AFRIHEALTH OPTONET ASSOCIATION (AHOA)
About Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) and The Benefits of Being a Member/Partner of AHOA
AFRIHEALTH
OPTONET ASSOCIATION (AHOA)
About
Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) and The Benefits of Being a
Member/Partner of AHOA
Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) is a
global-level and community-focused Network/Think-tank of civil society
organizations (CSOs) and non-state actors (NSA) on Health, Human
Welfare/Rights, Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Food Security and
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Established in 1997 and incorporated in
2003, the AHOA has teams/chapters in the FCT and 36 States of
Nigeria. With more than 3,000 organizations from 120 countries as its
members, and a Google Group of over 45,000 members globally, AHOA has become a
third-sector global player, partner, project/programme developer, implementer,
monitor and reporter on the measures needed to achieve and safeguard them.
AHOA’s strategic approach to its interventions include using Partnerships and
collaborations; Advocacy, communication/media and social/resource mobilization
(ACSM); Research/evidence-generation including reviews, assessment, oversight,
conferences, seminars, symposia and workshops; Capacity Development/Training
and Organizational Strengthening; Outreaches and community engagements; and
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).
The Afrihealth
Optonet Association (AHOA) is committed to exploring the nexus between Health
(UHC, PHC, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis or TB, Malaria, Mpox, Hepatitis, NTDs,
Cancers, NCDs, Vaccines, Immunization, Vitamin/Mineral Deficiencies or Hidden
Hunger, and COVID-19); Environment/Biodiversity (Hazardous Wastes, Pesticides,
Informed Consent, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Ecosystems, Renewable
Energy, Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Climate Change; Nutrition and Food
Security; Gender, Democracy, Good Governance, and Human Rights. It is AHOA’s
mandate to promote improved/better standards of living for the disadvantaged,
at-risk, discriminated, women and girls, children/adolescents, older
persons, poor, rural, marginalized and other vulnerable populations including
Youth (particularly young women and girls), Indigenous Peoples, Persons with
albinism, orphans, widows, LGBTQIA+ individuals, Persons with disabilities, Sex
workers, Refugees or Migrants, Women living in rural or underserved areas, and
Persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Afrihealth
Optonet Association (AHOA) is:
a. in
Consultative Status
at United Nations ECOSOC;
b. accredited
Observer status at UNEP/United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA);
c. accredited
to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an
international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution;
d. accredited
to the ad hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG3) on a science-policy panel to
contribute further to the sound management of chemicals, waste and to prevent
pollution;
e. accredited
at the United Nations' Office at Geneva;
f. approved
by the African Development Bank (AfDB); while
g. its
application to the UNFCCC is awaiting approval/admission.
AHOA is the
lead organization and secretariat of the African Network of Civil Society
Organizations (ANCSO) and the Global Consortium of Civil Society and
Non-State Actors on Climate Change and Conference of Parties (GCSCCC).
The winner
of the SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Champion Award in 2023, AHOA
is community-focused civil society organizations(CSOs) international
Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank deeply engaged in promoting
evidence-based credible actions and support for policies, practices,
programmes, and interventions that enhance productivity, accountability,
transparency, and civil society’s coordination/contributions in gender justice,
financial inclusion, equitable access to health, democracy, good governance,
and human rights; in Health - including Traditional Complimentary Integrative
Health (TCIH)/Ayurvedic Medicine; Community Welfare/Social Safety nets,
Sustainable Development/ Development Work, and in educational, literary,
scientific, social, climate change, energy, biodiversity,
nutritional/agricultural, cultural, sporting, governance, human rights, and
charitable intervention(s)/purpose(s). As a Networking Organization, AHOA
promotes sustainable citizen participation (SCP) to address, prevent and
mitigate disasters, wars, escalation of weapons, global warming, famine, water
shortage, floods, epidemics/pandemics, diseases, poverty, capacity challenges,
food security, radioactive contamination, electromagnetic field (EMF) risks to
life, cyber risks, economics, governance, gender-based violence (GBV), violence
against women and girls (VAWG), environmental and social impact assessments,
risks management, and cross-generational resource challenges.
The Afrihealth
Optonet Association (AHOA)’s position as a global CSO network and Think-tank
has continued to give thousands of CSOs, non-profits, and non-state actors, the
needed platform to voice, network, capacitate and flourish. The AHOA Movement
and its members/partners are committed and involved in the promotion of
Development Work, Sustainable Development including the SDGs, and Health - as a
state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. AHOA uses
partnership/collaboration, advocacy, communication,
research/evidence-generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring, and
evaluation (M&E) as strategies; to benefit rural and poor urban dwellers,
marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations of women, children,
youth, adolescents, people with disability, orphans, widows, victims of
disasters, homeless/destitute, and elderly.
AHOA is
therefore well-positioned and available to Governments, Development Partners,
Agencies, Institutions, Professional Bodies and Organizations in reaching (and
defining/finetuning) their objectives, advancing their work and achieving their
target/mandates. AHOA promotes sustainable citizen participation (SCP) to
address, prevent and mitigate human and development challenges including
disasters, wars, escalation of weapons, global warming, famine, water shortage,
floods, epidemics/pandemics, diseases, poverty, capacity challenges, housing,
transport, food security, radioactive contamination, electromagnetic field
(EMF) risks to life, cyber risks, economics, governance, gender-based violence
(GBV), violence against women and girls (VAWG), and cross-generational resource
challenges.
Afrihealth
Optonet Association's (AHOA)’s position as a global CSO network and Think-tank
has continued to give thousands of CSOs, non-profits, and non-state actors, the
needed platform to voice, network, capacitate and flourish. The AHOA Movement
and its members/partners are committed and involved in the promotion of
Development Work, Sustainable Development including the SDGs, and Health - as a
state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. AHOA uses
partnership/collaboration, advocacy, communication,
research/evidence-generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring, and
evaluation (M&E) as strategies; to benefit rural and poor urban dwellers,
marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations of women, children,
youth, adolescents, people with disability, orphans, widows, victims of
disasters, homeless/destitute, and elderly.
AHOA’s mandates
include:
1.
Building an inclusive and broad movement for Health and Sustainable
Development;
2.
Creating avenues to influence the design and implementation of policies,
practices, programmes, and interventions;
3.
Promoting coordination, information exchange, and harmonization among civil
society and stakeholder groups across the world; and
4.
Promoting citizen involvement, leadership, and accountability mechanisms in the
implementation of respective interventions.
1.
Health - including UHC, PHC, Reproductive Health, Maternal and Newborn
Child Health (MNBCH), Primary Health Care (PHC), HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB),
Malaria, Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs), Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs),
Infectious and Communicable diseases, Vaccines/Immunization and COVID-19;
2.
Energy and Environment – including biodiversity, environment,
ecosystems, renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation and climate
change (BEEREEECCC);
3.
Nutrition/micronutrients and Food Security;
4.
Gender, Democracy, Good Governance, Peace, Human Security, and Human
Rights; and 5. Sustainable Development across regions,
populations, communities, and generations
AHOA’s
activities/interventions are for the benefit of rural and poor urban dwellers,
marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations of women, children,
infants, youth, adolescents, persons with disabilities, persons in
conflict-affected areas, the poor, elderly, rural, disadvantaged and vulnerable
persons, orphans and the elderly. AHOA has a current global
membership/partnership of 2,424 (Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty-four)
organizations in 107 (One Hundred and Seven) countries, and promotes the ‘One
Health’ paradigm where Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being. AHOA uses partnership/collaboration, advocacy,
research/evidence generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring, and
evaluation (M&E) as strategies.
All the
partners/members of the Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) are asked to
complete the following AHOA Members/Partners Google Forms if you haven't done
so.
1.
AHOA members/partners information Google form (please click on the link
below): <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2jo7HwMvuqJOf8k0EojZNApadh3hAerWnqDdJ3JW2ByxYiA/viewform?usp=sf_link>
2.
AHOA CSOs/Members Capacity and Institutional Needs Assessment (please
click on the link below): <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGWxP5w2Sq4I_hdeuRRPqzBRu9UKoIOB0PZpBgqmqPI8ApDw/viewform?usp=sf_link>
The benefits of becoming a member/partner of AFRIHEALTH
Optonet Association are by no means exhaustive, and include:
- Announce/broadcast
and disseminate your organization’s activities to thousands of development
stakeholders and policy makers across the world (Admin rules may
apply);
- Be
considered for nomination/inclusion in AHOA’s delegations/representatives
to United Nations’ events and other Partners’ activities/programmes;
- Be
considered to receive recommendations from AHOA to participate in the
activities of the United Nations, ECOSOC, UNEP/UNEA, etc. and their
Agencies;
- Receive
regular information and guidance about funding and resource mobilization
opportunities;
- Be
published in the register of AHOA members/partners and circulated all over
the world to potential funders and partners;
- Members/partners
are able to broaden their base of support to submit proposals for funding
and support, access opportunities and receive mutual benefits in the
magnitude they could not gain individually or on their own;
- Individual
members/partners from various countries and diverse cultures are provided
with the platform and opportunity to engage and collaborate with each
other for the greater good of all while retaining their independence;
- Members/partners
gain leverage and improve their negotiation results through the banding
together of older, bigger, and/or stronger organizations with other
relatively newer, smaller, and/or weaker ones in AFRIHEALTH; who are
thereby able to harness/access the resources needed to successfully face
tough situations;
- Members/partners
can focus on their strengths while relying on the support/strengths of
other Network partners in other areas and still share in the
accomplishments with other members/partners;
- Members/partners
who might otherwise lose opportunities in competition with one another
shall now join forces to negotiate in a mutual, collective, and organized
manner with funders, development partners, international bodies,
governments, embassies/foreign missions, businesses, political parties,
etc. in a win-win situation for everyone;
- By
combining efforts and sharing experiences and resources, AFRIHEALTH
members/partners learn from each other, receive capacity-building support,
acquire new skills, and broaden their knowledge, income, and abilities;
- By
sharing resources, members/partners of AFRIHEALTH mutually benefit from
the maxim of “the sum is often greater than the parts”, as shared
resources often mean that the Network partners/members can overcome
deficiencies together;
- Development
requires money, people, and time; and the increased number of
organizations/people in the Network usually means that it will take
shorter/less time and cost less to accomplish an objective with the
combined effort;
- Different
organizations/partners coming together in AFRIHEALTH shall provide
diversity for each member organization to broaden its reach and
accomplishments by working with other organizations that are associated
with the same or similar health and development issues or causes.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest
consideration.
Health, Empowerment and Sustainable Development,
Uzodinma
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, CMC, CMTF, FIMC, FIMS, FNAE, FASI, FSEE, FAHOA, FICSA
<https://druzoadiriejefoundation.blogspot.com/2024/07/cv-of-dr-uzodinma-adirieje-february-2024.html>
Health Economist;
Certified Evaluation and Projects/Programmes Management Consultant; Conferences
and Workshops Organizing Expert; Researcher; Health/Development, Climate
Change/Biodiversity and Human Rights Advocate; Facilitator/Trainer; Blogger;
Writer/Columnist
CEO & Permanent
Representative to the United Nations,
Afrihealth Optonet
Association (AHOA) - CSOs Global Network and Think-tank for Health, Climate
Actions and Development (Winner of the SDG 3 – Good Health and
Wellbeing Champion Award).
<https://afrihealthcsos.blogspot.com/2024/03/about-afrihealth-optonet-association_15.html>
National
Coordinator,
Civil Society Partnership for
Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria (CSP-SDGs Nigeria)
No. 1 Taiwo Close, off
MCC Road, P.O. Box 1484, Owerri, Imo State / Plot 520, FHA Estate, Lugbe,
Airport Rd; P.O. Box 8880, Wuse, Abuja, Nigeria
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