The IIJD is an independent, not-for-profit international organization that actively advocates tackling the root causes of poverty by addressing systemic weaknesses, reforming institutions of governance, building capacity and empowering communities. With programs and initiatives based on participation, empowerment and sustainability, we treat not just the symptoms of poverty, underdevelopment, and insecurity, but confront their underlying causes. Read more....
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Programs and Initiatives
Education and Advocacy Program:

Describing poverty and making clear its causes are two very different tasks. Unfortunately, most descriptions of the Africa poverty written by international development experts often offer little guidance for action: “[they] do not say what is a cause and what is an effect, they do not distinguish between proximate and deep causes, they do not say what is a variable and what is a parameter in the environment in which the poor reside.” Not only do descriptions of poverty provide an inapplicable and inadequate picture of the pathways that lead to that state of affairs, an enormous literature draws on description to arrive directly at important policy prescriptions. “Even the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the plans the United Nations identified for meeting them reflect this methodological stance.”

To complement and support the goals of the Justice and Development Programs, the IIJD has developed the Education and Advocacy Program to (1)-provide the opportunity to college students to learn and understand the root causes of poverty and other challenges Africa faces; (2) - raise awareness, promote understanding, provide new perspectives about current development crisis in the Africa, and (3) foster further study, research and analysis to reform institutions and public sector organizations to effectively achieve sustained progress, growth and poverty reduction.

Within The Educational and Advocacy Program, the IIJD monitors pivotal events in Africa in which development stands at a crossroads and offers analysis of the situations to the international community. There are four main initiatives in the Advocacy and Educational Program: the bi-weekly Newsletter, the Calls for Action, The African Prospect, and IIJD sponsored conferences, seminars and Task Force Group. Together, and in conjunction with the other IIJD programs, these efforts enable the IIJD to be at the forefront of the fight for justice and development in Africa.

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Newsletter
  
 
 
The IIJD publishes a newsletter every two weeks to alert and update the general public about pressing African justice and development issues. The newsletter is distributed both on our website and through an e-mail mailing list. In addition to enlightening the public on African issues, the newsletter is also an opportunity for the IIJD to offer its own inputs, perspectives, and analysis on critical issues, thereby remaining relevant and current.
   
 
 
The IIJD periodically responds to current events in Africa that we think have the potential to destabilize or help the state or region in which they occur. We call upon local, national, and international actors to meet the continent’s most pressing needs and to implement sustainable solutions to the continent’s most urgent tragedies. The purpose of the Call for Action letters is threefold: (1) to alert world leaders, particularly those in the United States government, the G8, the IMF, the World Bank and the United Nations body, of urgent world matters that constitute a breach to the global peace and security that require their immediate attention; (2) to make strong, specific, and timely recommendations concerning how to deal with the pressing issues for the long term with solutions that prevent them from reoccurring, and (3) to propose concrete and innovative solutions contributing in resolving those issues.
  
   
 
 
 
The African Prospect is a journal that was created by the IIJD to foster increased discussion of the underlying causes of global poverty and insecurity, and to enhance the debate of possible solutions. It is committed to fostering an academic dialogue that draws on diverse and original research and first hand experience.
   
 
A high level of diversity in contributions, we believe, is vital to the search for fresh and innovative solutions to the underlying causes of poverty in Africa.
Internship program:
  
 
In order to successfully fulfil the innovative mission of the IIJD and meet the goals set for the educational and advocacy program, the IIJD has established a close working relationship with dozens of universities and colleges both in the Boston area and throughout the United States. At our office in Boston, we provide students, academics, and the general public with knowledge regarding poverty, security, and development and justice issues in Africa. Some of our academic institutions from where our interns come include Tufts University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University, Boston College, Cornell University, Emmanuel College, George Washington, Dartmouth College and Boston University among many others. Through these relationships we have developed an intensive internship program for college and graduate students alike. Students work with our staff on a variety of projects including legal development research and writing, communicating with our partner organizations, conducting research on key justice or development issues, and writing newsletter articles. Many of the IIJD’s interns work to fulfil requirements for completion of their degree. The IIJD welcomes a minimum of 30 students every year.
  
   
 
   
 
 
 
   
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