Annual report 2020
Our mission Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Contents
04 10 13 Our history Solidarity Environment Letter from the Trustees during Covid-19 Our grant-making in 2020 Supporting our partners
18 23 28 Housing and International Issues Affecting Homelessness Human Rights Women
33 37 42 Learning Differences Prevent Child Special Interest Sexual Abuse
50 53 56 Zimbabwe Brazil Oak Foundation Denmark
59 62 63 India References Oak offices Our history
Since its establishment, Oak Foundation has made more than 5,440 grants to not-for-profit organisations around the world.
The resources of Oak Foundation Since then Oak has been growing originated from an interest in the steadily and today we have 11 Duty Free Shoppers business which programmes, through which we Alan Parker helped to build. have made more than 5,440 grants to organisations around the world. Today, the Foundation comprises a Our six main programmes are: group of philanthropic organisations Environment, Housing and based in various countries around Homelessness, International Human the world. Rights, Issues Affecting Women, Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Oak Foundation was formally Learning Differences. In addition, established in 1983. Early grants were our Trustees support causes that made in Denmark to organisations fall outside the remits of the main supporting single mothers and torture programmes through the Special victims (1983) and in Zimbabwe to Interest Programme. There are also groups supporting vulnerable children four national programmes: Brazil, and families, primarily at community Oak Foundation Denmark, India, levels (1984). Grants continued to be and Zimbabwe. made annually in several countries until a new phase began in the early Oak Foundation has its main 1990s, when annual grant-making administrative office in Geneva, increased and staff were hired to Switzerland and a presence in five run substantive programmes. other countries: Denmark, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabwe.
4 Letter from the Trustees
We are humbled by the resilience of our partners during The Moore Center, in partnership with the Prevent Child the coronavirus pandemic. They innovated, adapted, Sexual Abuse Programme, launched a research effort to and redoubled their commitment to serving their evaluate programmes that are most effective at preventing communities despite all the disruption. Their work allowed the perpetration of child sexual abuse. “What we’ve been Oak Foundation to contribute to social and environmental doing for the past 30 years – teaching our children how change that meets communities where they are. to protect themselves, mandating teachers, and others to report abuse, and relying on law enforcement strategies In response to the extended crisis, Oak Foundation ramped – just isn’t enough.” up our grant-making to help ensure that our partners could continue serving communities in need during a global Through the Special Interest Programme, we are supporting lockdown, which impacted our lives all around the world. children in Kenya to be agents of positive change in their We provided 445 grants to 410 organisations in communities. We are helping fight against food waste in 44 countries and in addition, we provided more than Geneva, Switzerland, and supporting the distribution of USD 24 million in grants that were directly Covid-19-related. food packages to families in need. Research by Oxford University is helping uncover fundamental questions about In 2020, we all had to be adaptable and find new ways to Covid-19, produce a reliable vaccine and therapy, and bring work with the circumstances at hand. While the crisis is not us one step closer to understanding the illness to better over yet, as we start a new year, we take time to reflect and protect communities. The Conservation Fund in North celebrate our accomplishments in 2020 in the pages of this Carolina continued supporting communities of colour, annual report: including Native American and Latinx communities. Its work seems more relevant than ever, given the current fight for With support from our Environment Programme, racial justice in the US. Care for Wild is working to secure free-ranging white and black rhinoceros populations within a healthy and secure We supported partners at the forefront of providing health ecosystem in South Africa, through a project that ensures treatments to people in Zimbabwe. Their work is helping financial sustainability and the equitable participation to eliminate clubfoot and to eradicate blindness through of the community. “Our vision of inclusive community cataract surgery. In Brazil, our partners worked to protect involvement addresses some of these global challenges people in urban favelas, as well as the territorial and we face together.” environmental rights of vulnerable communities. In Denmark and Greenland, our partners rose to the The Housing and Homelessness Programme’s partners challenge of meeting the needs of society’s most vulnerable in the housing sector did great work, across countries, people, by supporting those experiencing homelessness, to house those experiencing street homelessness, and helping to construct an emergency shelter in prevent evictions, give emergency relief and support, Greenland. and strengthen campaigning and advocacy to ensure that everyone was safely housed. In India, the crisis prevented many of our partners from meeting in person with the communities most in need. The International Human Rights Programme supported the In their absence, frontline workers and volunteers took efforts of its partners working to address racism in prisons. their places as natural leaders to ensure that vulnerable In many countries, Black and other marginalised people communities were supported by communal safety nets in make up the highest per cent of all incarcerated people. practical ways, helping to mitigate risk. “I learned about “Ending mass incarceration is crucial for racial justice all tactics to claim rights and entitlements from the training.” over the world.” We are proud of our foundation and our partnerships. The Issues Affecting Women Programme supports women’s Through the work we do, we support others to make the efforts in Switzerland to build, lead and grow strong, world a safer, fairer, and more sustainable place to live. Our vibrant, and influential movements that achieve equity and pursuit of social justice and the protection of wildlife and justice. “Until 2019, more men named Hans had served in the environment address the root causes of injustice. The the Swiss Parliament than women.” pages of this report give an insight into our partners’ efforts to this end. We hope you enjoy reading about their work In 2020, schools shifted to distance learning nearly as much as we do. overnight. The Learning Difference Programme’s partners worked hard to ensure that students received the best support possible. We hope that their efforts inspire greater Trustees of Oak Foundation: equity and access to meaningful educational opportunities Caroline Turner, Kristian Parker, Natalie Shipton, for all children. Jette Parker, Alan Parker, Christopher Parker
5 Our grant-making in 2020
During the 2020 calendar year, Oak Foundation’s total net amount We made granted was USD 320.13 million. This figure includes 445 programme and Special Initiative grants, discretionary grants, refunds, and 445 cancellations. Overall, Oak provided programme and Special Initiative grants to 410 organisations based in 44 countries. The work of these programme and organisations is carried out throughout the world. Not including the Special Initiative Special Initiative grants, the size of grants varied from approximately grants to USD 25,000 to USD 18 million, with an average of USD 700,000. 410 organisations in 44 countries.
Programme grant-making in 2020* 25.18 M Issues Affecting Women A searchable grant database containing current grants, grant-making criteria, and application information is available on Oak 44.77 M Foundation’s website: www.oakfnd.org. Prevent Child 2.15 M Capacity Building Sexual Abuse
29.10 M Housing and 5.79 M Brazil Homelessness
17.40 M Learning 70.83 M Differences 5.15 M India Environment
4.36 M Zimbabwe**
46.45 M 28.85 M Special Interest International 5.16 M Oak Foundation Denmark Human Rights
*The figures represent US dollars in millions. **Please note that this figure includes Special Initiative grants and a Wildlife, Conservation, and Trade grant that pertain to Zimbabwe. 6 Total grant-making in 2020
281.71 M 25.89 M (1.37 M) Total programme grants Discretionary grants Refunds and cancellations
306.23 M 13.90 M Total regular grant-making Special Initiative grants
320.13 M Net amount granted
Total grant-making 2010-2020
116.72 M 158.32 M 149.90 M 159.90 M 245.78 M 216.88 M 217.07 M 221.70 M 357.19 M 294.05 M 320.13 M
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
7 Supporting our partners along the way
We are proud to be working with community online portal, which is why we hold Oak and our our partners across our many is a space of collaboration and employees accountable to high programmes. We strive to be innovation for fundraisers and standards of child protection. We put purposeful and strategic in our changemakers worldwide. Thanks in place our first Child Safeguarding grant-making. We provide to the work of skilled volunteers at Policy in 2013 and adopted a revised opportunities for our partners to Catchafire, our partners had their version in 2018. We continue to keep access support, including through: immediate needs met for translation our staff informed and aware of the capacity building; child safeguarding; services and the development of importance of safeguarding: in 2020 monitoring and evaluation; and communication materials. we strengthened our intranet site communications. Read on for with easily accessible information, more information. In 2021, once we have a clearer references, and guidance. picture of the impacts Covid-19 has had on our partners and grant-making In addition, we commissioned in general, we aim to fine tune our an external learning review of our Capacity Building capacity-building and organisational child-safeguarding work to date, development support to suit partners’ to develop a clear evidence-based Capacity building develops long-term needs, and further way forward. The review covers how strengthen their capacity to best to embed child safeguarding leadership skills, as well withstand future challenges. within our partner organisations. as high-performing It also highlighted a number of If you are a partner of positive changes that our partners organisations and Oak Foundation, please speak to your have made in their safeguarding effective networks. programme officer to find out more systems and practices. The report about the support you can receive. shows that Oak’s support has helped Oak’s capacity-building and our partners progress to a level organisational development enables that they otherwise would not have our partners to have access to and achieved within the same timeframe. funding for high-quality support. In Child Safeguarding Please go to our website to see the 2020, ensuring the resilience of our review. partners in the face of the Covid-19 We are determined to crisis was a natural priority. We We will continue to accompany addressed it through: learning and put children first in all our partners on their safeguarding cooperation with other foundations; that we do. In the interest journeys, offering support and and providing support to not-for- resources. If you are a partner of profit organisations. The team of protecting all children Oak Foundation, please speak to your also compiled a collection of key everywhere, we ask our programme officer to find out more organisational resources, tools, about the support you can receive. and ideas to support not-for-profit partners to do the same. organisations during Covid-19. Oak envisions a world where children are protected from all forms of In addition, our capacity-building abuse and exploitation and where partners adapted their support in their rights and safety are respected. response to the current challenges. Safeguarding children is everybody’s For example, in June, Resource business and we take our Alliance inaugurated its global responsibility seriously, which
8 Monitoring, Evaluation, Our work does not stop with our values of the Foundation and the internal staff. This year we have work of our partners being carried and Learning collaborated with many of our out across the world, on subjects intermediaries and partners to that touch all of Oak’s programmes. We know that social strengthen our collective ability to It is our honour to be able to raise learn together and from each other. the voices of the people that benefit change is not a linear from your great work. process. We believe in the We are already seeing how these investments are improving how we Oak values communications as a importance of learning fund, and how they are helping us be vehicle for social change and provides from success and failure to better partners to grantee and funding funding for communication initiatives partners with whom we share the within our programmes. We also help us improve and adapt. same goals. support capacity-building efforts to expand global and local efforts At Oak Foundation, we strive to to improve communications. Please combat injustice in society. To ensure contact your programme officer if we understand if and how our grant- Communications you are an Oak partner and would making is being impactful, we created like to hear more. a dedicated monitoring, evaluation, Good communications and learning (MEL) team two years helps ensure transparency Oak’s main communications channels ago. We believe in the importance are its website, newsletters, and of learning from success and failure around our grant-making annual reports, as well as through to help us improve and adapt. We and elevates the voices social media channels Twitter, embrace a ‘do no harm’ principle in LinkedIn, and Instagram. Please follow our funding, which means we seek of those who are the us! We love to hear success stories to understand if our efforts are least heard. from our partners so please reach generating any negative, unintended out to the Communications team at effects for the people we want to In 2020, communications played [email protected] and we will serve. a critical role in Oak’s response to be happy to share. the needs of our partners and staff In 2020, we developed a clear during the Covid-19 pandemic. organisational strategy for monitoring, evaluation, and learning. In tandem with the IT department, Our strategy is built around three the team rolled out a digital pillars: systems, people, and culture. workplace, which was indispensable Under each, we initiated different in facilitating communication organisation-wide initiatives to among Oak from a distance. We also increase our strategic learning coordinated internal communications capacities. Our programmes are to help staff feel connected and able actively creating spaces for reflection to work efficiently from home. and intentional learning, and many have started to shape strong learning The Communications team redesigned agendas. the annual report and created new visual tools to better showcase the
9 Solidarity during Covid-19 © Anna Ploeg / Oak Foundation
The Covid-19 pandemic deeply abusers, making shelters more Environment Programme partners affected many not-for-profit important than ever. Oak’s support to positively influence stimulus organisations. Early in the pandemic helped our partners and other packages and economic recovery in 2020, Oak’s Trustees increased not-for-profit organisations to: find plans as a means to accelerate the grant-making by more than emergency accommodation for those changes that are needed.” A European USD 24 million to support our in need; give training to those who Green Deal will lay the foundation for current grantee partners, as well had lost access to employment or transforming the European continent as new partners working on the schooling; support women’s shelters into a low-carbon economy, achieving frontlines of the pandemic response. and advice centres; protect the legal net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, We were determined to face the rights of students with learning while improving social justice and worldwide uncertainty head on, and disabilities to be taught; and protect protecting biodiversity. to continue providing unwavering children from sexual perpetration. support to our communities during In Brazil, our partners delivered In addition, Oak has focused on these challenging times. emergency kits with food and hygiene partners working to improve the equipment to indigenous villages. lives of women, children, or those By the end of 2020, our Covid-specific In India, hundreds of meals were experiencing homelessness. We grants helped strengthen vulnerable produced daily for the homeless, and believe that we can also “build back organisations and communities. thousands of families who were facing better” in the social sectors. Even We are proud to have committed to problems accessing government food in affluent nations, the pandemic support our partners in ways that supplies were supported. Across the exposed growing inequality. Through are guided by the US Council on world, our partners brought hope, by: all of our work, but especially in our Foundation’s philanthropy pledge and preventing the eviction of tenants; Covid-related grant-making, we want the European Foundation Centre’s providing hospitals with urgent to be a force for greater inclusion and statement of solidarity. Some of supplies; supporting the mental respect for human rights. these elements have included health of frontline workers; and moving project grants to core distributing food, clothing, medicine Throughout 2020, we were inspired grants, modifying agreed outcomes, and hygiene products. by the compassion of our partners and adapting what we ask of our to help people and communities, as partners by postponing reporting Like many people, we are glad to see well as their tenacity and creativity requirements, site visits, and other 2020 behind us and we are looking in overcoming these extraordinary demands on their time. forward to 2021 and the promise it circumstances. In 2021, we hope to brings: vaccines are already being rise up stronger together, and to be In 2020, children with learning distributed and other therapies are more resilient and more determined differences had a harder time being developed. “Now is the moment than ever. We are looking forward to accessing resources while schools to join with our partners in order to continuing to contribute to a positive were shut down. Many children were build back better in ways that are future together with our partners, more vulnerable to exploitation, more equitable and sustainable,” says and to making this world a more online and offline. Lockdowns were Douglas Griffiths, President of Oak equitable, inclusive, cleaner and just dangerous for people in domestic Foundation. “In addition to redoubled place to live – for everyone. violence situations, as they were support to grassroots organisations, unable to get away from their we have been supporting some of our
10 Fond’imad Oxford University Grants Europe USD 100,000 USD 100,000
In 2020 we made 303 grants Accem FødevareBanken Protezione Civile totalling more than USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 24 million in response Rockefeller Philanthropy to the Covid-19 crisis. All grants Alliance for international Gadejuristen above USD 100,000 are listed Advisors, Inc. medical action USD 100,000 here, by region. Some, with USD 100,000 an asterix, are also listed USD 100,000 Glasgow Children’s elsewhere in the report. Royal Foundation of the Duke Brugernes Akademi Hospital Charity and Duchess of Cambridge USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 649,351
Calala Fondo de Mujeres Imkaan Solidarité Femmes Network USD 100,000 USD 500,000 Africa USD 100,000 Imperial College London Care After Prison Swiss Philanthropy Foundation African Child Policy Forum USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Caring in Bristol Indvandrer Kvindecentre The Mediterranean FNB Philanthropy Donor USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Women’s Fund Choice Foundation Trust USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Caritas Canary Islands Irish Refugee Council USD 100,000 USD 100,000 The Priory of England and the Maliasili Initiatives Inc Islands of the Most Venerable Caritas Española Order of the Hospital of St John USD 100,000 Jesuit Refugee Service - Europe USD 100,000 of Jerusalem USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Médecins sans Frontières Suisse Centre Social Protestant (CSP) (MSF Switzerland) * King’s College (Guy’s & St. The Voices Project USD 100,000 Thomas Hospital Trust) USD 400,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Colegio General de Colegios Peninsula School Union Chapel Feeding Association Oficiales de Psicólogos Kirkens Korshær USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 University of Cambridge Solidarité Féminine Crisis UK Marie Curie Cancer Care USD 100,000 pour la Paix et le USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Développement Intégral Vicar’s Relief Fund * USD 100,000 Cruz Roja Espanola Médecins sans Frontières Spain USD 649,351 (Spanish Red Cross) USD 100,000 South Africa National Parks USD 200,000 WAWCAS International USD 100,000 USD 200,000 Diocesan Caritas of Médecins sans Frontières Suisse the Canary Islands * (MSF Switzerland) Terre des Hommes Lausanne USD 1,000,000 USD 100,000 Winterhilfe Schweiz – USD 100,000 Secours Suisse d’Hiver European Choice Media Matters for Women USD 100,000 Wildlife Crime Prevention USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Oxfam Ex Cathedra USD 200,000 USD 100,000
*The grants listed here with an asterix are also listed elsewhere in the grant sections of various programmes in this report.
Caption page 10: Volunteers from Serve the City Geneva assemble food parcels for those in need during the 2020 Covid-19 crisis at a warehouse of Partage, a foodbank in Geneva, Switzerland.
11 Hawaii Community Foundation Triangle Community Foundation India United States USD 100,000 USD 100,000 & Canada Doctors for You HealthySteps United Way USD 100,000 of the Greater Triangle Amalgamated Charitable USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Foundation Inc. Oxfam India USD 100,000 Ilisaqsivik Society University of North Carolina USD 100,000 USD 100,000 at Chapel Hill American Civil Liberties Union Sustainable Environment USD 100,000 Foundation Inc Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Ecological Development USD 100,000 Society India USD 100,000 Urgent Action Fund for USD 100,000 Women’s Human Rights Blueprint NC Lenawee Community Foundation USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Traidcraft Exchange UK VoteAmerica Inc USD 100,000 Boston Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center USD 100,000 Corporation USD 100,000 Praxis – Institute for USD 100,000 Participatory Practices * National Law Center for USD 150,000 Boys & Girls Clubs of America Homelessness and Poverty Worldwide USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Center for Economic CARE USA Nest, Inc. and Social Rights USD 200,000 USD 100,000 Latin America USD 100,000 Fundación Avina New York City Health Center for Economic Democracy USD 100,000 Associação Habitat and Hospitals para a Humanidade USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Institute on Statelessness USD 100,000 and Inclusion Child Mind Institute Inc Partners in Health USD 100,000 Brazil Fund for Human Rights USD 100,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Community Empowerment Fund International Women’s Robin Hood Foundation Health Coalition Central de Artivismo USD 100,000 USD 500,000 USD 100,000 e Innovación USD 100,000 DonorsChoose Seventh Generation Fund For Oxford University * USD 100,000 Indigenous Peoples USD 1,298,701 Centro de Estudos Avançados de USD 100,000 Promoção Social e Ambiental Duke University Physicians for Human Rights USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Silicon Valley Community Foundation USD 100,000 Centro de Culturas First Nations USD 100,000 Indigenas del Peru Development Institute Together for Girls * USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Southern Partners Fund USD 200,000 USD 100,000 Fundación Hombro a Hombro Food Bank of Central WAVE Network USD 100,000 and Eastern North Carolina Tahirih Justice Center USD 250,000 USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Fundo Socioambiental CASA USD 100,000 Footsteps Tenant Union Representative Network USD 100,000 USD 100,000 Hispanics in Philanthropy USD 250,000 Global Alliance for Incinerator The Conservation Fund * Alternatives USD 250,000 Urgent Action Fund USD 100,000 of Latin America Tides Foundation USD 100,000 Harlem Children’s Zone USD 100,000 USD 200,000 Transcend USD 100,000
*The grants listed here with an asterix are also listed elsewhere in the grant sections of various programmes in this report.
12 © Nils-Petter Ekwall © Nils-Petter
Environment Safeguarding our climate, supporting livelihoods, maintaining the health of the oceans, and ensuring a balance between biodiversity and people
The Environment Programme has three elements To achieve a state of natural security for living landscapes, to its strategy: Climate Change, Marine Conservation WCT will also support systemic changes that enable and Wildlife, Conservation, and Trade (WCT). a regenerative conservation sector able to withstand disruption and uncertainty. We hope to see transformative In this year’s annual report, we focus on WCT, which change: the revival of a conservation paradigm centred on envisions a regenerative conservation system that creating critical connectivity between people and their wild enables ‘living landscapes’. These involve people-focused places. conservation approaches that support productive, resilient rural networks that deter overexploitation while Please check out our website in spring 2021 to read about safeguarding wildlife and wild spaces. WCT’s goal over the the Environment Programme’s new strategy. next five years is to support living landscapes in regions across Southern Africa and Southeast Asia, while continuing to disrupt illegal wildlife trade.
13 Living landscapes: putting people at the heart of conservation
When conservation is done right, we can all live together rhinos of their habitats, which are vital to their continued harmoniously in ways that benefit both humans and nature. survival. But it’s not too late to save the rhinos. The Rhino Recovery Fund (RRF), working across Africa and Asia, aims When we don’t live in harmony with nature, we quickly to protect rhinos from wildlife crime, restore them in see the consequences. In the last year, the world has number and improve their health, while benefiting local watched wildfires raging from the Western United States people. to Australia. The global economy ground to halt due to a virus suspected to have spread from bats to people through The RRF empowers conservationists to develop innovative wild food markets. And David Attenborough issued a clarion programmes that boost the health of rhino populations, call for biodiversity on Instagram that reached one million and its projects benefit local communities and encourage followers in less than five hours! them to take part in protecting the rhinos that share their land. The RRF will help restore healthy rhino populations Nature has spoken, the science is clear, and the markets are by funding efforts to stop rhino poaching, end demand for listening. If we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our their horns, protect their natural habitats, and ensure that ecosystems, then we can expect to see increased water and rhinos are relevant to the communities that live with them. food insecurity, and more diseases spreading from animals In fact, 100 per cent of every dollar donated to the RRF will to humans. The effects are global. They include economic be deployed to rhino-focused projects in the field. This will recessions and an ensuing decline in law, order, and peace. ensure that every donation goes directly towards saving We believe that it is time to change our approach to rhinos. biodiversity in conservation work. Supporting rural collectives It is time to revive a conservation paradigm centred on The seeds for a new conservation approach were sown creating critical connections between people and nature. in South Africa’s Barberton Makhonjwa Mountain World We envision ‘living landscapes’ – resilient rural networks Heritage Site in July 2020. Rather than the conventional, of people able to resist exploitation, while safeguarding conservative response to rescuing orphan rhinos, wildlife and wild spaces. Oak’s Wildlife, Conservation and Care for Wild (CFW), the largest orphan rhino sanctuary in Trade sub-programme, which falls under our Environment the world and Barberton Nature Reserve, forged trusted Programme, will support these living landscapes over the next five years in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia. This will be done by supporting organisations that: strengthen rural collectives to improve local distribution of benefits from natural wealth; connect networks that share socio- ecological aims across the sector; and provide a more efficient system that connects funders and decision-makers to new facets and faces of conservation. Read on to find out more about the work of our partners and to understand how this strategy comes to life.
Connecting networks across the sector With their tremendous size and distinctive horns, rhinos have captivated many of us since childhood. Tragically, the rhino’s most distinguished feature, their horns, are prized for false medicinal purposes and are traded on the African and Asian black markets. In the last decade, nearly 9,000 African rhinos have been killed for this destructive trade, and Asian rhinos have dwindled to near extinction. Additionally, human development projects are robbing © Markus Hofmeyr / Oak Foundation Hofmeyr © Markus
14 Our partners are working to create economic opportunities and tangible economic investments that do not industrialise or exploit the landscape. © Markus Hofmeyr/ Oak Foundation Hofmeyr/ © Markus
partnerships with key institutions Connecting funders to new facets At the same time, ICCF also supported and people from local communities. of conservation similar efforts in Southern Africa in It formed a consortium, which The International Conservation Angola, Botswana, and South Africa. shares the vision of providing for Caucus Foundation (ICCF) is at the The hope is that decision-makers the long-term financial support forefront of building political will directing resources for international of the conservation area, through to improve governance of natural conservation can speak directly to the market-based approaches. This will resources. It coordinates interactions decision-makers who are managing include: a comprehensive commercial between the United States and the world’s natural resources on the agricultural programme jointly owned international policy makers, other side of the globe. and run by CFW; a pioneering plan conservation organisations, and for pastoralism; and a new approach government agencies in support Oak supports individuals and to collaboration with historical gold of conservation programmes. collectives working in conservation mines for conservation outcomes. to build effective land and wildlife This will be achieved through management programmes. Our investments into multi-generational “Good partnerships partners aim to create economic annuity funds and pay-outs linked help us to reach opportunities and tangible economic to joint management plans that have our goals and achieve investments that do not industrialise been agreed on by the community, or exploit the landscape, contribute conservation staff, and stakeholders. a better and more to the loss of social or natural sustainable future value, or fundamentally damage This means that the project will its ecological integrity. We believe secure free-ranging white and black for all.” that together we can build a rhinoceros populations within Nico Oosthuizen resilient future. If you want to know a healthy and secure ecosystem, more about what our Wildlife, underpinned by profitable projects, Conservation, and Trade sub- which ensure financial sustainability It also facilitates the work of programme is doing, check out the and equitable participation by the parliamentary caucuses to toughen Environment Programme’s strategy community. This has helped garner policies, coordinate across borders, page on our website. the full support of all who live and and access international support for work in the area. “Our vision of conservation. Recently, ICCF extended inclusive community involvement its political organising reach from the Caption: The photos on this page represent addresses some of these global United States to the United Kingdom, the work of Care for Wild, which forges challenges we face together,” where it will support the recently trusted partnerships with people from local says Nico Oosthuizen, director established All-Parliamentary Group communities in order to provide a healthy, at Care for Wild. on International Conservation. secure ecosystem for rhinos, underpinned by financial sustainability.
15 Eating Better (UK) Feedback UK Project Syndicate Grants USD 300,000 (2 years) USD 149,329 (1 year) USD 97,669 (6 months) To support the UK coalition Eating To encourage supermarkets To support a global forum for Better alliance in its work to in the UK to adopt corporate informed, high-level debate and Climate Change stimulate a 50 per cent reduction policies and in-store practice, offer readers access to insights in meat and dairy consumption in which incentivises healthy and by the world’s leading thinkers on 350.org the UK by 2030, and to improve sustainable levels of animal issues related to climate change meat and dairy standards. protein consumption. in their local languages. USD 2,000,000 (3 years) To provide core support to Edelgive Foundation Graduate Institute Geneva Réseau Action Climat (Climate 350.org to provide movement Action Network) France building support to the climate USD 100,000 (1 year) USD 64,583 (10 months) movement. To bring communications around To establish a merit-based USD 249,451 (2 years) climate into the mainstream internship programme within To support Climate Action C40 Cities Climate Leadership and to build a climate narrative Oak’s Environment Programme, Network France in its work Group with a wide base of Indian in Geneva, Switzerland. to reduce the impact of the philanthropies and business consumption of animal protein on USD 3,000,000 (3 years) leaders. Green New Deal UK climate in France. To support C40 to help build an equitable future where no one USD 100,000 (1 year) Energy Foundation Rockefeller Philanthropy gets left behind. To help enable a cleaner, safer USD 5,000,000 (3 years) and more inclusive recovery to Advisors, Inc. Centre for Countering Digital To support the Energy the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. USD 700,000 (1 year) Hate Foundation’s China strategy to To support the Climate phase out coal and achieve a Institute for Transportation Emergency Collaboration Group USD 100,000 (6 months) clean energy transformation. and Development (ITDP) to ensure the Paris Agreement To support Centre for Countering Policy Brazil drives a powerful and effective Digital Hate by shining a spotlight Energy Foundation global response to the climate on digital misinformation USD 622,433 (3 years) emergency. platforms that are polluting the USD 400,000 (1 year) To strengthen ITDP Brazil’s public discourse on issues such as To reduce fossil fuel financing mission of promoting an Rockefeller Philanthropy climate action, women’s rights, to ensure climate safety, curb environmentally sustainable and Advisors, Inc. and racial equality. carbon emissions, and limit global equitable transport system in temperature rise well below 2 Brazil. USD 100,000 (6 months) China Dialogue Trust degrees. To provide support to the Urban Instituto Clima e Sociedade Movement Innovation Fund, USD 500,001 (3 years) Environmental Law Alliance which will support organisations To strengthen China Dialogue USD 1,200,000 (3 years) Worldwide in the global south to build Trust’s strategic network and To support decision-makers to climate movements strategically influence in Asia and Latin USD 500,000 (3 years) act in favour of a low-carbon and collaboratively. America. To build a global body of skilled energy transition in Brazil. lawyers working to protect coasts Rocky Mountain Institute Climate Action Network and oceans. Instituto Clima e Sociedade International USD 200,000 (2 years) USD 1,500,000 (3 years) European Climate Foundation To enable the rapid transition USD 497,960 (4 years) To support the creation of a (ECF) of economies to clean energy To bring justice to those most Climate Emergency Fund in solutions. affected by climate change, USD 7,000,000 (3 years) Brazil, which will support the and to put climate impacts at To enable ECF to continue its rapid response of civil society Sentience Politics the centre of political agenda high-impact programme of work organisations in the event conversations to ensure as the cornerstone of climate of damaging events to the USD 250,000 (2 years) governments respond to the philanthropy and build European environment and environmental To ban factory farming climate emergency. leadership to secure a cleaner, organisations. in Switzerland, and raise the safer, and healthier future. minimum welfare standards ClimateWorks Foundation Instituto ClimaInfo to those currently required European Climate Foundation in organic farming. USD 250,000 (1 year) USD 500,000 (3 years) To enable co-creation of the USD 297,158 (1 year) To improve strategy, messaging, The Sunrise Project Healthy Food, Healthy Planet To use strategic communications and communications efforts (Europe) initiative that aims to tools and tactics to inform key among civil society organisations USD 1,500,000 (3 years) build a movement for less and decision-makers in relation to engaged in environmental civil To mobilise the global finance better animal protein and good campaigning for less and better society in Brazil. community to transition towards alternatives. meat. investments in clean power. Natural Resources Defense Council on Energy Environment European Climate Foundation Council, Inc. (NRDC) University of Chicago (The) and Water (CEEW) USD 18,000,000 (3 years) USD 2,500,000 (3 years) USD 499,996 (2 years) USD 599,995 (2 years) To accelerate the transition from To strengthen NRDC’s strategic To design policy innovations that To provide a core support grant coal to clean power in Europe and climate and clean energy create incentives necessary to to CEEW India for clean energy South, Southeast and East Asia. engagement in China and India. reduce the environmental costs policy research. of energy use, and to improve European Federation for President & Fellows the functioning of markets that Transport and Environment T&E of Harvard College deliver energy to people in India. USD 400,000 (1 year) USD 503,000 (3 years) To accelerate the uptake of To advance knowledge and Vasudha Foundation electric vehicles in Europe and support the development USD 201,121 (2 years) support efforts to decarbonise of innovative science and To support the development the aviation sector. technology-oriented policy of a state-based civil society solutions to address India’s organisation-led platform on climate and energy challenges. climate action in India.
16 International Center for Living Trygg Mat Tracking Integrated Rural Development Marine Aquatic Resources Management, USD 700,000 (3 years) and Nature Conservation also known as Worldfish To support the implementation As You Sow USD 99,922 (1 year) USD 150,000 (21 months) of the Port State Measure To support the initiatives of local USD 600,002 (3 years) To support and secure Agreement in several African communities in Namibia so that To ensure global consumer small-scale fisheries amidst countries and to participate livelihood enhancement efforts goods, retail, and fast food transformational change. in Fisheries Transparency are aligned with the management companies reduce single-use dialogue processes. of protected areas. plastic, increase recyclability, MakeWay and transition to reuse and refill USD 1,500,000 (3 years) Wildlife Conservation Society Kwando Carnivore Project alternatives. To support the MakeWay USD 500,000 (2 years) USD 608,510 (3 years) To boost worldwide Biodiversity Funders Group Foundation to empower Inuit To increase tolerance to wildlife leaders and communities implementation of the Food living in and around communities USD 120,000 (2 years) facing challenges with marine and Agricultural Organization in northeastern Namibia, Africa. To build the biodiversity and stewardship and climate change of Small Scale Fisheries conservation philanthropy field resilience in the Canadian Arctic. Voluntary Guidelines in terms of The Care for Wild Rhino by bringing together groups and governance, markets, and gender. Sanctuary organisations working in grant- Nature Conservancy, The making related to biodiversity USD 680,418 (2 years) USD 1,350,000 (3 years) WWF International protection. To expand and secure a reserve To support Global Mangrove USD 985,000 (42 months) for rewilding orphaned rhinos in To facilitate the development EAT Foundation Watch and its online platform South Africa through community that uses remote sensing data of an international movement partnerships. USD 573,572 (2 years) to provide universal access of communities, civil society To conduct a robust, high-impact to near real-time information organisations, and relevant Wildlife Conservation Network scientific assessment on food on mangrove ecosystems and institutions to accelerate and USD 1,000,000 (2 years) from ocean and freshwater habitat changes around the scale coastal community-led systems. To support the launch of a world. conservation efforts. new Rhino Recovery Fund to Environment Funders Canada resource community projects New Venture Fund Zero Waste Europe in and around protected areas USD 96,924 (1 year) USD 365,000 (3 years) USD 800,000 (3 years) that will encourage wild rhino To create the enabling conditions To house the Opportunities To support Zero Waste populations in Africa and Asia. to support Canada’s ability to Fund for Alaskan Arctic Europe and its Rethink Plastic achieve its marine conservation Marine Stewardship at the alliance coalition partners to Wildlife Crime Prevention protection targets by 2025 and Alaska Venture Fund, a new position the European Union by 2030. USD 2,832,401 (3 years) philanthropic fund dedicated and its member states as global To provide core support to to a sustainable future for Alaska. champions for solutions to the Environmental Defense Inc Wildlife Crime Prevention to plastics pollution crisis. protect the wildlife in Zambia and USD 400,000 (3 years) Oceana Action to extend this protection to other To advance fishing fleet USD 100,000 (10 months) countries in the region. transparency, accountability, To stop offshore oil drilling and compliance with regulations in the United States. Wildlife Justice Commission in priority geographies and lay Wildlife, (WJC) the foundation for implementing Oceana Inc innovative, science-based best Conservation, USD 996,703 (18 months) USD 650,000 (2 years) practices in fisheries monitoring. To provide core support to To support Oceana’s plastics and Trade WJC to continue its efforts in Global Alliance for Incinerator campaigning to achieve national, investigating wildlife trafficking Alternatives Philippines local, state, and provincial Environmental Investigation syndicates globally and improving policies that restrict single use Agency (UK) conservation efforts. USD 100,000 (1 year) plastic items. To support the Break Free from USD 584,416 (3 years) To enhance and coordinate Plastic movement by promoting Seas at Risk The Story of Plastic documentary, international responses that USD 230,801 (20 months) which focuses on the real cause support conservation efforts. Cross sub- of the plastic pollution crisis. To protect the unique Arctic ecosystem and its residents Frankfurt Zoological Society* programme Greenpeace Fund, Inc through a ban on the use and USD 1,080,000 (17 months) carriage of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) To support the conservation of International Funders for USD 900,000 (3 years) in Arctic shipping by 2021. To escalate global pressure on the Gonarezhou National Park in Indigenous Peoples Zimbabwe. fast-moving consumer goods Stimson Center USD 90,000 (3 years) companies worldwide to phase To foster partnership and USD 250,000 (2 years) Gorongosa Restoration out single-use plastics. understanding among Indigenous To facilitate discussion on fishing Project Inc Peoples and funders around the transparency among members Hen Mpoano USD 2,000,000 (2 years) globe. of civil society from priority USD 607,500 (3 years) To provide core support to geographies, in order to agree Gorongosa Restoration Project To strengthen government and on recommendations to present industry commitment to improve Inc in order to protect and to the governments of coastal expand the conservation fisheries governance in Ghana states. and the West African region. landscape in Mozambique.
* The Frankfurt Zoological Society grant is also featured 17 in the Zimbabwe grant section of this report, on page 52. © Nils-Petter Ekwall © Nils-Petter
Housing and Homelessness Ensuring access to a secure and stable home, enabling people to live dignified lives in a fairer society
A safe and secure home is fundamental to a fairer society. why the Housing and Homelessness Programme supports Far too many people are under constant pressure of losing projects that work to challenge and resolve the systemic their homes. The structural causes of homelessness include: causes of homelessness in the United Kingdom and the economic inequality and unemployment; discrimination United States. We fund not-for-profit organisations that and racism; and the lack of affordable housing. All too often are ambitious in their strategies to address structural housing is seen as a commodity, and as such, a significant inequalities – from testing new approaches to scaling up power imbalance persists for people experiencing what works. homelessness and with the greatest housing need. We are grateful to all our grantee partners for their Homelessness is preventable. Genuinely affordable and dedication and achievements in 2020. You can read about suitable housing must be within reach for everyone. This is these on the following pages.
18 Ensuring equitable housing opportunities for everyone
In 2020, equitable access to secure, stable, and decent “Section 21, where a landlord can evict a renter without housing has mattered more than ever before. In a time of giving a reason, is the number one cause of homelessness,” crisis, our partners in the housing sector came together, said Alicia Kennedy, director of Generation Rent. “That’s across countries, to house those experiencing street why Generation Rent is so proud that our ‘End Unfair homelessness, prevent evictions, give emergency relief and Evictions’ campaign led to the UK Government committing support, and to strengthen campaigning and advocacy to to end Section 21. Now this legislation urgently needs to ensure that everyone was safely housed. be published to make sure renters who have been hit hard by the pandemic do not lose their home through no fault In the UK, as soon the national lockdown was announced of their own.” in March 2020, Crisis, along with many other not-for- profit organisations, immediately negotiated with the government to ensure all people currently experiencing “Generation Rent is proud that our street homelessness were securely placed in hotels. The ‘End Unfair Evictions’ campaign led ‘Everybody In’ campaign coordinated the use of hotel and emergency accommodation. A total of GBP 3.2 million to the UK Government committing in funds were allocated to local authorities, with clear to end Section 21.” instructions to ensure no individual was left sleeping on the streets. Alicia Kennedy
In the US, the introduction of the bi-partisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act saw In the US, our partners campaigned for eviction moratoria immediate funding put into tackling homelessness during in different states. For example, in Philadelphia, the the pandemic. To influence the passage of the Act, the Reinvestment Fund engaged with local officials to National Low Income Housing Coalition brought together participate in the City of Philadelphia’s efforts to design and 850 housing organisations across the country, known implement emergency housing legislation to stop evictions. as the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition. It included When a group of landlords filed a lawsuit in an attempt USD 4 billion for emergency solutions grants for to halt the legislation, Reinvestment Fund provided an homelessness assistance. This was a significant increase affidavit and succeeded in defending the moratorium. on the USD 1 billion that was proposed by the government. The affidavit connected eviction patterns with data on the health and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Preventing evictions Alongside protecting those who were homeless during the pandemic, there was huge concern for those living in the private rented sector, due to the risk of eviction. As soon as lockdown began in England, Generation Rent mobilised thousands of renters to write to their MPs. Within days, a national ban on evictions was announced. Generation Rent successfully pushed for extensions to the eviction ban, which continued to September 2020.
Now that the eviction ban has lifted, a landlord can serve their tenants with a Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notice. Therefore, Generation Rent is stepping up its campaign to ensure the government delivers on its pledge to scrap Section 21. © Generation Rent © Generation
19 The US-based National Fair Housing Alliance works to eliminate housing discrimination to ensure equal housing opportunity for everyone, including for Aaliyah and Maya, featured right. You can read about their story below. © National Fair Housing Alliance © National
That document has served as an In one successful win, NFHA and In March 2020, NFHA announced essential point of reference beyond two local fair housing groups filed a settlement agreement with Asset the life of the initial lawsuit for which a lawsuit challenging the policy of Campus Housing, Inc., eliminating the it was written. Asset Campus Housing Inc., one of policy throughout the country and the largest property management providing relief to Maya and Aaliyah. Black Lives Matter companies in the US, which The resolution of this case resulted Like many others in the sector, we discriminated against families with in providing families with children were deeply moved by the response children. This was done on behalf access to 140,000 beds throughout to the murder of George Floyd and of students like Maya, a single 40 states and 77 cities. the attention paid to the Black Lives mother, and her two-year old Matter movement. Tackling systemic daughter, Aaliyah. Maya, a student We have been so inspired by the racism continues to inform our grant- of psychology at the University of strong leadership and commitment making portfolio. We are proud to Louisville in Kentucky, was a tenant of all our partners in what has been fund Ujima in Boston, which provides of Asset Campus Housing. One day, a difficult year. We are grateful to all loans to businesses owned by people she received a call from her landlord our partners who have advocated for of colour, thus addressing inequality. stating that due to single occupancy and supported thousands of people Ujima members include business regulations, she would have to obtain to beat homelessness, as well as owners, managers, and entrepreneurs a separate lease for two-year old increase rights for renters and secure who are committed to advancing Aaliyah. Instead of living together in access to safe, stable, and decent social and economic justice through a large one-bedroom unit under one housing. the private sector. Ujima businesses lease, there had to be two separate align their corporate practices with leases for both mother and child in In 2021, the Housing and Homeless their values, by creating good jobs, order to be able to stay in the unit – Programme team will review its sharing ownership and wealth, one in Maya’s name and the other strategies and funding priorities meeting local needs, and generating in Aaliyah’s name – thus doubling to ensure that we continue to support community benefits. the rent. and strengthen organisations that are as committed as we are to ending We also provide core support to For two years, Maya worked two and homelessness and ensuring a secure the National Fair Housing Alliance sometimes even three jobs to try home for everyone. Our website page (NFHA), a national organisation to make ends meet. Inevitably, the will be updated in due course, headquartered in Washington DC, double rent proved too much. She so make sure to check it out! with over 200 member organisations eventually had to drop out of school across the country in 40 states. NFHA and forego the college degree she is the voice of fair housing and works hoped would enable her to provide Caption: The photos in the Housing and Homelessness section of the report to eliminate housing discrimination a better life for Aaliyah. represent the efforts of our partners to ensure equal housing opportunity to help provide secure and decent for all people through leadership, Indeed, without stable housing, it is housing for everyone. education, outreach, membership almost impossible for single parents services, public policy initiatives, on low income to successfully attend community development, advocacy, school. That is why Maya, NFHA, and and enforcement. two local fair housing groups filed a lawsuit challenging Asset Campus Housing’s policy that discriminated against families with children. 20 New Horizon Youth Centre Child Poverty Action Group Housing Rights Service Grants USD 397,813 (3 years) (CPAG) USD 2,012,987 (5 years) To improve best practice USD 1,298,701 (5 years) To help ensure people and policy for young people To provide core support to CPAG in Northern Ireland have Economic experiencing or at risk of in its work to prevent child and a decent, safe, and affordable homelessness in London and family poverty in the UK. place to live. self-sufficiency the UK. Crisis UK Inquest Charitable Trust Center for Responsible Lending Turn2us USD 97,403 (1 year) USD 467,532 (4 years) USD 1,500,000 (5 years) USD 399,232 (3 years) To support Crisis to work with To provide support to Inquest To provide core support to the To support Turn2us to improve Welsh local authorities to identify Charitable Trust to continue its Center for Responsible Lending its approaches by: working with why people are being excluded work to support Grenfell Tower to help it eliminate abusive those who have lived experience from the Housing Wales Act and survivors and the bereaved. financial practices that of poverty; and influencing policy how to address this. disproportionately impact low- change. Justfix.nyc and moderate- income families Greater Boston Legal Services USD 400,000 (2 years) and people of colour in the USD 1,700,000 (5 years) To identify bad landlords United States. To provide core support to in New York City through the Greater Boston Legal Services development of the “Who Owns Groundswell UK Homelessness in its work providing legal aid to What Pro” website. USD 300,316 (3 years) prevention individuals and families in Boston, To increase opportunities for Massachusetts, United States, to Justice Collaborations help them meet their basic needs. people with lived experience of Broad Street Ministry USD 1,298,701 (3 years) homelessness to progress into To improve access to justice for USD 525,000 (4 years) roles in the health and social care Harrow Law Centre people in the immigration system To expand access to Broad Street sector. USD 390,779 (3 years) in the UK by enhancing access Ministry’s on-site services to To reduce the number of people to good legal advice. people impacted by deep poverty Justice in Aging (formerly who are homeless or at risk and incarceration. National Senior Citizens of homelessness in Harrow, London Renters Union Law Center) London through the provision Cardiff University USD 223,121 (4 years) USD 831,977 (3 years) of legal advice and representation To strengthen the power USD 55,144 (1 year) To prevent homelessness by the Harrow Law Centre. of renters in London by To develop Upstream Cymru, among older adults and people establishing a new branch of the a new school-focused approach with disabilities in the US, by HIAS PA London Renters Union in the city. to youth homelessness increasing access to income USD 499,000 (4 years) prevention in Wales. support programmes, primarily To enrich HIAS Pennsylvania’s Mayday Trust Supplemental Security Income, community engagement team Caring In Bristol USD 382,200 (3 years) which provides a critical source of to increase its capacity to serve, To instigate change in the USD 403,752 (3 years) income for many older people. expanding the reach of advocacy social care system in the UK To support Caring in Bristol, and individual support through by attracting organisations and the UK, to develop initiatives to Law Centre NI increased use of volunteers. individuals in the sector to adopt prevent homelessness for people USD 564,712 (3 years) person-led, transitional, and experiencing debt and tenancy To provide support to migrant Homes for Families strength-based responses. related housing problems, groups, including asylum seekers, USD 350,000 (5 years) working with CHAS Housing victims of trafficking, refugees, To provide support to Homes for Advice Service. and others who have migrated Families, which works to amplify to Northern Ireland. the voices of homeless families in Boston and highlight systemic barriers and gaps in services. © Reinvestment Fund Philadelphia © Reinvestment Neighbors Together National Low Income Housing Heriot-Watt University Social Care Institute for USD 600,000 (4 years) Coalition USD 206,713 (2 years) Excellence To provide core support to end USD 1,500,000 (5 years) To generate rich empirical USD 179,221 (3 years) hunger and poverty through To increase the provision evidence that can be used To support Oak Foundation’s Neighbors Together’s community of decent, accessible, affordable to inform the development UK partners to ensure that their café in Brooklyn, New York City. homes for extremely low- of interventions that have the child safeguarding policies, income households in the US, potential to prevent, ameliorate procedures and practices are Public Law Project (PLP) including those experiencing and/ or resolve severe and compliant with UK law and USD 1,298,701 (4 years) homelessness. multiple disadvantages represent good practice. To provide the PLP in the UK experienced by women. with an unrestricted core grant New Venture Fund to support it to improve access USD 1,500,000 (3 years) National Alliance to End to legal remedies for those whose To support the Funders for Homelessness (NAEH) access to justice is restricted Housing and Opportunity USD 1,750,000 (5 years) Other by poverty or other forms to improve life outcomes for To provide core support Face to Face of disadvantage. those who are rent-burdened to NAEH, which is a non-partisan, and experiencing homelessness not-for-profit organisation that USD 460,000 (4 years) Sandwell African and Caribbean across the US. uses research and data to find To strengthen Face to Face’s Mental Health Foundation solutions for homelessness housing stability initiative in Philadelphia, which aims to USD 415,584 (5 years) New York City Joint Ownership in the US. strengthen the legal service to To provide support to Sandwell Entity assist low-income clients with African Caribbean Mental Health USD 490,000 (2 years) National Housing Institute dba safe and secure housing. Foundation in the UK, which To increase the New York City ShelterForce delivers a range of mental health Joint Ownership Entity (JOE) USD 375,000 (3 years) Hope Projects services in particular to Black portfolio to 3,500 units, at which To enable Shelterforce to conduct people recovering from severe point, JOE will become self- investigative journalism which USD 499,871 (5 years) and enduring mental ill health. sufficient. will complement its independent To prevent destitution for media content. homeless asylum seekers by Shelter from the storm (SFTS) Pine Street Inn expanding Hope Projects’ legal services to ensure all claimants USD 55,735 (1 year) USD 2,000,000 (10 years) Pro Bono Economics have accurate information to To support SFTS in its work To provide Pine Street Inn, USD 367,922 (2 years) proceed efficiently. to offer a wrap-around care based in Boston, with a grant for To strengthen the resilience of package to people experiencing an endowment fund, that will small- to medium-sized UK HHP Praxis Community Projects homelessness in London, the provide a permanent income partners. UK and to develop a five-year stream towards the funding USD 1,038,961 (66 months) strategy to improve and expand of their supported housing. Revolving Doors Agency To enable frontline organisations and public bodies to better services offered. USD 99,043 (1 year) identify and address migrants’ To investigate what it means needs and support sustainable Vicar’s Relief Fund * to be a peer mentor in services pathways out of destitution and USD 649,351 (1 year) that seek to help people going homelessness. To make small grants to homeless Learning through substance misuse, and vulnerable people through homelessness, and repeat The City College of New York a Covid-19 Emergency Fund. CharityWorks offending. 21st Century Foundation Inc USD 55,195 (1 year) To place talented individuals with Royal Society of Arts USD 54,870 (1 year) To pilot a grassroots leader frontline experience from diverse USD 97,403 (1 year) fellowship programme to offer and working-class communities To research how citizen free access to college credits and Increasing the within the philanthropic sector participation in housing and link activists with community in the UK and provide them with neighbourhood issues influences leaders and other students to supply of low- leadership training and individual perceptions of economic security strengthen organising in New coaching. and wellbeing. income housing York. Community Service Society of Sheffield Hallam University First Housing Aid & Support New York Services USD 186,810 (2 years) USD 687,651 (3 years) To understand the impact USD 433,474 (3 years) To elevate the experiences To support SmartMove of antisocial behaviour tools of low-income New Yorkers on homeless people in the UK. to provide good quality and in policy discussions that will affordable housing to 285 new impact their ability to remain tenants in Northern Ireland. in their homes.
* The Vicar’s Relief Fund grant is also featured in the Covid-19 grant section of this report, on page 11.
22 © Nils-Petter Ekwall © Nils-Petter
International Human Rights Protecting and promoting the human rights of all people
Since 1948 the global community has developed an innocence, has long-term negative impacts on families extensive body of international law and principles to of detainees, and undermines efforts at rehabilitation. protect human rights. But there remains a gulf between human rights rhetoric and the lived experience of so many In many countries, racism and other forms of discrimination people. We seek to help to close that gap. are deeply embedded in the criminal justice system, meaning that unnecessary detention disproportionately Within the ending arbitrary detention and torture priority punishes communities of colour and other marginalised area of the International Human Rights Programme (IHRP), groups. In the IHRP, we see the need to help address racism a key focus is on challenging the unnecessary use of pre- in prisons as a key lens to our work on pre-trial detention. trial detention in criminal justice systems around the world. The story on the following pages illustrates our partners’ Unjustified detention undermines the presumption of efforts in this regard.
23 Addressing racism in prisons worldwide
“Ending mass incarceration is crucial for racial justice all indicate similar problems. For example, in the UK, Black over the world. That’s only possible through the collective and minority ethnic people make up 27 per cent of all power of strong, diverse social movements led by the most incarcerated people, yet only comprise 14 per cent of affected communities, especially communities of colour,” the total UK population.2 says Allyne Andrade, deputy director of the Brazil Human Rights Fund. A growing voice Oak supports not-for-profit organisations that seek to Racism and discrimination around the world manifest address the clear evidence of racism in criminal justice clearly in criminal justice systems. From discriminatory systems. These organisations work to raise the voices policing to the denial of basic due process rights, of communities, in particular Black or minority groups, marginalised communities are frequently the subject of as well as communities who are under-represented in unfair and unequal treatment. In many countries, racism debates about public security and criminal justice reform. and other forms of discrimination are deeply embedded in criminal justice systems. In the International Human Rights Programme, we see the need to address racism in prisons as a key lens to our work on ending unnecessary pre-trial © IMIX detention.
A global problem In 2013, Oak began supporting not-for-profit organisations working in the criminal justice sector in Brazil, India, and across Europe. These organisations seek to reduce arbitrary pre-trial detention, and to stop torture and police violence. Our partners quickly showed us that in these countries there are various forms of racism and discrimination.
Brazil has the third most incarcerated people (roughly 770,000) in the world. Black people are significantly overrepresented compared to the general population. In Constantine © Greg 2019 alone, the police killed over 5,800 people, of which the vast majority were Black. Conditions in detention centres are overcrowded, unsanitary, and regularly violent, with little regard for basic human rights or possibilities for rehabilitation.
In India, recently released data by the Indian National Crime Records Bureau showed that a range of ethnic and religious minorities are overrepresented in prisons. For example, Dalits and tribal people make up 21 per cent and 10.5 per cent of pre-trial detainees respectively, even though they only constitute 16.6 per cent and 8.6 per cent of the total Indian population. These statistics are especially concerning © IMIX given that nearly 70 per cent of all incarcerated people are being held pre-trial – a total of 330,487 individuals.1
In Europe, while there are not any official statistics which are disaggregated by race or other ethnicity, research by academics and not-for-profit organisations © Cidicleiton da Silva_Gajop © Cidicleiton
24 Our partners know the importance of recognising and addressing different forms of discrimination present in many societies. © Lucianna Maria da Silveira Ferreira/Cedeca-Ceará Ferreira/Cedeca-Ceará © Lucianna Maria da Silveira
In partnership with the Brazil says Juana Kweitel, executive director which are currently being rolled Human Rights Fund, Oak has been of Conectas. “Embedding a racial out in the country. They have also supporting a number of not-for-profit equity lens has had a very profound sought to strengthen accountability organisations in Brazil. These include impact, not only on the work of mechanisms by documenting Criola and Inegra, Black feminist Conectas, but also on a personal level police violence and seeking greater organisations in Rio de Janiero and for all members of staff. It was a long accountability under the Scheduled Ceará respectively, which work with overdue obligation.” Castes and Tribes (Prevention of women in pre-trial detention. We Atrocities) Act, as well as directly also support CFNTX, a Black youth-led with vulnerable communities. organisation in Para, and NAJUP in “We felt that it was very Matto Grosso do Sul, which focuses Discrimination has many facets on helping Indigenous people in important to mirror the Our partners know the importance of prison. In addition, Amparar, Rede de change that we want to recognising and addressing differing Movimentos e Comunidades contra forms of discrimination present in a Violência, and Eu sou Eu work with see in society, and to many societies. For example, in India, formerly incarcerated people, or show that it is possible discrimination based on religion or with friends and family members of to change.” caste is more prevalent than race. incarcerated people. They also seek In Europe, partners such as the to build better respect for the rights Juana Kweitel Bulgarian and Hungarian Helsinki of individuals in contact with the Committees highlight the widespread justice system in Brazil, and to help discrimination against Roma raise their voices. Accountability matters communities in eastern European Basic due process guarantees societies. Additionally, several of our partners that hold criminal justice systems are beginning to explore race and accountable also remain important At Oak Foundation, we have found privilege more deeply within their safeguards. In particular, early that integrating a lens that helps us own organisations. As in many access to counsel is key in addressing see inherent discrimination more countries, traditional not-for-profit discriminatory and violent policing clearly is fundamental to an effective organisations active in the criminal practices. It is also central to grant-making strategy. It has been key justice space are often concentrated mitigating some of the due process to strengthening the overall impact of in major capital cities and employ few violations that expose marginalised our work. If you want to know more people from affected communities. groups to long-term violations of about what our International Human their rights within the criminal justice Rights Programme is doing, check out Our partner Conectas, which works system. our website. to defend and promote the realisation of human rights and contribute to The Commonwealth Human Rights the consolidation of the rule of law Initiative and Human Rights Law References: Please see page 62 of this report. in the global south, has sought to Network have sought to increase ensure that it better represents the access to lawyers in India, either Caption: The photos in the International communities it serves. “We felt it was through the establishment of Human Rights Programme section of the direct legal aid programmes or by report illustrate the work of our partners very important to mirror the change in their efforts to address racism and other that we want to see in society, and advocating for the creation of legal forms of discrimination. to show that it is possible to change,” aid clinics in police stations or courts,
25 JustLabs Centre for Studies on Truth, New Venture Fund Grants USD 475,000 (2 years) Memory and Justice USD 1,200,000 (4 years) To support Human Rights 2030, a USD 1,033,000 (5 years) To support the Sage Fund’s project by JustLabs, to stimulate To uncover the truth about grave efforts to strengthen human Broadening innovation in human rights violations of human rights in rights accountability for documentation and campaigning. Turkey, strengthen collective economic actors globally. human rights memory of those violations, Movies that Matter Foundation and support survivors and other SITU Studio constituencies USD 373,626 (3 years) actors in their pursuit of justice. USD 500,000 (3 years) To encourage debate on human To work with human rights Assifero rights and social justice through Civitas Maxima organisations and courts USD 247,253 (2 years) human rights film events in the USD 700,000 (3 years) to present evidence more To promote a rights-based global south. To gather evidence on serious persuasively and effectively approach to Italian philanthropy crimes and pursue accountability through the application of spatial and to streamline Italian Network of European on behalf of victims, both analysis and visualisation. philanthropic practice to meet Foundations nationally and internationally. the needs of Italian civil society. USD 1,978,022 (3 years) Southern Africa Litigation Centre To strengthen democracy and Goldsmiths, USD 236,270 (3 years) Civil Liberties Union for Europe solidarity in Europe through a University of London To provide unrestricted USD 494,505 (3 years) grant to Civitates and to provide USD 605,325 (3 years) programme support to the To support the capacity-building support to the European Artificial To undertake advanced spatial Southern African Litigation work of the Civil Liberties Union Intelligence Fund. and media investigations into Centre’s Business and Human for Europe. cases of human rights violations, Rights and International Criminal Our Cities and innovate in investigative Justice programmes. DOC Society Ltd USD 250,000 (18 months) practice, presentation, and USD 450,000 (2 years) To identify, train, and empower storytelling. The Guernica Centre for To manage a film fund which change agents to pursue high- International Justice will enable support of social impact mobilisation initiatives Human Rights First USD 400,000 (3 years) justice documentaries and other with respect to human rights. USD 1,550,000 (3 years) To support transnational and storytelling. To support targeted US and EU international accountability Race Forward sanctions (i.e., travel bans and strategies to tackle impunity European Human Rights USD 250,000 (2 years) asset freezes) on perpetrators in nine countries. Advocacy Centre To support Race Forward’s of gross human rights abuses USD 186,000 (3 years) development of the Immigrant and corruption and to uphold TRIAL International To support two merit-based paid Narrative Lab, which will work the integrity of the US asylum USD 625,000 (3 years) fellowship programmes. with a cohort of field narrative system. To challenge the impunity of leaders to test, refine, and individuals and corporate actors Fund for Global Human Rights advance a pro-immigrant Independent Diplomat Inc. involved in gross human rights USD 1,000,000 (2 years) narrative system and set of USD 250,000 (2 years) violations and to secure redress To strengthen the international narratives. To support effective advocacy as for the victims of these crimes. human rights movement by an integral part of international closing the divide between Rights and Security International diplomatic efforts to establish Videre frontline movements and USD 493,506 (18 months) the truth and secure justice and USD 233,766 (18 months) traditional not-for-profit To support the accountability. To document and expose human organisations. internationalisation of Rights rights violations and other and Security International’s Institute for International systemic abuses in some of the Global Dialogue operations, enabling it to deliver Criminal Investigations (IICI) world’s most oppressive and USD 713,636 (5 years) on its new global strategy. USD 366,813 (2 years) violent regimes. To support three philanthropic To train human rights activists initiatives – Ariadne, the and not-for-profit organisations European network of human in investigative techniques to rights funders working towards document international crimes positive social change; the Ending impunity and build the fundraising capacity Funders’ Initiative for Civil of the IICI. Society; and Migration Exchange Argentine Forensic – all hosted by Global Dialogue. Anthropology Team Jagori USD 1,650,000 (3 years) USD 100,000 (18 months) International Commission To provide core support to To advance the realisation of of Jurists apply forensic anthropology and “women’s rights are human USD 100,000 (1 year) related sciences to investigations rights”, the constitutional To launch a fundraising drive to of gross human rights violations. mandate of equality, non- build a local and international discrimination, dignity, and a life constituency. free of violence in the public and private sphere, through the use of legal resources.
26 Freedom LGBTQI from arbitrary Open For Business USD 160,206 (3 years) detention and To provide core support to torture Open For Business Kenya, which works to engage businesses and civil society organisations in Coalizione Italiana Liberta promoting LGBTQI rights. e Diritti Civili USD 494,505 (3 years) To support a coalition of Italian not-for-profit organisations working to improve immigrant Supporting and refugee rights, the rule of and protecting law, and equality rights. human rights Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) defenders USD 935,553 (4 years) To support the CHRI’s efforts to Center for Economic and improve access to justice in India. Social Rights (CESR) USD 100,000 (1 year) Gabinete de Assessoria Juridica To support the implementation as Organizacoes Populares of CESR’s strategy ‘Envisioning a (GAJOP) Rights-based Economy’ to enable USD 392,761 (2 years) the human rights movement To provide core support to GAJOP to respond more effectively to to promote citizen-friendly public the rights implications of the security policy and legal advice to economic crisis triggered by victims of state violence in Recife, the Covid-19 pandemic. Brazil. Open Briefing Jesuit Refugee Service USD 584,416 (3 years) USD 989,011 (3 years) To improve the physical safety, To strengthen the work of the digital security, and psychological Jesuit Refugee Service – Europe. wellbeing of at-risk human rights activists and organisations, Lighthouse Reports and to further consolidate the institutional basis and USD 100,000 (1 year) sustainability of Open Briefing. To expose human rights violations across the Mediterranean Tactical Technology and counter anti-refugee Collective (TTC) disinformation and xenophobic narratives through investigative USD 788,462 (3 years) journalism. To provide core support to the TTC to advance the skills, tools, Migration Policy Group (MPG) and techniques of human rights activists. USD 414,835 (3 years) To support MPG, an independent The Engine Room think and do tank and thought partner, to secure progress USD 500,000 (3 years) towards more open and inclusive To provide core support societies in Europe. to help activists in the safe and effective integration of data Nationality for All (NfA) and technology in their work. USD 100,000 (1 year) To support NfA to promote collaboration on addressing statelessness in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Issues Affecting Women Supporting vibrant movements led by women that are transforming lives and communities
The Issues Affecting Women Programme (IAWP) provides We support women’s organisations that: empower grants and capacity-development support to organisations women to fully and equally participate in society; adopt worldwide. a holistic approach, taking into consideration various contexts and cultures; and address root causes. The story In 2020, we focused our efforts on supporting our new on the following pages, which focuses on our Swiss-based and existing partners and their communities and partners, demonstrates this commitment. constituencies in the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Our support helped them to navigate the myriad of social and economic challenges brought on by Covid-19, on top of their usual work.
28 Addressing gender inequality in Switzerland
While unequal power relations are created and Helvetia is calling – Swiss women’s movement perpetuated by legal, political, economic, and cultural Despite these challenges, women in Switzerland have long systems, we believe there is great capacity to change these been fighting for their rights and have made important systems for the better of all. The Issues Affecting Women gains in recent years. In 1991, tired of the “snail’s pace” Programme supports women’s efforts to build, lead, and of progress on gender equality, 500,000 Swiss women grow strong, vibrant, and influential movements that organised a national strike. Chief among their demands achieve equity and justice. We would like to highlight this was pay equity. Nearly 30 years later in 2019, when process in action in Switzerland, where Oak has its main parliament again failed to pass an equal pay law, hundreds administrative office. of thousands of Swiss women again took to the streets in protest demanding “higher pay, greater equality, and more The symbol of the Swiss women’s movement has long been respect.” a snail – symbolising the slow rate of progress. Nowhere is this more evident than women’s suffrage, where Swiss women were only granted the right to vote in Federal elections in 1971. It took another 20 years and a Supreme Court decision for the last Swiss canton to grant women the right to vote on local issues. This rate of progress extends to other legal rights and protections. For example, marital rape in Switzerland was only criminalised in 1985. It was not until 2002 that Switzerland granted women the right to abortion, and maternity leave was not federally mandated until 2005. In fact, it was only in September 2020 that paternity leave in Switzerland was extended from one day to two weeks.
A related challenge for Swiss women has been obtaining their financial independence. Limited and expensive childcare options mean that many women drop out of the workforce once they start a family. Even when women stay employed, they are far more likely than men to reduce to part-time work. This drop in income has major implications, as current statistics estimate that one in eight Swiss women live below the poverty line. This income gap follows women into retirement, for whom pensions are 37 per cent lower than men’s.1
Perhaps the starkest indication of how the lack of gender equality has impacted Swiss society is the issue of violence. A dependent economic status makes it more likely that © alliance F women stay in abusive relationships. Indeed, Switzerland has the highest reported cases of domestic violence of any western European country. A staggering 64 per cent of all In addition, over the years there have been far fewer murders committed in the country result from domestic women than men elected to the Swiss Parliament. “Until violence.2 During the Covid-19 crisis, levels of domestic 2019, more men named Hans had served in the Swiss violence increased, with many shelters reporting an Parliament than women,” said Sophie Achermann, director increased demand for services. of Alliance F, the largest and oldest umbrella organisation for women in Switzerland. “We can and must do better.” And indeed, their calls were answered.
29 Oak’s Issues Affecting Women Programme has been supporting Swiss women’s organisations since its first grant in 2004. © Virginia Ruan / Oak Foundation © Virginia
In 2019, for the first time in its history, Since then, the programme has The programme is planning to further more women were elected to the expanded its support to nine other support advocacy and lobbying Swiss Parliament than men. Today, organisations across the country to: efforts in order to disrupt the status women make up 42 per cent of the support domestic violence services, quo, create systemic change, and Federal Parliament. Watch the video including psychological violence; improve the legal frameworks that by our partner alliance F, called address trafficking and exploitation; protect and advance women’s “Helvetia is calling”, by clicking on support migrant women to overcome rights. The IAWP is also planning to the link in the online version of this the additional barriers they face in expand its support to organisations report, to find out more. accessing services and understand working to end domestic violence in their rights; and strengthen women’s Switzerland, with a specific focus on In Switzerland, there is clear movement building. Watch the video migrant women. This will build on momentum and an opportunity of our partners by clicking on the link the existing portfolio on domestic to address many of the systemic in the online version of this report, to violence and expand our support to issues that have prevented women find out more. other French-speaking cantons where from attaining their full and equal services are not available. rights. These include: updating the In 2020, we decided to refresh tax code so that married women are our strategy in order to be more not being unfairly taxed; providing responsive to the needs of women affordable universal childcare and to the opportunities on the solutions for working families; and horizon. “The Swiss Women’s expanding services across the country Movement has really taken off in References: Please see page 62 of this report. so that all women experiencing recent years and we have the chance Captions: violence have access to quality to transform the snail into a cheetah,” P29: Participants in alliance F’s 2019 support. There is also the need says Katharina Samara-Wickrama, campaign, “Helvetia is calling”, which to upend the status quo and director of the IAWP. focused on coaching women politicians and challenge social norms to promote encouraging political parties to include more a more just and equal society. The IAWP’s new strategy will put women candidates on their electoral lists. movement building at the heart of Issues Affecting Women Programme our work in Switzerland. As one of Above: 2019 Swiss Women’s March in Geneva, Switzerland. (IAWP) grant-making in Switzerland the few foundations focusing on The IAWP has been supporting Swiss movement building in the country, P32: Photo is from a 1929 women’s protest women’s organisations since its first Oak Foundation can play a unique role march in Switzerland. It features a snail to grant in 2004, which was in support in supporting grassroot organisations illustrate the slow pace of progress. of FIZ in Zurich, a not-for-profit to connect, mobilise, create, and organisation that provides specialised share knowledge. Video alert! Check out the online version of this report to watch two videos made of or services to victims of trafficking. by our partners, describing the efforts of the women’s movement in Switzerland.
30 Centre Social Protestant (CSP) FRIDA – The Young Latin American Women’s Grants USD 401,679 (3 years) Feminist Fund Rights Service (LAWRS) To support the CSP’s continued USD 75,000 (1 year) USD 311,688 (3 years) Aide aux Victimes de Violence operation of its helpline for To help FRIDA support the To provide core support to en Couple victims of human trafficking in the meaningful participation of LAWRS so that it can provide USD 460,000 (3 years) canton of Geneva, Switzerland. young feminist organisers in the women-centred, rights based, To provide core support Beijing+25 processes, leveraging holistic services to Latin American to AVVEC in its work to offer ELAS Social Investment Fund its role of bringing young feminist migrant women experiencing help, advice and support USD 1,076,000 (2 years) perspectives to international, abuse and exploitation. to victims of domestic violence To provide core funding to multi-stakeholder meetings. in Geneva, Switzerland. strengthen ELAS Fund’s general Level Up Action grant-making capacity across Gender Alternatives Foundation USD 100,000 (1 year) alliance F Brazil. USD 250,000 (5 years) To support Level Up Action to USD 300,000 (3 years) To protect and promote women’s build a community of feminists To provide core support to End Violence Against rights and gender equality in who will campaign to end sexism alliance F to achieve gender Women Coalition (EVAW) Plovdiv and more widely across in the UK, so that women and equality in society, the economy, USD 100,000 (1 year) Bulgaria, by providing rights- nonbinary people can live safely and politics in Switzerland. To provide core funding to the based services to women victims and achieve their full potential. UK-based organisation EVAW. of violence. Association des Mediatrices National Domestic Workers Interculturelles (AMIC) Equality Fund Global Alliance Against Alliance (NDWA) Traffic in Women USD 300,000 (3 years) USD 2,000,000 (3 years) USD 1,000,000 (2 years) To provide core support to To provide core support to USD 757,706 (5 years) To support the NDWA’s civic AMIC, a Swiss organisation that Equality Fund which works To contribute to an improved engagement project in the US supports migrant and refugee to strengthen women’s understanding of, and response to strengthen the activism of families in their social and organisations and movements to, human trafficking and everyday people, particularly economic integration in Geneva, that advance women’s rights, women’s labour migration from women, and expand the Switzerland. gender equality and the a rights-based perspective. electorate to reflect a multiracial empowerment of women, girls democracy. Association Découvrir and trans people. Global Justice Centre (GJC) USD 575,850 (3 years) USD 800,000 (5 years) NEO Philanthropy To provide core support to European Network for the Work To provide core support to GJC USD 2,739,632 (1 year) Association Découvrir to continue with Perpetrators of Domestic to use legal arguments and To administer and support supporting the professional Violence advocacy strategies to dismantle the Issues Affecting Women integration of qualified migrant USD 310,000 (3 years) discriminatory legal and political Programme’s US-based portfolio women in French-speaking To provide core support to structures that prevent equality of grants, which aims to end Switzerland. the European Network for and human rights for all. trafficking and exploitation. Work with Perpetrators of Association Violence Que Faire Domestic Violence, a European Imkaan Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) USD 322,772 (3 years) membership organisation. USD 1,260,000 (5 years) USD 500,000 (5 years) To provide core support to To support the work of Imkaan, To provide core support to the Association Violence Que Faire Focus on Labour Exploitation a membership organisation NWI to enable it to strengthen to continue to offer its services (FLEX) of Black and minoritised women’s and support women’s rights throughout the French-speaking USD 259,740 (3 years) services addressing violence organisations around the world. part of Switzerland and run a To provide core support to FLEX, against women and girls psychological violence prevention based in the UK, to enable it in the UK. openDemocracy campaign. to continue its work of ending USD 303,896 (1 year) human trafficking for labour International Committee on the To support openDemocracy to Centre for Gender and Violence exploitation. Rights of Sex Workers in Europe monitor global information and Research, University of Bristol USD 300,000 (3 years) offer a vehicle for framing the USD 224,991 (2 years) Fraueninformationszentrum To build sex workers’ capacities messaging of those working To provide unrestricted USD 150,000 (2 years) to advocate for their inclusion across the world to advance programme support to the To support the Swiss Platform in policy debates and to become human rights. Centre for Gender and Violence against Human Trafficking to an active part of the response to Research to add to knowledge on advocate for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation in the Panorama Global several under-researched areas trafficking to access their rights, sex industry in Europe. USD 600,000 (3 years) of psychological violence. specialised assistance and To provide core funding and protection. Kalayaan project funding to Philanthropy Centre for Women’s Justice USD 422,078 (5 years) Advancing Women’s Human USD 100,000 (1 year) FreeFrom To provide core support to Rights (PAWHR). To support the Centre for USD 558,325 (2 years) Kalayaan to work with migrant Women’s Justice to challenge To provide core support to domestic workers in the UK, discrimination in the justice FreeFrom to create pathways to especially victims of labour system in the UK regarding financial security and long-term exploitation or trafficking. violence against women and girls, safety for survivors of economic with a focus on psychological abuse in the US. violence and coercive control.
31 Queen Mary, University Standing Together Tides Foundati on Women’s Fund for Scotland of London USD 400,000 (3 years) USD 1,020,000 (18 months) USD 100,000 (1 year) USD 364,000 (2 years) To provide core support to To support the Movement To support grant-making to To carry out a research study Standing Together in its work to Support Fund to provide funding women’s groups across Scotland in several European countries support the Safety Across Faith that can be mobilised quickly and in response to the Covid-19 on the experiences of domesti c and Ethnic Communiti es project be responsive to ti me-bound, pandemic. abuse survivors in the family to run the Faith and Violence unanti cipated, or non-traditi onal courts on decisions around against Women and Girls opportuniti es. Women’s Internati onal League contact with children. Coaliti on. for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Women at the Table USD 900,000 (3 years) Safer Families Centre Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) USD 200,000 (3 years) To provide core support to WILPF. of Research Excellence – USD 371,990 (2 years) To support women’s rights University of Melbourne To enable SEA, in partnership acti vists to gain infl uence in Women’s Internati onal League USD 600,000 (2 years) with FreeFrom, to conduct a the applicati on of arti fi cial for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) To provide core support to global review on the picture intelligence that touches USD 1,500,000 (5 years) Safer Families Centre, based at of economic abuse worldwide, every aspect of life – including To provide core support to WILPF the University of Melbourne, including best practi ce and governance, democracy, the to strengthen the capacity of Australia, for its research on strategy for movement leaders economy, sustainability, and frontline women’s organisati ons psychological violence and the and funders. technology. to mobilise for peace, equality, eff ects of domesti c abuse on justi ce, and human security. health. Swiss Philanthropy Foundati on Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) USD 2,811,875 (3 years) USD 300,000 (3 years) Semillas To support Swiss Philanthropy To strengthen WFT’s USD 50,000 (10 months) Foundati on to manage fi ve organisati onal capacity, as the To support Semillas in providing grants to nati onal, regional, and fi rst and only women’s fund in criti cal travel and translati on internati onal women’s funds Tanzania. grants to under-represented based in the Netherlands, France, women acti vists from the global the United States, Peru, and south, enabling them to att end Georgia. the Gender Equality Forum in Mexico in May 2020. © alliance F © Nils-Pett er Ekwall © Nils-Pett
Learning Diff erences
Unlocking the creati vity and power of every young person
In the Learning Diff erences Programme (LDP), we believe Covid-19 pandemic. As schools were required to shift to that together we can build a world in which schools unlock distance learning nearly overnight, the LDP supported the creati vity and power of every young person, and equip organisati ons that worked to: protect the rights of students them to shape more just and equitable communiti es. We who learn diff erently; support teachers and school leaders; partner with and invest in not-for-profi t organisati ons that off er guidance on how to meet students’ needs remotely; improve educati on for all students, parti cularly those with and off er guidance on how to re-open schools in trauma- learning diff erences who experience further marginalisati on sensiti ve ways. due to racism and poverty.
2020 was a most unusual year that brought unprecedented challenges for students and families alike, due to the
33 Our partners: supporting students in the face of Covid-19
When the risks of the Covid-19 virus Learning Differences Programme. started to become clear in early Experts estimated that children in the spring of 2020, many schools were US could lose as much as a full year’s forced to close, ultimately affecting worth of learning in reading and math at least 50.8 million public school during the pandemic, and even more students in the US alone. Around the for the most vulnerable students. world, 96 per cent of countries closed schools by the end of March, affecting Schools’ remote learning plans approximately 711 million children.1 attempted to fill these gaps, but this brought challenges for families and Schools shifted to distance learning students with learning differences – nearly overnight. By early May, from accessing instructional content 80 per cent of teachers in the US and receiving proper services, © Julie Hill/ Oak Foundation were interacting with the majority to supporting social and emotional of their students remotely. This health during extraordinarily stressful was still the case at the start of the times. 2020-21 school year. On top of this, families had to balance work Our partners stepped up with responsibilities with new childcare solutions
roles and support for their children’s Through their commitment to Mickle Photography © Carlton virtual learning. Unfortunately, many improving outcomes for all students, students whose parents were unable with a particular focus on students to support their online learning who learn differently, several of – particularly those from low- the LDP’s partners quickly worked income families with poor internet to ensure that students received connectivity – opted out of school the best support possible. From altogether. protecting the legal rights of students with special needs, to supporting system leaders and educators to “The widespread serve students directly, these not-for- school closures profit organisations provided critical resources and support to address the widened the inequities unprecedented challenges posed for vulnerable by the pandemic.
learners.” Protecting the rights of students Heather Graham who learn differently Students with learning and attention differences experienced these © liderina / Adobe Stock “In addition to creating lost learning challenges especially acutely as they time for students, the widespread tried to receive specialised instruction school closures caused by the and support at home. Schools in the Caption: The photos throughout this section pandemic shone a new light on and US are required under federal law to of the report illustrate our partners’ work to strengthen schools’ remote learning plans so widened the inequities for vulnerable provide special education services to that every child could continue to learn as best learners, including those with learning students who need it. But early in the as possible during the 2020 Covid-19 crisis. differences, students of colour, pandemic, many education systems students from low-income families advocated to waive these rights due Video alert! Please check out the online and English language learners,” says to the additional challenges and costs version of this report to watch a video Heather Graham, director of the of providing them remotely. of our LDP partners, describing their efforts to support learners during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. 34 © insta_photos/ Shutterstock © insta_photos/
The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) quickly Addressing the educational impacts of trauma galvanised its advocacy network to protect the rights of Many LDP partners also recognised the additional students who learn differently. “Now is not the time for mental and physical stress facing students and families, waivers. Most students with disabilities are already behind compounding the challenges of remote schooling with their peers on test scores, graduation rates, and more. They anxiety and isolation caused by community shutdowns, cannot afford to slip further behind during Covid-19,” said increased economic instability, and racial unrest throughout Lindsay Jones, NCLD’s president and CEO. A US-based not- the US. Midway through the year, school social workers for-profit organisation, NCLD and its extensive network of reported that a majority of their students needed serious young adult and parent advocates work through research, mental health support in the wake of the pandemic and policy, and advocacy, to improve the lives of the one in five school closures. Among parents of students with special students across the US with learning and attention issues. needs, nearly half had serious concerns about their children’s mental health. NCLD’s advocacy efforts were ultimately successful. Over the summer, the US Congress reaffirmed school districts’ The US-based Lesley Institute for Trauma Sensitivity (LIfTS) legal obligation to provide equal educational access offered guidance to states and school districts on how to students with disabilities and allocated USD 30.75 billion to re-open schools in trauma-sensitive ways. Whether to support public schools during the pandemic. schools sought to support students remotely or resume in-person instruction during the pandemic, LIfTS advised Even with this support, however, schools and educators that “nurturing a climate and culture of trust and caring struggled to meet students’ needs. By the middle of the will pay big dividends in students’ abilities to learn.” In school year, less than a third of states required special response to needs of school leaders across the US, LIfTS education services to be considered in pandemic distance shared guidance on how to build supportive environments learning plans, and 40 per cent of parents whose children for learning and student wellbeing. Its free webinars helped are entitled to special education services reported that educators across the country understand the dynamics of they were not receiving any support. trauma, its adverse effects on learning, and how trauma- sensitive schools can benefit all children, especially during Supporting teachers and school leaders the Covid-19 pandemic. Educators in the US are not typically trained on how to deliver high-quality instruction virtually, let alone provide Oak Foundation is proud to support NCLD, SELF, LIfTS and the additional specialised supports for students with special many other partners who quickly pivoted to respond to needs remotely. The Special Education Leader Fellowship the new and urgent needs presented by the pandemic (SELF), an LDP partner that trains and develops special for students with learning differences, particularly those education teachers in New Orleans, quickly jumped in to furthest from opportunity. As school systems in the US and provide practical resources to educators across the country. around the globe continue to grapple with the impacts of “Teachers and school leaders are working extraordinarily this unprecedented disruption to traditional education, we hard for their students, getting creative and putting in hope that the work and commitments highlighted here can long hours,” said Aqua Stovall, executive director at SELF. inspire greater equity and access to meaningful educational “But most lessons are simply not designed to be delivered opportunities for all children. remotely, especially for students with disabilities. It takes extra effort to make sure they are accessible.” References: Please see page 62 of this report.
SELF assembled a reopening toolkit that principals and teachers could use during the pandemic to ensure that remote learning was accessible to all. In addition, it hosted free webinars for educators on supporting students with learning disabilities, integrating Universal Design for Learning into their courses and on supporting students’ executive functioning. SELF also offered coaching, feedback, and development services to educators across the country, providing real-time assistance to school staff. 35 FUNDE National Center for Special Grants USD 250,000 (2 years) Education in Charter Schools To support Big Bad Boo (NCSECS) Productions in developing an USD 875,667 (3 years) CAST Inc. animated television series called To provide core support USD 1,000,000 (3 years) Judge Jodhi that features a to NCSECS for its research, To transform education design dyslexic 12-year old girl that sets advocacy, technical support and and practice by advancing quality up a mock court in her backyard communications work to improve implementation of Universal to resolve neighbourhood access and educational quality for Design for Learning in the US disputes. students with disabilities. and worldwide. James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for New Venture Fund Council of Chief State Educational Leadership and USD 750,000 (2 years) School Officers Policy Foundation, Inc. To support the Communities USD 650,002 (30 months) USD 25,000 (1 year) for Just Schools Fund, a project To support the Council of Chief To provide project support of New Venture Fund, that State School Officers in convening to The Hunt Institute, based in provides resources education leaders in the US the United States, to accelerate to community-led organisations to increase principals’ knowledge use of the science of reading working to transform schools. and skills to lead schools that in teachers’ initial preparation. effectively serve students with NewSchools Fund disabilities. KnowledgeWorks USD 3,000,000 (3 years) USD 250,000 (1 year) To provide core support to DonorsChoose To provide continuing support catalyse greater equity and USD 500,000 (2 years) to three projects focused on innovation in school design to To support teachers by providing advancing the student-centred expand pathways to success for tools and resources related learning movement in the US all students. to differentiated instruction through the Student Centered for students with learning Learning Research Collaborative Relay Graduate School of differences. at KnowledgeWorks. Education USD 500,000 (2 years) East Carolina University Massachusetts Advocates To support Relay Graduate USD 598,407 (4 years) for Children School of Education to operate To support students with USD 800,000 (5 years) the Inclusive Schools Leadership learning disabilities to enrol To ensure that that all students, Institute. in and graduate from including those who have East Carolina University (ECU). faced adversity from traumatic Teach for America events, including racism USD 1,500,000 (3 years) East Carolina University and marginalisation due to To support Teach for America’s USD 498,945 (2 years) disabilities, succeed at their efforts to improve educators’ To provide support to College highest levels in school and in life. ability to meet the needs of all STAR, an initiative that aims students, including students with to make college campuses MDC Inc. learning differences. more welcoming to students USD 200,000 (2 years) with learning and attention To identify, develop, and build The Asia Society differences. a learning network among not- USD 350,000 (2 years) for-profit organisations in North To support the Asia Society Education Reimagined Carolina, in partnership with the to develop a series of learning USD 1,000,000 (3 years) Learning Differences Programme. opportunities to share effective To support Education global practices in learning Reimagined, a US-based not-for- National Center for Learning differences. profit organisation dedicated Disabilities to transforming the education USD 2,750,000 (4 years) YouthBuild USA system into one that adapts to To support the National Center USD 901,979 (2 years) the unique needs, strengths, and for Learning Disabilities To support Youth Build aspirations of each learner. in achieving its mission International in building of improving the lives of the a network of diploma-granting Freedom Bound Centre one in five children and adults secondary schools in the global DBA Sol Collective across the US with learning and south and the US, called the USD 1,000,000 (3 years) attention issues. YouthBuild Global Schools To support schools to close Network. the gap between research and practice in the areas of cultural and community responsiveness.
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Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Building a world together where children can thrive
Millions of children around the world are sexually abused, We believe that children everywhere deserve a positive the effects of which can be long-lasting and devastating. future: the chance to grow and learn in safety – free from Abuse can affect heath, wellbeing, and relationships. the threat of sexual abuse. Thankfully, we are seeing new openings for change. Survivors and advocates are breaking through the culture of The Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme aims to make silence to obtain support and call for justice. Governments the case for broad action by building evidence of what and private institutions have begun to accept that they can works and by supporting scalable solutions to end abuse. and should do more. And researchers and practitioners are This is the focus of this year’s article. showing that prevention is possible.
37 Stopping abuse before it happens
Dr Elizabeth Letourneau is known for Teens who have caused harm once her pioneering research on people are very unlikely to abuse children who have sexually abused children, again, if they receive the right work that spans three decades. support. Eight years ago, a question from a journalist nearly stopped her in her But here was a group of young people tracks: Would she like to meet some aware of their interest in young teenagers who self-identified as children who had not offended. attracted to children – and who had What would help them continue to made the commitment not to offend? do the right thing and achieve their own health and happiness? Sexual “It did not occur to me that there interest in children is one of the most were kids out there who were stigmatised characteristics a teen Business Images © Monkey already making the decision to refrain might possess. In interviews with from acting on their attractions,” Elizabeth’s research team, teens and says Elizabeth. Like many, she had young adults with sexual interest assumed that anyone with such urges in children described lives of self- would act on them in the absence imposed isolation, depression, shame of professional help. Instead, these and self-loathing, and thoughts of young people had formed a private suicide. Reaching out for professional support group to help each other help was risky: the fear of criminal keep their promises not to harm consequences was too great, even young children. She was indeed keen though they were not yet adults and to meet them. had never offended.
Elizabeth develops and evaluates These interviews, along with Center © Moore perpetration prevention programmes others, have informed the Moore at the Moore Center for the Center’s research and prevention Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse interventions. Last year, as Covid-19 at Johns Hopkins University, which restrictions kept many children at she founded and directs. She points home, Elizabeth was concerned out that those with a sexual interest about the increased risk of child in young children make up a small sexual abuse, particularly within percentage of those who abuse families and online. “Stress, social children. A majority are family isolation and opportunity are related members, trusted adults, and older to risk,” she says. She and her team children or peers who do not have a were in the final stages of creating preferential interest in children. In the an online intervention for teens and US, teens account for half or more of young adults with a sexual interest in Center © Moore all sexual offenses against children.1 children. They put it on the fast track, Elizabeth’s work demonstrates that and launched the free, self-paced Caption: The photos throughout this section of teens may engage in harmful sexual course, called Help Wanted, in the the report illustrate the work of our grantees behaviour with younger children or late spring. to bring to scale solutions to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation, and, ulitmately, peers out of ignorance, impulsivity, their vision of a world in which children live or inadequate adult supervision, Prevention efforts like these offer free of such harm. and many other factors, including, hope of moving beyond approaches for some, sexual interest in young focused on acting after the crime Podcast alert! Check out the online version children. has been committed, with major of this report to listen to interviews with Oak partners on their work to stop perpetration from ever happening.
38 investments in apprehending, people, including young adolescents Another promising programme prosecuting, incarcerating, and in general, and teens and adults is Prevent It, an intervention that monitoring perpetrators. Indeed, this with a sexual interest in children. combines self-help and professional after-the-act approach has addressed It also includes other adults who support in an online delivery a mere fraction of the problem: only may be at risk of offending, even platform. Prevent It was developed in one in five incidents of child sexual if they don’t have a strong interest Sweden for adults who are concerned abuse are reported to the authorities. in children, perhaps because of about their sexual interest in children In a world where one in three children their work in child-focused settings and use of child sexual exploitation tell a parent or other trusted adult or due to inadequate control over material. Led by Dr Christoffer Rahm, about their abuse, millions of children sexual impulses. Ultimately, this a psychiatrist and researcher at the are not getting the help they need, work is intended to identify effective Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, including children who experience solutions that can be implemented Prevent It is now in the pilot-testing and who cause sexual harm. “What by governments at scale, and stage. Its secure online chat system we’ve been doing for the past replicated in regions and countries has the potential to offer clinician- 30 years – teaching our children with low resources. As the empirical facilitated treatment to patients how to protect themselves, evidence mounts that they and others who live anywhere. mandating teachers and others generate, they will place summaries to report abuse, and relying on law of it – and resources needed to Christoffer is a leading voice on the enforcement strategies – just isn’t implement these programmes – on an value of treating people who have enough,” says Elizabeth. online capacity-building hub for policy already offended as well as those at makers and practitioners. risk of offending, in order to prevent Dr Michael Seto, a professor of further harm from happening to psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, children. To those who are just agrees. Renowned for his ground- “Be optimistic. There learning about this work, he suggests breaking work in treating paedophilic being open to the facts and willing to and non-paedophilic offenders, are new academic challenge prejudices. “Be optimistic,” he came to embrace prevention developments and he says. “There are new academic in his work and believes the larger there is hope.” developments and there is hope.” field is also shifting. “I have seen movement from a reactive approach Dr Christoffer Rahm Momentum is building in support emphasising punishment, legal of this work. Recently the US Centers restrictions, and offender treatment for Disease Control awarded the to a greater consideration of how we One programme they will likely Moore Center with a USD 1.6 can be proactive and prevent child evaluate is the Moore Center’s million grant to evaluate its Help sexual abuse perpetration from ever Responsible Behavior with Younger Wanted course, the largest study happening,” he says. Children, a course originally designed on perpetrator prevention that the in the US to help 6th and 7th grade US Government has funded. The This is good news. Still, experts point students avoid inappropriate sexual European Commission has recently to a pressing need for more scientific behaviours with peers and younger announced a far-reaching effort to evidence on what works. To this end, children. An initial study found invest in prevention across the region, the Moore Center, with support from that children who took the course and Human Dignity Foundation is Oak Foundation, launched a five-year reported a lower likelihood to commit actively exploring a multi-million- research effort to rigorously evaluate sexual harm and had more accurate dollar investment in prevalence programmes that are most effective knowledge about developmental data, including perpetration. The at preventing the perpetration of differences between teens and young End Violence Investors Forum is also child sexual abuse. Michael Seto, children, what child sexual abuse is, regularly convening donors to discuss in his capacity with the Royal Ottawa and consent. how to best align and leverage these Health Care Group, joined Elizabeth new investments. in conducting this work, which began This next evaluation will look at in early 2021. They aim to find, test, the programme’s actual impact “Oak’s USD 10.3 million investment and disseminate effective solutions on preventing child sexual abuse in the Moore Center and its that work with different groups of behaviours. partners signals our confidence in this approach to perpetration prevention,” says Brigette De Lay, who directs the foundation’s Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme. “We hope others will join us and invest more in this critical work, which has enormous potential to make a sizeable difference in ending child sexual abuse.”
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Accountability and ending impunity
5 Rights Foundation USD 1,948,052 (3 years) To strengthen the protection of the online data and privacy of children by creating long- lasting, systemic change.
Army of Survivors USD 496,350 (2 years) To provide core support for survivors of sexual violence in sports who formed the Army of Survivors in 2018 to raise awareness of the systemic problems of sexual violence in sport.
Canadian Centre for Child Protection USD 4,152,568 (3 years) To reduce the availability of online child sexual abuse material and improve response by the tech industry and governments.
Center for Digital Democracy USD 600,000 (3 years) To support the Center for Digital Democracy’s efforts to strengthen US Government’s and the technology industry’s policies and systems for protecting children from online sexual exploitation. © Evgeny Atamanenko © Evgeny
ECPAT International USD 100,000 (1 year) Oficina de Defensoria de los UNI Global Union, The World Empowering Children To support the efforts of ECPAT Derechos de la Infancia a.c. Players Association Foundation (ECF) International in ending the USD 250,000 (18 months) USD 224,500 (18 months) USD 1,505,557 (5 years) online child sexual abuse and To make the schools in Mexico To support the coordination To support ECF to continue its exploitation of children in the safer for young children and to of the Sports and Rights Alliance, mission of protecting children digital space. prompt institutional reform that a coalition of watchdog civil from abuse and helping those prevents and protects children society organisations focused who have experienced all forms ECPAT International from sexual abuse. on sport and human rights. of violence, including sexual USD 250,000 (1 year) abuse. To work with policy makers ParentsTogether to include children’s interests USD 100,000 (6 months) Geena Davis Institute on Gender in revisions to the Digital Services To unleash the power of parents in Media at Mount St. Mary’s Act and on the impact of as a force for policy change. Solutions and College end-to-end encryption. USD 240,000 (18 months) Rape, Abuse & Incest National advancing action To investigate portrayals of International Justice Mission Network (RAINN) masculinity in video games and USD 749,870 (3 years) Boston College, Trustees of USD 100,000 (1 year) gaming culture. To increase children’s safety from USD 1,183,305 (3 years) To strengthen RAINN’s efforts sexual violence in Uganda and To support Boston College to to protect children from sexual Innovation Edge Guatemala, and to end impunity scale out the father-engagement exploitation and sexual abuse. USD 249,806 (2 years) against child sexual abuse. component of a home-visiting To support innovative solutions violence prevention intervention that improve the wellbeing of in three districts in Rwanda, and young children through the to build local research capacity to positive engagement of male support this work in that country. caregivers in South Africa.
40 International Step by Step UNICEF, the United Nations National Network for Children Association Children’s Fund Association (NNC) USD 371,044 (15 months) USD 704,701 (30 months) USD 249,999 (2 years) To support the preparatory phase To develop a module to collect To provide core support to the of a project to promote positive data on sexual violence in NNC in Bulgaria. gender norms in early childhood childhood for use in surveys. in Portugal and beyond. New Venture Fund University of Cape Town – Center USD 1,400,000 (2 years) Johns Hopkins University for Social Science Research To support the next level USD 228,632 (14 months) USD 1,692,228 (4 years) of development of the Out To help the Johns Hopkins Moore To improve life outcomes for of the Shadows Index and Center for the Prevention of African children and adolescents. accompanying advocacy efforts Child Sexual abuse to strengthen that together drive positive several components of its work change towards ending sexual for an upcoming proposal on violence against children. perpetration prevention. Strategic New Venture Fund Johns Hopkins University USD 2,682,346 (3 years) USD 10,294,849 (5 years) opportunities To support Ignite Philanthropy To identify and evaluate the to regrant and provide capacity Bank Information Center most promising child sexual building support to networks that abuse perpetration prevention USD 1,901,272 (3 years) aim to end child sexual abuse. interventions. To encourage the World Bank to put in place the systems Rockefeller Philanthropy London School of Hygiene needed to prevent and respond Advisors, Inc. to the sexual exploitation and and Tropical Medicine USD 1,000,000 (3 years) abuse of children arising from USD 94,469 (11 months) To provide core support for Just the large-scale infrastructure To draw lessons on the impact Beginnings Collaborative, which projects it funds. of the LINEA radio drama in works to prevent child sexual reducing adolescent sexual abuse. Child Rights Connect exploitation in Tanzania. USD 200,000 (15 months) Tides Foundation To ensure the promotion, Pathfinder International USD 4,500,000 (3 years) protection and fulfilment of USD 162,403 (1 year) To provide rapid emergency children’s rights throughout the To identify proven interventions support to Child First Fund to UN system, including through that prevent sexual violence prevent or mitigate the impact of increased child participation. against children and to help Covid-19 on children in situations develop a set of interventions to of increased risk of sexual abuse. Columbia University be implemented over the coming three years in Northern Unguja, USD 2,783,359 (3 years) Together for Girls To support the World Bank Zanzibar. USD 249,000 (7 months) to put in place the systems To begin the planning phase for needed to prevent and respond RADIX Fondation Suisse pour a future proposal on a global to the sexual exploitation and la promotion de la santé campaign to end child sexual abuse of children arising from USD 622,470 (3 years) abuse by 2030. the large-scale projects it funds. To enable young people in Switzerland to acquire positive Together for Girls * Eurochild life skills, attitudes, and USD 200,000 (7 months) USD 989,011 (3 years) behaviours to prevent them To build civil society coalitions To provide core support to from entering into abusive and implement advocacy Eurochild, a network of 185 relationships. campaigns to keep children safe organisations and individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic across 35 European countries Santé Sexuelle Suisse in the US, Colombia and Kenya. working with and for children USD 666,464 (3 years) throughout Europe. To advocate for the University of Bedfordshire implementation of Hope and Homes for Children USD 499,942 (3 years) comprehensive sexuality To promote the involvement USD 100,000 (1 year) education in schools in of children affected by sexual To support vulnerable families Switzerland. violence in research, policy, in Moldova and prevent the and practice. Sexual Violence Research separation of children from their parents in the wake of the Initiative (SVRI) Workshop for Civic Initiatives Covid-19 pandemic. USD 376,523 (20 months) Foundation To provide core support to Hope for Justice USD 149,999 (1 year) the SVRI to strengthen its To strengthen national-level not- USD 500,000 (3 years) organisational and governance for-profit organisations To provide core support to Hope systems. in Bulgaria to implement effective for Justice to prevent unsafe communication strategies that migration of children in the support rights-based narratives. Hadiya zone of Ethiopia.
* The Together for Girls grant is also featured in the Covid-19 grant section of this report, on page 12. 41 © Nils-Petter Ekwall © Nils-Petter
Special Interest Covering a wide range of fields, including health, humanitarian relief, education, and the arts
The Special Interest Programme reflects the Trustees’ We have listed the Special Initiative grants that are interests in making dynamic, diverse, large, innovative, specifically related to Covid-19 in the Covid-19 section of and challenging grants. We are committed to remaining this report, on pages 11 and 12. flexible, and to seizing opportunities as they arise. Special Interest grants cover a wide range of fields, including health, humanitarian relief, education, and the arts. They are made to organisations whose activities the Trustees wish to support, irrespective of country or region.
42 Supporting children in Kenya to be agents of change
The Orongo school lies in Kisumu province, a rural area not The club facilitated trainings for students on child far from the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. In the local protection, handwashing, life skills, menstrual hygiene school, there are 631 students, but only 10 teachers. More management, kitchen gardening, environmental than a third of students in the school come from families conservation, reproductive health, and health promotion. that live on less than a dollar a day. Many of the children “The children are always excited when it’s Wednesday, have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS or left behind by because they know it is CtC meeting day, they learn a lot,” parents who have travelled for work. Conscious of the said Mr Kuria, the CtC teacher. challenges his community faces, the local community chief wanted to do something to improve the wellbeing of his Encouraged and inspired by what they have learnt through students. the CtC club, students are now bringing their learning home, creating kitchen gardens with their families, and making taps from used water bottles. Since establishing the “The children are CtC club, the school has seen significant improvement always excited when it’s in school attendance and a drop in teenage pregnancy.
Wednesday because they The CtC club at Orongo school is just one example of Ace know it’s CtC meeting day - Africa’s child development work. Ace Africa works with they learn a lot!” marginalised people in low-resource settings in Kenya and Tanzania. Employing local people, Ace Africa works with Mr Kuria, CtC teacher communities to support them in identifying their needs and developing appropriate, bespoke solutions.
He contacted Ace Africa about the possibility of establishing More than 100,000 children in 500 schools have benefitted a Child-to-Child club in the school. Ace Child-to-Child from Ace Africa’s collaborative projects to improve the (CtC) clubs help children achieve better health, wellbeing, health, nutritional welfare, and wellbeing of children and and development – for themselves, their families, and young people across Western Kenya. their communities. CtC clubs support children to become influential agents for change in making health choices in schools and the community.
They do this through activities like singing, playing games, performing plays, engaging in debates, art, and writing. The subjects they cover include the following: water, sanitation and hygiene, where children learn hand-washing measures and how to prevent common water-borne diseases; school kitchen gardens, where children learn about nutrition and gardening; and discussion around sensitive but important topics such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, reproductive health, and child rights. Children then share their learning with parents and the community through outreach activities, such as advocacy campaigns, fun days, parents’ meetings, education days, and festivals, where music and drama are used to disseminate key messages.
Ace Africa provided the staff at Orongo school with training © Ace Africa and support to establish a successful CtC club in the school for more than 145 members. Caption: An Ace Africa educational drama performance on HIV/AIDS in Tanzania, West Africa. Ace Africa works with marginalised people in low- resource settings in Kenya and Tanzania.
43 Asking fundamental questions about Covid-19
Oxford University is one of the top-ranked institutions While Oxford University is perhaps most famous for its in the world because of the high quality of its facilities, Covid-19 vaccine, it is also contributing to other important research, and teaching. In April 2020, the University set up research areas to help fight the current pandemic. This the Covid-19 Research Response Fund to support research includes: the development of treatments for Covid-19; by the university’s investigators. mental health interventions to reduce traumatic memories of frontline health workers; and an effective and rapid Oxford University has attracted much media attention diagnostic tool to prevent future outbreaks. for its collaboration on the development of the Oxford- AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which has been approved Recently, the institution has also been investigating the for use in several European countries and Australia. new variants of the Covid-19 virus (in particular, the South The development of this vaccine was made possible African and Brazilian variants) and the potential implications thanks to Oxford University’s world-class expertise in of their emergence on, for example, vaccination. These vaccinology, and the global development, manufacturing research efforts were made possible thanks to the financial and distribution capabilities of AstraZeneca, a multinational flexibility brought by the Covid-19 Research Response Fund, biopharmaceutical company. which is mainly supported through philanthropic donations. © Rusty Watson/Unsplash © Rusty
44 Sharing is caring
Images of thousands of Geneva’s residents queuing for food during the Covid-19 crisis in spring 2020 received international attention as the lines stretched for more than a kilometre.1 Known as one of the world’s most expensive cities, the economic vulnerability of thousands of its residents was suddenly revealed.
The economic shock caused by the pandemic mostly affected people experiencing homelessness, those struggling with addiction, and women and children in situations of domestic violence. The high cost of living in Geneva meant that for some families, changes to their income meant that they could no longer make ends meet. And, in particular, it shed light on the invisible fragility of Geneva’s undocumented residents, most of whom are domestic and hospitality Guiard © Laurent workers who lost their jobs from one day to the next. Typically, Partage partners with accompany the weekly distributions Geneva’s sole foodbank, Partage, supermarkets to collect unsold to more than 50 partner associations. immediately stepped up to help. food and goods close to the sell- Oak is excited to be supporting Its name could not be better suited by date that would otherwise be Partage in its core mission to collect as “partage” translates to “share” discarded. Everyday its team is out on and sort unsold food stock in the city in English, and the organisation e-bikes equipped with refrigerated of Geneva, especially during the last accomplishes just that. trailers, collecting from dozens of year which was difficult for everyone. supermarkets across the city. In Since the Covid-19 crisis began, 2020, it collected 320 tonnes of Reference: Please see page 62 of this report. Partage has been organising food from 91 partners in Geneva. volunteers to come together three Catherine Christ Revaz, Partage’s times a week to pack 5,000 bags communications and fundraising Caption page 44:In 2020, healthcare workers of food and hygiene products. officer said, “We help associations around the world were on the frontlines in It has distributed these supplies who have beneficiaries in precarious the fight against Covid-19. Oak’s partner the at sites across the city, reaching Oxford University worked hard to develop of situations. These associations depend the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. 16,000 people in need each week. on Partage for providing food aid.” Gary Vannatter, one of the regular Caption above:In 2020, bags of food and volunteers from Serve the City By collecting unsold goods, Partage is hygiene products were distributed among Geneva, expressed his desire to fulfilling another part of its mission, residents of Geneva, Switzerland, some contribute to the community. “When which is to fight against food waste. It of whom had abruptly lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 lockdown measures. Oak’s you help others, it always comes back regularly comes up with new ways of to you,” he says, “It’s great to know partner Partage helped distribute these bags using food that would otherwise be of supplies across the city, reaching 16,000 that you are supporting thousands of wasted, including making 10,000 litres people in need each week. people.” of vegetable soup every winter to
45 Creating resourceful communities
The Conservation Fund’s Resourceful Communities Program (RCP) believes conservation goes beyond environmental concerns, and to this end it also works to also achieve economic outcomes that benefit people. RCP creates opportunities that preserve the rural landscape, lift people out of poverty, and celebrate communities’ unique cultures.
While RCP has focused on supporting communities of colour for more than 20 years, including Native American and Latinx communities, its work seems more important than ever, given the current fight for racial justice in the US. RCP works towards economic, social, and environmental Fund Burton/Conservation © Nathan justice, helping communities to earn money while also protecting their Tarboro Community Outreach, these organisations have developed land. For example, the Coharie Tribe which provides daily meals to new methods of service delivery to is cleaning up their river and aims to people through its homeless shelter; serve people who are homebound conduct eco-tourism kayaking tours; Brunswick Housing Opportunities, due to age (elders being the most a group of young people grow and which works with Black community vulnerable), or youth who are now sell produce to local restaurants; and churches to deliver food to seniors; home-schooled. individual landowners are generating Migrant Education of Robeson revenue from recreational uses and County, which delivers food to Overall, RCP has stepped up to sustainable timber management. migrant families, especially those support local organisations that help without a car; and Wash Away with food assistance, childcare, elder RCP supports a grassroots network Unemployment, which helps those care, patient care, and more. Its goal of organisations that provide recently released from prison (due has been to provide funding that is environmental and economic to Covid-19) to find housing. easily accessible and rapidly deployed. benefits to communities across “RCP has been working in rural North Carolina, including more “We are buying tools and vegetables communities for over 20 years, so than 100 organisations working and using them in any way that we when the multiple crises hit in 2020, on innovative food programming. can to enhance the development of it was prepared to respond,” says Many are being called upon to grow, farms and the availability of the food,” Millie Brobston, programme officer secure, coordinate, and/or distribute says Ardis Crews, vice president of for Oak’s Special Interest Programme. much needed fresh produce to meet the Southern Organic Female Farmers “RCP works with community leaders increasing hunger and food insecurity, Association. to strengthen their work through while also supporting small-scale capacity-building support, networking farmers, whose markets and Since the pandemic reached North and the sharing of resources.” contracts are being cancelled Carolina in March 2020, RCP has been or reduced. Some of RCP’s partners in regular contact with its community that work to respond to the needs partners. Organisations that regularly in their communities include: meet the immediate needs of the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry, most vulnerable members of their Caption above:The Conservation Fund’s which works to meet emergency communities – food pantries, re-entry Resourceful Communities Program supports a grassroots network of organisations that needs of farmers; Green Rural programmes, and immigrant services provide environmental and economic Redevelopment Organisation, which – have seen demand for their services benefits to communities across North Carolina. delivers meals to seniors; increase dramatically. Many of
46 Coram’s Field Global Dialogue Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) Grants USD 583,622 (3 years) USD 129,870 (1 year) USD 600,000 (3 years) To support Coram’s Fields’ sports To support The Five Foundation To provide core support to IJC, programme and contribute to strengthen its organisational a fellowship programme Ace Africa UK to its recovery post-Covid-19 capacity and financial dedicated to increasing access USD 399,753 (3 years) lockdown. sustainability, enabling it to to justice for low-income To improve child protection, achieve longer term strategic immigrants fighting deportation access to education and essential Diocesan Caritas objectives. and/or seeking lawful status, health services for vulnerable of the Canary Islands * benefits, or citizenship in the US. groups in western Kenya and USD 1,000,000 (2 years) Global Investigative Journalism northern Tanzania. To support Diocesan Caritas of Network Imperial College London the Canary Islands to assist the USD 600,000 (3 years) USD 895,656 (3 years) Blueprint NC increased number of people To provide core support to the To improve end-of-life care in the USD 350,000 (1 year) experiencing poverty and Global Investigative Journalism UK by supporting the Institute To create a more equitable, destitution as a result of Covid-19 Network. of Global Health Innovation at safer, healthier North Carolina on the Canary Islands. Imperial College London. by building capacity for Goals for Girls and supporting strategic, EPER - Entraide Protestante USD 1,000,000 (5 years) Josh’s Hope Foundation collaborative work among Suisse To address social and health USD 350,000 (4 years) socially responsible not-for- USD 700,000 (4 years) challenges facing young women To support young adults in North profit organisations doing civic To contribute to improving the through education and service- Carolina with mental health and/ engagement and issue/policy quality of life of migrants in based learning by connecting or substance abuse issues, and advocacy. Geneva, Switzerland by providing girls from different countries their caregivers. information about the health and backgrounds through Book Harvest and social services that they are international exchanges, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) USD 700,000 (3 years) entitled to access. soccer leagues, and events. USD 1,500,000 (4 years) To provide an abundance of To support KIND’s work to books and ongoing literacy Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Good Shepherd Services (GSS) protect the rights and wellbeing support to families and their Prevention Center in Durham, USD 5,000,000 (5 years) of unaccompanied and separated children in Durham, North Inc, DBA Exchange Family Center To provide core support to GSS, migrant children from Central Carolina. USD 250,000 (3 years) a youth and family development America and Mexico.
To strengthen families and agency that operates over 90 Borealis Philanthropy prevent child abuse and neglect programmes serving 30,500 London School of Hygiene USD 400,000 (1 year) in Durham, North Carolina, children, youth, and family and Tropical Medicine To support two donor through family support, members in New York City. USD 259,742 (2 years) collaboratives: the Communities counselling, and education. To support the London School Transforming Policing Fund; and Guardian.org Foundation DBA of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine the Black-Led Movement Fund. Fondation des Fondateurs theguardian.org in the UK to identify how to USD 1,000,000 (2 years) USD 600,000 (2 years) preserve human health and the Build It International To support European civil To provide core support to environment, while promoting USD 779,221 (3 years) society organisations with trade theguardian.org to fund the a post-carbon world economy. To support Build It International’s and investment expertise and Age of Extinction reporting Training into Work programme in campaigning capacity. project by The Guardian. Made in Durham Zambia. USD 500,000 (3 years) Fondation Foyer-Handicap Harlem Children’s Zone To scale Durham’s efforts to open Campaign for Southern Equality USD 1,000,000 (3 years) USD 500,000 (1 year) up opportunities for youth and USD 350,000 (4 years) To provide core support To provide core support to to create successful pathways To promote full LGBTQI equality to Fondation Foyer-Handicap, Harlem Children’s Zone and its for their education and career. – both legal and lived – across the in Geneva, Switzerland, to pipeline of programmes that offer US South. promote the full integration education, social and wellness Maendenes Hjem of people with physical services to more than 12,000 USD 2,617,179 (2 years) Community Foundation of disabilities into society. children and their families in To renovate and expand an Greater Greensboro Central Harlem, New York, each existing shelter in Copenhagen, USD 350,000 (3 years) Fondation MalleyPrairie year. Denmark, for men and women To provide funding and capacity USD 403,928 (2 years) currently experiencing building support to Latinx To support women victims High Point University homelessness. organisations working in of domestic violence in the USD 100,000 (1 year) communities of North Carolina. canton of Vaud, Switzerland. To plan and prepare for initiatives Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer that prepare students to: be Caring Centres Trust Consumer Credit Counseling Fondation Partage engaged; understand complex USD 1,298,701 (4 years) Service of Western NC, Inc. DBA USD 300,000 (3 years) social challenges; and make To provide core support to OnTrack Financial Education & To collect and sort unsold food change happen. Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Counseling stock from Geneva, Switzerland’s Caring Centres Trust (Maggie’s) USD 250,000 (4 years) retailers and distribute it free of Housing for New Hope Inc. to offer people with cancer To strengthen people in Western charge to associations and social USD 600,000 (5 years) and their families practical, North Carolina economically, so services which assist and provide To end family homelessness emotional, and social support that they can overcome crises, for those in need. in Durham County by helping in Maggie’s Centres. afford basic needs, improve families money management skills, and Migration Museum Project make sound financial choices USD 259,740 (3 years) rooted in their values. To provide core support to the Migration Museum, which explores the rich story of migration in the UK. * The Diocesan Caritas of the Canary Islands grant is also featured in the Covid grant section of this report, on page 11. 47 © Nathan Burton/ Conservation Fund Conservation Burton/ © Nathan
New Philanthropy Capital Rockefeller Philanthropy The Conservation Fund * Tivoli A/S USD 779,221 (4 years) Advisors, Inc. USD 250,000 (8 months) USD 73,746 (1 year) To support New Philanthropy USD 4,000,000 (3 years) To provide emergency grant To provide awards to young Capital to maximise the impact To support the Global Commons funds to rural community ballet dancers, choreographers, of the not-for-profit sector in Alliance to empower citizens, organisations in North Carolina, musicians, conductors, and the UK. cities, companies, and countries the US that address their needs composers in Denmark. to become stewards of our global as a result of the Covid-19 Oxford University commons. pandemic. Triangle Residential Options USD 649,351 (3 years) for Substance Abusers, Inc. To support the University of SECU Family House at UNC The Foundling Museum USD 250,000 (1 year) Oxford in the UK to conduct Hospitals USD 1,363,636 (3 years) To build 61 units of residential research on a new HIV-1 vaccine USD 350,000 (1 year) To provide core support to the housing for women as part of strategy. To provide a safe, nurturing, Foundling Museum in central comprehensive substance abuse affordable home for patients London, which works to improve treatment. Oxford University * and their loved ones who travel the lives of children through the USD 1,298,701 (1 year) long distances to UNC Health arts. Trustees of Boston University To support the University of for lifesaving procedures and USD 200,000 (2 years) Oxford in the UK to fund high healthcare. The Royal Horticultural To provide core support to the quality research on Covid-19 Society (RHS) Women’s Veterans Network through its Covid-19 Research Self-Help (Center for USD 811,688 (1 year) (WoVeN) in the US. Response Fund. Community Self-Help) To create a wellbeing garden as USD 1,315,000 (3 years) part of the Royal Horticultural University of North Carolina Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity To create and protect ownership Society’s Hilltop, the Home of at Chapel Hill USD 779,221 (3 years) and economic opportunity as Gardening Science at RHS Garden USD 900,000 (3 years) To provide core support to illustrated by the Women’s Wisley in the UK. To support the University of Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity Homebuyer Initiative, which North Carolina at the Mountain enabling it to provide social makes home ownership more The Sixteen Area Health Education Center to palliative care for families in the affordable for single-headed USD 194,805 (3 years) increase access to medication- UK. households across North To support the Sixteen, a choir assisted treatment for opioid use Carolina. and period-instrument orchestra disorder. Research Foundation of the committed to preserving and City University of New York Sidney De Haan Research Centre championing its choral heritage. University of the People for Arts and Health USD 250,000 (2 years) USD 200,000 (9 months) To help consolidate the presence USD 1,099,684 (6 years) The Women’s Center, Inc. DBA To contribute to the University and outreach of the Center for To provide core support to Compass Center for Women of the People’s emergency Immigrant, Refugee and Global undertake research examining and Families scholarship fund, which Health at City University of New the impact of the performative USD 300,000 (3 years) will ensure that students York’s School of Public Health. arts on health and wellbeing. To support Compass Center for experiencing financial difficulty as Women and Families to empower a result of Covid-19 can continue Robin Hood Foundation swisscleantech people and promote gender their studies. USD 3,000,000 (3 years) USD 1,000,000 (2 years) equity and economic justice. To provide core support to To provide core support to Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting swisscleantech to promote The Yehudi Menuhin School organisation based in the US. a sustainable economy in USD 649,351 (5 years) Switzerland. To support the music director position at the Yehudi Menuhin School for five years.
48 Voluntary Arts USD 545,455 (3 years) Child Special To support Voluntary Arts in the safeguarding Initiative second phase of its Up for Arts project, a partnership with BBC local radio that aims to improve Association ESPAS HALO Trust ** understanding of the positive role USD 104,698 (18 months) USD 3,750,000 (4 years) creative participation can play To provide comprehensive To provide support to the in improving mental wellbeing support to Oak grantee partners HALO Trust, which is leading among older people. in Switzerland to develop and conservation-focused implement child safeguarding development by funding YoungMinds measures. landmine clearance in the Cuando USD 389,610 (3 years) Cubango Province in Angola. To provide core support to ensure Darkness to Light young people in the UK get the USD 460,000 (2 years) best possible mental health To support Oak’s partners in the support. United States to strengthen and sustain their organisational child safeguarding arrangements.
Humanus - Apoio ao Capacity Desenvolvimento Profissional building Ltda. USD 122,713 (18 months) To increase the knowledge, Catchafire understanding and practice of USD 249,500 (2 years) Oak’s partners in Brazil on child To strengthen the organisational safeguarding. capacities of 150 Oak grantees through access to quality services Impact and Innovations offered by pro bono consultants. Development Centre (IIDC) USD 460,000 (3 years) Swiss Philanthropy Foundation To enhance the IIDC’s institutional USD 600,000 (2 years) capacity to support learning and To provide small grants to improvement on safeguarding existing Oak grantee partners in Eastern Africa, as well as with the aim of improving the increasing the safeguarding effectiveness and impact of not- capacities of Oak grantee for-profit organisations to bring partners in the region. about social change.
The Kairos Project USD 150,379 (2 years) To strengthen the leadership capacities of Oak’s partners by facilitating access to quality coaching services.
* The Oxford University grant and the Conservation Fund grant are also listed in the Covid grant section of this report, on page 12.
** An additional USD 2 million will support the HALO Trust’s demining efforts in Zimbabwe. It is listed in the Zimbabwe Programme’s grant section of this report, on page 52.
49 © Nils-Petter Ekwall © Nils-Petter
Zimbabwe Contributing to healthy and vibrant communities
Oak Zimbabwe Foundation is a national programme Programme, such as the work profiled in the article through which we fund local organisations involved opposite. in caring and providing for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Zimbabwean society. In 2020, the Trustees also provided support to Zimbabwe through Special Initiative grants, as well as through our We support organisations operating in the following Wildlife, Conservation & Trade (WCT) sub-programme, priority areas: healthcare, including HIV/AIDS; rural water which is part of our Environment Programme. The WCT supplies; special needs education; and services that help grant has been listed on both pages 17 and 52. vulnerable women, children, and elderly persons. All of our grants demonstrate the people-centred and The following story showcases the valiant efforts of our community-focused efforts of our partners. partners working in the medical field as they sought to stop the spread of Covid-19 in 2020, alongside their The country of Zimbabwe is important to Oak Foundation. regular work. Our Zimbabwe Programme provides grants to local organisations, and our Trustees provide additional support for the people of Zimbabwe through the Special Interest
50 Closing the health gap in Zimbabwe
As we live through a global health crisis, we are reminded Despite the focus of all hospitals on Covid-19-related that many people face barriers when it comes to accessing illnesses, between January and September 2020, the health services. To help close this healthcare gap, our Richard Morris Eye Hospital carried out 2,117 adult and partners, MiracleFeet and Council for the Blind Zimbabwe 571 paediatric consultations. Four children were operated (ZCB), have been at the forefront of providing essential on for cataracts, as well as 451 adults. health treatments to people in Zimbabwe. MiracleFeet, with operations in 29 countries globally, aims to eradicate In addition, to combat challenges presented by Covid-19, untreated clubfoot , and the Council for the Blind Zimbabwe ZCB devised an infection control plan so that clients and works to prevent blindness, restore sight through surgery, staff could protect themselves from the virus. As well as and improve quality of life for those who are blind. supplying personal protective equipment, it launched a teleclinic system to provide medical guidance to patients Like many other countries, in March 2020, medical services virtually. across Zimbabwe were impacted by a country-wide lockdown, interrupting healthcare for thousands. Despite As inequalities deepen, the work of MiracleFeet and ZCB the unprecedented challenges, MiracleFeet and ZCB found to ensure affordable and accessible medical treatment for new, efficient, and creative ways of working. people in Zimbabwe is especially important. Both clubfoot treatment and cataract surgery are relatively inexpensive While clubfoot clinics were closed, MiracleFeet and its and straightforward interventions which allow children local partner, the Zimbabwe Sustainable Clubfoot Program, and adults to thrive. stayed in close contact with patient through telephone calls and telehealth consultations. When clinics opened back up, MiracleFeet provided personal protective equipment, implemented social distancing protocols in the clinics, and increased travel subsidies for clinic visits.
By ensuring that more children have access to the treatment they need, MiracleFeet is reducing the number of children living with the many consequences of a physical disability, including stigma, discrimination, lower economic attainment, and limited mobility. MiracleFeet’s model empowers local partners through training programmes, expanding access to treatment, and integrating treatment into public health systems to create sustainable change.
Meanwhile ZCB works in collaboration with the government to provide quality eye care services at affordable prices to Zimbabwean communities. One of the services it offers is cataract surgery. A cataract is the clouding of the eye’s natural lens behind the iris and the pupil, causing blurred vision, and which, if left untreated, may lead to blindness. They can be removed with a very simple surgery that takes 15 minutes and costs about USD 80. However, the cost and medical equipment needed for this surgery puts it beyond the reach of many Zimbabweans.
The Richard Morris Eye Hospital is part of the United
Bulawayo Hospital in the south of the country. With © Rachel Quick / Oak Foundation ZCB’s support, it is providing quality eye care services at affordable prices to people in Zimbabwe. The unit offers Caption: A new baby receives treatment in a MiracleFeet-supported clinic in Zimbabwe. Oak supports MiracleFeet in carrying out its work services that include screening, eye testing, and surgery. to heal babies born with clubfoot. 51 Midlands AIDS Service Zimcare Trust Grants Organization USD 335,509 (1 year) Wildlife, USD 37,527 (1 year) To facilitate an environment Conservation To promote the welfare and in which all learning and care HIV/AIDS safety of all children through programmes support individual & Trade sub- a supportive, stimulating and needs, so that each person can inclusive environment. excel within their abilities. programme* Bethany Project USD 76,580 (1 year) Frankfurt Zoological Society To promote the wellbeing of USD 1,080,000 (17 months) children affected by HIV/AIDS To support the conservation of in the southern region Special needs Other the Gonarezhou National Park in of Zimbabwe. education Zimbabwe. Rotary Club Harare Dawn Family Action for Community Dance Trust of Zimbabwe USD 10,779 (1 year) Empowerment in Zimbabwe USD 39,517 (1 year) To buy medical equipment for use USD 55,243 (1 year) To promote and encourage in some of Zimbabwe’s hospitals. Special To improve the quality of life of the art of dance in Zimbabwe. people affected by HIV and AIDS Simukai Child Initiative** in Makoni District of Manicaland Isheanesu Multi-purpose Protection Program Province and Marondera, Mrewa, Centre for Disabled Children USD 48,050 (1 year) HALO Trust Mutoko and Mudzi Districts of To protect and promote the rights USD 19,200 (1 year) USD 2,000,000 (4 years) Mashonaland East Province. of children and youth in order To continue support for children To provide support to the to help them to realise their full with disabilities. HALO Trust, which is leading Island Hospice and potential, with the participation conservation-focused Bereavement Services of families and communities at NZEVE Deaf Children’s Centre development by funding USD 90,000 (1 year) large. USD 66,692 (1 year) landmine clearance and restoring To provide quality palliative To provide core support to Nzeve, access to land and infrastructure care in Bulawayo, Chitungwiza, which provides holistic services for people in vulnerable border Marondera and Mutare. for deaf children, youth, and their communities in Mashonaland families. Central Province in Zimbabwe. Kubatana Vocational Training Centre Sir Humphrey Gibbs Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse USD 57,457 (1 year) Training Center (MSF Switzerland) To provide primary healthcare USD 16,959 (1 year) USD 400,000 (1 year) to the communities during the To assist the Centre to care for To support Médecins Sans Covid-19 pandemic. vulnerable adults by providing Frontières in its global response education, training, and shelter. to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mashambanzou Care Trust and specifically its response in USD 69,400 (1 year) Zimbabwe. To provide quality care for people living with HIV and to empower local communities to deal effectively with the disease in the suburbs of Harare.
* We have also listed the Wildlife, Conservation, and Trade (WCT) grant that pertains to Zimbabwe here. All WCT grants, including the Frankfurt Zoological Society, are listed in the Environment Programme’s grant section, on page 17 of this report.
** USD 2 million of the HALO Trust grant will support demining efforts in Zimbabwe, and USD 3,750,000 will support demining efforts in Angola (see page 49). We have listed the Special Initiative grant to MSF here as it pertains to Zimbabwe. It is also listed in the Covid-19 grant section of this report, on page 11. © Sebastian Turner/ Oak Foundation Turner/ Oak © Sebastian
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Brazil Contributing to a just, fair, and secure society for everyone.
Protecting the environment and placing the welfare of In 2020, we supported efforts to fight against Covid-19, people at the centre of development are key aims of which compounded further the need for the efforts of our programme in Brazil. By deepening democracy and our partners to help reduce violence and protect people’s encouraging inclusive public debates, our partners are rights. Activities of our partners include: producing working to develop new ways to prevent violence, mediate compelling research and data; bringing the voices of the conflict, and restore justice. most affected by these dynamics into public debates and policy-making processes; and advocating for the We support efforts to reach Indigenous and other implementation of people’s socio-environmental rights. traditional communities across Brazil, as well as vulnerable communities living in marginalised areas of large cities.
53 Uniting to save lives during the pandemic
In both urban and rural regions, Brazil´s most vulnerable Movimento dos Pimpadores launched a campaign that communities were impacted by the health, social, and benefited more than 1,500 recyclable waste pickers with economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis. Our partners emergency basic income during the pandemic, and Habitat worked to protect people in urban favelas, as well as Para a Humanidade took part in an advocacy campaign to the territorial and environmental rights of vulnerable suspend the enforcement of eviction orders. communities. They ensured that the voices of Indigenous communities were represented in policy-making processes, Indigenous peoples and protected territories and that local communities received food and medicine On 1 April, the first case of Covid-19 in an Indigenous village during the crisis. in the Amazon was confirmed and by November 2020, 161 Indigenous communities were affected by Covid-19, with Despite social isolation measures, police violence in the nearly 40,000 confirmed cases and 877 deaths. favelas in Rio de Janeiro increased in the early days of the pandemic. Cecília Olliveira, executive director of Fogo During this time, there were heightened levels of violence Cruzado, said, “We were seeing escalating levels of state- against forest dwellers and environmental defenders. The perpetrated violence that were preventing people from National Coordination of Indigenous People of Brazil (APIB) accessing food and basic services. We knew something worked to protect Indigenous communities and territories. had to be done.” In June 2020, in response to a lawsuit filed by APIB and a network of partner organisations, the Federal Supreme Court obliged the federal administration to develop “We were seeing escalating and implement effective policy measures to safeguard Indigenous villages from Covid-19. In addition, organisations levels of state-perpetrated such as the Coordination of Indigenous Organisations of the violence that were preventing Amazon Region and the Coordination of Indigenous Groups people from accessing food of the Amazon Basin ensured that the voices of Indigenous communities are represented in policy-making processes, and basic services. We knew and that they have access to food and medicine. something had to be done.” Our grant-making in Brazil seeks to deepen democracy and Cecília Olliveira, Fogo Cruzado encourage inclusive public debates in pursuit of secure and sustainable communities, and the full protection of the rights of all Brazilians. To find out more about our strategy, Fogo Cruzado united with a network of not-for-profit please check out the Brazil page on our website. organisations to file a lawsuit demanding that the state government suspend police operations in favelas for the References: Please see page 62 of this report. duration of the pandemic. Their request was granted by the Federal Supreme Court in May 2020, which determined that such operations should be held only in exceptional circumstances. Consequently, homicides perpetrated by the police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro dropped by 70 per cent, and the number of incidents involving firearms fell by 40 per cent.1
In parallel, our partners worked to ensure that communities had access to emergency relief and adequate health services. Uneafro implemented a community health programme called Agentes Populares de Saúde, which brings together emergency relief support with direct health assistance provision to Covid-19 patients in São Paulo.
54 Grants
Agencia Publica USD 446,802 (3 years) To support the production and dissemination of high-quality and independent investigative journalism focused on human rights in Brazil.
Alma Preta USD 145,105 (2 years) To produce and promote high- quality independent media content that shows the structural racism underlying Brazilian politics and society.
Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania USD 630,637 (3 years) To develop high-quality research on the costs of drug prohibition in the criminal justice, public health and education systems of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
Escola de Ativismo USD 432,857 (3 years) To strengthen democratic and non-violent forms of activism in Brazil through activist education programmes and knowledge production.
Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional
(FASE) Ruan/Oak Foundation © Virginia USD 36,742 (6 months) Caption: Favelas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil To support FASE in its work promoting the right to the city in the metropolitan region of Recife, Brazil. Fundo Socioambiental CASA Institute for Technology Movimento de Pimpadores USD 2,249,758 (4 years) & Society USD 377,937 (2 years) Fundo Socioambiental CASA To provide grant-making and USD 401,380 (3 years) To provide core support USD 280,476 (2 years) institutional development To counter disinformation by to Movimento dos Pimpadores To strengthen the collective support to eight former Joint promoting media literacy and to improve the livelihoods representation of traditional Brazil Programme grantee improving web-based platform of waste collectors in Brazil. fishing communities in the partners over the course of regulations in Brazil. Northeast of Brazil so that four years (2020-2024). Nucleo de Apoio à Pesquisa they will be better positioned Instituto Update e Educação Continuada to defend their social, Iniciativa Negra por uma Nova USD 159,403 (2 years) USD 125,000 (1 year) environmental and territorial Política sobre Drogas To produce qualified, real-time To support Oak’s Brazil rights. USD 226,394 (3 years) and open data on gun violence Programme with staff and To support high-quality research in Brazilian cities. logistic support. and strategic advocacy on the relationship between racism and the war on drugs, thereby contributing to a more humane and democratic drug policy.
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Oak Foundation Denmark Contributing to efforts that help people reach their full potential, be safe and healthy, and have a place to live Communities need to work for everyone, where the To this end, most of Oak Foundation Denmark’s grant- roadmap to opportunity and systems that protect people making includes support for strategies and approaches that are clear and available to all. We provide support to address challenges at community level. We also contribute organisations in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe to strengthening or building organisational capacity. Islands that provide innovative solutions to improve the lives of socially vulnerable and marginalised groups at the We provide funding to both large and grassroots community level. organisations. As part of our strategy, we support organisations that help vulnerable and homeless people, We understand that social change takes time and is not and we realise that this was needed more than usual in a linear process. We believe that we can achieve social 2020, due to the Covid-19 crisis. The article on the following change by supporting broad, professional, holistic, and page illustrates the work that was carried out in 2020 in innovative approaches that tackle issues at the root. direct response to Covid-19.
56 Consequences and creativity in the time of coronavirus
For vulnerable people in Denmark and Greenland, the “We learned to take long walks during the confinement, coronavirus crisis served as a prism which magnified for our mental, relational, and physical wellbeing, and for pre-existing challenges. Our partners rose to meet the fitness´ sake,” said one participant from Hellebro, a shelter needs of society’s most vulnerable people. for young people. On the next page you will see a group of young people starting out on a walk to Roskilde, a town During lockdown, Oak Foundation Denmark gave 46 kilometres away. emergency grants to 25 organisations working with people in need in Denmark and Greenland. We provided support to those experiencing homelessness, as well as towards the construction of an emergency shelter in Greenland, various “We learned to take long initiatives in psychiatric wards, and coronavirus testing. walks during the confinement, Some of the partners we supported during the lockdown for our mental, relational, and include: Gadejuristen, a group of lawyers that work with physical wellbeing, and for people experiencing street homelessness; Brugernes fitness’ sake.” Akademi, an association that works to create better conditions for people who take drugs in Denmark; Kirkens Participant, Hellebro shelter Korshær, which provides shelter for the socially vulnerable; and Hope Now, which works to combat human trafficking.
We wanted to know whether our funding was helping, and Several organisations will continue to implement we also hoped to better understand people’s experiences activities started during the lockdown. These include: of lockdown. To this end we funded a study, which gathered the establishment and reinforcement of emergency information from 32 social organisations and projects in planning; the development of contingency plans and crisis Denmark working with highly vulnerable people. These management strategies; and the increased collaboration include people experiencing homelessness, sex workers, with other organisations. “Because of the restrictions, drug users, the mentally ill, victims of violence, the the charities had to change to takeaway and also packing incarcerated and others. We asked the following questions: groceries for families,” said Karen-Inger Thorsen, CEO of How well did the emergency funds meet their needs? What Fodevarebanken, the only food bank that operates across are the consequences of a full-scale lockdown of society? Denmark. “It meant we had to deliver a different kind of What are the relevant experiences and conclusions to draw food, which forced us to look for new food donors. We will upon, should a similar situation arise in the future? continue this practice as it gives the communities a wider choice.” If you want to read the report, called User perspectives – Covid-191, please follow the link listed at the bottom of this Oak Foundation Denmark contributes to efforts that help page. It highlights how the Covid-19 lockdown measures people reach their full potential, be safe and healthy, had serious consequences for vulnerable members of and have a place to live. You can read more about Oak society. Sadly, several people described how the bonds Foundation Denmark’s strategy on our website. of trust with community members were broken due to physical distancing. This makes sense as it is clear to most Check out the Covid-19 study funded by Oak Foundation people that personal encounters are central to building Denmark here: https://www.socialrespons.dk/publikationer/ lasting relationships. brugerperspektiver-covid-19/
However, the report also points to some positive results References: Please see page 62 of this report. of the lockdown. Oak Denmark’s partners gained valuable experience through virtual conversations and social media efforts. In addition, many activities were held outdoors: walks, including counselling, communal meals, and other outdoor activities, which affirmed and strengthened social relations. The increased focus on hygiene and nutrition has also led to improved health. 57 Exitcirklen KFUM’s Sociale Arbejde MusikBeRiget Grants USD 163,717 (1 year) – Café Parasollen USD 75,364 (3 years) To help inform women of their USD 103,982 (3 years) To support children and their right to divorce and right to To support Greenlandic people relati ves in hospitals and people Anti dote Danmark marriage across nati onal identi ty who frequent Café Parasollen in psychiatric hospitals by USD 129,056 (2 years) and religions. (a social café) in Vejle. creati ng a musical room where To provide a safe place for they can experience a sense of people who take drugs under Fonden ConCura KFUM’s Sociale Arbejde normality and community. the surveillance of medical USD 111,460 (1 year) – Café Stevnen specialists, and teach them To fi nance renovati on of the USD 24,210 (1 year) Siu Tsiu how to help others who have roof at ConCura, a school that To renovate windows at Café USD 939,581 (3 years) overdosed. provides focused support to Stevnen, a social shelter To build workplaces based children with special needs. for people experiencing on social economy in Nuuk, Fonden for socialt Ansvar homelessness. Greenland. USD 663,717 (3 years) FødevareBanken To support fathers to take USD 1,028,828 (3 years) KFUM’s Sociale Arbejde – Spodcast.dk more acti ve roles in their To increase capacity and upgrade Værestedet Ulfb org USD 22,050 (1 year) children’s lives. FødevareBanken while conti nuing USD 44,144 (1 year) To make podcast stories about to reduce food waste. To help prevent loneliness in Danish women who leave violent Café Exit a region of Western Jutland partners. USD 115,693 (1 year) Ishtar through outreach work. To include the voices of USD 361,357 (3 years) incarcerated women and various To help refugee and immigrant Muhabet stakeholders while creati ng the women in Copenhagen to USD 583,589 (3 years) best possible prison for women. develop their own food To give a vulnerable and isolated businesses. group of survivors of torture Digitalt Ansvar and war a place where they USD 353,015 (1 year) J u s ti ti a can fi nd social support, get To build up the organisati on’s USD 442,478 (3 years) a healthy meal, eat with others, capacity to bett er protect To support vulnerable groups and receive help. survivors of digital violence. of citi zens who lack legal rights, as well as exposure in public and politi cal debates.
C a p ti o n : a group set out from Hellebro shelter for young people on a walk during the confi nement in 2020. © Henrik Salling / Hellebro www.hellebroen.dk © Henrik Salling / Hellebro
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India Supporti ng equitable opportuniti es for all
Everyone should have a fair chance at creati ng a life for Our primary grant-making focus centres on two sub-regions themselves in which they can move beyond mere survival within West Bengal where all three groups live – the tea to achieve their full potenti al. Many, however, lack those gardens of North Bengal and the Sundarbans coastal region, opportuniti es simply because of where they are born or which also face climate-related and other challenges. who they are. Our secondary grant-making focus is in other districts The India Programme supports eff orts to sustainably in West Bengal that are home to one or more of the improve the lives of marginalised people in West Bengal, three priority groups – unorganised workers, Indigenous a state in the eastern region of India on the Bay of Bengal. communiti es, and migrants. We hope to produce evidence These include vulnerable workers, Indigenous communiti es from locati ons across West Bengal that can inform and known as Adivasis, and adult and child migrants, whose infl uence desired systemic changes at the state and needs and rights have been neglected. nati onal levels so that all people have a chance to thrive. If you want to learn about the India Programme’s new strategy, check out the India page on our website.
59 Grassroot leadership in the face of adversity
While the Covid-19 virus in 2020 caused many challenges, Azad Foundation. While Azad was unable to visit these we were inspired by the stories of resilience and courage communities, two women who had been trained as feminist that came from our partners in India. Frontline workers and leaders ensured that 868 families received provisions volunteers took their places as natural leaders to ensure provided by the government. that vulnerable communities were supported by communal safety nets in practical ways, helping to mitigate risk. At Kolkata’s Pavlov Mental Health Hospital, the lockdown further deepened the isolation of 300 women affected by Covid-19 restrictions meant that many of our partners were mental illness in the shanty ward. Anjali, an organisation not able to travel to the districts where they normally carry that facilitates art-based therapeutic activities for the out their work. In their absence, community volunteers women, was forced to cancel its activities indefinitely. and peer leaders rose to the occasion. For example, in In Anjali’s absence, four women took it upon themselves Murshidabad, a prolific trafficking corridor, community to ensure that the hospital maintained a high level members protected young women and girls from being of hygiene in order to keep the women safe. trafficked across the border for the sex trade, or forced into early, unwanted marriages. In addition, in the districts These reports of resilience, adaptability, and tenacity as of North and South 24 Parganas, collectives of women we pass through extraordinary circumstances, inspire us survivors of commercial sexual exploitation created to continue our efforts to continue to strengthen the work informal watch groups to prevent trafficking and child of our partners around the world. Oak’s capacity building marriage. Local partners Kamonohashi, Terre des Hommes, support, which involves training community members to Suprava Panchila Mahila Udyog Samity, and Goranbose know their rights, aims to encourage them to demonstrate Gramin Bikas Kendra are proud that survivor leaders their leadership, especially in unexpected circumstances. are breaking the stigma, and providing leadership and inspiration to protect communities. If you would like to know more about this support, please check out our website. https://oakfnd.org/values- “I learned about tactics to mission-history/cbod/ Well done to our partners and the community workers in India! claim entitlements from the SEWA Bharat community training.” Rita Devi, domestic worker
Domestic workers supported by not-for-profit organisation Nirmana demanded temporary ration cards from local, elected representatives. While the application was in process, they ensured that a month’s supply of dry rations were made available for their domestic worker peers. In Ranchi, women who had attended the SEWA Bharat training to help empower domestic workers, confidently demanded that mobile food distribution be regularised in their community. As a result, 100 households benefitted. “I learned about tactics to claim rights and entitlements from the SEWA Bharat community training,” said domestic worker Rita Devi.
Sections of the city of Kolkata were cordoned off in attempts to contain the spread of the virus. This impacted the work of women taxi-drivers trained by / Oak Foundation © Rachel McKee
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Find Your Feet Praxis – Institute for Terre des Hommes Lausanne Grants USD 173,408 (2 years) Participatory Practices * USD 561,739 (3 years) To support tribal people to USD 150,000 (6 months) To enable survivors of trafficking safeguard their rights in three To support a cluster of and exploitation in Jharkhand and Association for Advocacy districts of Jharkhand state, organisations to enable 10,000 West Bengal to reintegrate back and Legal Initiatives India by strengthening tribal-led households in South and North into their communities, based on USD 573,846 (4 years) organisations and networks. 24 Parganas, West Bengal to their choices and facilitated by a To continue to help women mitigate the risks induced by supportive ecosystem. and girls in Jharkhand to exercise Fund For Global Human Rights recent emergencies such as their entitlements. USD 400,000 (3 years) Covid-19 and Supercyclone To enable people’s organisations Amphan. Caption: The photos in the India Association for India’s in selected locations of West Programme section of the report Development Bengal to directly access Save the Children India- Bal depict our partners’ efforts USD 207,450 (3 years) institutions that are critical Raksha Bharat to sustainably improve the lives To support Indigenous in protecting their constitutional USD 438,323 (3 years) of marginalised people in communities from 200 villages and legal rights. To protect children from multiple West Bengal. across four districts of West risks and existing harmful Bengal to ensure that forest Hope and Homes for Children practices by ensuring the local resources are sustainably used, USD 659,360 (4 years) child protection workforce conserved, and regenerated. To spur the momentum for meets established occupational care reform and family-based standards in West Bengal and Azad Foundation alternative care in India by Jharkhand. USD 423,194 (2 years) strengthening the capacity To equip women in Kolkata, India, of child protection actors. SEWA Bharat to train as professional drivers. USD 609,285 (3 years) Legal Initiative for Forest and To support women in the Child Resilience Alliance Environment unorganised workforce in USD 450,204 (3 years) USD 507,267 (3 years) Jharkhand and West Bengal, To develop vibrant community- To facilitate the effective India. led processes that actively implementation of environmental engage with and support local laws in West Bengal, Jharkhand, government efforts on child and Orissa. protection. * The Praxis grant is also listed in the Covid grant section of this report, on page 12. 61 References
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