CCIVS in Africa

 Zone de Texte: CCIVS gathers 33 national member organisations and 6 branches of international organisations. They are present in 20 countries, in all regions of Africa. Several regional co-ordination bodies exist on the African continent: In Northern Africa the Union of Maghreb Voluntary Associations (UMAV) ensures the co-ordination between the voluntary service organizations in the Maghreb countries. In Eastern Africa the Eastern African Workcamps Association (EAWA) was established in 1995 as a follow-up of a Conference of Voluntary Service Organisations in Kampala, Uganda in 1995. EAWA has 17 member organisations: 7 in Uganda, 7 in Kenya, 2 in Tanzania and 1 in Sudan. EAWA organises frequent seminars on capacity building and training and publishes a newsletter. The organization has a permanent secretariat based in Kampala, Uganda. For more information please contact the co-ordinator and CCIVS Vice President, Samuel Waddimba. In Southern Africa the Southern African Workcamps Co-ordination (SAWC) was created in 1994 and comprises 8 organisations from Zambia (YAZ), Zimbabwe (ZWA), Botswana (BWA), South Africa (QPC), Lesotho (LWA), Malawi (AYISE–MWAI), Mozambique (AJUDE) and Swaziland (SWCA). You can find the contacts of all organisations in the directory. For more information on the network, contact Botswana Workcamps Association (BWA). In Western Africa a co-ordination called UWAVWA was established in 1970 in Accra, Ghana. A first sub-regional meeting to re-vitalise the coordination in the region took place in Togo on the fringe of the CCIVS IT Africa seminar hosted by FAGAD Togo, with the support of the UNESCO Infoyouth programme. As a consequence of this meeting a number of Western African organisations re-defined the co-ordination mechanism in the region. The new sub-regional network for Western African voluntary service organisations (WAVAN) was finally established in May 2007 on the fringe of the seminar on Literacy and Non formal education through International Voluntary Service held in Kordiabé, Ghana and hosted by VOLU Ghana. The seminar was supported through the UNESCO Participation Programme. For more information on WAVAN please contact the Coordination of the organisation at info_wavan@yahoo.fr You can also find reports on some activities organised by these organisations in the different sections of this site. Zone de Texte: Algeria Botswana Burundi Cameroon Congo DRC Egypt Ghana Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Nigeria Sierra Leone Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe