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TrustAfrica

Dakar, Senegal

Grants

2016 (2 years)
$600,000

Trust Africa is an African intermediary foundation focused on three areas: securing the conditions for democracy; fostering African enterprise and broadly shared prosperity; and cultivating African resources for democracy and development. In 2012, initiated by MacArthur, and in partnership with five other donors, Trust Africa established the Fund to Advance Criminal Justice in Africa (the Fund) to strengthen the capacity of local civil society organizations to combat impunity through concerted advocacy for domestic accountability mechanisms, more effective engagement with regional and international processes, and improved knowledge and understanding of criminal justice issues, especially accountability for mass atrocities. In this final phase of work, the Fund focuses on providing grants and technical assistance to African NGOs for advocacy and capacity development to support implementation of the African Union policy in Mali and Nigeria.

2015 (1 year 6 months)
$400,000

Trust Africa is an African intermediary foundation focused on three areas: securing conditions for democracy; fostering African enterprise and shared prosperity; and cultivating African resources for democracy. In 2012, initiated by MacArthur, and in partnership with six donors, Trust Africa established the Criminal Justice Fund for Africa to strengthen the capacity of local civil society organizations to combat impunity through concerted advocacy for domestic accountability mechanisms, more effective engagement with regional and international processes, and improved knowledge and understanding of criminal justice issues, especially accountability for mass atrocities. The Fund’s objectives in this grant period center on improving and strengthening the capacity of local civil society organizations to engage in policy development and implementation at the regional and continental level, particularly with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU). 

2015 ( 2 months)
$30,000

The award supports an experts consultation titled “The Promise of the African Union’s Transitional Justice Policy Framework” in Dakar, Senegal, in September 2015.

2015 (4 years 4 months)
$2,000,000

Trust Africa: The MacArthur, Ford, and the Open Society Foundations have come together to establish the Anti-Corruption and Criminal Justice Reform Fund, to support early efforts by the new government in these two areas. The recent inauguration of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, supported by the Fund, is a major part of the government’s anti-corruption program.

2012 (3 years)
$900,000

The grant will help establish The Fund to Advance International Criminal Justice in Africa. Activities will include building and implementing an advocacy and grantmaking strategy that supports African CSOs working to advance accountability for international crimes through activities at the national, regional, and international levels.

2011 (1 year)
$100,000

To convene a civil society strategy planning meeting to advance African Union support of accountability for international crimes.

2006 (1 year)
$74,000

In support of a survey of issues, opportunities, and strategies for supporting African regional organizations.