International Grants Programme

Courtesy of AfriKids
project in Ghana

Courtesy of Tim Glass, John Ellerman Foundation
Visit to Uganda 2008

Minority Rights Group - project in Kenya
Photograph Courtesy of Neil Clarke

 

Listed below are the 36 International grants the Foundation has made under the programme from 2001 to 2009. The John Ellerman Foundation has contributed a total of £1,397,729 (in addition to the amounts shown below) to 27 of the grants made in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Click here to see The John Ellerman Foundation's website.

1. To find out more about each organisation click onto the link at the organisation name.

2. To find out more about each project click onto the link at the beginning of the description.

3. To see the end of project evaluations, where appropriate, click onto the evaluation links at the end of the descriptions.

Organisation Name
Description of project
Grant amount £

Year
awarded

Education Action International This three-year project aims to improve the effectiveness of Education Action International and its local partners in Africa and Peru to deliver educational services to adults and children who have been uprooted by conflict. 198,636
2001
Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) This three-year project aims to provide capacity building and institutional support to organisations of nomadic pastoralists in Somaliland. Evaluation 238,948
2001
South Sudan Women Concern This three-year project will provide grants, training resources and materials to enable 20 groups of displaced women in Southern Sudan to build their organisational capacity. It will also improve the capacity of South Sudan Women Concern and other local partners to support this process. Evaluation 239,850
2001
ICA UK Towards building the capacity of ICA Tanzania to expand its involvement with displaced people and migrant communities. It will also develop the capacity of 20 local groups from amongst the (predominantly) Maasai and Waarusha peoples in Kisongo and Manyara Divisions, Monduli District, Tanzania. Evaluation 138,565
2002
Reason Partnership To build capacity within RFI, its partner organisation in Peru and communities there to respond to the mental health needs of women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by displacement. It will test a model of effective practice which can then be used more widely in Latin America and elsewhere. Evaluation 141,294
2002
Tigray Development Association UK To promote conflict resolution as an essential strand running through development initiatives with displaced people in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia through the establishment of a Conflict Resolution Unit within TDA International. Evaluation 221,000
2002
Anti-Slavery International To establish a permanent network of NGOs in the West African countries of Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Togo, Burkina Faso and Gabon working on the issue of child trafficking. Evaluation 164,358
2003
Disability and Development Partners (formerly Jaipur Limb Campaign) To strengthen the capacity of a local partner in Angola and enhance its capacity to respond to the needs of internally displaced people with disabilities, and their families. Evaluation 156,000
2003
Rainforest Foundation To increase the capacity of organisations in Cameroon, Congo the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon to address the problems of displaced forest people through policy and advocacy work. Evaluation 185,000
2003
The Gorilla Organization Capacity-building of indigenous peoples' organisations in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to enhance their socio-economic conditions and assert their rights. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). Evaluation 57,143
2004
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group)

Building the capacity of NGOs and CBOs to implement decentralised infrastructure interventions to improve the lives of flood-displaced communities in Mozambique. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). Evaluation

135,187
2004
UNICEF UK A comprehensive support programme for the reintegration into the community of child soldiers in Sudan. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). Evaluation 115,367
2004
Y Care International To develop the capacity of Y Care International, grass-roots groups and NGOs to meet the needs of internally displaced former child soldiers in Colombia. Evaluation 196,642
2004
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers To establish and support a network of organisations in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivorie seeking to stop the use of child soldiers and support regeneration of former child soldiers into society. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). Evaluation 148,128
2005
Oxfam GB Towards providing livelihood and educational opportunities to displaced women in shanty towns around Port Sudan. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
30,938
2005
Reason Partnership Towards implementation of a national plan to address post-traumatic stress disorder among displaced people returning to their homes in former conflict zones in Peru.
75,000
2005
South Sudan Women Concern Towards capacity building of 30 groups of displaced women in South Sudan and provision of support to former child soldiers. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
71,425
2005
Transform Africa Towards assistance to build the capacities of NGOs and CBOs in Sierra Leone to support the long-term integration of former refugees and displaced people. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
30,938
2005
Village AiD To support partner organisations in Ghana and Sierra Leone working with displaced and excluded young people. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). Evaluation
92,143
2005
Africa Educational Trust To reduce illiteracy and poverty amongst displaced women, children and young people living in camps for internally displaced people in Somalia by building their communities' capacity to identify and address their education and training needs. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here). Evaluation
176,711
2006
Children in Crisis The project will train 300 primary school teachers and support local NGOs and community groups in delivering educational services in an isolated part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here). Evaluation
Annexe to Evaluation
169,377
2006
Consortium for Street Children Working with NGO, government and CBO partners in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The project seeks to prevent children from moving onto the streets and reintegrate those who are already there into society. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
56,000
2006
Skills for Southern Sudan The project will train local consultants in South Sudan who will go on to train CBOs in a range of skills needed to establish themselves as organisations. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
121,512
2006
Motivation Charitable Trust The project will promote the inclusion of disabled people in programmes designed by mainstream NGOs and CBOs in Uganda. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). Evaluation
175,000
2007
One World Action The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of refugee communities in Tanzania to respond to sexual and gender-based violence. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).

150,500

2007
UWESO UK Trust - Trust for Africa's Orphans This project aims to assist widows and orphans in Uganda in securing their rights to their husbands' and fathers' land. It comprises paralegal and advocacy training, awareness raising and information dissemination. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
147,000
2007
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The project will develop and deliver training programmes in life skills, 'non-formal education' and entrepreneurship to refugees and displaced girls and young women in one refugee camp in the Republic of Chad. To recruit and train volunteer guide leaders, and increase girls' access to guiding and scouting services and activities. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 90.38% to the amount shown here).
52,500
2007
Akina Mama Wa Afrika To raise awareness and to build the capacity of women led organisations to enhance services for displaced people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia., Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. To promote networking between them to encourage lesson-learning and information sharing. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
152,330
2008
Camfed International To promote the ability of people displaced by long-term forced migration to access education for girls and participate in its provision and to provide support for school leavers to transition to safe livelihoods in Zimbabwe. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
155,410
2008
Minority Rights Group International To develop appropriate remedies to address the forced migration of Endorois community in Kenya, including building local capacity to represent their interests and to enable them to engage with Kenya government over the African Charter on Human Rights. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
166,657
2008
Peace Direct To work with a local partner to find ways to provide security for internally displaced people, assist them to return home, minimise the risk of further conflict through the demobilisation of militia and work with communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
115,247
2008
Send a Cow UK To develop information management systems. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
39,374
2008
Afrikids Capacity building of AfriKids Ghana and local partners to prevent north-south migration in Ghana, including direct resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced children. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). 166,050
2009
Antislavery International To enable local partners in Mauritania to bring together different groups of displaced migrants in constructive problem solving dialogue, while also advocating for their rights. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). 166,675
2009
Link Community Development To improve the standard of education for children affected by conflict and support the resettlement of displaced communities in Katakwi, Uganda. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). 165,784
2009
St. Matthew's Children's Fund Ethiopia To develop the capacity of the displaced Negede Woitto community in Ethiopia to develop social and economic programmes and advocate for their rights. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here). 118,096
2009

 

Courtesy of World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
project in the Republic of Chad

Courtesy of Tim Glass, John Ellerman Foundation
Visit to Uganda 2008

Peace Direct project in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
Photograph courtesy of Henri Ladyi