Recent Grants

Africa Operators Network Group (Accra, Ghana)
$182,158 to improve the technical capacity of the universities involved in the African Virtual University (over three years). (2008)

African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya)
$850,000 to strengthen capacity in Africa for graduate training in economics and policy research (over four years). (2009)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$100,000 to support fundraising from alumni (over two years). (2008)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$2,500,000 in support of information technology, library development and related university strengthening activities (over three years). (2007)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$100,000 to improve teaching and learning facilities (over two years). (2008)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$3,100,000 in support of staff development and the refurbishing and upgrading of University facilities (over three years). (2007)

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington, D.C.)
$197,000 to improve educational fundraising at the four universities supported by the Foundation in Nigeria (over two years). (2008)

Federal University of Technology Minna (Minna, Nigeria)
$50,000 to enhance Information and Communication Technology. (2009)

Institute for Policy and Economic Research (Abuja, Nigeria)
$150,000 in support of a planning grant to launch a new Institute for Economic and Policy. (2007)

Institute of International Education (New York, New York)
$82,500 in support of an evaluation to improve the impact of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa on strengthening African universities (over three years). (2007)

International Foundation for Science (Stockholm, Sweden)
$3,500,000 to improve the science infrastructure base of universities in Nigeria and Madagascar (over two years). (2008)

International Foundation for Science (Stockholm, Sweden)
$160,000 in support of an audit of the science infrastructure base of 15 African universities. (2007)

Machina Emirate Development Association (Yobe State, Nigeria)
$30,000 in support of instructional technology and computing at Mai Bukar Memorial Science Boarding School. (2007)

New School for Social Research (New York, New York)
$280,000 in support of strengthening academic libraries in Nigeria (over three years). (2008)

Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (New York, New York)
$175,000 to improve pedagogy by strengthening linkages between universities and the Nigerian diaspora (over three years). (2009)

Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions (Abuja, Nigeria)
$350,000 to supply affordable and sustainable bandwidth to universities supported by the Partnership for Higher Education and other African research and education institutions. (2008)

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre (Abuja, Nigeria)
$50,000 to support research on global citizenship. (2009)

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation (Abuja, Nigeria)
$50,000 to strengthen the Olusegun Obasanjo Research Library (over 18 months). (2008)

South African Institute for Distance Education (Johannesburg, South Africa)
$1,200,000 to improve the use and development of educational technologies within universities supported by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (over four years). (2008)

Tides Center Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (San Francisco, California)
$75,000 in support of the Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (over three years). (2009)

University of Antananarivo Faculty of Sciences (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$857,000 to build an information and communication technology infrastructure that will support biodiversity conservation and higher education in Madagascar (over three years). (2008)

University of Benin (Benin City, Nigeria)
$50,000 to set up a center for educational technologies. (2009)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$60,000 to develop the university museum as an educational and cultural resource. (2009)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$232,000 to strengthen the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science of the University of Ibadan (over three years). (2009)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$4,000,000 in support of strengthening the human capital, institutional facilities, and governance system of the University (over three years). (2007)

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
$201,000 to improve access to research materials at university libraries in Nigeria (over three years). (2008)

University of Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$100,000 to support fundraising from alumni (over two years). (2008)

University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
$69,000 to strengthen the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science of the University of Ibadan (over three years). (2009)

 

Action Health, Incorporated (Yaba, Nigeria)
$430,000 in support of Family Life HIV/AIDS Education and pre-service training of teachers in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Actionaid International Foundation Nigeria (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of activities towards promoting citizens participation in HIV/AIDS response and maternal mortality mitigation efforts through budget monitoring and advocacy (over two years). (2008)

BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights (Lagos, Nigeria)
$400,000 to promote the reproductive health and rights of women whose lives are governed by Sharia'h Law (over three years). (2007)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$65,000 in support of institutional strengthening of Minjibir General Hospital. (2007)

Calabar International Institute for Research, Information and Documentation (Calabar, Nigeria)
$100,000 to improve and update the quality and content of the Conscientizing Male Adolescents program (over two years). (2008)

Center for Communication and Reproductive Health Services (Bida, Nigeria)
$250,000 to strengthen the Family Life and Health Education project in Niger State through a comprehensive pre-training strategy (over three years). (2009)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$270,000 to accelerate efforts to save mothers' lives through task shifting of human resources for health and integrated ambulance services. (2009)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 to promote best practices in maternal mortality reduction in Nigeria. (2008)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 in support of education and training on maternal mortality reduction (over three years). (2007)

Centre for Women Studies and Intervention (Garki, Nigeria)
$25,000 to conduct and disseminate research on harmful traditional practices. (2009)

Community Health and Research Initiative (Kano, Nigeria)
$175,000 to work with 10 local governments and the Kano state government to reposition the commitment to address maternal mortality and morbidity through improved budgetary allocation and service delivery (over thirty two months). (2008)

Community Life Project (Apapa, Nigeria)
$150,000 to increase access to comprehensive reproductive and sexual health for out-of-school youth in Lagos State, Nigeria (over two years). (2007)

Federal Ministry of Health (Abuja, Nigeria)
$500,000 in support of promoting the use of magnesium sulfate (over two years). (2008)

Girls' Power Initiative (Calabar, Nigeria)
$300,000 in support of activities towards scaling up the implementation of the national sexuality education curriculum in Cross River State, Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Global Health and Awareness Research Foundation (Enugu, Nigeria)
$150,000 in support of implementation of Family Life and HIV/AIDs Education in Enugu State (over two years). (2007)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$500,000 to increase access to post-abortion care services in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Management Strategies for Africa (Ilford, United Kingdom)
$83,000 to increase awareness and provide research and data analysis for policy formulation and implementation in Nigeria. (2007)

Management Strategies for Africa (Ilford, United Kingdom)
$300,000 in support of improving the policy environment for the implementation of reproductive health programs in Nigeria (over two years). (2007)

National Commission on Colleges of Education (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 to train pre-service teachers in colleges of education (over three years). (2009)

National Commission on Colleges of Education (Abuja, Nigeria)
$50,000 in support of implementation of the Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education curriculum. (2007)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$525,000 in support of the Learning About Living project in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$300,000 in support of developing and implementing computer and mobile phone based sexuality education for Nigerian adolescents (over two years). (2007)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$165,000 to improve maternal health in Nigeria (over 18 months). (2009)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$100,000 in support of institutional strengthening of facilities promoting safe motherhood. (2007)

Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (Benin, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of reducing maternal mortality (over three years). (2007)

Women's Health and Action Research Centre (Benin City, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of research to improve policies and programs for promoting maternal health in six states of Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Youth, Adolescent, Reflection & Action Center (Jos, Nigeria)
$275,000 in support of Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education in Plateau State (over three years). (2007)

 

Alliance for Credible Elections (Abuja, Nigeria)
$430,000 to promote citizen participation in the electoral reform process (over one year). (2009)

Alliances for Africa (Lagos, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of information, communication, and public advocacy on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in Arabic (over three years). (2007)

Benetech (Palo Alto, California)
$59,000 to support the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria to implement its Martus software to gather and utilize human rights information. (2008)

Centre for Human Rights in Islam (Kano, Nigeria)
$25,000 to promote and protect universal human rights from an Islamic perspective. (2008)

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Abuja, Nigeria)
$240,000 to improving judicial protection of human rights. (2009)

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Abuja, Nigeria)
$183,000 to document the status of justice sector reform, human rights, and juvenile justice in Nigeria. (2008)

Citizens Assistance Centre (Ikorodu, Nigeria)
$30,000 to support a class action suite for illegally detained inmates awaiting trial in Lagos State and to publish a Resource Book to be entitled,"Out of the Cage" . (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ojodu, Nigeria)
$1,150,000 to support a police-public partnership in policing policy formulation and implementation and to conduct and disseminate crime victimization surveys in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ojodu, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$193,000 in support of a second national electoral survey as a complementary and reliable source of information to official statistics on elections in Nigeria. (2007)

CLEEN Foundation (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$231,000 to conduct a post-election national survey to measure public perceptions of the electoral process in the April 2007 general elections. (2007)

East Africa Law Society (Arusha, Tanzania)
$300,000 to promote knowledge of both regional and sub-regional human rights mechanisms and procedures among lawyers in East Africa (over 3 years). (2009)

Global Rights (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 in support of activities to build the capacity of human rights organizations in Kano state to monitor, document, and report on human rights violations. (2007)

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$50,000 to monitor Internet accessibility and to carry out research, in conjunction with the Open Net Initiative, into the deliberate tampering of the Internet during the elections in Nigeria that were held in April 2007. (2007)

Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$250,000 to support the use of a paralegal program to document incidences and seek redress for human rights violations by law enforcement officials in Rivers State (over three years). (2008)

Legal Defense and Assistance Project (Anthony Village, Nigeria)
$450,000 to strengthen and reform the administration of criminal justice in six states in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Legal Research Initiative (Abuja, Nigeria)
$275,000 to incorporate and apply the provisions and practices contained in the United Nations Convention into the operations of law enforcement agencies in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Legal Resources Consortium (Abuja, Nigeria)
$320,000 to support the establishment of the Rights Nigeria Information Centre (over two years). (2008)

National Human Rights Commission (Abuja, Nigeria)
$80,000 to host a meeting of the Network of National Human Rights Institutions of Africa and National Human Rights Institutions of West Africa. (2008)

National Human Rights Commission (Abuja, Nigeria)
$400,000 to build the capacity to implement the National Action Plan for the promotion and protection of human rights and to document and report on human rights violations in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 to expand the scope of clinical legal education and complement official legal aid services in Nigeria (over two years). (2008)

Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$300,000 to document, expose, and seek remedy for human rights violations by the police in Nigeria (over two years). (2009)

Nigerian Bar Association (Lagos, Nigeria)
$300,000 to train and sensitize Nigerian lawyers on the use of regional and sub-regional mechanisms for human rights protection and the review of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules (over two years). (2007)

Social and Economic Rights Action Center (Lagos, Nigeria)
$450,000 to advance economic, social, and cultural rights in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

University of Ibadan Faculty of Law (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of strengthening the human rights and rule of law program. (2007)