About the African Canadian Social Development Council
The African Canadian Social Development Council emerged out of a Continental African Canadian community-wide engagement process in 2001, in which over 100 community organizations met to discuss the establishment of a community vehicle that would:
- Enable the community to achieve a unified voice and presence in the Canadian public arena
- Ensure that the needs of Continental African Canadians would be more specifically identified and addressed through proactive and collaborative action
- Support the capacity development of the community’s organizations and service-providing agencies, so that more and better services could be developed and delivered to improve the life circumstances of the community’s members
Mission
To support agencies serving African communities in the delivery of effective services through planning, policy development, research and training.
Values and Objectives
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To act to ensure the social, economic and cultural welfare of African Canadians by supporting, co-operating and collaborating with organizations assisting African immigrants and refugee
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To encourage and support the participation of African Canadians in the democratic process
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To identify, conduct research and undertake advocacy on problems affecting the African Canadian community
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To investigate racism and to devise means of overcoming its influence universally and in Canada in particular; and to promote understanding and goodwill among all segments of society within a multicultural Canada