Clients & Projects

Akiiki Consulting has worked with a range of clients including private foundations, community groups and governmental organizations. Recent clients are listed below.

Foundations

Stephen Lewis Foundation — Monitoring grants for community-based HIV/AIDS initiatives in Africa, technical input into initiative around violence against women, conflict and HIV/AIDS.

Ford Foundation East Africa — Establishing an East African collaborative fund on sexual health and rights.

Open Society Institute International Women's Program — Mapping and assessing grantmaking strategy in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

African Women’s Development Fund — Co-editing historic publication documenting the lives of African feminists (Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists).

Fondation Pro-Victimis- Mapping of initiatives on violence against women in Sierra Leone.

NGOs

International Rescue Committee — Field-based evaluation of Gender Based Violence program in Sierra Leone.

Association for Women’s Rights in Development — Action research on the impact of Charismatic and Pentecostal Christian fundamentalism on women’s rights in Africa.

Action Aid International, Africa Regional Office — Lead facilitator for workshop on strengthening the movement to tackle gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in West Africa.

Urgent Action Fund - Africa — Lead facilitator for international donor rountable on funding the intersection between conflict, violence and the feminisation of HIV/AIDS.

Akina Mama wa Afrika — Developing training module on violence against women and sexual and reproductive health and rights in conflict affected countries; facilitating training for women's rights activists in Democractic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone; supporting developemnt of Strategic Plan (with Spring Strategies).

Governmental agencies

UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone — Technical support to develop gender equality and sexual exploitation / abuse policies for the Sierra Leone Police Force.