Africa Centre for Sustainable and Inclusive Development

Africa CSID is an NGO working with marginalized communities in Africa. Informed by the organization's mandate, marginalization is defined by two interrelated parameters namely geographical and population context of marginalization. The organization works on Peace and Conflict Transformation, Economic Empowerment, and Climate Change with governance and gender-responsive solutions as enablers and overarching actions in undertaking these three components. Africa CSID’s work is underpinned by three interlinked approaches to work namely voice, capacity, and influence with all interventions focusing on amplifying the voices of the marginalized communities, actions to strengthen local capacities, and effecting change through policy influence at local, national, and continental levels. The Peace and Conflict transformation component seeks to build resilience in conflict contexts by developing and strengthening relevant architectures for peace to address conflict drivers within communities while integrating Do No Harm (DNH)/ conflict sensitivity in all spheres of engagement. The Economic Empowerment component focuses on improving the communities’ productivity and self-sufficiency through education, training and skills development, and exploiting innovative approaches to poverty reduction, job creation and diversification of income of marginalized communities. The Climate Change component focuses on increasing resilience of the target population to the impacts of climate change, engaging the communities in emission reduction initiatives, and sustainable food production, distribution and consumption.