About us

Development Support Agency is a London-based African women’s organisation set up to relieve poverty, sickness and distress of African women by raising awareness, disseminating information and advancing education among African women, including refugees and asylum seekers, displaced and trafficked women, and those facing all other forms of abuse and exploitation in rural and urban communities, in England & Wales and Africa.

Our mission is to support and promote an integrated approach to issues of poverty, ill health, injustice and imbalances in gender relations in African communities, both in England & Wales and Africa.

Our vision is a world in which African women and their communities are empowered to promote their interests and live free of perennial poverty, ill health, lack of decision-making and other forms of disempowerment and exploitation.

DSA aims to:

• Identify, collect, collate and disseminate information and raise awareness among African women and friends of Africa wherever they may be, about the poverty, ill health and injustice being experienced by African women in their various communities in England & Wales and Africa

• Mobilise African women and encourage them to participate at all levels of development and decision-making

• Promote the social and economic advancement of African women in rural and urban communities, through advocacy, education and training

• Use various forums as opportunities to promote the active involvement and participation of African women in the eradication of poverty, ill health and gender-based injustices in their communities.

• Undertake research and disseminate findings on issues and challenges relating to the well being of African women in and outside Africa