Fahamu would like to express its appreciation to the following organisations for the funding they have provided.
Fahamu’s current funders
AB Charitable Trust
The AB Charitable Trust provides general support to Fahamu’s core activities.
American Jewish World Service
The American Jewish World Service has supported capacity building of grassroots organisations in East and West Africa.
Christian Aid
Christian Aid has provided institutional funding for Pambazuka News over three years; supported the publication of African Perspectives on China in Africa; the 2007 meeting in Shanghai of activists from China and Africa; and the Portuguese edition of Pambazuka News.
Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust funds Fahamu to provide scholarships for African participants to undertake courses designed to strengthen human rights and civil society.
Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative on Africa
Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative on Africa has supported Fahamu's Pambazuka News to ensure the dissemination of information about the work of partners of the special initiative and in publishing information on their regional conference on citizenship and identity. The Ford Foundation has also provided general support for Pambazuka News in order to expand the breadth and depth of its reach. In addition, the Ford Foundation supports the production of radio projects for the Media and Women’s Rights project.
Foundation for Human Rights South Africa
The Foundation for Human Rights South Africa supported Fahamu's research on the human rights training needs of community based organisations in southern Africa.
Haella Foundation
The Haella Foundation supports the production and development of Pambazuka News.
HIVOS
HIVOS has supported the production of trade and justice special issues of Pambazuka News and the publication of the book From the Slave Trade to ‘Free’ Trade. HIVOS also provides support to the project which uses SMS for the protection of land rights in South Africa and funds to develop Fahamu’s offices in Kenya and South Africa.
Inter Pares
Inter Pares supports the production and development of Pambazuka News.
International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) has supported a range of Fahamu projects: research on the training and information needs of human rights organisations in southern Africa; the development of distance learning materials for human rights organisations in southern Africa; the development and publication of Writing for Change in English, French and Spanish; research on the training needs of journalists in East Africa; and the development of SMS for advocacy on the Protocol on the Rights of Women. IDRC also supports the Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (Equinet), through which Fahamu received grants for the development of the Equinet website and associated newsletter, Equinet News.
Maggie Black Trust
The Maggie Black Trusthas enabled Fahamu to provide workshops on the use of blogging to African women.
New Field Foundation
New Field Foundation, a supporting organisation of the Tides Foundation, has provided Fahamu with financial support to enhance the reach of Pambazuka News; to produce a French language version of Pambazuka News; to strengthen grassroots women's organisations; to host grassroots women’s organisations attending the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2007 and to provide core support for Fahamu.
Open Society Instititue for West Africa
Open Society Instititue for West Africa has supported the French edition of Pambazuka News.
Open Society Institute/ Foundation for Open Society Institute
Open Society Institute/ Foundation for Open Society Institute has supported the development of the African Union Monitor project and supported the Lens on Lebanon project.
Oxfam GB
Oxfam GB has supported Fahamu’s work with Solidarity for the African Women’s Rights coalition and with the Global Call to Action against Poverty; and the development of the African Union Monitor project.
Oxfam NOVIB
Oxfam NOVIB has supported Fahamu's work on the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and with the Solidarity for the African Women’s Rights coalition.
The Funding Network
The Funding Network – Oxford Branch has supported women affected by the violence in Kenya to prepare, with the assistance of experts, testimonies that will be submitted to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The Sigrid Rausing Trust
The Sigrid Rausing Trust has supported Fahamu's collaboration with Solidarity for African Women’s Rights, a coalition of 26 organisations that advocates the ratification and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
TrustAfrica
TrustAfrica enabled Fahamu to publish African Perspectives on China in Africa; and to expand the breadth and depth of the reach of Pambazuka News and in support of peacebuilding in Africa.