Before Tuwindi existed, Mali's anti-corruption oversight body had almost no data.

Founder and CEO Richard Chivaka built Spark Health Africa around a belief formed by years of witnessing.

"The assumption we sometimes make is that young people are not interested in democracy," said Jerry Sam.

An elderly woman had saved with a bank for years. When the time came to withdraw her investment, the bank refused to pay.

Delphine Uwamahoro came home with the highest marks in her secondary school examinations. Her mother told her she would not be going back to school.

Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was six years old when she lost both parents. At eight, she was set to undergo female genital cutting and escaped.

In North Kivu, eastern DRC, indigenous women and girls had been facing compounding layers of exclusion for generations.

The question Nathan Okiror set out to answer was simple: why were girls in eastern Uganda dropping out of school.

Marcel Cirhuza grew up watching his father provide for an entire village in eastern DRC. That quiet inheritance shaped everything that followed.

ABDO's model is built on a single conviction: people closest to a problem are  the ones who hold its solution.

More than 3,000 African-led organizations completed applications in African Collaborative's Open Application System. The data is clear: the ecosystem is rich, the leaders are ready, and the gap is resources, not capacity. Chamrid Kpadonou, Senior Manager of Grantmaking Systems, shares what the platform was built to do, what the applications revealed about the African-led ecosystem, and what funders need to be willing to learn and unlearn.

Our team joined the Issroff Family Foundation Convening in Nairobi, Kenya. In this reflection, Doris Kamathi and Julie Khamati share what the convening reinforced about open call grantmaking and organizational development and why investing in the strength of organizations, not just their programs, is what sustains impact over the long term.

Julie Khamati reflects on her first panel with Amplify Girls, sharing lessons from African Collaborative’s grantmaking perspective.

Reflections from UNGA Week and the resonating theme drawn from our event previewing the Fueling Transformation report and actionable next steps.

Meet the newest members of the African Collaborative Board — Eddie Mandhry, Carol Warui, Clara Ngando, and Akua Gyekye.

In August, partners in Ethiopia and Burundi came together to connect, collaborate, and share ideas—see highlights and recaps from these vibrant gatherings.

In between our recent site visits, our Portfolio Services team had the joy of hosting two in-country partner gatherings.