Advocates for Community Alternatives helps West African communities that are threatened by the destructive impacts of extractive projects to take control of their futures. We help communities design their own sustainable development plans and bring them to life through advocacy, legal support, and technical expertise.

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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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ACA empowers communities to protect land rights

What happens when a mining company arrives on your land? Who owns the minerals beneath it? What are your rights when your land, crops, buildings or business are affected? These and other important questions took centre stage when Advocates for Community Alternatives...

From helplessness to hope: How Sagyemase came together to build a healthier future

For years, the people of Sagyemase, a community near Kyebi in the Abuakwa South Municipality of Ghana’s Eastern Region, knew exactly what was wrong with their community. They knew that pregnant women sometimes struggled to reach a health facility when complications...

Fanteakwa North leads Eastern Region FCAP drive with full counterpart funding

Fanteakwa North with its capital Begoro in the Eastern Region has emerged as the first district among four participating assemblies to fully pay its counterpart funding for all six communities implementing the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP). The monies...

Niafrang community restores 4.8 acres of mangrove with ACA support

The Niafrang community in Senegal’s Casamance region has restored approximately 4.8 acres of mangrove, reinforcing its long-standing efforts to protect the coastal environment and strengthen the resilience of the community. The restoration exercise, undertaken on 29...

KONO COMMUNITIES CELEBRATE COURT VICTORY IN LANDMARK MINING DISPUTE

In a landmark ruling, Justice Santigie Bangura of the High Court of Sierra Leone sitting in Safadu, Koidu, New Sembéhun City, Kono District, rejected eleventh-hour delay tactics by diamond mining company Koidu Limited, clearing the way for affected community members...