Africa Infrastructure Foundation - Introduction
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Africa Infrastructure Foundation - Introduction |
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Africa infrastructure Foundation was founded in April, 1995 as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) for the purposes of carrying out activities about sustaining Africa's infrastructure in order to improve the quality of the environment, enhance socio-economic development and reduce poverty. The Foundation maintains a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations(UN).
Africa's development infrastructure are either in a state of neglect or stagnated growth and this produces adverse effects on the quality of the environment in which the people live. It is a common knowledge that despite the huge billions of investment money expended on procuring Africa's infrastructure, about little or nothing is being done to sustain them through a properly strategised management and governance initiatives that will ensure their appropriate response to the needs of the environment and the people. In addition, those factors that are responsible to make this happen have not been advanced in conceiving durable, economic, operational and efficient development infrastructure.
Therefore, Africa Infrastructure Foundation seeks to provide answers to these concerns through properly articulated approaches and initiatives all of which are spelt out in its objectives. Some of these are through information dissemination and management, awareness raising, development education, policy advocacy, joint operational projects, community development activities, collaboration and provision of technical expertise.
The Foundation therefore articulates issues in a way to bring about sustainable quality of the environment, socio-economic development and poverty reduction through sustaining its development infrastructure.
It also concerns itself with the elements of planning, finance, economics, research, governance, good institutions, consultation, administration, design, management, policy formulation and physical development, all of which embody the processes that bring desired good quality of the environment through sustained infrastructure.
Furthermore, the Foundation's works are directed at the following aspects of infrastructure which have great impact on the quality of the environment, socio-economic development and poverty reduction.
A cardinal aim of the Foundation is to bring the environment, socio-economic development, poverty and infrastructure into a common identity and to articulate on how one can affect the other for a better life, healthy living and development in a sustainable manner. This is with the purpose of achieving a sustainable state of rural and urban environmental quality and socio-economic development.
Moreover, the Foundation's pursuit of the principles of sustainable development is to ensure that achievements in social, economic and physical developments are made to last and can be sustained by future generations of decision and policy makers, beneficiaries and other stakeholders. The Foundation is of the view that the MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs) of the United Nations are a powerful tool towards realising her goals in the development sector.
In addition, the Foundation wants to achieve the above through establishing relationship with communities and international development organisations and their agencies. Some of these organisations are the United Nations and its agencies, African Union (AU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), NEPAD and other African sub-regional economic groupings, European Economic Community (EEC), The World Bank Group, African Development Bank Group, and other local, regional, international NGOs of similar concerns.
Africa Infrastructure Foundation has a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DESA) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)).
[1] This NGLS Fact Sheet descrbes the different forms of Consultative Status.
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