Funds & Foundations

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) was launched by former President of the United States Barack Obama as a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders. The need to invest in grooming strong, results-oriented leaders comes out of the statistics: nearly 1 in 3 Africans are between the ages of 10 and 24, and […]

Founded on November 10, 1973, the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation has since 1997 become the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research.Its ultramodern headquarters was built in Yamoussoukro from 1977 to 1987 and inaugurated on December 5, 1997 by the symbolic handing over of the keys to the then UNESCO General-Director, Mr. Frederico Mayor. The Foundation works

CAMFED is a pan-African movement, revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered. Through a gold-standard system of accountability to the young people and communities we serve, we have created a model that radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women. Contact number: +233 (0)3720 24516 / +233 (0)3720 22195 Email Address: ghana@camfed.orgWebsite: www.camfed.org

LCA positively influences, accelerates and bring about the protection of rain forests and selected eco systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contact number: +27 (0) 12 460 5323Email Address: Admin@lcafrica.orgWebsite: www.lcafrica.org

The Mail & Guardian’s annual feature of eminent 200 Young South Africans has become a hallmark of our calendar and is now in its 13th year. It is one of the most popular editions of the M&G, but it has earned significance far beyond our newsroom. A listing in the 200 Young South Africans supplement

CAMFED is a pan-African movement, revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered. Through a gold-standard system of accountability to the young people and communities we serve, we have created a model that radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women. Contact number: +265 1 875 474 / 476 / 111642724 Email Address: malawi@camfed.orgWebsite: www.camfed.org

The Mawazo Institute is a non-profit research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya.  Founded in 2017 by two young female scientists, we support the next generation of female thought leaders and scholars in Africa and get policymakers and the public engaged with their research. We run a PhD Scholars programme that provides research funding and other support

NAYD is a network for African youths to know one another in the field of development and hopefully work together wherever possible. NAYD thus creates a platform to create opportunities for African youths through sustainable development and involving young people into an African network to preach the message of peace, human rights, HIV/AIDs, and the

annual listing of the 100 Most Influential Africans (MIA). The MIA listing also provides a rapid review of some of the major events and developments across the continent through bite-sized highlights of achievements of individuals in various countries and in virtually all sectors of life. Website: www.newafricanmagazine.com/100/

Our work is shaped by our belief that the next Einstein will be African. We are working to make Africa a global hub for science and technology. The NEF is a platform that connects science, society and policy in Africa and the rest of the world – with the goal to leverage science for human