About Us
Transform Africa is a UK registered charity. It is a member of the Transform Network of institutional and community capacity building, research and advocacy organisations in UK and Africa. Presently we have partners in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Transform Africa grew from a consortium of Northern NGOs comprising CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam and World University Services (WUS), which by 1992 had been involved in training local NGOs in Africa. They had come to the conclusion that capacity-building services were more effective in terms of cost and relevance when provided by local NGO partners who understand the local contexts better. We have a vast and rich experience in enhancing the effectiveness of local organisations in Africa and their beneficiary communities. So far over 120 organisations in nine countries have graduated from our programmes.
We are committed to supporting African communities and organisations that work with them to improve their effectiveness in fighting poverty and social and economic injustice. For the past nine years, Transform Africa has been working with its partner organisations to provide organisational transformation, training and consulting services to over 130 to enhance the effectiveness of local organisations and helping them improve relationships with donors and their Northern NGO partners.
NGO Africa Consultancy Services
Apart from working with partners in the Network, Transform Africa has developed bilateral partner relationships with organisations in Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe. We raise funds and work with them to support and empower communities to improve the quality of life of the disadvantaged individuals and groups. Our interventions include prevention of HIV and mitigation of its effects, income generation and wealth creation through community-based revolving funds, peace building and improving the status of women. Our approach to community empowerment focuses on using participatory methodologies, which are sensitive to local contexts to transform leadership and gender relations. We believe these are the ingredients, which are critical in the process of transforming Africa into a vibrant region free of poverty and injustice.
In all its work, one of Transform Africa's objectives is to develop a body of new ideas, courses, and research based on experience of the programme that will influence policy and practice. Over the past five years, we have carried out two major researches on gender and North-South partnerships. The findings have been shared widely and used to improve our programmes. We also support our partners to undertake action research in areas, which are relevant to our joint work.
In the UK Transform Africa raises public awareness of various issues relating to poverty and injustice in African countries, engages in debates that aim to challenge some of the development paradigms on fighting poverty in Africa and provides services for improving North-South donor and NGO partnerships.
