the natural environment and / or biodiversity as a local effort to counter the already devastating effects of global warming
2. Capacity building
To carry out capacity building of rural communities in leadership, management and all other technical aspects that will uplift and enhance their contribution to the socio economic development of their communities.
3. Gender
To carry out awareness on gender issues and build the capacity of women to participate in development initiatives in the community
To build the capacity of women to carryout advocacy for policy changes to address women and other marginalized people concerns in development. To carry out educational promotion of the girl child through sponsorship of selected beneficiaries in primary secondary and tertiary institutions in order to uplift the standards of education of women in society
To carry out all such programs that are geared towards enhancing participation of women and girls in development.
4. Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs)
To increase awareness on the rights of orphans and vulnerable children
To provide technical, material and psychosocial support to OVCs in and out of school (in terms of child sponsorship in good primary, post primary and tertiary institutions, training out of children on technical/ vocational skills).
5. HIV-AIDS
To improved knowledge among beneficiaries on HIV-AIDS through training and creating awareness in schools and other public places and through organizing school Aids clubs, music dance and drama, sports competitions and distribution of HIV/AIDS IEC materials
To improved care and support to people affected and infected with HIV-AIDS in terms of providing home based care through provision of food, clothing, soap and encouraging or help them to access Anti-retroviral drugs from government health centres/ hospitals. Including, encouraging people to go for HIV/ AIDS voluntary counseling and testing and to participate in IGAs.
6. Environmental protection and revamping
Because of the unlimited dependence of people on the environment for subsistence livelihood and income generation.ACDA sees a need to improve and restore the environment so as to contribute to the sustainability of our economy through Tree planting and maintenance of existing trees to be included in all interventions, provision of tree seedlings, encouraging people to get other forms of energy(training like on energy saving stoves),advocate for protection of swamps and partner with environment organizations.
