Action Professionals' Association for the People (APAP) is a not-for profit, non-partisan and indigenous non-governmental organization established by legal and other professionals in 1993. APAP is currently engaged in the facilitation of basic socioeconomic services to the poor and marginalized through CBOs and other pertinent stakeholders.
Action Professionals' Association for the People (APAP) is a not-for profit, non-partisan and indigenous non-governmental organization established in 1993 with the main objective of providing legal services to the marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged sections of the Ethiopian society. It also aims at accessing information on the human rights of citizens guaranteed under international, regional and national human rights instruments so as to enable these groups bring about an attitudinal change and become informed and active participants in the overall development process. Hence, ever since its establishment APAP has been designing and implementing projects and programs for the promotion and protection of the human rights of the marginalized and otherwise disadvantaged sections of the Ethiopian society.
Areas of Intervention
Due to limitations in human and material resources, APAP ’s activities will be limited to the areas where it has been operating for the last years:
Programs
Consistent with the emphasis on the realization of human rights for all Ethiopians in the vision, mission, aims and operational strategies of APAP, the program structure derives from identification of the causes and obstacles for non-realization of rights. Based on the relationships defined in the international human rights framework, these causes and obstacles have been identified as relating to: the capacity of rights-holders to claim their rights; the capacity of duty-bearers to discharge their human rights obligations; and, the framework for the implementation of human rights.
To address these multi-level problems, the strategic planning process has identified three programs:
These programs are respectively designed to addressing causes and obstacles for non-realization of rights from these three perspectives/levels: building the capacity of rights holders to claim their rights; building the capacity of duty bearers to discharge their obligations; and, advocacy to bring about changes in laws, policies, practices and structures.
