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Animal Advocacy Africa

ActiveGrant
$5,585raised
$50,000funding goal

Project summary

  1. Running a capacity-building program for African animal advocates to help advocates start their own projects including Operations, Intervention selection, Research, Communications, EA Training as well as providing seed funding via re-granting.

  2. More broadly signal boosting the African animal movement and trying to further international stakeholder and African stakeholder engagement, build funding, talent and resource infrastructure.

  3. Do check out more details and information on our website, the above is a rather broad summary: https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/.

  4. Our 2023 Review and 2024 Plans.

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

  1. Mitigate and prevent factory farming in Africa

    1. Via our training program which helps individuals start their own animal advocacy organisations, directly working on factory farming on the ground.

    2. Research on the most effective and promising interventions

  2. Build the African Animal Advocacy movement

    1. Inform International stakeholders and funders via research, conferences, presentations and talks.

    2. To foster inter-African relations between groups and individuals, we have contributed to setting up an African channel on Hive as well as an alumni group from our program we hope to bolster these as we iterate through our program.

How will this funding be used?

Specifically, it would be great for this funding to go 100% towards regranting to new African advocacy projects coming out of our program.

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/team

Our team is an excellent group of passionate animal advocates and EA's. 2 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubatees, one AIM research program fellow and an incredible project co-ordinator.

You can check out our progress here - https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/our-progress

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

Causes - The training program doesn't help advocates enough, we don't raise enough money for regranting, and the outgoing projects from our program fail

Outcomes - There is little resistance to Factory farming in Africa, as the economy and populace grows, factory farming becomes displaced from US/EU to Africa and Asia.

What other funding are you or your project getting?

We are Funded by ACE, EA Funds, Craigslist and HNWI's, a lot of this covers our operational costs and overheads, but there is still a lot of (IMO) counterfactual impact to be gained from donating directly to regrant to our outgoing projects from the program.

donated $20
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Jakob Wendelin

7 months ago

Thanks for bringing animal advocacy to neglected regions! :)

donated $50
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Steven Rouk

7 months ago

Animal advocacy work in Africa is particularly neglected, and I'm glad that a cross-country movement building organizations like Animal Advocacy Africa exists. Although the work seems extremely challenging, I expect that the impact per dollar is particularly high given that there are so few organizations doing this work and given that factory farming is probably expected to increase significantly in Africa in the coming decades.

donated $40
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Nina Friedrich

7 months ago

Thank you for growing Animal Welfare initiatives on the African continent!

donated $15
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Elena Bräu

7 months ago

Amazing work!

donated $10
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Johannes Pichler

7 months ago

Thank you very much for your important work in neglected regions! I'm a huge fan of your organization and whenever I talk to animal advocates from Africa, AAA is one of the first things that comes up.
All the best with all of you future projects!

donated $100
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Sofia Balderson

8 months ago

Very neglected region and very important work focused on effectiveness. Thoughtful and helpful team. Thank you for your work and for your collaborative culture!

donated $100
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8 months ago

Donating to the global south is more effective!

donated $200
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Felix Werdermann

8 months ago

I think Africa belongs to the strongly neglected regions in terms of animal advocacy. So it's crucial to have organisations like AAA to support a movement there. AAA has a clear strategy and their team is very competent and ambitious!

donated $500
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Moritz Stumpe

8 months ago

Industrial animal agriculture will grow massively in Africa and this is highly neglected

donated $100
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Katharina Hofmann

8 months ago

I consider this non-profit as highly effective.