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Rkongni Group, Cameroon
The 'Push-Pull' Programme
Nairobi market stall – Naomi Wairimu
Housing scheme, Tanzania
Women’s credit scheme, Zanzibar
Africa - Grants Paid 2007-8
2007-2008
Total
£5,131,075
Total payments made in 2007 - 2008 (from new and previous grants)
Cameroon Gatsby Foundation (CGF)
£335,550
Towards core support and project costs.
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
£327,598
Towards a crop and livestock strip farming project in Nigeria and Niger and IITA’s work on dissemination of high yielding varieties of yam species.
Kenya Gatsby Trust (KGT)
£191,820
Towards core support and project costs.
Kilimo Trust
£2,077,196
Towards core and new project costs, a study into the relocation of Nairobi City Market, and additional investment in African Agricultural Capital.
Rothamsted International
£263,447
Towards the development of a nematology training programme, and support of a fellowship programme for African scientists.
Scientific & Industrial Leadership Initiative, South Africa
£234,419
Towards core costs and development of SAILI’s business plan.
Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI)
£98,431
Towards the costs of developing a tree project in Tanzania.
Tanzania Gatsby Trust (TGT)
£405,526
Towards core support and project costs.
Towards a technology transfer programme for SME’s with the University of Dar es Salaam.
Cotton and Textile Development Programme (funded through TGT)
£527,447
Towards the design and implementation of the cotton and textile development programme in Tanzania.
Uganda Gatsby Trust (UGT)
£290,146
Towards core support and project costs.
Windrush Ventures No.3 LP
£185,200
Towards the design and implementation of a programme providing capacity building support to the government of Rwanda.
The beneficiaries below received grant payments totalling less than £50,000
Gatsby African Trusts
£22,757
Caine Prize for African Writing
£25,000
Central Science Laboratory
£15,300
FARM Africa
£25,670
Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST)
£47,397
Sainsbury Management Fellows of South Africa
£32,671
Tropical Agriculture Association
£14,500
University of Cambridge
£11,000