African Church Assets Programme
Responsible, effective, and transparent management of assets and investments is key to developing sustainable, values-based institutions, livelihoods, and communities.
Globethics is engaged to support and strengthen institutions and those who work within them to address practical problems, related, for example, to mapping and registering fixed and non-fixed assets, to managing, maintaining, and developing properties, land, schools, hospitals, universities, and social services.
With funds from traditional cooperation and funding partners becoming increasingly scarce, institutions are coming under increasing pressure to diversify their funding sources and strengthen their own capacities. Churches and Church-Related Organisations (CCROs) are among the institutions that recognise the need to manage their assets well and to invest ethically.
Since 2015, Globethics, in collaboration with the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and the support of Bread for the World, has been implementing the African Church Assets Programme (ACAP). An assets management project has also been conducted in Romania with the participation of Orthodox Churches. The goal of ACAP is to help leaders in CCROs to build practical capacity in a climate of strong accountability and transparency in the management of assets and resources.
Globethics recognised as a reference for ethical leadership by the All Africa Conference of Churches
Following 10 years of the African Church Assets Programme (ACAP), the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) Strategy 2024-2028 recommends in section 2.2 on Ecclesial Leadership Development to: “Collaborate with relevant organisations like Globethics to enhance the capacity of churches for ethical investments and resource management”.
What ACAP participants say
ACAP Reports and Related Resources
Read the reports and related resources from the different phases of the African Church Assets Programme:
- National Ethical Investment Guidelines Kenya
- National Ethical Investment Guidelines Ethiopia
- Inspirational Ethical Management Guide
ACAP Handbook and Workshop Reports
- African Church Assets Handbook
- African Church Assets Programme I Workshop Report - Nairobi/Geneva, 2016
- African Church Assets Programme II Workshop Report - Nairobi, 2017
- African Church Assets Programme III Workshop Report - Nairobi, 2019
Globethics Publications and Digital Library Collections
- Corruption-free Churches are Possible: Experiences, Values and Solutions
- Corruption-free Religions are Possible: Integrity - Stewardship - Accountability
- Responsible Leadership Collection
- Theology and Ecumenism Collection
- Institutional Collections
- Globethics Collections
Testimonial
Learn more and get involved
Get in touch with Herbert Makinda, ACAP coordinator and Globethics Eastern Africa Regional Manager, to learn more: [email protected].