Committees address policy, programs and projects for each of IDPADA-G five priorities viz. economy, employment, education, equity and expiation. Member organizations are asked to nominate qualified persons to serve on these committees to help conceptualize and lead the work of IDPADA-G. Committee chairs are elected by committee members and serve for 2 years. In addition to chairing their committees, chairs serve as members of the IDPADA-G Coordinating Council.
Committee objectives are as follows:
- Economic Committee
The Economic Committee seeks to promote – economic advancement and empowerment, economic agency and self-confidence; expand access to – business and entrepreneurial training, investment capital; and capital accumulation and wealth and assets creation; organize African-Guyanese entrepreneurs, construction, trades and service providers in cooperative networks; strive for the rebuilding and strengthening African-Guyanese businesses and producer organizations; (reduce poverty and facilitate a sustainable socio-economic future for the African-Guyanese collective;
- Employment Committee
The Employment Committee seeks to 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; inculcate appropriate workplace attitudes and behaviours towards producing a skilled and productive African-Guyanese workforce to reduce poverty.
- Education Committee
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; promote family life; 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.
- Equity Committee
Reduce systemic and structural inequalities in access to socio-economic opportunities and goods and services; address and remove inequities and inequalities in access to justice and treatment by the courts, law enforcement, and prison officials; restore conditions of equity and equality in relations between African-Guyanese and other ethnic groups; combat racial profiling and negative stereotyping of African-Guyanese; promote equity and equality in the expression of religion in public meetings and spaces; and restore hope and confidence in the African-Guyanese collective, and youth in particular, through the realization of equity, justice and development.
- Expiation Committee
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.