Advocates for Community Alternatives works in nine West African states – Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone – to promote public interest law and help threatened communities achieve a future worth fighting for. With ten full-time staff and one part-time employee, ACA has an out-sized impact through its partnerships with leading public interest lawyers and legal advocacy organizations in West Africa.
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PILEX rescues of a Nigerian widow
A member of ACA’s Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West...
Simandou-related construction works: Senguelen residents in Guinea share their ordeal
Some residents of Senguelen, a farming community in Guinea, are...
Sowing Seeds of Sustainability: CiCoNet Leads tree planting exercise in Nkoranza
The Citizens Committee Network (CiCoNet), a community-based...
Empowering Osino CiCoNet members: The dangers of agro-chemicals and sustainable farming practices
In a bid to address the rampant misuse of agro-chemicals by farmers...
CiCoNet welcomes new members
From a humble beginning of memberships in seven communities in the...
New CiCoNet executives sworn into office
The newly elected executives of the Osino Citizens Committee Network...
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