Working with African partners for Africa

What's up with KBF Africa? Find here the main opportunities to engage with us and our partners.

Earth Funders Fund UIAfrica Fund Bokundoli

Who we are |

Based in Brussels, the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) is an independent, pluralistic foundation working to improve society for more than 40 years. We support African actors in their own development activities, with a focus on the DR Congo and Burundi.

“The Africa I would like to see in the future is one in which my son grows up proud. An Africa that is capable of developing creative and sustainable African solutions to African problems, and taking this message beyond the mantra that currently is.”

Gerald Abila, BarefootLaw

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KBF Africa Prize |

The King Baudouin African Development Prize (KBF Africa Prize) rewards outstanding contributions to development in Africa, initiated and led by Africans. The Prize seeks to draw international public attention to the many inspirational stories emerging from the African continent.

2019

Wecyclers, Nigeria (2018/2019)

Leveraging the power of Lagos’ communities by redistributing benefits from recycled waste.

2017

BarefootLaw, Farmerline & Kytabu (2016/2017)

For their work to improve access to knowledge in law, agriculture and education.

2015

ADISCO, Burundi (2014/2015)

Encourage entrepreneurship and create cooperatives and health insurance societies.

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Stories |

The Bokundoli programme aims to allow the Congolese education system to renew the way it teaches young Congolese people about citizenship and a historical awareness of their country.

In Africa, over 40% of the population are unable to prove their identity, which means they are unable to access essential services such as health care and education. The UIAfrica Fund aims to tackle this problem by boosting the civil registration of births.

Fewer than one in five Congolese have access to the Internet, barely more than 19% of the population. It is an abysmal digital divide that Jean-Louis Mbaka and his colleagues at Kinshasa Digital intend to reduce considerably.

Dr Ernest Ahounou had planned to complete a ‘simple’ internship in resuscitation in intensive care at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels. But COVID-19 turned both his plans and his internship upside down.

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Engage with us |

Business Partnership Facility: Enterprises for SDGs

Support for ‘civil society-enterprise’ partnerships engaged in the SDGs in 52 developing countries.

Elisabeth and Amélie Fund: access to water

Scholarships for students from the South and support for Belgian organisations working in the field of water.

European Friends Funds

Efficient philanthropic solutions for organizations in Africa who are working in the public interest.

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News & Resources |

[03.11.2020] OVO received the award in the category Developing Country Cooperation. A nice recognition for their support to African start-ups, focusing on sustainable technologies.

[20.11.2020] More than 1 in 3 children worldwide have no legal existence. This is why Urgency Identity Africa and BENIN ODD TV co-produced a video highlighting the importance of having a legal identity.

[13.11.2020] The inaugural class of the Kigutu International Academy (KIA) has started. Its motto: To train critical thinkers and ethical leaders.

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