Contribution to international development report: 2018-2019

Aiming Higher in Malawi

Aiming Higher in Malawi is working to raise the livelihoods of 420 Guardians with 420 children with disabilities and 2,500 of their siblings in rural Mulanje South West and Thyolo East. The main aim of the project is to increase agricultural productivity and strengthen climate resilience of the guardian by promoting kitchen gardens, small-scale irrigation and using locally constructed shallow wells. 

First Aid Africa

First Aid Africa (FAA) aim to build their work in Northern Malawi through direct work with the College of Nursing in Mzuzu and through building the sustainability of their own Malawi office. This project aims to build training within the college of medicine, building capacity through their direct involvement in community based delivery of training, increasing overall access to emergency first aid in the area and building expertise within the college. 

The Balmore Trust

The project focuses primarily on helping KASFA gain WTFO membership and HACCP certification. This will facilitate an increase in the attractiveness of Kilombero rice to consumers both in-country and in Europe, by strengthening guarantees relating to the conditions under which the rice is grown and processed.

Cairdeas International

Cairdeas International (CI) will support the University of Rwanda to integrate a holistic, patient-focused syllabus of Palliative care into their national curriculum for medical students.

Diverse Talent

In the central province of Zambia, poor road safety, dangerous driving and a lack of adequate first aid are a significant cause of death and injury. Diverse Talent (DT) is proposing a creative solution, using creative arts and drama as a means of communicating messages for behaviour change as a means to save lives. Creative workshops in year one will engage local communities in the process giving a project which is community-driven.

Youth for Economic Justice

Through mentoring, partnership and skills transfer, Youth for Economic Justice helps local organisations in developing countries to effectively respond to economic exclusion of young people.

Balmore Trust

The project aims to combat the adverse effects of climate change on rice farming by providing farmers with increased access to and better management of water resources in the Karonga area of Malawi.

Cerebral Palsy Africa

Fit for School is an early intervention programme designed to provide essential early support to young children with complex physical and learning disabilities (such as cerebral palsy) to enable them to be fit for school at six years of age and give them the best chance of remaining in school.

Malawi Fruits

The "Inspiring Youth in Agriculture" project will provide training and support for young people to enable them to grow a variety of low input/high value crops; take the crops to local processing facilities; receive processed crops and then sell them both locally and outside their communities through contract markets.

Big First Aid Project

This project aims to develop a more complete solution to the challenge of emergency health care in Tanzania by training taxi responders to an advanced level of first aid to enable them to treat casualties and transfer them to hospital quickly.

Lake Victoria Disabled Centre

This project will develop a fully functioning prosthetics workshop where 3D printing will enable the creation of artificial limbs for children and adults in the Mara region on Tanzania.

Twende Pamoja

This project will offer support to improve the ICT skills of teachers, and in turn pupils, in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.

Friends of Chitambo

The project aims to contribute to reducing mortality and morbidity due to common medical emergencies by developing and scaling-up a model of medical communication and support for 'hard to reach' clinic areas in Zambia.

Aiming Higher in Malawi

This project will implement a holistic, integrated health care improvement intervention for 400 disabled children from rural villages in Mulanje South West and Thyolo East, Malawi.

Haemophilia Scotland

The "Malawi Bleeding Disorders Diagnosis Project" will work through the Society of Haemophilia and Allied Disorders Malawi on three outcomes: to Inform, Diagnose and Treat.

LUV + (Leprosy at Utale Village PLUS)

The project will initiate a variety of appropriate and sustainable income-generating schemes in eight leprosy communities – five in Zambia and three in Tanzania which are home to 350 persons affected by leprosy. 

Scotland Malawi Business Group

This project will ensure access for small-scale pond aquaculture fish farmers to reliable sources of quality fingerlings at an affordable price by developing 15 commercially viable small-scale tilapia fingerling producers.

The Turing Trust

This Information and Communications Technology (ICT) project will create a customised e-library to complement the provision of community ICT hubs in 200 rural schools. A solar powered ICT hub will be developed and training on maintenance undertaken. Income generating activities will be developed.

Global Eco Village Network International

Four schools will be worked with to produce Resilience Plans and become demonstration sites to inspire their surrounding communities towards sustainable development.

On Call Africa

This project will introduce extended training and post qualification support to Community Health Workers. Fifteen existing CHWs and 15 new recruits will benefit, potentially reaching over 9,000 people in 15 communities a year.

Youth for Economic Justice

The Girls on the Move project will work with 122 Asdvasi young women aged 16 to 25 years. Enterprise development and vocational training will be provided, together with support, in order that small commercially viable businesses will be started.

Yes! Tanzania

Yes! Tanzania feasibility study grant will test the effectiveness of using an integrated in-school and after-school sports programme which promotes attendance and enhances formal and informal education for young people.

Global Concerns Trust

This proposal for a feasibility study in Kenya will pilot the use of an 'incubator approach' for local artisans on the Kenyan coast who are currently disconnected from the thriving tourism industry. As a result, poverty rates in these communities fringing popular resorts are often extremely high. The project looks to unlock the potential of cultural tourism within these areas, working to harness the vast skills, knowledge and a rich cultural history which exists within these communities.

Zambia Therapeutic Art

This grant is being used to build the capacity of both Scottish and Zambian partners, through the development of an operational strategy, a programme of training, including financial management, project management and governance training for trustees. Development of strategy will also include staffing reviews. In Zambia, plans include strengthening of ZTA presence within networks and associations to ensure work in both countries is being driven forward in the most effective way. Development will also include finance systems and support of an in-country lead. The capacity building work proposed will ensure the organisation is developing in a positive and sustainable way both in terms of the operational team and project delivery.

LUV+

This Capacity Building grant focuses on professionalising the LUV+ staff as it continues to grow and look beyond the original scope of the organisation. This will take the form of project management training, the development of a MEL toolkit for LUV+ and further communications strengthening for partners in Malawi and Zambia, including a new website, the hiring of an assistant and training courses.

The Soko Fund

This grant will be used to enhance the Soko Funds communication strategy, M&E tools and website development. The project will primarily strengthen fundraising communication approach and develop monitoring and evaluation systems, including a set of tools that will result in a more systemic approach to M&E. This will allow the Soko Fund to be able to communicate their findings more effectively and evaluate their scholarships.

International Voluntary Service

International Voluntary Service's (IVS) capacity building grant will assist with the restructuring programme currently underway within the organisation. The organisation is looking to refine its partnerships, create strong communications about its goal and vision, and develop a MEL tool with which to formally track and evaluate projects. The grant will also provide start-up funding for a project with Paralmento Juvenil in Mozambique, focusing on volunteer-led English teaching. 

Mamie Martin Fund

The grant will support improvement of overall governance, capacity of trustees, the development of an organisational strategy and finally improved systems in finance and MEL to ensure greater transparency in sharing information between Malawi and Scotland.

Proposed capacity building activities include a programme of training for board members, including governance and financial management. Fundraising training and growth of MMF speaker network will support the growth of the organisations income.

In-country support includes training in financial and project management for the Malawi based project manager, as well as driving lessons to support greater mobility in rural areas as well as reduced cost.