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Practical
Action Southern Africa (Previously called ITDG)
Last updated: October 24, 2012
| Physical
address |
4
Ludlow Road, Newlands,
Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Postal
address |
P.O.
Box 1744, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Telephone |
+263-(0)4-776631-3,
776107 |
| Fax |
+263-(0)4-788157 |
| Email
address |
practicalaction@practicalactionzw.org |
| Web
address |
www.practicalaction.org |
| Year
established |
1989 |
| Contact |
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Name |
Position |
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Ernest
Mupunga |
Regional
Director (0)4-776377 |
Objectives |
- Reducing
vulnerability of people affected by natural disasters such
as drought and environmental degradation.
- Making
people improve their livelihoods by improving their production,
processing and marketing of products.
- Improving
access to decentralized infrastructure services.
- Responding
to new technologies to improve their livelihoods
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Mission Statement |
| Practical
Action Southern Africa is an international technology development
organisation with its head offices in the United Kingdom.
The organisation was founded in 1965 and has offices in Southern
Africa, East Africa, Sudan, Latin America, Bangladesh, Nepal
and South Asia.
The Practical
Action Southern Africa office based in Harare, covers work
in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi
Since
the establishment of Practical Action in Zimbabwe, in 1989,
the organisation has built a reputation in long term development
and has demonstrated convincingly how technology can assist
in alleviating poverty.
The organisation
works in partnership with communities and other development
institutions and in all our work, we respect diversity and
show concern for future generations. We work with communities
helping then choose and use appropriate technologies to improve
their lives for today and tomorrow.
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Vision |
| Practical
Action's Vision is of a sustainable world free of poverty
and injustice in which technology is used for the benefit
of all.
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Sectors
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| Advocacy;
Agriculture; Education/Training; Environment/Agriculture/Wildlife;
Gender; HIV/AIDS; Orphan Programmes; Poverty Alleviation; Research/Documentation/Information
Dissemination; Rural Development; Water & Sanitation |
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Powerlessness
and silence go together. We should use our positions not as a shelter from the
world's reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It
should be cherished and used.
~ Margaret
Atwood
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