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We founded the Kilimo Trust in 2005 as an independent organisation funding and supporting agricultural projects in East Africa. Kilimo is now focusing on implementing regional sector programmes in staple crop markets across the East African Community.
We have developed and piloted a research tool mapping the supply and demand of agricultural finance at a national level to provide credible, detailed information that should increase the quantity and effectiveness of investment in African agriculture.
We founded Tanzania Gatsby Trust in 1992 as an independent institution dedicated to promoting economic development in the country. It has supported small businesses, primarily run by women, through microfinance, training and other activities.
We partnered with Makerere University to found Uganda Gatsby Trust in 1994, aiming to bring research into the small business sector. We are now supporting a small business finance programme spun-off in 2005 to achieve commercial sustainability.
We founded the Cameroon Gatsby Foundation in 1994 as an independent institution with local staff and Trustees. The Foundation focuses on providing microfinance to women’s groups, and is now seeking to scale-up activities to achieve sustainability.
We supported the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative to help build the capacity and functioning of institutions at the centre of the Rwandan Government. The programme has also supported the Government in developing a broader capacity building strategy.
We funded a project aimed at improving the quality of information on science and technology used within the Ugandan parliament in order to increase parliament’s ability to scrutinise government proposals, thus strengthening the policymaking process.
We funded the research partnership which developed this innovative and natural science-based technology which protects maize from attacks by the parasitic weed Striga and stemborer moths that devastate the crops of smallholder farmers across Africa.
We funded a variety of projects addressing declining banana yields in Africa through research into diseases; the multiplication and distribution of improved varieties; farmer training; and the development of transgenic plants with disease-resistance.
We funded the National Agricultural Research Organisation to improve bean yields in Uganda by involving farmers in the selection, demonstration and distribution of new varieties, and forming farmers’ associations to package, market and sell seed
