Small Grants Programme: funding awards 2014 to 2017

This page lists all the projects awarded funding from the Small Grants Programme from 2014 to 2017. Click on the links below to view:

2017

• project grants awarded in 2017
• feasibility grants awarded in 2017
• capacity building grants awarded in 2017

2016

• project grants awarded in 2016
• feasibility grants awarded in 2016
• capacity building grants awarded in 2016

2015

• project grants awarded in 2015
• feasibility grants awarded in 2015
• capacity building grants awarded in 2015

2014

• project grants awarded in 2014
• feasibility grants awarded in 2014
• capacity building grants awarded in 2014

Project grants awarded in 2017

Youth for Economic Justice

Country:

India, Madhya Pradesh

Project:

Through mentoring, partnership and skills transfer, Youth for Economic Justice helps local organisations in developing countries to effectively respond to economic exclusion of young people. This project will contribute to the economic empowerment of young women from minority Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes living in the Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh, through enterprise development and financial inclusion, helping with business set-up and finance management.

Award detail:

For the "Business Women" project -building a roadmap for economic empowerment with marginalised young women residing in slum communities in Madhya Pradesh.

Grants:

Year one: £20,000
Year two: £20,000
Year three: £20,000
Total: £60,000

Balmore Trust

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The project aims to combat the adverse effects of climate change on rice farming by providing farmers with increased access to and better management of water resources in the Karonga area of Malawi. The plan is to install wells and pumps (solar and diesel) and supply water to 4,500 farmers who will be trained in the integrated use of ground and surface water and the maintenance of wells and pumps. The work will be carried out in conjunction with Strathclyde and Mzuzu Universities, as well as in partnership with the Kaporo Smallholder Farmers' Association.

Award detail:

For the "Developing improved Management of water resources in Karonga" project in Malawi.

Grants:

Year one: £21,300
Year two: £22,700
Year three: £15,750
Total: £59,750

Cerebral Palsy Africa

Country:

Malawi

Project:

Children born with cerebral palsy and other disabilities can often manage in school, but many in Malawi are excluded from school because of the lack of early support. Fit for School is an early intervention programme designed to provide essential early support to young children with complex physical and learning disabilities (such as cerebral palsy) to enable them to be fit for school at 6 years of age and give them the best chance of remaining in school.

Award info:

For the "Fit for School" project to support young children with disabilities into school in Malawi.

Grants:

Year one: £30,524
Year two: £18,989
Year three: £10,038
Total: £59,551

Malawi Fruits

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The "Inspiring Youth in Agriculture" project will provide training and support for young people to enable them to grow a variety of low input/high value crops; take the crops to local processing facilities; receive processed crops and then sell them both locally and outside their communities through contract markets.

Award detail:

For the "Inspiring Youth in Agriculture" project to promote farming business among young people in Malawi.

Grants:

Year one: £17,800
Year two: £15,600
Year three: £11,400
Total: £44,800

Big First Aid Project

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

This project aims to develop a more complete solution to the challenge of emergency health care in Tanzania by training taxi responders to an advanced level of first aid to enable them to treat casualties and transfer them to hospital quickly.

Award detail:

For the "First Aid for Everyone" project – a motorbike ambulance service for Northern Tanzania.

Grants:

Year one: £14,440
Year two: £21,989
Year three: £21,830
Total: £58,259

Lake Victoria Disabled Centre

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

Following a feasibility study in 2015, this project will develop a fully functioning prosthetics workshop where 3D printing will enable the creation of artificial limbs for children and adults in the Mara region on Tanzania.

Award detail:

For the "3D Printing of Prosthetics and Orthotics" project in Tanzania.

Grants:

Year one: £21,470
Year two: £16,400
Year three: £19,800
Totatl: £57,670

Twende Pamoja

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

This project builds on a feasibility study in 2016 and will offer support to improve the ICT skills of teachers, and in turn pupils, in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. It is estimated that over 200 teachers and 8,000 students will have connection with the project.

Award detail:

For the "ICT for Better Futures 2" project, working with 23 schools in Tanzania.

Grants:

Year one: £23,460
Year two: £17,340
Year three: £18,340
Total: £59,140

Friends of Chitambo

Country:

Zambia

Project:

The project aims to contribute to reducing mortality and morbidity due to common medical emergencies by developing and scaling-up a model of medical communication and support for 'hard to reach' clinic areas in Zambia. In addition, the project will create a Knowledge Broker network to source, summarise and communicate emergency healthcare information which will strengthen South/South support for point of care decision-making at district, national and regional level.

Award detail:

For the project focused on communication and decision support systems for emergency medical care in Chitambo District, Zambia.

Grants:

Year one: £37,714
Year two: £22,285
Year three: -
Total: £59,999

Feasibility grants awarded in 2017

Zambia Therapeutic Art

Country:

Zambia

Project:

Current approaches to treatment in Mental Health in Zambia are dominated by pharmacology. However, this approach alone has limited efficacy: research by WHO and NHS Scotland indicates that psychological approaches are also needed for optimum care. Frequent drug shortages further highlight the need to introduce non-pharmacological approaches.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study to explore 'Therapeutic Art' as an alternative psychological intervention for those experience mental health issues in Zambia.

Grant: £10,000

Capacity building grants awarded in 2017

Yes! Tanzania

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

YES! Tanzania helps community sports organisations located in the most disadvantaged urban areas of Tanzania be sustainable, more effective and to reach more young people. This second capacity building application will support two aspects: Development of their Community Sports Programme & Improving Funding

Award detail:

To carry out capacity building focused on Operational Management Systems & Income Generation and Fundraising

Grant: £9,988

Project grants awarded in 2016

Aiming Higher in Malawi

Country:

Malawi

Project:

This project will implement a holistic, integrated health care improvement intervention for 400 disabled children from rural villages in Mulanje South West and Thyolo East, Malawi. Existing 'Girls Go For Health' supervisors will be trained to assess the health needs of disabled children in their homes and parents will be encouraged to seek assistance. Services at the newly constructed Disabled Children's Assessment Centre will be developed. Transport to healthcare services will be provided, and a number of health camps delivered.

Award detail:

For the "Critical Health Interventions for Disabled Children (Mulanje South West and Thyolo East, Malawi)" project

Grant: £59,991

Haemophia Scotland

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The "Malawi Bleeding Disorders Diagnosis Project" will work through the Society of Haemophilia and Allied Disorders Malawi on three outcomes: to Inform, Diagnose and Treat. A public awareness campaign will be run and up to 300 clinicians will be trained in recognising potential bleeding disorders and where to refer patients. A new haemophilia database will be set up.

Award detail:

For the "Malawi Bleeding Disorders Project" to raise awareness and train 300 clinicians. Conditional on confirmation that the constitution permits the organisation to undertake work overseas.

Grant: £19,875

LUV + (Leprosy at Utale Village PLUS) SCIO

Country:

Zambia and Tanzania

Project:

The "Income-generating projects for leprosy communities in Zambia and Tanzania" follows from a feasibility study in 2015 which found and visited 15 leprosy communities in Zambia and Tanzania. The project will initiate a variety of appropriate and sustainable income-generating schemes in 8 leprosy communities – 5 in Zambia and 3 in Tanzania which are home to 350 persons affected by leprosy. These include running a maize mill, small poultry farms, and a shop. This also has the benefit of integrating the leprosy community into the wider village, reducing stigma.

Award detail:

For the income-generating projects for leprosy communities in Zambia and Tanzania, conditional upon matched funding of £5,500 in year one and £7,250 in year two being in place for capital costs.

Grant: £47,850

Scotland Malawi Business Group

Country:

Malawi

Project:

This project will ensure access for small scale pond aquaculture fish farmers to reliable sources of quality fingerlings at an affordable price by developing 15 commercially viable small scale tilapia fingerling producers. A low cost pond-based model will be introduced to 15 existing fish farmers with the necessary technical and entrepreneurial skill sets and within a 100 mile peri-urban radius of Blantyre. Monitoring will be carried out with growout producers who will benefit from receiving quality fingerlings, with good growth rates helping profits.

Award detail:

For the "Small-scale Hatchery Aquaculture Seed Production (SHASP)" project in Malawi. Conditional on the production of a partnership agreement.

Grant: £59,899

The Turing Trust

Country:

Malawi

Project:

This ICT project will create a customised e-library to complement the provision of community ICT hubs in 200 rural schools. A solar powered ICT hub will be developed and training on maintenance undertaken. Income generating activities will be developed.

Award detail:

For the "Improving ICT skills in rural Malawi, powered by renewable energy" project.

Grant: £60,000

Global Eco Village Network International

Country:

Zambia

Project:

The "Greening Schools for Sustainable Community Development in Zambia" project builds on a feasibility study completed in 2015 which combined Integrated Land Use Design with the Eco Village Design Education approach. Four schools will be worked with to produce Resilience Plans and become demonstration sites to inspire their surrounding communities towards sustainable development.

Award detail:

For the "Greening Schools for Sustainable Community Development in Zambia" project.

Grant: £60,000

On Call Africa

Country:

Zambia

Project:

This project will introduce extended training and post qualification support to Community Health Workers. Fifteen existing CHWs and 15 new recruits will benefit, potentially reaching over 9,000 people in 15 communities a year.

Award detail:

For the "Establishing a model of CHW- led healthcare in Southern Zambia" project.

Grant: £39,900

Youth Economic Justice

Country:

India, Madhya Pradesh

Project:

The Girls on the Move project will work with 122 Asdvasi young women aged 16 to 25 years. It builds on a Feasibility Study in 2015 which explored the training and enterprise that young women wanted. Enterprise development and vocational training will be provided, together with support, in order that small commercially viable businesses will be started.

Award detail:

For the "Girls on the Move" project.

Grant: £60,000

Feasibility grants awarded in 2016

Lake Victoria Disability Centre Scotland

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

This feasibility study will evaluate the practicalities of setting up a 3D printing facility to produce prosthetics for people living with disabilities. The aim is to produce artificial limbs efficiently and cost effectively, enabling access for those in marginalised rural communities who currently have to travel long distances to have limbs fitted.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: "3D Printing of Prosthetics" in Mara Region, Tanzania.

Grant: £9,455

CREATIVenergie

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

This study, to increase uptake of biogas to the currently excluded rural poor in Tanzania, will look at how a lower cost tubular design biogas digester can be adapted for rural Tanzania to provide gas for cooking, alleviate deforestation and improve poor respiratory health. The study will take into account available materials, supply chains, and end user needs. A household survey will be carried out in three rural communities around Arusha and engagement made with local biogas stakeholders. Three demonstration biogas digesters will be built and performance monitored. The results will be disseminated through the network of The Domestic Biogass Programme.

Award detail:

To conduct a Feasibility Study: "Increase uptake of biogas to the currently excluded rural poor in Tanzania".

Grant: £9,872

Twende Pamoja SCIO

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

"ICT for Better Futures" will explore the feasibility of Twende Pamoja Scotland offering support to improve the ICT skills of teachers and in schools in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The study will review what is in place, and look at how it can develop and evaluate the future potential of the project. A development plan will be produced which will identify short, medium and long- term priorities and goals, as well as what human and material resources will be necessary. The overarching aim is to increase the attainment and achievement for young people so that they can have a better future.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: "ICT for Better Futures" in Tanzania.

Grant: £9,940

Aberdeen Multi Cultural Centre

Country:

Bangladesh

Project:

This study "Sustainable Brick Manufacture, displacement of coal as the primary fuel by renewable energy" will employ a graduate in Bangladesh to investigate whether solar energy could be used for the firing process to make bricks, and how energy might be stored for overnight firing. If successful, the next step would be the design of a prototype kiln.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: "Sustainable Brick Manufacture, displacement of coal as the primary fuel by renewable energy" in Bangladesh. The award is conditional on confirmation that the constitution permits the organisation to undertake work overseas.

Grant: £10,000

Capacity building grants awarded in 2016

Big First Aid Project (Scotland)

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

The Big First Aid Project (Scotland) is working with First Aid Africa Tanzania to develop guidance on emergency healthcare including a mobile phone application. This is currently supported through a Project Grant, awarded in April 2015. Both organisations are growing and need robust systems of financial reporting. In Tanzania, development of income generation will help sustainability. Pro bono support will be given by an accountant in Scotland, and an accountancy trained Trustee will assess the needs in Tanzania. Accountancy support from Accountants for International Development will be arranged for nine months' to ensure practices are embedded.

Award detail:

To carry out capacity building work to provide financial management systems in Scotland and Tanzania and income generation development in Tanzania.

Grant: £7,992

YES! Tanzania

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

YES! Tanzania currently holds a Project Grant, awarded in April 2015, for work with the partner Umoja Tanzania to use sport to deliver health messages to young people in disadvantaged communities in Arusha. Support is needed to develop a communications and marketing strategy for both organisations. Monitoring and evaluation tools will be developed, including the development of a Theory of Change model, and case studies produced to illustrate the impact. This combined approach will maximise the potential for the organisation securing financial and non-financial support.

Award detail:

To carry out capacity building work to improve communications and marketing strategy in Scotland and Tanzania, as well as developing monitoring and evaluation. This will include the development of a Theory of Change model in Tanzania.

Grant: £10,000

Project grants awarded in 2015

CIFA Trust

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The aim of the project is to strengthen the ability of poor, marginalised rural communities in Northern Malawi to achieve lasting food and nutrition security. The project will use a peer leader approach in 15 villages of Mzimba District, Malawi, teaching civic governance, climate-resilient agriculture and nutrition. Revolving funds will be established for irrigation, fertiliser and improved seeds, which will support higher agricultural productivity and crop range. The project will reach 855 households, an estimated 4,275 people. 60% of the peer leaders will be women. The project also includes an under nutrition pathway analysis.

Award detail:

For the "Strengthening citizen participation for food and nutrition security" project in Mzimba District.

Grant: £57,600

Students for Malawi

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The aim of this project is to increase the availability of electricity to Chisitu village in southern Malawi by creating an off-grid energy generation and supply chain. Students for Malawi gives students the opportunity to work in Malawi on short term projects such as volunteering at primary schools. In 2013, a pilot project erected three wind turbines in Chisitu village. Through this pilot, contact was made with RENAMA (Renew 'N'Able Malawi) which has been installing energy kiosks. Engineering students from Scotland will work alongside students from an entrepreneurial college in Malawi to erect more wind turbines and a battery charging bank on the edge of Chisitu village. Energy kiosks supplying home power packs will be put up in the village and 18 women will be trained as energy entrepreneurs, providing them with an income. Local young people will be trained in maintaining the equipment. RENAMA will work with Chisitu Action for Development.

Award detail:

For the "Empower Chisitu" project, creating an off grid energy generation and supply chain, empowering local women, and training young people.

Grant: £53,340

Big First Aid

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

The project builds on a feasibility study funded by the Small Grants Programme in 2014 to research and develop a mobile phone application giving guidance on emergency healthcare and access to real time lifesaving information. Content that can be accessed by a low spec phone has also been developed. This project will allow the app to be further developed and marketed through social media as well as by using traditional ways such as community drama and storytelling. The project could reach 50,000 users, reducing loss of life and limb following illness or injury. There is potential for the app to be accessed by other countries.

Award detail:

For the "Increasing access to First Aid information through mobile devices" project, operating across Tanzania.

Grant: £39,609

YES! Tanzania

Country:

Tanzania

Project:

This project builds on a feasibility study funded by the small grants programme in 2014 that tested and developed the use of sport to deliver health messages to young people. The aim of the project is to significantly minimise the number of new HIV infections within young people aged 15 to 24 years in disadvantaged communities in Arusha. The Project will be led by the Umoja Centre and work with local partners in schools and community settings to deliver a health programme using sports activities, potentially reaching 2,440 young people. A peer leadership approach will be used.

Award detail:

For the "Arusha Community Sport and Sexual Health Project", using sport to deliver health messages to young people.

Grant: £41,333

Friends of Chitambo

Country:

Zambia

Project:

The project aims to improve emergency care provisions in the Chitambo District of Zambia and reduce morbidity and mortality rates which occur due to common medical emergencies. Friends of Chitambo supports Chitambo Hospital in Central Zambia and the wider community. The hospital was founded by missionaries in memory of Dr David Livingstone who died in the area. The hospital is now government run, and has an attached Nursing College. Senior clinicians reported a need to improve emergency care communications. The partner ZRDTA will establish a Decision Resource Base which will be equipped with information and trained staff. A communication network with the rural health clinics, community health workers and traditional birth attendants will be set up. Mobile phone technology and existing digital information resources will be utilised. University of Zambia Library and NHS Education for Scotland will also be involved.

Award detail:

For the project "Strengthening emergency care information and communications between hospital and rural health clinics, in the Chitambo District, central Zambia".

Grant: £35,805

South Asia Voluntary Enterprise (SAVE)

Country:

India, Bihar

Project:

The project aims to reduce the infant mortality rate by improving infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) amongst the poorest areas of Patna City, Bihar. SAVE first worked with the partner CHARM (Centre for Health and Resource Management) in 2007 on a project with mothers to improve conditions at the birth of their children and encourage breastfeeding, good nutrition, and immunisation. CHARM has been using a model of Behaviour Change Communication to educate mothers on IYCF. The plan is to bring this approach to hard to reach areas including slums in Patna, complimenting existing healthcare services. Change Agents will be recruited from the targeted community and trained on health and nutrition before undertaking home visits and community meetings. The agents will visit pregnant women three times before and after the birth, to educate them on the benefits of breastfeeding. They will encourage women to breastfeed within an hour of birth and to breastfeed exclusively for six months, as well as advising on appropriate complimentary feeding. The target is to reach 2,000 mothers a year.

Award detail:

For the "Tackling Infant Mortality in Patna, India" project.

Grant: £48,335

Grow Volunteer Consulting

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The project is to "Improve the business skills, and business performance of 250 disadvantaged female entrepreneurs in Malawi". Grow is an English registered charity that recruits and trains volunteers to give consultancy to African entrepreneurs. Twelve sessions over six months are given by Skype and aim to improve profitability, employment and sustainability. Grow has 563 volunteers, 264 in the UK, of which 3 are in Scotland. There is a Voluntary Country Manager of Scotland who is embarking on a volunteer drive. Since 2012, Grow has been working with the National Association of Business Women in Malawi and helped 150 clients and creating 80 new jobs. The project is to extend the programme to Chichewa speakers and to rural areas, setting up a new office and employing translators.

Award detail:

The project is to "Improve the business skills, and business performance of 250 disadvantaged female entrepreneurs in Malawi".

Grant: £59,758

Balmore Trust

Country:

Malawi

Project:

This project "Threshing machines for Malawi" builds on a feasibility study funded by this programme last year. Three pedal driven rice threshing machines built in Scotland are being shipped to Malawi for testing. The project will look at scaling up the supply of the machines, including the most cost effective way of construction and assembly. The moving (metal) parts for 30 machines will be manufactured in Scotland and shipped to Karonga. The partner, Kaporo Smallholder Farmers' Association, will set up a workshop and train staff to assemble the machines, which will be sold to farmers' clubs. A revolving fund will be set up to ensure continuity. The machine will reduce manual labour and crop wastage, enabling 750 farmers to expand their operations and increase incomes.

Award detail:

For the "Threshing machines for Malawi" project in Mzimba District, conditional on a satisfactory feasibility report.

Grant: £60,000

Feasibility grants awarded in 2015

Malawi Fruits

Country:

Malawi

Project:

This feasibility study will look at the viability of growing different fruits (bananas, mangoes, pineapples), transporting and selling them to Malawi Mangoes at a sensible price. Malawi Fruits commissioned a feasibility study in 2012 to identify possible cash crops for smallholding farmers in Northern Malawi. This led to a Paprika growing project funded under the Small Grants Programme in 2014. Since the original feasibility study was completed, a fruit processing factory has been set up in central Malawi, called Malawi Mangoes. This is 300 miles south of the farming areas covered by Malawi Fruits. Initial scoping has revealed that there is demand and capacity for much more fruit to be processed at Malawi Mangoes. This proposal would diversify the crops, offering more security. The risks of changing varieties have to be considered, and farmers would need support to grow fruit to the required standard. The study will look at scale and the model of business required, and includes a business plan.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study to test growing traditional Malawi fruits as a cash crop for farmers in Northern Malawi.

Grant: £10,000

Global Eco Village Network

Country:

Zambia

Project:

This feasibility study is called Planning participatory whole school design with six communities in Zambia". Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) promotes sharing of knowledge between over 2000 eco villages globally. Rescope has worked with school communities in Zimbabwe and Malawi, assisting schools to become centres of agro-ecology for their communities. GEN has worked with partner Rescope setting up a sustainable agriculture demonstration centre in Zimbabwe. The partners will work with 6 schools in Zambia in areas of deforestation and land degradation which contribute to poverty and poor nutrition. Working with pupils, parents, and teachers and a community organisation , the study will use and test community building tools ( ILUD, Adaptive Governance Cycle, Eco-Village Design Education) to develop plans for community resilience, income generation and food security projects.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: Planning participatory whole school design with six communities in Zambia.

Grant: £10,000

LUV + (Leprosy at Utale Village PLUS) SCIO

Country:

Zambia

Project:

This study Research of support projects for leprosy communities in Zambia, Tanzania will explore the needs and feasibility of starting small enterprise projects at leprosy communities. LUV has been supporting a leprosy community at Utale Village, Malawi since 2010. It has helped the community to set up several income generating projects, such as a community shop and a maize mill. These also have the benefit of integrating the leprosy community into the wider village, reducing stigma. LUV has identified eight other leprosy communities and will visit these to explore how the communities could be empowered to develop their potential.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: Research of support projects for leprosy communities in Zambia and Tanzania.

Grant: £8,200

Youth Economic Justice

Country:

India, Madhya Pradesh

Project:

The study Enterprising Women – economic inclusion of adolescent tribal women will focus on 120 young women who have demonstrated potential for enterprise. Youth Economic Justice (YEJ) and partner Social Action Ministry worked together in 2012 on an aquaculture project, creating fish ponds for income generation for 60 women. This study will include a rapid market analysis to identify the viability of two collective enterprises and will form business plans. It will look at linking food processing and aquaculture products to major local markets. The study will identify specific training and capacity needs of the young women, and will also look at the links with natural resource management and conservation activities. During the study the YEJ involvement will build the capacity of the Social Action Ministry staff.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: Enterprising Women – economic inclusion of adolescent tribal women.

Grant: £10,000

SOLAS

Country:

Pakistan

Project:

The study is called Student Health in Community Based Schools, Chitral. Solas Educational Trust supports not-for-profit schools and community organisations in Chitral, Pakistan through its partner SHECC (Solas Health Education Committee Chitral). Projects have included building toilets and washrooms at schools, and establishing new posts of Health Education Officers in schools. The study will test a new approach of teachers incorporating health messages into the curriculum. There is a dearth of data about the health issues in the area, so SHECC will carry out general, dental and ENT health checks. First Aid and Hygiene workshops will be run for teachers. Monitoring and evaluation tools will be developed.

Award detail:

To conduct a feasibility study: "Student health in community based schools, Chitral"

Grant: £7,386

Capacity building grants awarded in 2015

Cerebral Palsy Africa

Country:

Malawi

Project:

CPA provides training to therapists, rehabilitation workers, special needs teachers and community groups, including how to make assistive aids from cardboard for children with Cerebral Palsy. Their work enables children with cerebral palsy to be included in school and community life. CPA is working with special needs teachers at Montford College, Blantyre, rehabilitation workers and parents on a three year project funded by a project grant from the small grants programme in 2014. Death and sickness of staff in Malawi has left gaps in knowledge of monitoring and evaluation and accounting. The Scottish organisation has implemented the NIDOS toolkit and recognises it needs to strengthen governance and fundraising to ensure sustainability.

Award detail:

To carry out capacity building work to improve monitoring and evaluation in Malawi, and governance and fundraising in Scotland. This work will support the reporting of a project grant made under the small grants programme in 2014.

Grant: £8,136

Mamie Martin Fund

Country:

Malawi

Project:

The Mamie Martin Fund (MMF) aims to combat gender inequalities by supporting the education of girls in the Synod of Livingstonia, Malawi. The purpose of this capacity building work is to address identified needs of the MMF and its partner the Mamie Martin Fund Malawi, a committee of the Church of Central Africa Presbytery. It builds on capacity building work undertaken with funding from the small grants programme in 2014 that included an impact study. The study has revealed the need for a more systematic approach to monitoring and evaluation in Malawi. The impact study will also be developed as a publication for fundraising.

Award detail:

To carry out capacity building work to develop monitoring and evaluation in Malawi, and printing the impact report in Scotland.

Grant: £7,705

Project grants awarded in 2014

Charity Education International

Country:

Bangladesh

Award detail:

For the English teaching project at Uttar Bangla College.

Grant: £59,940

Cerebral Palsy Africa

Country:

Malawi

Award detail:

For the training of special needs teachers in Malawi.

Grant: £52,452

Children's Medical Care Malawi

Country:

Malawi

Award detail:

For the ETAT training programme for 900 newly qualified Malawian nurses and clinicians.

Grant: £60,000

Malawi Fruits

Country:

Malawi

Award detail:

For the Paprika project, supporting subsistence farmers in Northern Malawi to develop a cash crop for the benefit of their families.

Grant: £60,000

Orskov Foundation

Country:

Malawi

Award detail:

For the Food Forest project to provide greater food security, nutritional diversity, a source of income and a means to increase resilience to climate change amongst rural Malawians.

Grant: £50,874

Gaia Education

Country:

Orissa (India)

Award detail:

For integrated Ecovillage Design Education and Transition Towns training to build the capacity of indigenous people in Laxmipur Block of Koraput District to increase food security, build cohesion and address climate change.

Grant: £55,000

Sustainable Com Energy Network (Scene)

Country:

Orissa (India)

Award detail:

To build a resilient and technical infrastructure for community renewable energy in Orissa, India.

Grant: £59,050

Feasibility grants awarded in 2014

The Balmore Trust

Country:

Malawi

Award detail:

For the development, testing, and scoping of the manufacture of a rice threshing machine.

Grant: £10,000

The Big First Aid Project

Country:

Tanzania

Award detail:

To design and test a mobile phone based emergency response system, which will provide rural community members with lifesaving information following an accident or injury.

Grant: £6,213

YES! Tanzania

Country:

Tanzania

Award detail:

To design and pilot a programme using sport to deliver health education to young people.

Grant: £7,750

Capacity building grants awarded in 2014

Mamie Martin Fund

Country:

Malawi

Award detail:

For fundraising and marketing in Scotland, and organisational strategy and development, and monitoring and evaluation in Malawi, including an impact report.

Grant: £10,000