More than 60 people representing about 45 civil society organizations of the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) were gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week to bring grassroots issues to a United Nations meeting at the African Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights, and to lay the structural foundation for the ACCA at its Second Meeting hosted by Global Rights...The members...[ranged] from national-level organizations...to provincial organizations, to grassroots groups building community capacity and local dialogue, to representatives of affected communities.  ACCA members covered the entire spectrum of Regional Forum topics, including multi-stakeholder dialogue, extractive industries, investment in land, access to judicial remedy, operational-level grievance mechanisms, an African strategy for the business & human rights agenda...ACCA members...agreed on a governance structure...agreed on a vision, mission and strategy...[and] generated options for an action plan...