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CAMFED IMPACT REPORT
Camfed will realize the potential of young educated
women to catalyze social and economic change by
building the membership and capability of Cama as a pan-
African movement of young women leaders of change.
This will include bringing new resources of education,
training, and finance to young women entrepreneurs.
Cama members have substantial means to fulfill their
aspirations through Camfed’s extensive and innovative
program of support — from Cama leadership, to business
and health training, grants and loans from the Seed Money
Program, and the Leadership and Enterprise Program. Many
Camfed-supported women can explore routes for change
in their community alongside peers who have been trained
to use film and radio. Together they can bring previously
unspoken concerns to public light, sharing ideas and
support, and liberating their communities’ experiences from
anxiety, silence and shame. These singular young women
can also feel pride that they have helped a new generation
of girls into school, as Cama members’ own philanthropy has
done with such remarkable results.
Camfed will design and introduce a new development
paradigm describing and disseminating, in partnership
with the Linklaters global law firm, a new governance
blueprint, based on the principle of entitlement and
driven by compliance to the child. The training Camfed
provides to ensure accountability and transparency in the
deployment of resources builds the decision-making and
accounting capacity at school level, and is an important
power-sharing strategy that builds schools’ confidence to
place demands on the national system.
Camfed will also develop new partnerships among social
entrepreneurial organizations to provide integrated
development solutions to rural communities. Camfed
has created over time a well-established, integrated
infrastructure around girls’ education that is unique in
rural sub-Saharan Africa. This network is an invaluable
resource that can leverage other partnerships in the region
dramatically to broaden the development of poor rural
communities.
Technology will be used to maximum effect in realizing these
goals. As has been seen across Africa, technology – and
particularly mobile phones — has been adapted to multiusage,
including the transfer of money in an environment
where banking services are rare. The role of technology in
accelerating change across districts that are remote from
each other is enormous. Access to technology improves
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