Africa

"To promote income generation through selected programmes supporting basic agriculture and small scale manufacturing and enterprise in selected African countries on a basis which is environmentally sustainable"

Summary of Africa programmes
List of grants paid during 2006 - 2007
Links to beneficiaries
For further information download the 2006 Annual Report

Tunnel cultivation of seedlings, Tree Biotechnology Project, Karura nursery, Kenya

Summary of Africa programmes

For more than 20 years, the Trustees have been active supporters of both agricultural and small-medium enterprise (SME) development in Africa. For most of this period support has been focused on agricultural research and its diffusion, while support for micro-enterprise and micro-finance has been delivered by Gatsby's in-country trusts. Highlights of some of Africa's programmes can be found under Beneficiaries - Stories & Letters.

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List of grants paid during 2006 - 2007

2006-2007
Total£6,512,640
Total payments made in 2006 - 2007 (from new and previous grants)
African Institute of Mathematical Sciences£58,760
To support 120 student bursaries for a one-year postgraduate diploma course at the AIMS centre.
Ashoka Trust, UK£200,000
Towards support for the East African Fellowships, stipends for three fellows each year, administration costs.
Cameroon Gatsby Trust£52,335
Towards project and development costs, training programmes, and support for microfinance initiatives in collaboration with other country trusts.
Council for Scientific & Industrial Research£101,469
Towards the rice development and plantain improvement programme in Ghana.
FARM Africa£1,173,855
Towards the development of the Maendeleo Agricultural Technology Fund.
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture£182,247
For continuation of the Bacterial Wilt Resistance Programme in east African highland bananas, and evaluation of IITA/JIC biotechnology projects.
International Network for Improvement of Banana & Plantain£225,000
Towards its banana diversity programme.
Kenya Gatsby Trust£242,764
Towards project and development costs, micro-finance initiatives in collaboration with other country Trusts, and a collaborative project of SME support with the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
Kilimo Trust£2,436,397
Towards core costs and new projects in Uganda.
Microfinance Association of Tanzania£150,000
Towards the start-up and development costs.
Rothamsted International£423,763
Towards the development of a nematology training programme; and support of a fellowship programme for African scientists.
Sainsbury Management Fellows, South Africa£109,729
Towards supporting, in full, five fellowships for 2005, and five half fellowships in 2006 and 2007.
Scientific & Industrial Leadership Initiative, South Africa£351,542
Towards core costs and for costs associated with taking their new business plan forward.
ShoreCap Exchange£100,000
Towards developing micro-finance initiatives in Africa.
Tanzania Gatsby Trust£267,347
Towards project and development costs, start-up costs of the University of Dar-es-Salaam technology transfer programme for SMEs, and micro-finance initiatives in collaboration with other country trusts.
Uganda Gatsby Trust£306,802
Towards the costs of developing the Gatsby Club network, credit programme and managed workspace, a scholarship fund for engineering students at Makerere University, and micro-finance initiatives in collaboration with other country trusts.
The beneficiaries below received grant payments totalling less than £50,000
Gatsby African Trusts£28,377
Caine Prize for African Writing£25,000
Legal Resources Centre£15,198
National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), Uganda£23,953
Tropical Agriculture Association£14,000
University of Cambridge£11,000
Small grants were paid to other organisations in this category totalling £13,102

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