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2013 – The U.S. government's Power Africa initiative was launched in 2013, bringing together technical and legal experts, the private sector, and governments from around the world to work in partnership to create 60 million new energy connections in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a feminist non-governmental organization that operates throughout Africa and the Middle East. The AWDF’s purpose is to secure funding from different types of donors to create grants, which are then used to support a variety of feminist causes and organizations throughout the region. [1]
Grants Programme Governance The board of governors provides oversight to the foundation's grant making through the Grants Committee, comprising representatives of member states and reports to the executive committee. In addition to receiving reports on grants made by the foundation, the committee is called upon to make decisions on larger awards.
One Acre Fund is a social enterprise that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Kakamega , Kenya , the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya , Rwanda , Burundi , Tanzania , Uganda , Malawi , Nigeria ...
The Aga Khan provides the Foundation with regular funding for administration as well as making contributions to its endowment. Grants from government, institutional and private sector partners including from the United Nations, Global Affairs Canada, USAID, the UK's FCDO, the German Federal Foreign Office, Agence Française de Développement and others represent substantial sources of funding.
It recently supported the development of the Africa Union Gender Strategy and the Kenya Special Education Needs Policy. In Nepal, VSO has been awarded nearly £10 million for inclusive education work through the UK's Girls' Education Challenge, the world's largest education challenge fund, which targets support for adolescent girls.
Spark MicroGrants has worked to put families facing poverty as the driving seat of local change since July 2010. Spark’s key innovation is the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), in which a series of curated village meetings are held paired with a seed grant.
This is a list of domestic and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in Kenya. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.