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Africa
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Our work spans public health, inclusive digital and green economic growth, and African leadership, voice and regional influence.
Strengthening maternal and newborn care in Uganda © Adara Group
We Care Solar’s solar suitcases in action in Malawi. © We Care Solar.
Solid’Africa during a community engagement with smallholder farmers in rural Rwanda. © Solid’Africa.
New playing fields in the township of Masiphumelele. © MasiSports.
Uncommon’s 2025 bootcamp cohort at the Mbare Innovation Hub, Zimbabwe. ©JNF.
Our priorities in Africa /
Strengthening public health systems and delivery
We support access to healthcare and stronger systems behind it. This includes maternal, adolescent and reproductive health, water and sanitation, climate related disease, and digital delivery. We also invest in health workforce training, local manufacturing, and improved supply chains, infrastructure and policy.
Advancing inclusive green and digital economic growth
We fund partnerships that expand access to training, finance and markets, especially in agriculture, energy, IT, manufacturing and critical minerals. We also support food systems, regenerative farming, and digital tools that enable sustainable, inclusive growth.
Investing in leadership, voice and regional influence
We back African leadership and agency through advocacy, regional collaboration and participation in shaping global and regional systems. Our partners strengthen institutions, drive policy and culture, and support the next generation of leaders.
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Our work in action /
Africa is home to the world’s youngest populations and a new generation of leaders, yet many still face barriers to healthcare, opportunity and voice. We work with organisations embedded in the communities and systems they serve.
Taking essential services on the road in Rural Zimbabwe
A Mobile One Stop Centre travelled to six remote communities in Nyanga North, bringing legal aid, health care, counselling and civil registration directly to more than 1,300 people who would otherwise be out of reach of government services.
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Light for safe deliveries
Midwives in Malawi’s rural clinics struggled to deliver babies safely without electricity, often relying on candles and torches during night time births.
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A smallholder farming cooperative turns a season of loss into growth
In Nyagatare district, farmers from the CORVNY cooperative saw their rice yields drop sharply after months of water shortages and hailstorms.
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How a Zimbabwean disability centre is reshaping inclusion
In Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo, a small centre and school is quietly changing how Zimbabwe thinks about disability inclusion.
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How a Cape Town internship became a pathway to work
Global Innovation Gathering provides flexible micro grants that help early stage innovators prototype and test solutions in real community settings globally.
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Zambia’s smallholder farmers are beating the worst drought in a century
In 2024, the worst drought in a century hit Zambia’s small-scale farmers hard. Fields dried up, harvests shrank, and families faced tough choices about how to feed themselves.
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How three women built Kotura Restaurant in a Ugandan refugee settlement
In Northern Uganda’s refugee settlements, adolescent girls and young mothers are learning trades, starting small businesses and rebuilding their lives after displacement.
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Building trust through faith in Zambia’s cervical cancer response
Cervical cancer remains one of the leading causes of death for women in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
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Women leading peace in East Africa
In Kenya’s Baringo County, women affected by conflict are finding new roles in peacebuilding through ActionAid’s African Women Voices for Peace platform.
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In Zimbabwe, a generation learns to code
When Charity returned to Zimbabwe from South Africa, she found herself stuck. Her family couldn’t afford university, job prospects were scarce, and for a year she sat impatiently at home, waiting for something to shift. She never imagined the thing that would open up her future would be coding.
At first, she wasn’t convinced. “I’m not a computer person,” she told them. “I’m a science person.” But she gave it a chance. When a Microsoft speaker visited the hub in Victoria Falls, something clicked. “That’s when I realised this really takes people places.”