Between 2000 and 2007, the Partnership foundations contributed an aggregate of $320,895,864 toward higher education initiatives in seven partner countries -- Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda -- and on an Africa-wide basis. In 2006 Egypt and Madagascar were added as Partner countries and grants to higher education institutions in those countries were counted as Partnership grants. There are two funding vehicles for Partnership grants: Joint Partnership Initiatives and Individual Foundation Grantmaking.

When two or more of the foundations agree to support an activity, it is called a "Joint Partnership Initiative." Included in this category is grant support for partner country case studies on higher education, ICT/Bandwidth connectivity and management, analytic work on global trends, and efforts by university leaders to identify common challenges across countries.

In addition to the joint initiatives described above, each Partnership member works directly with individual grantees in the nine countries, according to each foundation's mission, priorities, and geographic mandate. Funding decisions are made independently by each foundation using its normal mechanisms for review and decision-making. Grants include support for institution building of individual universities, specific departmental activities, and strengthening national and regional higher education institutions.

Over the period 2000-2007, of a total of 1,175 grants approximately 165 (14.0%) were made as Joint Partnership grants to 44 recipients and 1,010 grants were made as Individual grants. Joint grants had a total value of $34,190,240 or 10.7% of all grants during that period.

The table below summarizes joint and individual Partnership grantmaking from the first year of the Partnership through the latest year for which data are available. The annual numbers do not line up exactly with the two phases of the Partnership. At the time of the September 2005 Partnership re-launch, the Partnership had surpassed its $100 million pledge, reaching beyond $150 million. Figures reported below since 2005 include support from the Hewlett and Mellon foundations, which joined the founding four foundations in 2005; Kresge Foundation support is included since 2007.

Year	Joint Initiatives	Individual Foundation Grants	Grand Totals
1999-2000	$607,272	$18,763,526	$19,370,798
2001	$3,627,537	$32,377,040	$36,004,577
2002	$3,036,574	$39,938,176	$42,974,750
2003	$1,848,932	$25,665,092	$27,514,024
2004	$1,147,957	$27,661,033	$28,808,990
2005	$12,218,607	$44,223,210	$56,441,817
2006	$4,847,662	$50,654,809	$55,502,471
2007	$6,855,699	$47,422,738	$54,278,437
Totals	$34,190,240	$286,705,624	$320,895,864

It is important to note that the seven Partnership foundations support higher education activities in "non-Partnership" countries, such as Malawi, Namibia, and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa and several Francophone countries in West Africa. Thus, even more support than is shown in the table is being channeled to African higher education. At times the Partnership provides support to institutions in countries outside Africa that are involved in work supporting African partner institutions. These grants are included in the database.

This database contains records on Partnership Joint Initiatives and Individual foundation grants of the four foundations in the years 2000-2004 and six foundations for 2005-2006. Data for 2007 will be posted when available and will include all the seven foundations.

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