Publications available at CONGOMA Secretariat
1. New Partnership for African Development
The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) is a pledge by African leaders to eradicate poverty and to place their countries on a path of sustainable growth and development. NEPAD aims to establish a "new" framework of interaction with the rest of the world, including the industrialized countries and multilateral organizations to lift African GDP growth.
2. Malawi NGO Report on the Rights of the Child submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
3. Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, April 2002.
4. The NGO Handbook on Proposal Writing produced by the British Council in association with CONGOMA, 1997
7. Malawi Land Policy Document
Publications by the Commonwealth Foundation
8. Non-Governmental Organisations: Guidelines for Good Policy and Practice describes what NGOs are and do in today's world, and sets out guidelines on policies and practices which will increase and improve their impact.
9. Citizens and Governance: Regional Perspectives brings together views and experiences of ordinary citizens in 47 countries of the Commonwealth on what kind of society they want future generations to live.
10. Citizens and Governance Programme: Issues for Debate Volume 1 is a series of occasional papers that critique the concepts of "Governance", "Civil Society" and "Citizen Education"
11. Citizens and Governance: Outcomes of Durban is a communiqué and action plan issued by 220 participants from 53 countries who attended the Third Commonwealth NGO Forum held in Durban from 6 to 8 November 1999.
12. Citizens and Governance: Civil Society in the New Millennium is an initiative towards humanising the process of governance by brining to the fore the voices of citizens across the commonwealth.
The following documents may be sourced through the addresses provided:
Africa's Policy Challenges in 2002 (Progressive Response)
Jointly Foreign Policy In Focus and Africa Action have produced a policy report surveying the policy challenges in Africa this coming year. The report was written by William Minter and Salih Booker, the Executive Director of Africa Action. An excerpt of the report can be found at the FPIF website:
www.fpif.org/progresp/volume6/v6n06.html.
"Human Rights and Poverty Eradication: A Talisman for the Commonwealth"
The report focuses on unacceptable levels of poverty in the Commonwealth. It demands that Commonwealth states unequivocally recognize that the persistence of poverty is a serious human rights violation and one that requires a genuine rights-based approach as the only effective and immediate solution. The report is available online at
www.humanrightsinitiative.org or hard copies may be obtained for $US 15.00 from the CHRI office at: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, F-1/12A Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110 016, INDIA