Indiba-Africa Development Alliance

Indiba-Africa has a combined professional experience of approximately 60 years. We have recognised regional and international experts providing an exceptional quality of service to our clients

Indiba-Africa has a cross-sectoral approach to capacity-building and provides the following sevices to it's clients:

*African capacity to monitor, investigate, document and formulate reports on human rights violations

*Developing African leadership

*Comunity-based conflict management

*Court management

*Community paralegal development

*Financial management

*Fundraising

*Gender and child rights integration into policy and implemenation

*Human rights education and awareness

*Monitoring, advocating, lobbying and campaigning for an African consensus on human rights standards and for government compliance on current national, regional and international human rights standards

In addition, through our partner Fahamu we can make available the following distance learning courses:

*Action for change: advocacy and citizen participation

*An introduction to human rights

*Campaigning for access to information

*Financial management for the non-financial manager

*Fundraising and resource mobilisation

*Investigating, monitoring and reporting on human rights violations

*Leadership and management for change

*Using the internet for research and advocacy

These courses are CDROM based, with tutoring and mentoring via Email and an optional workshop. Successful participants are awarded a Certificate of Attendance from the University of Oxford.

Other Fahamu courses which we can make available:

*Campaigning for access to information

*JustWrite

*Role of the media in the Rwandan genocide

*Gender, violence and conflict

*Strenthening national human rights institutions: Conflict prevention; Prevention of torture

Indiba-Africa undertakes all aspects of organisational development with a view to impact on social justice:

*Providing conceptual fameworks for establishing new organisations

*Registration and incorporation of legal entities (drafting constitutions, aritcles of association and incorporation and registration process)

*Developing proposals and fundraising

*Participatory strategic planning, implementation of projects, monitoring and evaluation of projects

*Governance (rights, duties and obligations of board members)

*Surveys and assessments

*Report writing

*Learning cycles

*Managing conflict

*Policy development and implementation, including integrating gender and children's rights into policy and programme work

*Training and facilitation

*Staff development

*Building a team

*Research and analysis

*Coalition building

*Branding and marketing

*Developing and implementing simple and complex campaign strategies

*Counselling for staff working in high risk situations

*Developing strategies for change

*Strategies for closure of business including retrenchment strategies

Indiba-Africa develops quality accredited learning materials for all sectors. We develop learning and advocacy materials in plain English and can provide for effective translations in most indigenous languages of South Africa. We also develop complex materials for professionals in the legal sector

Indiba-Africa is embarking on an ambitious programme for the development of female ICT professionals. We will promote their services as an integral part of our current work. This will allow us to provide holistic ICT sevices to our clients, using affirmative action principles for the empowerment of female ICT professionals.

Indiba-Afria has specialists who are trained to manage conflict so that our clients do not have to rely on long and expensive litigation

Indiba-Africa builds the capacity of the private sector to develop corporate social responsibility strategies that are established on the basis of first developing a corporate human rights culture. We are particularly keen to develop work in Africa around the energy sector, as we believe that this sector has a huge role to play in promoting and protecting the environment. Watch this space for an annoucement on our pending negotiation on collaboration with a major local and an international role player in this sector!

Indiba-Africa specialises in 'head-hunting' specialised personnel for CSOs. We know the African and international CSO landscape very well and are very much in-tune with the availability of human resources for CSOs

We take on the coordination of conferences, workshops and meetings for CSOs and provide all related logistics. We also provide a service for minute taking and can provide both soft and hard copies of the minutes within a 1-6 hour time-frame, depending on the lenghth of the meeting.