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PARTNERSHIP GRANTMAKING AND GRANTS DATABASE
Between 2000 and 2005, the
Partnership foundations contributed an aggregate of $173.4 million 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.
Joint Partnership Initiatives
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.
Grants By Individual Foundations in Partner
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 2000-2005 a
total of 664 grants, approximately 105 grants (15.8%) were made as Joint
Partnership grants to 23 recipients and 559 grants were made as Individual
grants. Joint grants had a total value of $21.1 million or 12.2% of all grants
during that five-year period.
PARTNERSHIP GRANT MAKING TOTALS: 2000-2005
The table below summarizes
joint and individual Partnership grantmaking from the first year of the
Partnership through the fifth year. 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 for 2005 include support
from the Hewlett and Mellon foundations, which joined the founding four foundations
in 2005.
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YEAR
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Joint
Partnership Initiative
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Individual
Foundation Grantmaking
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Grand
Totals
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1999-2000
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$607,272
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$16,679,246
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$17,286,518
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2001
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$3,383,537
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$29,417,540
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$32,801,077
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2002
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$3,036,574
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$37,593,431
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$40,630,005
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2003
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$1,833,932
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$23,685,447
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$25,519,379
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2004
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$500,236
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$3,168,379
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$3,668,615
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2005
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$11,742,607
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$41,848,410
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$53,591,017
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2000-2005
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$21,104,158
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$152,392,453
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$173,496,611
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It is important to note
that the six 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.
Partnership Grants 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.
Each record contains the
following fields: country, grantee, donor, grant amount, duration, purpose of
grant, URL for the grantee organization, and keywords. There is a limited list
of keywords to choose from to ensure that you retrieve the maximum number of relevant
records. In addition, each record has multiple keywords to allow you to widen
or narrow your search using the "any term" and "all terms" options,
respectively.
You can search by the
following fields--country, grantee, donor, and keyword. Each of these fields
has a pull-down menu. You can also search using a combination of these fields.
Query the database:
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