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The
Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global
foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain
the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people
throughout the world.
In order to maximise its resources and leverage
the Foundation's strengths, grant making is organised
around four thematic lines of work: Creativity &
Culture, Food Security, Health Equity and Working
Communities.
A cross-theme of Global Inclusion supports, promotes
and supplements the work of these themes. In addition,
the Foundation supports various regional and special
programmes, among them the Africa Regional Program,
Southeast Asia Regional Program, Communication for
Social Change, Public/Private Partnerships and Global
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Contacts
New
York,
420
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018-2702.
USA
Tel: 212-869-8500
Fax:
E-mail:info@rockfound.org
Website: http://www.rockfound.org.
Nairobi,
Kenya
International
House
13th Floor
Mama Ngina Street
P.O. Box 47543, 00100 GPO
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: 254-2-228061 |
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| Gatsby
Charitable Foundation (Through the Kilimo
Trust) |
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The Foundation
is an endowed grant-making trust with general
charitable objectives, under which Trustees
can give money to any charitable cause.
The Foundation's capital - its expendable
endowment - was provided by the founder. The
Trustees make grants by using the income and
occasionally by drawing on the capital. They
do not raise money from the public or elsewhere.
The Trustees make grants for charitable activity
which they hope may make life better for people,
especially those who are disadvantaged. With
over 30 years of grant-making, the Trustees
have chosen to concentrate their support in
a limited number of fields of activity. These
fields are adapted over time with the help
of outside experts and through interaction
with the organisations whose work has been
helped by the Foundation. The Trustees generally
do not make grants in response to unsolicited
applications and do not normally make grants
to individuals.
From 2005, the support to MATF from the foundation
has been through the Kilimo
Trust. This was established to take charge
of all Gatsby Charitable foundation's agricultural-related
activities in the East African Region. The
regional office is based in Kampala, Uganda.
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Contacts
The
Gatsby Charitable Foundation,
Allington House (1st Floor) 150
Victoria Street London SW1E 5AE
UK
Tel: (020) 7410 0330
Fax: (020) 7410 0332
E-mail: contact@gatsby.org.uk
Website: http://www.gatsby.org.uk |
Contacts
The
Kilimo Trust
Plot 2 Serunkuma Road
Mbuya
P.O. Box 71782, Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 31 264980/1
Fax: +256 31 264985
E-mail: admin@kilimo.co.ug
Web: http://www.thekilimotrust.org/ |
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FARM-Africa
is a charitable international
NGO with its head office in the United Kingdom.
It has projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania,
Uganda and South Africa. It was founded in
1985 by the late Sir Michael Wood and David
Campbell, in Kenya. David Campbell, who was
then working with OXFAM, was tasked with the
challenge of making it work as the organisation's
first Chief Executive. FARM-Africa began its
first project in Northern Kenya called the
Pastoralists Development Project (PDP) in
1986 and thereafter expanded to Ethiopia,
Tanzania and South Africa.
FARM-Africa's
vision is a prosperous rural Africa and
the overall goal is to reduce poverty by
enabling marginal farmers and herders to
make sustainable improvement to their well
being through more effective management
of their renewable natural resources.
FARM-Africa
uses innovative and challenging approaches
that are highly specialised. It seeks to
be catalytic, rather than merely providing
services. Over the years it has continued
to serve the important role of acting as
a bridge between researchers and farmers.
FARM-Africa believes in building the capacity
of people and local institutions in Africa
rather than developing parallel structures.
This capacity is built through disseminating
practical experiences, advocacy to improve
policy and practice, conducting participatory
farmer-oriented research that is relevant
to practical problems confronting communities.
It is deeply humanitarian with a great vision
for Africa, and strongly believes in African
people's ability to solve problems. Its
mandate falls within the following:
- Pastoral
development
- Forestry/Agroforestry
- Smallholder
development
- Community
participatory planning and research
- Capacity
building
- Building
partnership with other organizations
- Dissemination
and advocacy
FARM-Africa
specialises in Natural Resource (NR) work,
working together with other partners, in
other themes and currently is considering
integrating HIV/AIDS awareness in its work.
Besides, FARM-Africa is involved in dissemination
of its experiences and use of the same experiences
for advocacy. It is for this purpose that
it has been involved in forming and running
networks to facilitate this. Among the networks
formed include the East African Goat Development
Network (EAGODEN), Kenya Goat Development
Network (KEGODEN) and Community
Animal Health Network (CAHNET).
Based on this institutional strength, it
was charged with the task of managing a
regional challenge fund (MATF) funded by
the Gatsby and Rockefeller Foundations and
is currently implementing the fourth phase
of this fund. |
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