Africa

Burundi Alcohol Policy Alliance-BAPA is a coalition of ten civil society associations envisioning and working towards a world free from alcohol and other drugs.

• Drug and Alcohol Use – Psychosocial Support, Safe Space, Sensitisation
• Mental Health – Psychosocial Support, Safe Space, Sensitisation
• Domestic Violence – Psychosocial Support, Safe Space, Sensitisation/Awareness
• Financial Struggles – Trainings, Career Orientation and Mentorship, Economic Inclusion, Micro Loans.

Value Health Africa (VAH) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to add value to life by improving health and wellness in Cameroon. VAH’s work is focused on reducing premature mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases and fostering sexual and reproductive health, through strengthening access to primary health care as well as through research and advocacy work.

Aide aux Femmes et Enfants (Association Aid to Women and Children) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to advancing the rights and well-being of women, girls, and children. Based on the principles of dignity, equality, and empowerment, the organisation works to ensure that vulnerable communities can live free from violence and discrimination.

Through awareness-raising, education, and training, Association Aid to Women and Children supports women and girls to understand and assert their rights, engage with democratic values, and access life-saving information about HIV prevention and care. The organisation places a strong focus on gender justice and works to combat all forms of violence—particularly against adolescents and young girls—through school-based programs and community outreach.

Recognizing the link between environmental and public health, Aide aux Femmes et Enfants also promotes environmental protection as part of its holistic approach to building healthier, safer societies. By training and supporting women and children who have been abandoned or are at risk, the organization fosters resilience, hope, and a path toward a more just and inclusive future.

The program is aimed at all Congolese women and girls, both in large cities and among indigenous peoples, as well as abandoned children and orphans suffering from AIDS or HIV who are interested in basic education and vocational training. All of this is provided free of charge.

IOGT The Gambia promotes a fresh and sober lifestyle, and empowers Gambian youth to take control of their lives through healthy social activites and education. Anda sa sago – be in control of your own life.

Vision for Accelerated Sustainable Development (VASD) is a public health organisation. The main goal of VASD Ghana is to accelerate progress for a better and sustainable future by advocating for policies on health harming products, physical activity, climate/tax justice, road safety and general health and well-being.

The Institute of Leadership and Development (INSLA) is a non-profit civil society center for the strengthening of leadership capacity and the promotion of development.

INSLA’s interventions are based on proven local, national and global scientific evidence, facts and good practices.

INSLA is a development oriented center which has been in operation since December 2009.

The Institute’s current focus is to strengthen leadership to assist in the implementation of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other international development frameworks.

The Institute works to promote development and counter the irresponsible corporate activities detrimental to human health and the environment.

INSLA engages in health promotion and information activities, as well as sensitization efforts on clean, productive and safe environment. INSLA is advocating for good governance and peace, and youth and gender empowerment.

Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) is a non-governmental organisation registered with the Registrar Generals Department of the Republic of Ghana.

The main goal of VALD is to promote alternative initiatives and support development at all levels of society by advocating for a tobacco-free society and road safety in Ghana. VALD also strengthens tobacco control at the local level in Ghana to improve health and reduce poverty.

VALD’s objectives are to advocate, sensitise and build capacity on tobacco control and health issues; to empower and support community participation in good governance; and to promote and support cultural diversity, dialologue, peace and development in Ghana.

IOGT Guinea-Bissau works to provide education for peace, health and solidarity – and real developement of the country. IOGT Guinea-Bissau runs schools in the country to provide basic education and empowerment. IOGT Guinea-Bissau also works with sports and leisure time activities to prevent alcohol and other drug use among children and youth.

Graceful Youth Recovery Centre is a Community Based Organisation in Kiambu County, Kenya. The core objective of the organisation is promotion of an alcohol-free and drug-free community.
This is achieved by creating awareness on the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs, promoting prevention, promoting sober living by conducting awareness talks in the community, in schools, tertiary institutions, churches and offices.

Graceful Youth Recovery Centre Cbo helps the community members – men, women and children in desperate situations (among others: commercial sex workers and people in recovery) by connecting them with professionals in that field. Graceful Youth Recovery Centre Cbo works with volunteer counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health experts to offer professional services. The organization provides food, water and clothing to the people in need. A future plan is to set up a drop-in center, and a residential rescue center where people can access information and programmes that promote alcohol and other drugs’ prevention, support and recovery.

ACPN is a network of likeminded organizations set up in 2009 to advocate for implementation of evidence-based alcohol policies.

SCAD is a non-profit and politically independent organization run by youth. SCAD works for substance use prevention tackling among others: HIV risk behaviours and infections among young people of Kenya. Through education programs, SCAD works with and for young people, equipping them with skills to aid in making informed decisions. SCAD’s advocacy efforts aim at addressing the environment the young people live in and the topics relevant for youth in Kenya. Research guides both SCAD’s education and advocacy efforts.

Poverty Reduction Initiative (PORIN) was founded as a nongovernmental and non-political organization out of the need to respond to the poverty reduction attempt of national Government with the mandate to contribute her quota to reduce poverty and to create an enabling and competitive environment in which potential and existing urban and rural communities can thrive and grow and achieve sustainable balance development.

Aalem for Orphan and Vulnerable Children was started in 2012 by a number of caring people who wanted to reverse the ravages of the HIV and AIDS pandemics that had ravaged significant populations in Liberia, and, most importantly, its children and future. The new Facebook page is part of a larger strategy to bring a message of hope to the children served by the mission of AOVC.

Aalem for Orphan and Vulnerable Children’s Vision: to care for orphans and vulnerable children, remove the stigma of being an orphan, and alleviate poverty and suffering by facilitating programs that foster a change in the local community.

Drug Fight Malawi is a registered national non-profit organisation in Malawi that focuses on alcohol and other drugs’ prevention. Its working strategy includes: advocacy for policies and laws for prevention of alcohol and other drugs, mobilisation of people’s support for implementation of those policies and laws; and finally – education and raising awareness to ensure the target group is equipped with evidence-based information on alcohol and other drugs.

Reduce the harms caused by alcohol use for the GBV free society

WOCACA aims to contribute towards cancer control by empowering women and their families through awareness education, training, research, lobbying and advocacy, mobilization and networking. Additionally, WOCACA provides support and care especially to women and children with cancer and their families.

IOGT Mali promotes a lifestyle free from alcohol and other drugs through the example of their own members.

Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) works with indigenous communities and grassroots groups to expose and challenge corporate impunity, unsound environmental practices and human rights violations.

RDI thematic areas include Environmental justice, Gender justice, Public health, Climate change, Democratic governance and social justice, as well as Media, research and publications.

RDI’sadvocacy work focuses on tobacco use and addictions, holding tobacco corporations accountable for the disease burden on citizens and the national economy. RDI also advocates for the consumption of healthy foods to counter unwholesome products promoted by corporations in violation of citizen’s right to what they grow and consume.

RDI achieves their campaign goals through the following actions:

1. Industry Monitoring
2. Media Engagements
3. Policy Level Advocacy
4. Capacity Building
5. Networking

People Against Drug Dependence & Ignorance (PADDI Foundation) is working towards rational Drug Policies which takes into consideration human rights, public health, social justice and security concerns. PADDI factors in disparity of norms and values, public health response capacity and circumstances while formulating and implementing appropriate drug policies and interventions.

The Wellbeing Initiative is a community of young people advancing NCD prevention in Nigeria with a focus on health promotion and public policy.

House of Hilkiah Foundation is a Nigeria-based NGO dedicated to the promotion of human welfare and social reforms. The Organization is based in Makurdi, the Benue State Capital in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region.
House of Hilkiah Foundation has conducted several capacity and peace building training programs, and has also engaged women in rural areas of Benue State, especially those affected by Herdsmen attacks on rural farmers. The Foundation has also hosted trainings, providing entrepreneurship and vocational skills to young people in Makurdi.
The desired outcome of their efforts is an environment that is conducive for everyone to come together, work and share ideas irrespective of social class, religion, or sexual orientation, to build a better nation.

The Nigeria Alcohol Prevention Youth Initiative (NAPYI) is a non-profit, non-governmental youth organization with a mission to give voice to young Nigerians’ views on alcohol harm, to spread awareness about evidence-based policies that help prevent and reduce alcohol harm, and to promote science-based practices independent of commercial interests. NAPYI works to empower young people to lead a healthy lifestyle. NAPYI works to monitor the activities of the alcohol industry in Nigeria and engages in the development of public policy solutions for alcohol control in line with WHO standards.

• Purpose Development and Support
• Positive and Addiction Free living (Fight Against Addiction)

Youth for Development and Human Rights Advancement (YDHRA) is a local non-governmental organization. Founded in 2015, the organization focuses on promoting human rights and development among the youth and women which will finally lead to the development of the country and the world at large.

Youth for Development and Human Rights Advancement  empowers young people and women to have a powerful voice, knowledge, and resources so as to create a change in their lives.

Rwanda Girl Guides Association (Association des Guides du Rwanda) is a non-profit organization, enabling girls and young women to acquire skills leading to their development and autonomy and to become agents of positive change as responsible citizens.

The Senegalese Youth Network on Population and Development (RESOPOPDEV) is a youth organization that advocates for adolescents and youth on issues of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) as well as on Migration and Participation issues affecting young people. RESOPOPDEV was created to provide answers to the concerns of young Senegalese about their health and socio-economic status. RESOPOPDEV’s mission is to be a powerful national network at the forefront of Senegal’s youth development. RESOPOPDEV works to create an enabling environment for effective participation of adolescents and young people in protecting and promoting SRHR, education, and sub-regional integration as well as the fight against the spread of HIV/ AIDS, poverty , unemployment, inequities and gender inequalities.

The Christian Outreach Justice Mission – Sierra Leone is a human rights Christian charitable organization which was formed about the year 2010 by well-meaning Sierra Leoneans to serve humanity for their holistic development and build their communities through the creation of opportunities to make a living meaningful for the people regardless of where they live.

Development & Relief Solutions (DRESO) is a non-profit making and non-Governmental Organization working in Benadir, Hiran, Middle and Lower shabelle regions.  DRESO is head quartered in Mogadishu, Somalia.DRESO projects focus on children, youth, women and displaced persons. The programs touch on human rights, democracy, WASH, Health and Nutrition, Livelihood, relief and development.

• to create an enabling environment for the local youth so that they can be self-dependent
• Building up skills in young people and reducing the use of illicit substances combined with knowledge and awareness capacity building.

Bambanani is an organisation committed since 2005 to create a better future for the youngest generation of South-Africa.

Bambanani takes care of 89 schools with together 4550 students. At school, the children can play, learn and dream and get there a daily healthy meal. The teachers are trained by the Foundation at the Bambanani-schools and support so that they see a future with new prospects with confidence.

Bambanani strives to make every school independent and self-sufficient as soon as possible. That is if schools meet the conditions for obtaining grants from the South-African government.

The Independent Order of True Templars (IOTT) is present all over Southern Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe. IOTT works to prevent and reduce harms caused by alcohol and other drugs and to promote a sober youth, for a sober nation.

CADS is a Christian non-profit, non-governmental organization extending Life –serving help and opportunity of people facing the most profound human challenges of extreme poverty working lasting sustainable change. Its aim is to provide a rapid world response to the basic needs of population affected by humanitarian crisis to help them regain independence and dignity.

Christian Action for Development & Support (CADS) works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats different lives to achieve immediate and lasting change in every living life.
Its vision is a world in which every life attains better status, protection, development and participation.

• To motivate Women and Youth to adopt improved practices and technologies, information related to agriculture, agri-marketing, agri-business and co operatives
• To advocate and promote health services and hygiene to the community through health programs
• To empower Community to collaborate and solving the greatest food and nutrition challenges now and in the future
• To promote and empower community to access quality education through different programs
• To create awareness to community on preventing and protecting water sources and environmental conservation
• To promote gender awareness to community and fighting against GBV through gender programs
• To empower community to achieve sustainable development

Rehema Foundation Tanzania [REFOTA] is a non-governmental organisation and non-profit making.

The organisation aims at dealing with community programs and community projects in many aspects, especially health programs like HIV/AIDS, TB, Drug addiction and Gender-based violence,

Rehema Foundation Tanzania comprises professional workers who are ready to build a better productive and future community by eliminating the youth population from using drugs. Also to educate the community on gender-based violence and violence against children.

TAAnet is a non-partisan, non-profit sharing that works towards the improvement of public health and social economic status of the Tanzania population through reduction of alcohol use. With the Vision of nation free from public health and social economic problems caused by alcohol use and a Mission of contributing significantly to the promotion of healthy and productive way of living through addressing alcohol use in Tanzania

Morogoro Saving the Poor Organization (MOSAPORG) is a Non-Governmental Organization established in January 2012 in response to the improvement the lives of the most vulnerable groups in Tanzania. Since its inception the organization has been front line in supporting the Tanzania Government Efforts in improving the lives of the Most Vulnerable Groups in Tanzania.

FUMACO is a registered NGO based in Mwanza, Tanzania and is politically and religiously independent. In collaboration with a wide network of partners, FUMACO works to facilitate an enabling environment for the struggling to address economic, social and physical needs of the community so as to empower them and have a voice.

FUMACO’s vision is to leave a sustainable community for future generations.

FUMACO’s mission is the promotion of social inclusion in order to empower and to reflect the perspective of the minorities, the excluded groups and the poorest in the development process.

FUMACO runs different programs, such as:

• Early Childhood Development: intends to strengthen the capacities of families and the local community structures to support vulnerable children to access preschools, pre-primary education and feeding program within targeted communities.
• Skills Training and Economic Empowerment: providing long term solutions to poverty through giving skills that can provide sustainable incomes.
• HIV-TB Education and Support: enlighten community members on the link between HIV and TB and also infusing rights based approaches in the management and care of HIV patients who have TB.
• Child Marriage Campaign: raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage by encouraging open, inclusive and informed discussion at community level.

The Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental and non-partisan organisation. TAMWA is committed to advocating for women and children’s rights by conducting awareness raising activities for cultural, policy and legal changes in society through the use of media. TAMWA has two offices, one in Dar -es- Salaam and one in Zanzibar. Currently the Association has over 200 members with a minimum qualification of Diploma in Journalism and three years’ work experience in the media industry. Members are working in public and private media houses as editors, reporters, programme managers, producers, public relations and communication officers. Their mission is to advocate for women and children’s rights by conducting awareness raising activities for cultural, policy and legal changes/transformations in the society through the use of media.

Women and Child Vision (WOCHIVI) is a non-partisan, religiously independent non-governmental organisation with a mission to enlighten people in Tanzania specifically in Arusha municipality on a lifestyle free from alcohol and other drugs. WOCHIVIV works to create a healthy community where people do not live in fear of infection with HIV/AIDS and burdened by poverty. WOCHIVIV activities include teaching disadvantaged youth; providing home-based care to sick patients including food support; giving small business grants to widows whose partners have died from HIV/ AIDS – which allows them to stop producing informal alcohol and earn money for family needs such as rent, food, medicine and school fees; as well as community outreach and capacity-building of school students.

LM International Uganda wants to equip the local communities with the skills to manage their own development process. LM International Uganda uses a Rights Based and Needs Based approach to community development and Civic education is carried out to enhance the civic competence of the community. LM International Uganda believes that when understanding the roles and responsibilities as rights holders the capacity to demand for the rights from the duty bearers at all levels will increase.

Community Care Foundation-Uganda CCFU is a youth led and youth serving non-profit organization. CCFU works to improve the wellbeing of young people and women in Masaka region – to live a better and a purpose-driven life, by  providing Educating, Engaging & Empowering. CCFU is to bring love and hope to young people and to transform poor communities in Masaka region and in Uganda at-large.

RACD is a Ugandan organisation established in 2007 with the aim of empowering communities to improve their livelihoods. RACD focuses on carrying out sustainable income generating activities and sensitising youth on issues such as HIV/AIDS, human rights, and environmental conservation.

Ndibwami Integrated aProject (NIRP) is a development organisation providing support and care to people Living with HIV and AIDS, as well as their families and the communities they live in. By setting up local and small-scale projects in rural communities of Uganda NIRP seeks to contribute to a process of Preventing HIV infection, restoring hope and improving the quality of life of those affected by HIV and AIDS.

Uganda National Association of Community and Occupational Health (UNACOH) is a Public Health NGO that brings together Health professionals and any individuals and organizations interested or active in the improvement of health in Uganda. Its motto is “Health for all by all!”

Founded in 1987, UNACOH runs activities in advocacy for alcohol control regulations at grass root level.

UNACOH also conducts community awareness campaigns on prevention and control of alcohol and other drugs. UNACOH strives to link community members identified with alcohol problems to government health centers for treatment. UNACOH works to promote a positive health culture among the Ugandan population and to influence healthy policies through promoting the principles of Primary Health Care (PHC).

UNACOH is member of the Global Health Workforce Alliance.

The Vision of Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL) is a transformed society where young people live a good quality life free from exploitation. UYDEL advocates for children that have been victims of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and child labour. UYDEL works to enhance socio-economic transformation of disadvantaged children and young people through skills development for self-reliance.

Kawempe Youth Development Association (KYDA) works to provide activities beneficial to children, young people and other concerned adults (care givers) through mass media, community and person-to-person interventions. KYDA is driven by the vision to create an appropriate framework for enabling the youths to develop social, economical and cultural skills, necessary for them to participate in development and improved welfare.

Hope and Beyond is Uganda’s leading alcohol and other drugs rehabilitation center. It is an organization with a mission to provide holistic care to families and communities suffering from addictive illnesses and substance use. Hope and Beyond works for a society without substance use. Hope and Beyond provides treatment and rehabilitation services in order to help clients achieve abstinence and attain better quality of life. Hope and Beyond works to implement programs and activities geared towards the prevention and reduction of substance use; to mitigate the challenge of HIV among people affected by substance use; and to work with people and communities affected by substance use in order to provide support for them to acquire and sustain resources to improve their standard of living.

Tobacco Free Association of Zambia (TOFAZA) is a Non-Governmental Non-Profit Making Organization Committed to highlight public awareness, on the dangers and concerns on the issues of tobacco and health for the population to achieve longer and better lives.

Serenity Harm Reduction Programme Zambia (SHARPZ) is dedicated to supporting the advancement of wellness and mental health in Zambia, through strengthening the provision of accessible, culturally sensitive and professional services for people with drug and alcohol problems, across the continuum of services and supports.

Pamumvuri is a registered non profit organization based in Zimbabwe specialized in raising awareness on mental, neurological and substance use conditions. Pamumvuri provides peer support and a clear referral pathway to registered and authorized individuals and organizations who offer assessment, management and follow up services. Pamumvuri is an implementing partner of the Government of Zimbabwe and the World Health Organization.

For Youths By Youths is a youth led organization seeking a quality provision of education and support to youths in Zimbabwe.

The Africa Foundation for Development and Tolerance (AFDETO) works to promote prevention of substance use; to promote youth rights, women’s rights and child rights; to empower communities and workplaces with adequate knowledge concerning harmful substances, HIV/ AIDS and other development issues.