LOCATION: Nairobi - Kenya

PURPOSE: Strategic Planning

AMOUNT:           USD 4, 872

Project Description
Bunge la Mwananchi (BLM) is a mass social movement that started in the early 1990s as a reaction to continued economic plunder and misrule in Kenya. BLM serves as a platform for the common citizenry to deliberate on socio-economic and political issues affecting their livelihoods as well as general citizenry dialogue.

LOCATION: Eldoret - Kenya

PURPOSE: Youth Empowerment for Peace, Reconciliation and Development Symposium

AMOUNT:           USD 649

Project Description

Twaweza Communications is an organisation that works towards development of alternative cultural sites, the creation of effective leadership in Africa and the utilisation of African languages and discourse in the contemporary world.

LOCATION: Nationwide - Kenya

PURPOSE: Organisational Strengthening through Strategic Planning

AMOUNT:           USD 4, 600

Project Description
Africa Community Development Media (ACDM) is an organisation that works to transform the manner in which development and governance work can be enhanced by creating a dynamic partnership with the various stakeholders. ACDM’s overall objective is to strengthen the capacity of communities to formulate, articulate and interpret development issues.

LOCATION: Nationwide - Kenya

PURPOSE: Strategic Planning

AMOUNT:           USD 6, 500

Project Description

Youth Agenda seeks to make the Youth factor count in Kenya. The organisation aims at redefining the role of young people in the governance and development processes in Kenya through training, research, knowledge generation and promoting civic awareness.

LOCATION: Bujumbura - Burundi

PURPOSE: Enhancing Effective Communication with Partners in Human Rights and Social Development

AMOUNT:           USD 5, 000

Project Description
CONSEDI is a non-profit organisation that works on peace-building and development in particular to strengthen the local community in food security, peace-building, human rights and social development in Burundi.

LOCATION: Bagamoyo - Tanzania

PURPOSE: Strategic Planning

AMOUNT:           USD 4, 200

Project Description
Coastal Youth Vision Association (CYVA) is an organisation that works to enhance democratic, transparent and accountable governance and improved welfare of young people in Bagamoyo, including effective protection for their rights, through strengthening of the capacity of grass-roots, Community Based Organisations to influence key policy decisions relating to poverty reduction, equity and democratisation.

LOCATION: Kampala - Uganda

PURPOSE: Consumer Empowerment for Active Citizenship

AMOUNT:           USD 6, 500

Project Description

Consumer Education Trust of Uganda (CONSENT) plays an outstanding role in consumer education in Uganda. A beacon in the region, CONSENT has demonstrated that consumer rights are indeed enforceable in East Africa. Since its inception in 2002, the organisation has been working to promote a socially informed, equitable and just society through empowerment of consumers, promotion of ethical practices among businesses and engagement of policy-makers to enact pro-people policies.

LOCATION: Nairobi - Kenya

PURPOSE: Institutional Strengthening

AMOUNT:  USD 6,500

Project Description

The Institute of Kenyan South Asians History and Culture (IKSAH) works to promote greater interaction between various races and advances inclusion of South Asians’ (as racial minority in Kenya) history and culture into the mainstream and national discourse as well as develop a consciousness of nantion-hood through respect of human rights and social justice.