Association of Community Advice Offices of South Africa (ACAOSA)
National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices
- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Increasing Access to Justice
- Grant Amount $30,000
- Grant Period July 1, 2013–December 31, 2013
- Location Johannesburg, South Africa
- Geographic Focus South Africa
About this grant
The National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices is committed to the development and long-term sustainability of community-based advice offices in South Africa. The alliance, initially a project of the Black Sash Trust, was established in 2005 by human rights organizations in response to the limited prospects for the long-term sustainability of community-based advice offices in South Africa. Since 2009, the grantee has been supporting the emergence of a representative voice for community-based advice offices by supporting provincial forums that represent their interests in the country’s nine provinces. The forums have led efforts to formulate guidelines for common service standards, minimum qualifications, and regulations within the community-based advice office sector. This grant will assist efforts to consolidate the work of the forums through the establishment of the Association of Community Advice Offices of South Africa, whose aim is to bring together all community-based advice offices into one national association that will be the voice of this sector.