PartnersGlobal’s work in Africa focuses on bringing together local leaders in government, civil society, business, and the security sector to jointly find solutions to their most pressing social development and governance challenges.
We proactively build partnerships that give PartnersGlobal access to the highest level of decision-makers, while maintaining close ties and legitimacy with civil society, including women’s organizations and youth leaders.
These powerful linkages are activated to collaboratively tackle:
- security sector reform
- community policing
- the justice sector
- government accountability and transparency
- social entrepreneurship
- and the effectiveness and integrity of civil society
Local Partners
PartnersGlobal works closely with our two Network members in the region: Partners West Africa-Senegal and Partners West Africa-Nigeria. Together, we collaborate to provide regional and country-based programming throughout Anglophone and Francophone West Africa. PartnersGlobal has cultivated many partnerships with local partners in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Mauritania, Côte d’Ivoire, and Liberia.
Empowering Communities: A Citizen-Led Approach to Justice and Security in Guinea
Guinea
In Guinea, efforts to enhance security and access to justice are being shaped by citizen-led initiatives, with a strong focus on community engagement and reform. Through collaborative approaches, communities are becoming key players in addressing local security challenges and improving access to justice. This page highlights critical reports, best practices, and ongoing projects that support these goals in Guinea.
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Promoting Survivor-Centered Policing in West Africa (2021-2022)
This project seeks to better equip the police in Nigeria and Senegal to prevent and respond to GBV by conducting a comprehensive study that provides data-driven best practice models for prevention and response mechanisms.
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Senegal Road Safety Initiative (2022-2024)
Senegal
In partnership with Partners West Africa Senegal, this effort supports Senegalese law enforcement institutions in leveraging road safety as an opportunity to build trust between citizen and law enforcement and to improve the social contract with those they are sworn to protect.
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Reforming Pre-Trial Detention in Nigeria (2018-2022)
Nigeria
The RPDN project aims to improve correctional center conditions, enhance respect for human rights, and decrease opportunities to radicalize the population in Kuje Correctional Center.
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Sahel Road Safety Initiative (2018-2021)
Senegal and Burkina Faso
The Sahel—comprised of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal—faces complex security challenges that are both confined to and transcend nation-state boundaries.
Sahel Road Safety Initiative (2018-2021)
Access Nigeria (2013-2021)
Nigeria
PartnersGlobal, New-Rule, and PWAN are deploying scorecards to help citizens assess the level of corruption at the local government level and ascertain its impact on service delivery.
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Partners for Security in Guinea (2015-2021)
Guinea
PartnersGlobal and our Conakry-based partners, CECIDE and COGINTA, share a mutual belief in respect for fundamental rights and have been implementing the Partners for Security in Guinea program together since 2015.
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Greater Access to Defense and Justice Nigeria (2016-2020)
Nigeria
Nigeria’s justice system faces problems with fair and legal representation. These challenges are aggravated by limited resources as well as poor sanitation and overcrowding in correctional centers.
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Engaging Civil Society for Peace in the Casamance (2018-2020)
Senegal
The aim of this USAID-funded peacebuilding program in the Casamance region of Senegal was to strengthen the resilience of civil society—particularly women—in using nonviolent means to resolve conflict in the region.
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Partners for Access to Justice Guinea (2017-2020)
Guinea
In 2015, the Guinean government adopted the 2015-2019 Justice Reform Strategy. This initiative, which partly focuses on human rights and access to justice, has the specific objective of bringing justice closer to litigants by implementing a judicial system based on the concept of Justice de Proximité or Local Access to Justice.
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Social Entrepreneurship for Democratic Governance and Peace in Senegal and Nigeria (2016)
Senegal and Nigeria
With increased competition for donor funding, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) need to adapt new business models to diversify income streams and enhance their sustainability and impact.
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Mano River Region Initiative: Citizen Engagement in Security Sector Reform (2012)
West Africa
PartnersGlobal in collaboration with Partners West Africa Senegal – (PWA – Senegal) completed a project in the Mano River region that culminated in a symposium in Monrovia, Liberia in September 2012 which brought together 48 leaders from government, uniformed services and civil society from Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Accountability in Action: PPDC discusses the hard work of building accountable governance in Nigeria
Nigeria
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In Burkina Faso, citizens and law enforcement jointly address violence on roadways
Burkina Faso
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One office’s mission to reduce pretrial detention in Nigeria
Nigeria
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Resiliency+ Roundup October II
Why trust between citizens and security forces matters in the context of COVID-19
Guinea
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20 Years After Resolution 1325: Why are women still excluded from peace processes?
Learn more about the tools, approaches and resources related to our work in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Resources
UNAAM KAYRAAY: Engaging Civil Society for Peace in the Casamance
In 2018, PartnersGlobal in collaboration with Partners West Africa Senegal (PWA-S), La Plateforme des F...
White Paper for a Definitive Peace in Casamance
Casamance: the longest running conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the signing of numerous peace accords between the...
Security: Governance, Accountability, & Performance Tool Kit
PartnersGlobal created the Security: Governance, Accountability and Performance (SGAP) Framework based ...