Who We Are

RANA is an independent African CSO advocacy network working with partners across Africa at the national and regional level, and together with global partners, to strengthen Africa’s resilience. RANA envisions a resilient and healthy Africa, safeguarded by African-led solutions, informed by African needs, and driven by African leadership.

We believe in networked advocacy — that connecting agendas, people, and missions can advance positive collective change. Working together builds advocacy power. RANA offers other networks partnership opportunities to strengthen advocacy in Africa, by Africans, at both the national and regional level, while connecting to global processes.

RANA builds on the successful networked advocacy impact of Pandemic Action Network on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. In partnership with Pandemic Action Network, RANA takes a whole-of-society approach to pandemic issues and purposefully identifies opportunities to collaborate with advocates working on other resilience issue areas. Partners include more than 60 civil society organisations and networks from across the resilience agenda with a focus on climate, finance, food systems, gender, and health systems, and nature.

To fill African policy and advocacy gaps, strengthen Africa’s resilience, and advance local institutions RANA is focused on:

• Strengthening Health Systems: Shaping gender-responsive, climate- and pandemic-resilient health systems that can detect, alert, and contain emerging and re-emerging public health threats.
• Working Across Issues: Building healthy and resilient communities by convening and connecting advocates at national and regional levels across climate, finance, food systems, gender, health systems, and nature.
• Achieving Global Influence: Supporting Africa’s political leaders and influential voices to engage on the global stage and inform international processes.
• Networked Advocacy: Nurturing a vibrant, inclusive, and pan-African network addressing interconnected resilience challenges.