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
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.
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 | |
Links
- African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa
- Ashoka Trust
- Cameroon Gatsby Foundation
- Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
- FARM-Africa
- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
- International Network for Improvement of Banana & Plantain (INIBAP)
- Kenya Gatsby Trust
- Kilimo Trust
- Rothamsted Research
- Sainsbury Management Fellows
- Scientific & Industrial Leadership Iniative, South Africa (SAILI)
- ShoreCap Exchange
- Tanzania Gatsby Trust
- Uganda Gatsby Trust
