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

Deborah Membe, Zambia

"By the end of the first workshop, I had learnt and appreciated the need for ethical investment generally, whether with church assets or otherwise."

ACAP Reports and Related Resources

Read the reports and related resources from the different phases of the African Church Assets Programme:

ACAP Handbook and Workshop Reports

Globethics Publications and Digital Library Collections

Learn more and get involved

Get in touch with Herbert Makinda, ACAP coordinator and Globethics Eastern Africa Regional Manager, to learn more: [email protected].