Grants & Resources: August 2009 Edition

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Grant opportunities

This section links you to funders who invite you to submit grant applications, if you qualify. All Cross Boarder and available outside the country where the Grant Maker is located.

Royal Caribbean International - funding organizations that offer services to the entire community
Subject:
Children & Young People | Community | Education | Environment
Deadline:
October 2009
Royal Caribbean Intl currently award monetary funding, sponsorships and cruise donations on a quarterly basis. Their corporate philosophy is to fund organizations that benefit and offer services to the entire community. They focus support on the following areas: children and families, education and marine conservation.
Read more | Royal Caribbean homepage


National Geographic Conservation Trust - Are you a conservationist ready to make your vision a reality?
Subject:
Environment
Deadline:
Rolling
The objective of the Conservation Trust is to support conservation activities around the world as they fit within the mission of the National Geographic Society. The trust will fund projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological, cultural, and historical resources.
Read more | National Geographic homepage


Open Society Institute - Government Accountability
Subject:
Human Rights
Deadline:
Rolling
The mission of the Government Accountability Fund is to promote public participation in, and oversight of, governmental activity at both the national and local levels, including in the delivery of services. The fund evolved out of a desire to combat corruption, and it provides support to national and international NGOs which monitor public administration and use legal avenues to hold governmental authorities accountable and limit the opportunities for corruption.
Read more | Open Society homepage


Request for Proposal: Today's care, Tomorrow's cure - The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Subject:
Human Services
Deadline: September 1st 2009
The Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program awards grants to non-profit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis.
Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on, but not limited to, paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. Funding is awarded in amounts of up to $25,000 per grant.
Read more | The Reeve Foundation homepage


International Development Research Center - Think Tank Initiative
Subject:
Community | Human Rights
Deadline: September 28th 2009
The Think Tank Initiative is a multi-donor program dedicated to strengthening independent policy research institutions – or “think tanks” – in developing countries, enabling them to better provide sound research that both informs and influences policy.
Read more | International Development Research Center homepage


Second Annual Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals
Subject: Social & Human Services | Technological Dev. & Science
Deadline:
October 15th 2009
The S.E.VEN Fund second annual open “Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty” request for proposals (RFP). The competition will award up to two (2) research grants of no more than $100,000 each.
Read more | SEVEN Fund homepage


Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award
Subject: Community | Education | Technological Dev. & Science
Deadline:
31st October 2009
Access to Learning Award. Given each year by the foundation's Global Libraries initiative, the Access to Learning Award recognizes the innovative efforts of public libraries or similar organizations outside the United States to connect people to information through free access to computers and the internet.
Read more | Bill & Melinda Gates homepage


Ashoka Changemakers - Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing
Subject:
Disability | Health
Deadline:
2nd September 2009
Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing. Share your innovation for improving mental health and community wellbeing with the world! Submit your entry by the early entry deadline. The competition is open to all types of organizations (charitable organizations, private companies, or public entities) from all countries.
Read more | Change Makers homepage


Community Development Foundation - Hardship Fund opens for applications
Subject:
Education | Health | Social & Human Services
Deadline: Rolling
The £16.7m Hardship Fund for charities, announced in the Budget in April, has opened for applications.The fund offers grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 for third sector organisations in England that work with vulnerable and disadvantaged people but are in financial difficulty.
To apply, organisations must have annual turnovers of at least £200,000 and deliver services in health and social care, housing support, education and training, or information, advice and guidance.
Read more | Community Development Foundation homepage


Grant Activity

Identifies funders who make cross border grants and gives examples of actual funding.

PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative Awards $2 Million to GenVec
Biotechnology company GenVec has announced a $2 million grant from the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to continue its efforts to develop a malaria vaccine.
The grant will enable GenVec to expand its existing contract with MVI to develop preclinical feasibility studies of novel adenovirus-based vaccines. Based on the results of those studies, GenVec, MVI, and the U.S. Agency for International Development will consider preclinical and clinical development of promising vaccine candidates.
GenVec, which began working with MVI in 2004, also receives funding from USAID. MVI was founded in 1999 with a $50 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of malaria vaccines and ensure their availability and accessibility in the developing world.
"We appreciate the continued support from MVI and USAID," said Dr. Joseph Bruder, head of GenVec's malaria program. "And we look forward to advancing GenVec's vaccine technology through this collaboration." [Read more] (PDF)
GenVec Expands Contract Supporting Malaria Vaccine Program. GenVec Press Release


Doris Duke Fund Awards Nearly $44-Million for African Health Care
As part of an ongoing effort to help Africa, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation today is awarding $43.8-million to support primary health care on the continent — a cause that is attracting a growing amount of philanthropic support.
The money, which will be provided over a five- to seven-year period, will assist five impoverished countries in sub-Saharan Africa to train managers of government health centers, expand innovative programs to curb child deaths, and examine ways to offer health services in rural areas. The grants are part of a $100-million African Health Initiative the New York foundation announced in 2007 during the Clinton Global Initiative.
The programs will work closely with African governments to make sure that any progress made will continue when the foundation’s support ends, the grant maker said in a press statement. Each of the projects will seek to benefit residents living in specific districts, ranging in population from 300,000 to 1.6 million. Doris Duke Press Release


World Bank Grant Competition Awards $840,000 to Grassroots Initiatives to Address Undernutrition in South Asia
Twenty-one civil society organizations from across South Asia won grants today from an $840,000 award pool funded by the South Asia Region Development Marketplace (DM). The winners received up to $40,000 each to implement innovative ideas on how to improve nutrition in their respective countries.  A proposal from Sri Lanka to address the root cause of undernutrition in young children was one of the winners today.
Innovative ideas, such as the proposal called 3 Generation Communication for Improved Infant and Young Child Nutrition from Sri Lanka Green Friends Environmental Organization to change the complementary feeding practices and nutrition of expectant and nursing mothers through rural radio networks was one of the winners.
With the funds, the winners will have up to 18 months to carry out and implement their innovative projects.
For more information about the South Asia development Marketplace click here
For more information about the World Bank’s work in South Asia, please click here


Cross Border Talk

Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative Partners With Pharmaceutical Companies to Reduce Cost of Antiretroviral Therapy
The Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative has announced two new partnerships designed to make better, more affordable treatments available for patients on second-line antiretroviral (ARV) therapy in developing nations.
The first partnership, with pharmaceutical company Mylan and its subsidiary Matrix Laboratories, will make available the four drugs — atazanavir, ritonavir, tenofovir, and lamivudine — needed to enable once-daily treatment of patients who have developed resistance to standard first-line ARVs. The drugs will be made available as separate products immediately at a price of less than $475 annually, or together in a single package for $425 annually starting in 2010. The package price is 28 percent lower than the current lowest-priced alternative and represents the first time a second-line regimen of four ARVs will be available for under $500 annually. [Read more]
Source: President Clinton, Pfizer, and Mylan Announce New Agreements to Lower Prices of Medicines for Patients with Drug-Resistant HIV in Developing Countries” William J Clinton Press Release


Ethiopian Government Suspends 42 NGOs As Hunger Worsens
Ethiopian authorities have suspended the operations of 42 non-governmental organisations allegedly involved in activities that are "out of their mandate" in the Southern region of the country.
The Nation has learnt that two local gender rights organisations are among the suspended NGOs.
The Ethiopian government moved to revoke the licences of the NGOs following accusation of their alleged involvement in reporting human rights abuses in the rural areas. The Ethiopian government publicly accused some NGOs of supplying "inaccurate" information to the United States' State Department, which was published in March 2009.
Meanwhile, United Nations humanitarian office in Ethiopia has warned that the number of people who need food aid in Ethiopia will increase to 6.2 million unless more food aid can be secured.
The recent number of people requiring food aid has been 4.9 million and now the country needs additional 390,000 metric tonnes of emergency food aid for the coming three months.
Ethiopia leads the region by registering an average 10 per cent annual economic growth, has been avowed to end hunger but has achieved less success.
Source: All Africa


Gates Foundation increases funding, defends AIDS initiative in India
Bill Gates announced a new contribution of $80 million to Avahan, an initiative the Gates Foundation launched in 2003 for HIV prevention programs in India.
Gates visited India recently to receive an award for the foundation's philanthropic work and to take stock of the Avahan program. The foundation had already committed $258 million to the program, which involves more than 100 non-profits in six Indian states.
Gates is contributing more funding for the transition after the government questioned the sustainability of maintaining the project on its own.
The foundation's most ambitious initiative in India has largely failed to deliver on its goals because it substituted business expertise for practical health experience and spent too much money on things like salaries, travel and marketing, the report contends. [Read more]
Source: The Seattle Times


Philanthropic grants to help HIV/AIDS programs in Africa
Though AIDS and HIV continue to be a problem for the African continent, recent grant announcements from the Bristol-Meyer Squibb Company hope to reduce its spread. The company, along with the Bristol-Meyer Squibb Foundation, is giving $1.3 million in grants through its Secure the Future philanthropy program. The grants will go to support 14 community-based organizations in Africa that are providing support for those infected with HIV and AIDS.
A number of countries will receive help for the first time from the philanthropy program, including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Morocco, Niger and Togo. Countries that will be seeing additional help from the program include Mali, South Africa, and Zambia. [Read more]
Source: The Daily Tell


Dubai offers funding for expatriate study opportunities
The British University in Dubai (BUiD) has announced its post-graduate funding for the coming year and is offering a number of opportunities for expatriates.
For the previous academic year 45 per cent of awards went to expatriates who used the scholarships to cover the costs of their further education and living expenses.
Scholarships for expatriates looking to continue or return to education are available in education, finance and banking, human resource management, information technology, IT management, project management, systems engineering, and sustainable design of the built environment. [Read more]
Source: Expariate Healthcare

International Grant Resources

GuideStar - Connecting People with Nonproft information
Encourages nonprofits to share information about their organizations openly and completely. Any nonprofit in the database can update its report with information about its mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs–for free. [View] (US) [View] (UK)


Foundation Search
FoundationSearch is a leading source of US fundraising information for non-profits and charities. This online resource includes more than 120,000 foundations, representing billions of dollars in annual granting, and includes tools to locate grants by type, value, year, recipient, donor and historical giving trends, and much more. [View]


Charity Commission Database
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is established by law as the regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. Their aim is to provide the best possible regulation of these charities in order to increase charities’ efficiency and effectiveness and public confidence and trust in them. [View]


OSCR: Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
OSCR is the independent registrar and regulator for Scotland's 23,500 charities. They are a Non-Ministerial Department and form part of the Scottish Administration. [View]


Directory of Social Change Trustfunding Database
Trustfunding details all trusts included within Directory of Social Change (DSC) and Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) publications and is updated regularly throughout the year.
It includes information on over 4,200 UK grant-making trusts with a total of over £3.1 billion a year. [View]

Awards, Competitions, Programs & Fellowships

Steven Spielberg to Receive 2009 Liberty Medal at National Constitution Center
The National Constitution Center has announced that filmmaker and humanitarian Steven Spielberg has been awarded the center's 2009 Liberty Medal.
In films such as The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, and his work on the HBO series Band of Brothers, Spielberg often has depicted triumphant individuals who struggle against tyranny and injustice to attain freedom. After filming Schindler's List in 1994, Spielberg established what became the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to chronicle and preserve video and oral histories of survivors of and witnesses to the Holocaust. The institute, which already houses a large store of interviews, has begun collecting testimony from the survivors of other genocides, including the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Past Liberty Medal winners include Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Colin Powell, Sandra Day O'Connor, Doctors Without Borders and CNN International.
Steven Spielberg to Receive 2009 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center. National Constitution Center Press Release


UK Scientist Wins Prestigious International Grant To Support Innovative Research In Renal Disease
A UK renal research unit is among the eight winners of the 2009 Genzyme Renal Innovations Programme (GRIP) awards. Established in 2001, the international GRIP awards aim to support the advancement of medical knowledge and practice in kidney diseases through innovative research in nephrology. Over the past six years GRIP has awarded 56 grants, funding more than £4 million in renal research projects globally and this year ten grants totaling £719,000 are being awarded.
The 2009 GRIP awards winner from the UK is Dr Michael Robson at King’s College London, for his work on the role of Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 in antineutrophil cytosplamic antibody-associated vasculitis.
Dr Michael Robson, Senior Lecturer at King's College London said, "Toll-like receptors are cellular sensors that recognise molecules derived from both infectious organisms and our own tissues. The GRIP award will allow us to continue our research on how these receptors influence immune-mediated kidney disease, which is an important cause of kidney failure. This will help us understand the mechanisms responsible for disease, and may also lead to identification of potential therapeutic targets”.
[Read more]
Source: Pharmalive


The Tech Awards
The Tech Awards is an international awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing the best of those who are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent critical issues facing our planet. People all over the world are profoundly improving the human condition in the areas of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development through the use of technology. It is the goal of The Tech Awards to showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments.
Deadline for entry: 31st March 2010
www.techawards.org


African Economic Research Consortium Research Proposals Understanding the Links between Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is calling for Research Proposals from AERC network members and/or other researchers interested in undertaking country-based projects as part of the AERC collaborative research project on Understanding the Links between Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa. Projects can be country case studies using methodologies drawn from the pro-poor growth literature, or country-based studies that empirically investigate one or more of the specific linkages between growth and poverty reduction that are addressed in the project framework papers, whether at a household, spatial or national level.
Deadline for entry: 31st August 2009
www.aercafrica.org/

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Conferences, Seminars & Webinars

American Foundation Research Workshop
Place: InTuition House, 210 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JX
Wednesday 2nd September 2009 | 9.30am to 4.30pm
A one-day workshop for fundraisers wanting to test the multi-million dollar funding opportunities of US Grantmaking Foundations.
15% discount if you book before 21st August 2009 [More]


Institute of Fundraising Scotland Scottish Conference 2009
Hilton Glasgow, 1 William Street
Wednesday 11th – Thursday 12th November
Scottish Conference 2009 Opens for Bookings
The Institute of Fundraising Scotland annual conference launches today with early bookers receiving a 10% early bird discount on all passes. And our basic rates have been frozen at 2008 levels!
This year's programme reflects a theme of innovation and creativity in fundraising, with the widest range of speakers yet, and some exciting plenary sessions lined up.
Last year over 400 attended the biggest gathering of fundraisers in Scotland. Book now to take advantage of a 10% discount and- for Institute members only- further significant discounts of up to 33%! [More]


2009 International Forum on Remittances
Event Dates: October 22-23rd, 2009 | Location: Tunis, Tunisia (Venue To Be Announced)
Cost: Free
Who Is Invited to Attend: Everyone
Background on Organizer: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an agency of the United Nations founded in 1977 to combat hunger by supporting agricultural development. IFAD has previously organized the 2007 and 2005 International Fora on Remittances. Based in Rome, Italy, IFAD’s Strategic Framework for IFAD 2007-2010: Enabling the Rural Poor to Overcome Poverty is available here and a list of projects by country, here. [More]

Blogs & Websites

New domain name .ngo would be for charities only
Human rights charity Article 25 has proposed a consortium of charities to run a new internet domain name that would be available only to not-for-profit groups. The charity wants the proposed consortium to raise $185,000 (£112,000) and bid for a .ngo domain because it says the .org address is open to abuse by fraudulent groups. Its suggestion follows an announcement from internet regulatory body Icann that from 2010 onwards any organisation will be allowed to bid to run new internet domains.
Article 25 will hold meetings with interested charities and umbrella groups to discuss a framework for the scheme over the next few months.
Source: Third Sector


90 Foundations That Tweet
Philanthropy411 Blog have compiled a list of all the grantmaking foundations that are using Twitter.
The list includes private, community, family, and corporate funders, as well as a few international foundations. It also includes 16 foundation staff who tweet – not necessarily as representatives of their foundations, but their posts often focus on philanthropy and nonprofits. [Read more]
Source: Philanthropy411 Blog


The Glasgow Equality Networks Forum (ENF) Blog
News from the Networks, and news and views on equalities issues in Glasgow, Scotland, the UK (and Internationally) [Read more]


Blogs G&R read
Frog Loop
A non-profit online marketing blog.

CharityChannel
Connecting nonprofit professionals worldwide.

Getting Attention
Helping nonprofits succeed through effective marketing.

Marketing for Nonprofits
Jocelyn Harmon shows us how to use the Internet for change.

Nonprofit Technology Blog
Covers blogging, marketing, communications, strategy and just about everything else!

Online Community Report
A site for online community professionals edited by Bill Johnston.

About.com
Nonprofit Charitable Orgs Blog

Research & Reports

Brits most likely to give to charity, report finds
More than 80% donated in the past year, according to international poll by UnLtdWorld.com
People in the UK are more likely to give to charity that any other nation. A poll of more than 10,000 people in 16 countries carried out by social entrepreneur networking site UnLtdWorld.com revealed that 83 per cent of the 1,186 British-based respondents said they had made a donation to charity in the past year - the highest proportion.
In second place was Canada, where 77 per cent of respondents said they had made a donation. Sixty-two per cent of people from France said they had given to charity, 59 per cent in Switzerland and 44 per cent in the USA.
British people were most likely to donate to health charities, the poll showed, with 68 per cent of respondents saying this was the most worthy cause, while Americans were more likely to support animal welfare charities.
Source: Third Sector


Africa: Health Research Gets £3.2 Million Grant
Research into improving health in Africa will benefit from a £3.2m grant from the Wellcome Trust, a UK charity, to the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (Carta), a joint venture of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Public Health and the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi.
Carta involves 10 African universities, four African research institutes and several northern partners that plan to work together to produce high-level research skills for Africa.
The National Research Foundation has warned that SA's PhD output -- 27 for every 1-million of the population -- compares unfavourably with Brazil's 42, South Korea's 172, Australia's 240 and the UK's 259.
The original budget for the entire Carta programme, including funding 25 PhD candidates a year, was 18m, but Carta was speaking to other donors, Fonn said. The Wellcome Trust grant would kick-start the process.
The money would be used mainly to fund scholarships for PhD candidates at participating universities, with the rest used to run the Carta curriculum, to invite international experts, to teach the PhD candidates and to develop infrastructure at participating universities and research centres. [Read more]
Source: All Africa

Google grants biased, report says
Google's grants program favors nonprofits run by whites and Asians, in effect is raising ad prices for African-American and Hispanic nonprofits, a new report says.
Over the past three years, Google has given away $300 million worth of free advertising on its site, says the report from TechMission, an association of Black and Latino-led nonprofits addressing the digital divide. That $300 million in advertising grants is used by recipient nonprofits to bid on specific search terms related to their organizations and missions. This practice has "flooded the market" for nonprofit ads with virtual dollars, the report says, forcing nonprofits that do not receive grants to pay more for search terms. TechMission estimates 95 percent of Google Grants recipients are nonprofits led by whites or Asians, and only five percent are led by African-Americans or Hispanics. This disparity means minority-led groups pay a "tax" because they pay "increased advertising fees to provide a subsidy to white-led nonprofits."
[Read more]
Source: Philanthropy Journal


The problem with PowerPoint
If you have worked in an office in the Western world in the past 25 years, you will probably have sat through a PowerPoint presentation. But there's a problem. They're often boring, writes presentation expert Max Atkinson. [Read]
Source: BBC News Online Magazine

Missed Last Months G&R?

July '09 -In July's edition of Grants & Resources we focused on the late Michael Jackson and his charitable work, which some say paved the way for the current surge in celebrity philanthropy, plus how organizations are connecting to a new generation of donors by launching new websites. View the edition here

The Top 5 Most Viewed Items in G&R July

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Request for Proposal: Acrus Foundation now accepting letters of enquiry
Subject:
Civil Society
Deadline:
Rolling
The Arcus Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that supports organizations around the world working in two areas–gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender human rights; and conservation of the world's great apes. The foundation funds requests for general operating support; project support, including community organizing, training, and leadership development; specific programs; public policy advocacy campaigns; public policy research and its dissemination; capital projects; and organizational capacity building.
Link to RFP | Arcus Foundation homepage

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches $100 Million Initiative to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa, Asia
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a five-year, $100 million initiative to expand
health coverage in Africa and Asia and provide new health and financial protections for all.
Through the initiative, Transforming Health Systems, the foundation and its partners will work to establish more accessible, efficient health systems with improved financial protections and make universal health coverage an accepted, feasible, and desirable goal everywhere. Starting in Ghana, Rwanda, and Vietnam, the foundation hopes to provide governments and leaders with resources and information that helps them manage their country's health systems and ensure that integrated eHealth systems are developed and leveraged to improve the quality, access, and affordability of health services among low-income populations. Lessons learned in the three countries will be applied to other countries with subsequent investments.
Source:
“The Rockefeller Foundation Launches $100 Million Initiative to Support the Strengthening of Health Systems in Africa and Asia.” Rockefeller Foundation Press Release


3

Microsoft Veterans Look to Web to Engage a Generation of New Philanthropists
Two veteran Microsoft employees have launched nonprofit organizations that leverage mobile phones, social networking platforms, and online tools to connect a new generation of
donors with people in need, the Seattle Times reports.
Retired Microsoft executive Scott Oki, who in the past two decades has founded sixteen nonprofits and served on approximately a hundred boards, said he believes charities could do more to show donors how their dollars are being spent. So he teamed up with software entrepreneur Digvijay Chauhan to launch SeeYourImpact, a micro-charity portal that will use mobile phones to capture photos and videos from the field, enabling donors to see, for example, the delivery of a $10 mosquito net they may have helped finance. Oki said Microsoft is helping him develop the technology platform for the site, which will launch in India later this year. [Read more]
Source: “Microsoft Veterans Aim to Make Philanthropy More Personal.”

4

Michael Jackson. The King of Philanthropy
As people mourn the death of the pop star Michael Jackson, fans, the news media, and others are discussing his charitable work, which some say paved the way for the current surge in celebrity philanthropy. The entertainer supported dozens of charities during his life, including USA for Africa, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. He reportedly was listed in the 2000 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star.” The number was 39.
As a humanitarian, he is perhaps best known for “We Are the World,” the 1985 song he wrote with Lionel Richie that raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa. To honor the King of Pop’s philanthropy, some fans and small companies have pledged to make donations to his favorite charities.
Yet as with the rest of his life, Mr. Jackson occasionally triggered controversy with some of his philanthropic efforts. [Read more]

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World Bank's $100 m grant to improve communications services in East Africa
The World Bank has approved100 million U.S. dollars to Tanzania as part of an International Development Association (IDA) credit to extend access to affordable communications services in the region. Among the third phase of the Regional Communications Infrastructure Program, a 424 million-dollar regional program that will increase the availability of reliable communication services for citizens, businesses and governments in Eastern and Southern Africa, and Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique would receive 100 million dollars, 20 million dollars and 31 million dollars respectively, the local daily the Guardian on Monday quoted a World Bank statement issued on Sunday in Dar es Salaam as saying.
Source: On Global Trends

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