Pioneering Projects

Arab Council for Childhood And Development (ACCD)

(ACCD) was founded in 1987. We are a specialized humanitarian Arab Organization that aims to support and coordinates efforts exerted by both formal and informal sectors and adopt promising ideas, studies and projects designed to promote the welfare of Arab children.

HRH Prince Tala Ibn Abdulazi, Chairman of Council, since the early eighties to stress the importance of national and local bodies. We act as a focal point for all local national bodies that serve to promote the cause of mother and child. This step was taken in fulfillment of the recommendations of the 1986 Conference on Childhood and Development held in Tunis under the auspices of the league of Arab States and Arab Gulf Fund for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND).

ACCD has a number of declared objectives :

To provide reliable data, constancy, training courses, field studies, research and statistics. To design and disseminate relevant projects to various
government and private sectors.
To identify the current and future needs of Arab mothers and children and develop on comprehensive plan of action to meet those needs.
To provide, and exchange documented information with relevant institutions.
To broaden the scope of cooperation and exchange successful experiments among Arab and international organizations in this field.
To support the National Councils and committees concerned with mother and child care.
To increase public awareness in the Arab world of childhood issues and requirements.
To provide prompt relief to children in cases of emergency, natural catastrophes and/or disasters.

For more information, visit our site at www.accd.org.eg

Arab Netwok For NGOs (SHABAKA)

The "SHABAKA" was founded according to the resolution endorsed by the second conference NGOs held in Cairo ( Egypt ) from May 17-19-1997.

"SHABAKA" is an Arab non-governmental, non-profit organization, a legal entity serving in the field of development. It seeks to promote and activate the role of the work of civil society by collaborating with its NGOs and with similar Arab sustainable development in the Arab nation.

The organization, together with its Executive Bureau, is based for the time being in Cairo ( Egypt ) where it has its temporary headquarters.

The objectives of the "SHABAKA" are :

Participating in the promotion of Arab NGO work through pilot programs and projects undertaken by associations and organizations towards the achievement of comprehensive and sustainable development.
Contributing in institution building of Arab associations and enhance their competence and effectiveness for the organizations achievement of the objectives set for them.
Consolidating the capacity of the associations and organizations of Arab civil society to improve their human and financial resources, as well as assisting them achieve their objectives.
Strengthening cooperation, coordination and interaction links between activities and civil society on the Arab scene.

For more information, visit our site at www.shabaka.org.tn

Center of Arab Woman for Training And Research CAWTAR

Who an pretend to know well enough what the real situation of the Arab woman is? Is this situation similar or differences? How we fix what goes wrong, if we did not know how women in our country are coping with their daily difficulties, as compared with what women elsewhere are doing? How could we know what was achieved in various Arab countries, if we knew little about statistics, research results, programs and policies already set up or projected by Governments, regional and international institutions and by NGO's?

It is attempt to answer these questions and much more that the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTER) was created back in 1993. it is located in Tunis , Tunisia , as an independent international institution, working on a regional basis. Its missions: undertaking research and producing academic finding and reports on Arab women and the issues affecting them, implement their policies and projects.

CAWTAR works with governments, NGO's ,research centers, UN, regional and international institutions. Its objectives can be summed up in one phrase-serving the Arab woman, as well as the Arab men, by knowing them better. That is the gender approach.