The ACTION Support Centre planned, facilitated and documented the NPA’s two day partners meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference accorded partners an opportunity to reflect on their past four-year programme activities, their organizational strategies and how they have impacted on inequality. It also explored collaborative approaches for their partner organizations whilst sharing challenges …
The ACTION Support Centre (ASC), in partnership with the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO), hosted an informal civil society discussion on the 12th of October 2015, with the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). The discussion welcomed SIIS: Prof. Yang Jiemian, Director, Academic Committee, (Former President SIIS); Prof. Zhang Chun, Deputy Director, Center for West …
SALO hosted a dialogue on migration to bring into perspective the current issues at national, regional and international level. The discussions centered on the comparison of how migration is seen at different levels in different contexts. Europe is experiencing major pressures as the flow of desperate migrants predominantly from Syria and other countries reach record …
Perhaps it’s human nature to put people into boxes – black, white, rich, poor, male, female, the list goes on. The danger is we see people according to the labels we’ve assigned them, and stop seeing them as individuals with their own story, personality, wounds, triumphs, and dreams. The Somali refugee women we have been …
The attendance of ACTION and other Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) to the 2015 Civil Society Organization (CSO) workshop based in Johannesburg, was hosted by the Co-operative for Research and Education (CORE). The workshop focused on identifying scarce and critical skills in the education NGO sector for 2015. To this end, the organization had been commissioned by …
CORE Survey to measure sustainability of Civil Society Organisations Read More »
The ACTION Support Centre was represented at the UNDP, Department of Political Affairs and European Union training process that took place in Casablanca, Morocco from the 21st to the 23rd of October. The training focused on how best external actors could provide support to Insider Mediators and add value to insider mediation processes. Using the …
Renowned author of ‘Three-Letter Plague, Midlands and The Number”, Johnny Steinberg won SA’s premier non-fiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. Now an associate professor of African Studies at Oxford, Johnny Steinberg embarked on a journey of sharing the story of a Somali man (Asad) who fled the city of Mogadishu as a child …
‘A Man of Good Hope’- Johnny Steinberg Book Discussion Read More »
In moving forward with the Post -2015 Development Agenda, the issue of inclusivity has been raised. Vulnerable groups such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex individuals (LGBTI), women, the elderly and migrants should no be left behind in implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda. These were some of the sentiments shared among those that attended …
The ASC team has been working on collecting the stories of Somali women for a publication that is intended to document the stories of Somali women living in South Africa – why they came, what they faced on the journey, what their experiences have been after reaching South Africa and what their aspirations are for …
Listening Voices: Refugee women to share their stories Read More »
The ACTION Support Centre facilitated a session during a two day workshop on transformative leaders for the Stop Stock Outs Project (SSP) participants drawn from 8 provinces in South Africa. The Stop Stock Outs Project is a national campaign to assist the thousands of health care users whose lives remain threatened by the chronic plague …
Leadership training: individual self-reflection and collaborative leadership Read More »
