Corruption Watch
Corruption Watch is a South African civil society not-for-profit organisation. The Corruption Watch team will gather and analyse information from the public; build alliances; and help people take a stand against corruption. By shining a light on corruption and those who act corruptly, we promote transparency and accountability and protect the beneficiaries of public goods and services.
Corruption weakens institutions, criminalises individuals and undermines social solidarity. Corruption Watch will provide tools of support for a more engaged and active civil society in South Africa. Each act of corruption that is prevented by our citizens underpins and fortifies civil society and thereby enhances democracy, the rule of law and the establishment of a more caring and just society
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Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST)
PAST, the Palaeontological Scientific Trust, is a Johannesburg-based public benefit organisation that champions Africa’s ancient natural and cultural heritage. We are a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation, protection and promotion of this heritage for the benefit of Africans and humankind in its entirety.
PAST sponsors research undertaken at South Africa’s World Heritage-listed Sterkfontein Caves, as well as other major research sites on the continent. PAST’s objectives are to ignite interest in Africa’s heritage at primary and secondary school levels, to grow capacity for African post-graduate students, scientists and technicians to manage and develop African origin sciences, and to promote the importance of origin sciences to Africa and the world.
Jay Naidoo is currently the Patron of the Scatterlings of Africa, which is a science education initiative that celebrates Africa’s status as humankind’s ancestral home.
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Principals Management Development Programme (PMDP)
This project aims to strengthen management capacity at schools and districts through the coaching and mentoring of principals and ward managers. It is a packaged programme on critical management, planning, financial and administrative matters which are dealt with in a practical way using real work experiences of the current workload in schools.
The PMDP aims to improve school performance resulting from principals and ward managers who can better manage:
Section 27
SECTION27 is a public interest law centre that seeks to influence, develop and use the law to protect, promote and advance human rights. SECTION27 is named after section 27 of the South African Constitution, which lies at the heart of our supreme law’s commitment to socio-economic rights. This section, which locates the right to health within a context of mutually supporting and intersecting rights, provides that:
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Equal Education
EE advocates for quality and equality in the South African education system and engages in evidence-based activism for improving the nation’s schools. It is a leader in youth leadership development. EE’s campaigns, based on detailed research and policy analysis, are aimed at achieving quality education for all.
We promote the rights to equality and education, with the firm belief that these will enable the poor and working classes to an equal opportunity in life.
Education is an end in itself. Also,education helps one to understand and demand the full realisation of the rights enshrined in the Constitution. Led by young activists, EE seeks to improve the poor quality of education in South Africa by working together with communities, schools, teachers, principals, learners, parents, academics, researchers and the government. We build an understanding of the educational system, whilst drawing attention to problems faced by schools and their communities. Equipped with this knowledge, EE offers a new way for people to participate in the democratic system and bring change to education and society.
Activate
The goal of the Activate! Leadership and Public Innovation programme is to spark public innovation by charging up a network of young leaders so that they can link the poles of South African society. The programme will, over a five-year period, connect up to 5,000 innovative young leaders predominantly from marginalized communities to one another and to points of influence and opportunity across social and economic divides. They will be selected on the basis of their proven commitment to the public good, and their abilities will be developed and directed to some of the toughest social problems faced by their communities.
The premise of this initiative is that new connections to information, opportunity and influence can be a powerful catalyst for innovation in highly polarised societies. If directed to the public good, these connections can strengthen development and democracy by building trust and accountability and making people less tolerant of destructive risk. By creating a public profile for the network of these young leaders, they will be able to participate in and help to substantively shape our national discourse.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. Created in 2002 at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children, GAIN supports public-private partnerships to increase access to the missing nutrients in diets necessary for people, communities and economies to be stronger and healthier.
In less than a decade, GAIN has been able to scale its operations by investing in and working alongside more than 600 companies across 36 large-scale collaborations in more than 25 countries, reaching close to 400 million people with nutritionally enhanced food products. Half of the beneficiaries are women and children. GAIN’s goal is to reach more than one billion people with fortified foods that have sustainable nutritional impact.
GAIN is a Swiss foundation headquartered in Geneva with a special international status granted by the Swiss government. Its worldwide presence includes an office in Washington D.C. as well as regional and country representatives in Johannesburg, New Delhi, Cairo, Nairobi, Kabul and Shanghai to support its activities.
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Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Established in 2006, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation supports good governance and great leadership in Africa. The Foundation works to:
Provide a framework and tools by which citizens and governments can assess and measure progress in governance
Recognise excellence in African leadership and provide a practical way in which leaders can build positive legacies on the continent when they have left national office
Stimulate debate on the quality of governance and major governance issues in Africa
Develop leadership and governance capacity in Africa
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The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice (MRFCJ)
MRFCJ is a centre for thought leadership, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for those many victims of climate change who are usually forgotten – the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world.
It is a platform for solidarity, partnership and shared engagement for all who care about global justice, whether as individuals and communities suffering injustice or as advocates for fairness in resource-rich societies.
MRFCJ provides a space for facilitating action on climate justice to empower the poorest people and countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable and people-centred development.
Jay Naidoo is Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Partnership Council of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Visit his bio page for more information.
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