About Us
- About ACIEDAfrica
Empowering Communities
- ACIEDafrica is a non-governmental centre dedicated to knowledge sharing, capacity building, skill enhancement, and advocacy. We empower individuals through holistic community action, enabling everyone to transform their unique talents into viable businesses that drive sustainable, resilient, and equitable wealth. With a steadfast commitment to inclusive growth, we champion socioeconomic progress and inclusion across Nigeria and Africa.
Our Vision
- A Prosperous Africa Based on Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development
Our Mission
- Mission To stimulate productive inclusion through the development of capabilities, skills, rights and opportunities for everyone, particularly the poor, marginalized and excluded groups, as well as low income workers in order to guarantee that everyone benefits equitably from the social and economic growth processes and gets engaged in it.
- Our Values
ACIEDafrica’s
CORE VALUES
Co-operation
- We work in a spirit of trust, collaboration and partnership across departments and with our community to achieve our shared goals.
Integrity
- We take accountability for our actions and deliver what we promise. We are truthful and honest in how we do our job. We inspire public confidence and trust in our municipal government.
Innovation
- We embrace innovation to improve our delivery of services. We take initiative, and are flexible and creative in anticipating and adapting to changing conditions.
- A help to those who need it
What we stand for
- We strengthen the competencies and skills of people, improving their employability or access to business opportunities and services;
- We increase the competitiveness of enterprises, growing their business.
- We build partnership, collaboration and network with national, sub-national and international institutions/bodies to foster economic and social systems, promoting inclusive development;
- We promote wider access to productive knowledge that enhances sustainable growth.
- Promote peaceful co-existence among people and enhance integration, especially the integration of smaller and landlocked communities into development;
- Promote inclusive entrepreneurship, social innovations and policy initiatives that offer all people an equal opportunity to create sustainable business and also encouraging and protecting the participation of the vulnerable groups (including the disabled people, older persons) in the labour market;
- Promote wider equal access to basic infrastructure and basic/quality social services;
- We render humanitarian and development services that promote economic well-being of the people, safe healthy life and enhance resilience of the people particularly poor and vulnerable groups to respond to crisis and shocks, including social-environmental risks.
- Undertake policy related studies on pro-poor market related issues and utilize the research results in developing networks amongst stakeholders in order to have a positive impact on policies and planning related to pro-poor market development.