About Us

Africa Centre for Citizens Orientation

African Centre for Citizens Orientation (ACCO) duly and legally registered in Nigeria to promote the common good of all Nigerians and Africans with a particular attention to children, youth and women, disadvantage communities and minority groups.

ACCO promotes the good and welfare of African citizens based on the principles of freedom, equality and justice, and for the purpose of consolidating the unity and culture of our people. We advance citizenship development, equal opportunity, and social justice through transformative education, training, technology transfer, research, and advocacy programs.

At ACCO, we applies inclusiveness initiative, human rights-based method, gender-based analysis and networked approach to deliver citizenship development, education and orientation, digital literacy, crime prevention, women/girls empowerment and digital/human rights activities that address systemic discrimination, violence, insecurity, exclusion and other forms of violations. In addition, provide opportunities for people to build knowledge and skills, and develop attitudes and behaviours conducive to inclusion and advancing rights for common good.

ACCO place high value on citizenship development, education and engagement to achieve its vision. All our programs are tailored to reach out to, engage and empower children, youth, girls/women and persons with disabilities. By engagement, we regularly consult with our target audience and infuse their inputs into our programs and ensure that they own the process, which has really help in achieving our vision of building active citizens for a just society.