AU WATCH

Consultancy Services

We provide consultancy on the following sectors and themes: justice, governance, climate change, security, sustainable development, human rights,media and communication. Our consultancy services also include:

  • Technical advice for partners, donors, businesses, governments and institutions to implement policies and interventions which promote social justice, good governance, sustainable development, security, human rights and peace.
  • Programs that fosters sound environmental management policies and long-term economic development that benefits local communities, and especially women.
  • Climate change issues that is affecting both water availability and quality. We support research and provide consultancy services to help Africa’s most vulnerable adapt to the water-related impacts of climate change, such as droughts, floods, landslides, and rising sea levels.
  • We are Specialist in human rights law and practice. We offer:

– Information dissemination and awareness raising on human rights programs and activities, including organising and coordinating human rights events and providing media coverage;

– Accountability assessments of existing human rights policies and procedures (e.g. independence of complaints procedures, effectiveness of inspection systems);

– Auditing domestic compliance with regional and international human rights obligations;

– Human rights education, in particular in relation to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights;

– We provide advisory services based on lessons learned, promising practices, and counter-violations strategies to local, national, and international audiences.

– Judicial and human rights training, especially as regards the development of effective techniques for monitoring compliance with judicial and human rights standards;

– On-the-spot monitoring of policing practice and conditions of detention in prisons and other places where people are deprived of their liberty;

– Human Rights / Trafficking and Slavery Hotline: We operate a 24-hour human rights hotline in all the countries we operate and connecting professionals, victims, and community members to information and services. For further information, please contact us at [email protected], or to contact the Chapter or Section directly..

– We offer comprehensive clinical social services to victims of all forms of human trafficking and severe human rights violations through our local country office or in Partnership with other agencies.

– We provide services in recruitment, management consultancy, human resources support services and monitoring and evaluation in insecure and chronic conflict environment in the region.