Ungana-Afrika would like to thank its diverse list of supporters and partners for their ongoing assistance. Because of our outstanding quality of work, Ungana-Afrika has been regarded as a long term partner, which has allowed us to implement multi-year programs.

Primary/Core Supporters

Soros Foundations

The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grant making foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. Soros Foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions to initiate and support open society activities.

Several Soros Foundations have supported core Ungana-Afrika operations or specific projects, including the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Open Society Initiative of South Africa (OSF-SA), the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), as well as the Open Society Institute (OSI).

The Finnish Government

Finland has a wide bilateral development co-operation program with South Africa. SMME-development, education- and environmental sectors have been defined as core areas for the bilateral co-operation. NGO's promoting democracy and human rights are supported by the embassy administered Local Co-operation Fund.

Ungana-Afrika has received financial support from the co-operation fund in South Africa for a number of ICT capacity building and consulting projects since early 2004. In addition, Ungana-Afrika has worked closely with the embassy of Finland in Mozambique, where a joint project with a local partner was implemented and supported by the local co-operation fund in Mozambique.

Hivos

Hivos is a Dutch non-governmental organisation inspired by humanist values. Hivos seeks to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world in which citizens have equal access to the resources and opportunities for their development.

Hivos started supporting Ungana-Afrika in 2005 and during the past few years has co-funded Ungana-Afrika's Incubation Program together with OSISA.

German Development Service

The German Development Service (DED) is one of the leading European development services for personnel cooperation and it's development workers have committed themselves to improve the living conditions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Ungana-Afrika has worked with DED since 2008 as a part of our rural connectivity program in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

PSO

PSO is an association that consists of sixty Dutch development organisations. The association focuses on capacity development at civil society organisations in developing countries.  Its core issues are knowledge development and the funding of activities in the field of capacity building. Furthermore, PSO provides services in the field of staff cooperation. All PSO's activities focus on reinforcing the capacity of civil society organisations in developing countries.

Through their Youth Zone programme, PSO has supported a two-year contract for a project officer to direct Ungana-Afrika's Participatory Entrepreneurship Development programme, starting in 2010.

Partnerships and Memberships

Within our work, we have been involved in notable colloborative partnerships (formal or informal) with the following groups:

• Association for Progressive Communication (an official APC member)

• Information Society Programme in the Republic of South Africa (INSPIRE)

• Global eRiders

• Kabissa

• Women'sNet

• SangoNet

• Tactical Technology Collective

• AIESEC

• NPower

If you are interested in providing support to, or collaboration with, Ungana-Afrika in any way, please contact us for more details.

See also our customers page for a list of project-specific supporters and clients.