While having a visible presence in Africa through its Regional Offices, TACEXCHANGE will emphasize support to viable community projects and activities ranging from food production, technology and culture, education and literacy, primary health care, rural income generation, etc. Our activities will emphasize close collaboration with government, local authorities and NGO’s working in the rural areas that provide similar assistance, with a view to consolidate development efforts and avoid duplication. Our strategy also involves working with communities and development partners utilizing existing traditional methods of identifying needs to develop village based plans. Emphasis is on current scientific methods of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) to develop community action plans. These enable communities to have a greater feeling of ownership of projects. Thereby, community members are better encouraged to fully participate in projects and to ensure their continuity. The New York Office, run by The Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with secretarial and logistic support staff coordinates the Regional teams. This office is mainly involved in fund-raising as well as implementing monitoring, evaluation and financial reporting standards to meet donor and funding requirements. .