The NILE African Development Organisation works with indigenous local and international partners to create and sustain Grassroots African Organisations, which serve the transformation of needy communities.
The NILE's partners each exists within its local community, and the vision and direction of their work is truly indigenous.
They have specific communication skills and cultural acceptability which would be much more difficult for any outside organisation to achieve. Their strategies, methods and cost patterns relate to local circumstances. And they are there long-term.
The NILE assists by providing resources of all kinds, including skills, and by linking them with a worldwide network of experience.
Working in this way, The NILE ensures that our donors' contributions are put to the optimum use.
The NILE Aims to enhance and expand the capacity of Africans in the Diaspora to contribute to Africa's development.
Economically, much of the African continent is marked by varying degrees of poverty. While there is a trend towards consolidation and stability of economic growth in some African countries, this relative stability has not significantly improved the living conditions of the average citizens nor has it implemented full fledged democracies. On the contrary, we are witnessing a deterioration of economic and social rights as well as setbacks in human rights, including threats to media freedom, in many countries. The right to information of the poor and excluded remains in the majority of African countries a real challenge. On another hand, African states are still weak and ill equipped to face the many challenges that confront the world in the 21st century. Climate change is certainly one of the most daunting of such challenges. A positive development in Africa is the growing strength of an active civil society movement that is a strong force for building democracy, ensuring the protection of human rights, and implementing accountability at the local level.
