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The Advocacy Accelerator (AAC), conducts and produces research on the continent’s advocacy landscape, tackling both what is working and what isn’t. Our quality research products bolster understanding of current advocacy trends and topics, as well as relevant key issues.

Pushing for locally driven advocacy across the continent and driving African-led solutions is central to our research, as it is to every aspect of our work. We aim for this research to also inform the advocacy community’s prospective strategies and best practices.

Covid-19 and Advocacy in Africa: The impacts and implications going forward (Qualitative research)

In 2020, the Advocacy Accelerator (AAC) commissioned tackling how Africa’s advocacy sector was impacted by and responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, and to unpack how the Advocacy Accelerator (AAC) could better support the sector. This research takes a deep dive into what happened when Covid-19 arrived on our doorstep: the Africa…

Impact of Covid-19 on Advocacy in Africa (Quantitative research)

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Africa on February 14, 2020. At the time of writing this report, Africa had recorded 1,373,986 cases (Africa CDC). In response, African governments have introduced different policies to help curb the spread of the pandemic: travel rest…

SRHR Advocacy Funding in Africa

As an African initiative, the Accelerator responds to the African context by supporting African-led solutions while at the same time being inclusive of global best practices in advocacy and campaigning, innovation, and learning from partners and allies across the world. The organisation recognises and works towards realising gre…

Advocacy Landscape in Africa
SRHR Advocacy Funding in Africa

SRHR Advocacy Funding in Kenya

Securing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is a key area of work for a vast number of African advocates within the Advocacy Accelerator community. For advocates to be effective in undertaking SRHR advocacy, they require an understanding of the SRHR funding ecosystem from both the advocates’ and funders’ perspectives.

Advocacy Landscape in Kenya
SRHR Advocacy Funding in Kenya

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