Claiming Agency

Description

Claiming Agency. Reflecting on TrustAfrica's First Decade takes an in-depth look at an African-led foundation that set out to do things differently. Founded in 2006, when solutions to Africa's challenges were often developed outside its borders, TrustAfrica sought to practice a kind of philanthropy that both benefits Africans and actively supports their agency. Now, at the ten-year mark, the book asks, what does this kind of philanthropy make a difference? If so, how? What are its unique ways of working? The answers are found in chapters that reflect on how TrustAfrica and its partners advanced a range of issues - from women's rights, small-holder agriculture, and democratic reform in Liberia and Zimbabwe to international criminal justice and illicit financial flows. In a clear-eyed look at money and power, the authors observe that donor funds all too often come with strings that constrict African agency - and recommend ways in which donors from Africa and the global north can foster independent action and strengthen movements for change.

Sujets

• Social sciences
• Charitable organization
• Charities
• African Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Weaver Press
• Date de parution: 06 octobre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781779223029
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Claiming Agency

Reflecting on TrustAfrica’s first decade

Claiming Agency

Reflecting on TrustAfrica’s first decade

Edited by

Halima Mahomed and Elizabeth Coleman

Published by TrustAfrica Senegal and Zimbabwe and Weaver Press Box A1922, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe 2016

© TrustAfrica, 2016

Typeset by Weaver Press, Harare Cover Design by Xealos Printed by Directory Publishers, Bulawayo

All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the express written permission of the publisher.

ISBN: 978-0-7974-73-881 TrustAfrica (p/b) ISBN: 978-1-77922-301- 2 Weaver Press (p/b)

ISBN: 978-1-77922-302 - 9 Weaver Press (ebook)

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Contents

 Contributors’ biographies  Preface 1.African Agency at Work by Halima Mahomed and Elizabeth Coleman 2.How to Make Societies Thrive: The role of African philanthropy in creating agencyby Bhekinkosi Moyo 3.African Agency in Contested Contexts: A reflection on TrustAfrica’s work in international criminal justice by Humphrey Sipalla 4.A Grounded Approach to Philanthropy: Strengthening civil society in Liberia and Zimbabweby Alice L. Brown 5.Movement Building to Promote African Voices: TrustAfrica’s support to stop illicit financial flows from Africaby Fambai Ngirande

6.Opening up the Policy Process: TrustAfrica’s work to in- clude the voices of smallholder farmers by Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya 7. Resourcing Women’s Rights in Francophone Africa by Hakima Abbas 8.Re-imagining Agency in Africaby Tendai Murisa

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