Vitol
Foundation
HOW THE FOUNDATION WORKS
The Vitol Foundation was established to make a difference to people’s lives
The Vitol Foundation’s work now stretches across five main themes around the globe: education, enterprise and livelihoods, health, humanitarian relief/emergencies, and water, sanitation and hygiene. In each sector, we aim to improve performance, provide wider access and inclusion, foster innovation and catalyse access to finance.
The Foundation has been active in Ghana for over 8 years, working with in-country partners to bring sustainable benefits across our five themes.
It provides financing in different forms (grants and other appropriate funding) to non-profit and for-profit organisations. The funding is typically either unrestricted within an overall project budget or fully unrestricted.
By working with partners in the private sector, national governments, public institutions and international partners, the Foundation channels private capital to invest in reinforcing and improving existing in-country systems, creating lasting and sustainable change.
The Vitol Foundation operates independently of Vitol.
| PARTNER NAME | PROGRAMME AREA | COUNTRY | START DATE | END DATE |
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| SMARTGAS – Cooking on Demand | Livelihoods | Ghana, Kenya | 8/1/2017 | 5/31/2018 |
| Strengthening Cost Management of CBS Service Providers | Water and Sanitation | Ghana, Haiti, Peru | 5/22/2017 | 9/22/2017 |
| Supporting Early Stage SGBs through Crowdfunding on Kiva | Livelihoods | Colombia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, United States | 12/1/2017 | 11/30/2019 |
| Teacher Support: Delivering Teacher Training at Scale | Education | Ghana, Guatemala, Laos | 7/1/2017 | 6/30/2020 |
| TechnoServe Labs: Scaling Entrepreneurship Support | Livelihoods | Botswana, Ghana, Guatemala | 9/1/2019 | 2/29/2020 |
| The Accelerator | Livelihoods | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Zambia | 7/1/2016 | 6/30/2019 |
| The African Paediatric Fellowship Programme | Health | Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe | 7/1/2016 | 12/31/2018 |
| Transition to Scale | Water and Sanitation | Ghana, Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia | 8/1/2019 | 7/31/2022 |
| United World College of West Africa | Education | Ghana | 1/1/2016 | 1/1/2017 |
| Using Sanitation and Waste management for food security through irrigation | Water and Sanitation | Ghana | 12/1/2017 | 2/28/2019 |
| Water Point Data Exchange | Water and Sanitation | Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda | 5/1/2020 | 12/31/2022 |
| Women-owned Water Businesses for Remote Rural Communities | Water and Sanitation | Ghana | 9/1/2017 | 8/31/2018 |
| Young Women’s Leadership for Rural Distribution in Africa | Livelihoods | Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe | 1/15/2017 | 15/07/2017 |