EXPAND AFRICAN GUYANESE SHARE IN THE NATION’S ECONOMY
Promote economic advancement and empowerment, economic agency and self-confidence; expand access to business and entrepreneurial training, access to investment capital, and capital accumulation and wealth and assets creation; organize African-Guyanese entrepreneurs, construction, trades and service providers in cooperative networks; rebuild and strengthen African-Guyanese businesses and producer organizations; reduce poverty; and ensure a sustainable socio-economic future for the African-Guyanese collective.
INCREASE ACCESS TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Create sustainable jobs and employment opportunities for African-Guyanese; enhance employability through access to education and training institutions; enhance appropriate skill levels through skills training and life-long learning; increase access to tertiary and professional education and training and expand access to high-paying professional and technology-based occupations; reduce poverty; and inculcate appropriate workplace attitudes and behaviours towards producing a skilled and productive African-Guyanese workforce
RESTORE EXCELLENCE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE IN EDUCATION
Re-build the capacity of the African-Guyanese collective for learning and self-improvement through education and training; promote the fashioning of an education system and curricula that include and recognize the history and culture of Africa and African-Guyanese; institute policies, programmes and actions that contribute to a rounded socio-cultural and science-based education for the youth including instilling appropriate attitudes, behaviours, and values; and build a cadre of African-Guyanese educators, trainers, and technical level instructors, for sustainable inter-generational learning and advancement of the African-Guyanese collective;
ENSURE EQUITY, JUSTICE AND THE RESPECT OF HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
DEMAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, APOLOGY AND REPARATIONS FOR ENSLAVEMENT AND THE SUFFERING CAUSED BY POLICIES, PROGRAMS AND LAWS INTENDED TO OPPRESS AND MARGINALIZE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN GUYANA
Support demands by the African-Guyanese collective, the Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora, and the independent nations of Africa, for an apology and reparations for the injustices and deprivations of African trans-Atlantic slavery; advocate for the full embracing by the former colonial powers and others complicit in African enslavement of the UN Decade for People of African Descent and the calls for justice, recognition, and development; promote a similar embracing and admission by other ethnic groups in contemporary Guyana who may have benefited from, or been complicit in, the subjugation, oppression, exploitation, and dispossession of African-Guyanese historically and into the contemporary period; and support healing from the cross-generational impacts of centuries of oppression and psychological deformation, and recovery of the spirit, ethos, and creativity of the African-Descendant collective.
PRESERVE AFRICAN GUYANESE HISTORY AND CULTURE AND BUILD A STRONG NETWORK OF AFRICAN GUYANESE ORGANIZATIONS
Promote capacity building in Afro-centric umbrella organizations; strengthen the capacity of the IDPADA-G Secretariat to provide capacity building and organizational support to such Afro-centric umbrella organizations; provide an institutional framework and operational capacity to coordinate and support the programmes of such organizations in pursuance of the goals for justice, recognition and development; promote the maintenance, preservation, and observance of African and African-Guyanese culture, languages, art, music, dance, dress and other forms of expression and the teaching of African history.