Wales and Africa

Wales and Africa funds and builds projects that support learning, the exchange of skills, joint working and tackling climate change.

The programme supports the following projects and organisations:

This grant scheme provides funding for small-scale Wales-Africa projects. Community groups and organisations in Wales can apply.

Supported projects fall under 4 themes:

• health
• sustainable livelihoods
• lifelong learning
• climate change and the environment

The scheme is managed by the Welsh Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA). For more information, including how to apply, see WCVA.

The International Learning Opportunities programme (ILO) provides a unique opportunity to spend 8 weeks in Lesotho, Namibia or Uganda.

We source a wide range of projects with a diverse group of established partners in 3 very different countries: Uganda Lesotho and Namibia.

The 3 countries are very different from each other and offer different experiences. 

The ILO programme aims to improve the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of both sub-Saharan Africa and Wales through a variety of mutually beneficial projects, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The ILO programme gives individuals from the public, business and third sectors in Wales the opportunity to work on projects designed to both enhance their leadership skills and deliver a developmental outcome for their hosts.

Hub Cymru Africa provides guidance on fundraising for small-scale projects based in Africa. Information and training is available to community groups and organisations.

It also provides advice for those working on international development in Wales.

For more information see Hub Cymru Africa.

Size of Wales campaigns to protect an area of rainforest twice the size of Wales.

Mbale Trees is a project supported by Size of Wales and has distributed over 9 million trees. This includes one for every child born or adopted in Wales, as part of the Welsh Government’s PLANT! Wales scheme.

For more information about this and other projects see Size of Wales.

Fair Trade Wales supports and develops fair trade activity in Wales.

Fair Trade Wales also works to promote the uptake of Fairtrade products in Wales.

For more information see Fair Trade Wales.

Further information

For more information email the Wales and Africa team at walesandafrica@gov.wales or follow us on Twitter.