Alliances for Africa (AfA) is an African-led international non-governmental human rights, peace and sustainable development organisation with offices in the United Kingdom and Lagos, Nigeria. AfA works with partners in, around and beyond the continent of Africa. AfA was created to enhance and reconstruct the interface between human rights and development with a vision to contributing innovatively to the task of tackling causes of endemic poverty and exclusion in Africa.
AfA’s core activities are organised under a five point agenda:
- Human rights, peace & poverty and sustainable development
- Women in governance and decision making processes
- Coalition-building, monitoring and networking
- Training and capacity building
- Community development (UK based programme activities).