About ALPI

InterAction's Africa Liaison Program Initiative (ALPI) is a continuous dialogue among three key groups of development stakeholders aimed at achieving mutual understanding and more effective collaboration in their development efforts. ALPI brings together representatives of African NGOs, US PVOs, and USAID to discuss the challenges they face in working towards sustainable development and to identify opportunities that might overcome such difficulties.

The Africa Liaison Program Initiative is an approach that centers on building healthier, more equitable relationships and on establishing stronger linkages among stakeholders. This approach is characterized by trust, openness and transparency, an appreciation of differences, and a desire to share and make use of more effective practices that are grounded in field realities. It is an ongoing process shaped through conferences and meetings both in Africa and the United States that bring together three stakeholder groups (African NGOs, US PVOs, and USAID) to discuss their working relations and the possibility of creating a more enabling environment for the effective use of US foreign development assistance to Africa. Discussions on policy and practice issues at the sub-regional level in Africa are linked to meetings with senior policymakers and PVO staff in Washington, which bring current realities from the field to inform policy discussions where the policies are actually being developed.

ALPI was designed as a process aimed at facilitating new and more equitable forms of collaboration and partnership among US PVOs, African NGOs and USAID by providing a safe space for a regular and serious dialogue on mutual concerns related to African development. Over the course of the program, this dialogue has been promoted through discussions around themes relevant to the work and relationships of the tripartite stakeholders, including Effective Partnerships, Capacity Strengthening, Mutual Accountability and Relational Governance.

ALPI is facilitated by InterAction staff, governed by a representative Advisory Committee and funded through a cooperative agreement between USAID and InterAction.

Goals and Objectives

Working Principles and Practices
Phase 1: October 1999-June 2003
Phase 2: November 2003-November 2006

Events and Activities

Advisory Committee

ALPI Staff:

Sylvain Browa, Program Manager
sbrowa@interaction.org
202-667-8227