Community based organisations : the emerging force within the third sector, strengthening the human rights capacity of community based organisations (CBOs) : a survey of 9 southern African countries, January 2004

This is the report of a survey to gather information about community-based organisations (CBOs) in southern Africa, The survey findings show the kinds of work CBOs do; the nature of the organisations; how are they constituted; the extent to which they seek to protect and promote human rights; their priorities; their strengths and weaknesses as organisations; the training that they access and the training would make a difference to their work; the sources of information they use and the kind of information they need. It also looked at what access to computers and the Internet the CBOs have