New Funded Partnerships

We are very pleased to welcome several new funded partners alongside a few existing ones. Georgina Awoonor-Gordon, EA Foundation’s Director shared: ‘It’s inspiring to see our grants portfolio expand as we increase our investment into projects making a tangible impact in the lives of some of the most marginalised communities globally. We very much look forward to working with and learning from our funded partners.’

Please find below a list of approved grants this cycle. We hope to share more information throughout the year(s) on progress towards desired outcomes:

AdAmi Project

Amount awarded: £10,000

Summary: Working with vulnerable young mothers (aged up to 25) in Bo district, Sierra Leone, to: a) complete their education b) move towards employment or engage in enterprise c) gain the confidence and knowledge needed to make informed and positive life choices, and d) build supportive communities

Location: Sierra Leone

Africa Research Excellence Fund

Amount awarded: £23,925

Summary: The grant is to fund a remote programme for up to 20 post-doctoral African researchers, with the aim of building participants’ basic understanding of post-doctoral academic grant writing. Africa has only 20 Health Researchers per Million Population, compared to other WHO countries, e.g., Europe has 246 Researchers per Million Population. This phenomenon is one of the major causes of loss of human capital and marginal utilisation of the local knowledge economy in the African continent.

Location: Africa-wide

African Adventures Foundation

Amount awarded: £10,000

Summary: Addressing access to sanitation, 'Not Just a WASHroom' will see the construction of 12 new accessible latrines and six new urinals at three schools in Woe, with access to clean piped water installed. Each school will benefit from four new handwashing basins, and a large cubicle will be provided for girls to manage menstruation in privacy, with the facility to wash reusable sanitary pads. Additionally, a group of teachers will be trained in making reusable sanitary pads, and with sewing machines provided through this programme.

Location: Ghana

Alive and Kicking

Amount awarded: £45,876

Summary: Supporting activities which offer pathways out of poverty for refugees and their families by upskilling 30 refugees to set up their own micro enterprises producing and repairing sports balls.

Location: Kenya

APT Action on Poverty

Amount awarded: £20,000

Summary: Funding for a skills development programme to increase the capacity for climate smart, market orientated vegetable production among South Sudanese refugees in Palabek Refugee Settlement.

Location: Uganda

British Refugee Council

Amount awarded: £25,000

Summary: Funding for the Refugee Advice Project, supporting new refugees to access sustainable income and housing – crucial stepping stones out of poverty. Through end-to-end casework, the project supports clients across London to access a) Emergency accommodation (night shelters, hosting schemes, interim local authority accommodation) b) Hostel, housing co-operative, housing association and supported accommodation, and c) Temporary and long-term local authority housing.

Location: UK (London)

Consortium for Street Children

Amount awarded: £50,000

Summary: Street Connected Children and Young People (SCCYP) project in Mombasa addresses access to basic education which acts as a barrier to livelihoods off the street. Public schools are ill-equipped to meet the needs of SCCYP. This project aims to make unsafe, unsupported, and excluded SCCYP safer, with better access to services and a greater sense of belonging in their community. The project will provide sustainable routes off the street by improving literacy and numeracy, and providing support to enter and remain in education, including moving to secondary and higher education.

Location: Kenya

EduSpots

Amount awarded: £44,666

Summary: The Catalyse Leadership Programme aims to enable 40 community-based volunteers (‘Catalysts’), to catalyse change in their communities through their leadership of up to 40 community-owned library-education spaces (‘Spots’) that EduSpots has worked with communities to create since 2015. The programme will impact the educational opportunities of an estimated 10,000 learners using the Spots, enabling them to have access to quality practical educational opportunities and learning resources.

Feed the Minds

Amount awarded: £48,777

Summary: Follow-on funding for the Tanjona Livelihoods and Biodiversity Project supporting 90 women in Mandrosoa in silk production. This project seeks to build the capacity of women in Mandrosoa and Andrangana for long-term poverty reduction and sustainable development by a) promoting protection, conservation, and restoration of the mangrove forest, b) equipping women with skills to carry out economic activities (agriculture, fishing, silk production), in line with annual seasonal calendar, and c) training women in specialist silk production, value- addition, supply chain participation and commercialisation.

Location: Madagascar

Global Girl Project

Amount awarded: £30,000

Summary: Providing leadership education to over 700 girls (13 - 21 years) living in some of the most marginalised communities in the Majority World (Global South), focusing on overlooked geographies and providing educational opportunities for girls often unable to access other programmes due to extreme poverty & social exclusion.

Location: across Global Majority

MAITS

Amount awarded: £23,000

Summary: To embed and integrate lifesaving and life-changing Community Health Worker (CHW) training into the fabric of partner organisations across Pakistan. The project will enhance the quality of life for children living with neurodevelopmental disabilities in low-resource countries by fostering local expertise and strengthening community capacities from within. ​It will train a) at least 50 CHWs at level 1 and b) at least 6 CHW at level 2. ​It will also work to foster a culture of excellence by supporting standout level 2 trainers to ascend to Master Trainer status. ​Each CHW, over an estimated decade-long career, will enrich the lives of approximately 100 children with special needs and their families.

Location: Pakistan

Practical Action

Amount awarded: £49,974

Summary: Supporting smallholder farmers (SHF) in Gwanda District, Matabeleland Province to adapt to the effects of climate change on poverty, family food and nutrition security and household sustainable livelihood. This will be achieved through access to solar powered irrigation, and regenerative agriculture production methods. Furthermore, the funding will enable the farmers to tap into underground water resources and sand-dams will provide year-round.

Location: Zimbabwe

The Baytree Centre

Amount awarded: £50,000

Summary: Follow on funding for Sparking Futures, an employability program specifically designed to support the most marginalised young women, aged 14 to 22 years in London to overcome socio-economic barriers such as poverty and deprivation, combining mentoring, theory-based workshops and practical events to make learning accessible, engaging and fun for everyone involved.

Location: UK (London)

UK for UNHCR

Amount awarded: £31,950

Summary: Supporting UNHCR’s Emergency Fund, to enable timely response to future humanitarian crises across the world.

Location: Global

United World Schools (UWS)

Amount awarded: £40,554

Summary: Enabling 250+ children in two communities of the highly remote Andavadoaka region of southwest Madagascar to gain literacy, numeracy, and essential life skills through quality, inclusive primary education. Through training and support for local teachers and education staff, it will also provide vital capacity and system strengthening for quality education delivery in this rural region.

Location: Madagascar

Vita UK / New Hope

Amount awarded: £50,000

Summary: The Empowering Communities for Sustainable Cooking and Forest Conservation project aims to significantly impact climate change mitigation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions from household cooking, and deforestation through the widespread adoption of fuel-efficient cooking stoves with community-led initiatives, fostering sustainable practices, and enhancing the well-being of rural communities.

Location: Ethiopia

Women and Children First

Amount awarded: £23,000
Summary: Women and Children First aims to expand its proven methodology of mobilising community health groups run by trained local women to bring people together to identify their most critical problems and find impactful, sustainable solutions – thereby saving and changing lives. This project aims to scale-up this approach by expanding the work to Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Location: Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda

Wonder Foundation

Among awarded: £36,433

Summary: Local partner Fundación Sirama has since 1970 provided education and skills-based training to over 500,000 women. They aim to empower 250 women annually who currently have no access to education and are vulnerable to dangerous and exploitative employment opportunities, including trafficking and prostitution. They offer a comprehensive eight-month hospitality training courses combining theoretical and practical training, followed by job placements with industry partners. This funding will support the renovation of their kitchen, critical to the successful delivery of the courses and in effectively reaching thousands of marginalised women at risk.

Location: El Salvador