Bulletin (19)
Accompaniment and Capacity Enhancement as a Trustafrica Strategy
Written by Fatou Published in BulletinHere at TrustAfrica we are privileged to consider ourselves embedded partners who are unashamedly passionate and active in the issues we care so much about as a foundation. We are encouraged to harness our pan-Africanism and activism in the work that we do daily. Having our activism nurtured and at the center of what we do in the workplace adds to the DNA of TrustAfrica being a philanthropic foundation that acts in solidarity with communities and proximate actors across the African continent. We seek to accompany those grassroots groups, social movements and organizations who are at the forefront of making breakthroughs for Africa’s progress in democracy and governance, in equitable development and in African Philanthropy. That’s why capacity enhancement is one of our key strategies for accompanying partners on the ground. TrustAfrica takes a bold stance of investing in nascent and unknown organizations, formations and movements across the continent with catalytic grants. These emergent outfits who show great potential often benefit from support in terms of enhancing their capacity in various areas: from organizational development to advocacy skills development, to communications and storytelling skills development, inter alia. We believe that giving a grant is just a first catalytic step in our partnerships with actors on the ground. We have seen firsthand how the potency of pairing catalytic grantmaking with needs-based capacity enhancement supports grassroots organizations, civil society, media, social movements, public sector and academia to have more outsized impact on their ecosystems. This edition of our newsletter showcases some of the ways that our capacity enhancement strategy plays out across our three program areas. Read more below about the new capacities needed for sustainable activism in our democracy and governance portfolio; capacity enhancement in our fair trade and decent work engagements in the RECLAIM Sustainability! Project and supporting media in understanding and reporting on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) under our Equitable Development portfolio; and how collaborative capacity enhancement has been foundational building a West African Philanthropy Support Ecosystem under our African Philanthropy portfolio.
Word Cloud from TrustAfrica Programs Meeting in September: What is Your 1 Word Prayer for TrustAfrica?
 |
| Download the Newsletter |
In last year’s editions of our newsletter, we introduced you to our three pillars of work around democracy and governance, equitable development, and African philanthropy. This year, we are looking forward to introducing you to the core strategies we use in delivering our work namely, grantmaking, African knowledge and research generation, capacity strengthening, and movement building.
Read the full newsletter online.
Word Cloud from TrustAfrica Programs Meeting in September: What is Your 1 Word Prayer for TrustAfrica?
 |
| Download the Newsletter |
We’re excited to share this latest edition of our newsletter with you, particularly because we’ve been privileged to be part of so many important conversations about Africa’s development and the possibilities for transformative participation available to citizens, public and private leaders and academics. Read more to find out what interesting conversations we’ve been a part of around Democracy and Governance, Equitable Development and African Philanthropy. To start you off we have as our center piece in this edition remarks delivered by our Learning Manager, Ms. Tendisai Chigwedere during the 2nd African Philanthropy Conference from 3-5 August 2021.
Read the full newsletter online.
 |
| Download the Newsletter |
Shaping the Future We Want Through Pan-African Collaboration
When TrustAfrica was founded in 2006 our mandate was to mobilize and channel substantive resources to stand behind African actors and organizations to enable them to respond to the most pressing challenges facing the continent. Bringing together some of the leading Pan-African thought leaders and practitioners in the Board and through the executive leadership, TrustAfrica has been committed to a strategy of collective impact focusing on nurturing and encouraging collaboration in every intervention across programs. This edition of our newsletter will focus on this collective impact strategy and how we are witnessing outsized impact by working collaboratively trans-locally, nationally and at the Pan-African level. Read more in this newsletter to find out how this translates across our three strategic priority areas of Equitable Development, Democratic Governance and African Philanthropy as a means of defending the key questions facing the continent: Accountability, Equity and Justice. If you haven’t had a chance yet, don’t forget to check out our Shaping the Future We Want for Africa Strategy 2020-2024.
Read the full newsletter online.
 |
| Download the Newsletter |
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed, at a global level, the abnormalcy of prevailing social, economic and political systems – particularly their failure to protect the most vulnerable. At TrustAfrica, we are clear that there is no going back to the old normal. Accordingly, our current focus is on building forward better. We need new models across our economic, social and political systems that will protect the most marginalized and work for everyone. Earlier this month we concluded our strategic retreat, where we reaffirmed the theme of our strategic plan for the period 2020-2024 as Shaping the Future we Want for Africa!
Read the full newsletter online.
Le thème de la Journée internationale de la femme de cette année reconnaît l’impact de la pandémie de santé mondiale COVID-19 en 2020. Pour la campagne 2021, Nations Unies a annoncé le thème « Leadership féminin : réaliser un avenir égalitaire dans un monde COVID-19 ». Une campagne sur les médias sociaux a été lancée pour inspirer les femmes à #ChooseToChallenge et dénoncer les préjugés sexistes et les disparités entre les sexes.
TA Newsletter - Février 2021 | NOTE D’OUVERTURE DE LA NOUVELLE ANNEE
Written by Fatou Published in Bulletin
Nous voici de plain-pied en 2021. Avec elle de nouvelles opportunités et de nouvelles trajectoires. Comme pour toute année nouvelle, nous l’avons entamée avec l’espoir qu’elle sera meilleure que la précédente, parce que nous plongeant dans une société plus saine, plus juste et plus dynamique. A ses débuts encore, l’année 2021 semble être une continuation de 2020 et cela pour le monde entier. La pandémie qui n’a épargné aucun pays n’a pas encore disparu de la terre, mais une chose importante se dessine pour marquer l’année 2021. Aussi voudrions-nous vous proposer une mise à jour, alors que nous entrons dans notre rythme de programmation.
C’est dans cet esprit, nous vous invitons, en tant que partenaires et amis, à être solidaires des communautés qui travaillent sans relâche dans l’espoir d’instaurer la justice, la démocratie participative, la paix et des conditions de vie décentes, sur tout le continent. Nous avons eu le privilège de travailler avec des communautés qui relèvent les défis de cette époque : avec intégrité, vision et passion. Malgré des questions existentielles nécessitant une action urgente cette année, nous sommes impatients de partager avec vous, certaines de ces histoires des communautés. Il en sera ainsi, tout au long de l’année.
TA Special Newsletter | COVID-19 - What's On Our Minds at TrustAfrica
Written by Fatou Published in Bulletin
Dear Friend and Partner, We are pleased to resume the regular publication of our Newsletter, an important medium through which TrustAfrica has been communicating with you about both global and the specifically African issues. There is no doubt that COVID-19 will profoundly change the world, as we know it, and mark a remarkable turnaround in the shape of global society. TrustAfrica was born from a vision to enable African actors to respond most effectively to the most pressing issues affecting the continent. And COVID-19 will surely be recorded as not only one of the most pressing issues of our time, but also as an occurrence which has most acutely highlighted the fault lines in our society.
 |
TrustAfrica a le plaisir d’annoncer la reprise de sa lettre d’information. Cette publication trimestrielle permettra de revenir sur les temps forts des activités déjà déroulées par TrustAfrica. Elle mettra à votre disposition les programmes de ses activités. L’accent sera surtout mis sur le travail de nos partenaires qui sont sur le terrain et qui se battent pour améliorer les conditions de vie de leurs concitoyens. Notre lettre d’information se veut un espace de discussion et de promotion du panafricanisme, de la démocratie et de la citoyenneté. Elle fera donc la promotion des idées á même de contribuer á l’épanouissement et au développement de l’Afrique et de sa diaspora.
Ce numéro reviendra sur les temps forts de la conférence sur les flux financiers Illicites qui s’est tenue à Dakar, au Sénégal les 12 et 13 Mars 2019, la table ronde autour de l’ouvrage d’Ayisha Osori qui s’est tenue dans les locaux de TrustAfrica á Dakar, au Sénégal et nos différentes activités passées et à venir.
Nous vous souhaitons une très bonne lecture.
Lire à partir d'un naviguateur web.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
