Main question

How do NGOs promote development in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Questions

Give an example of the work of one NGO attempting to promote development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Explain ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ strategies.

Evaluate the success of one or more ‘bottom up’ aid strategies implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa.

‘The work of NGOs and microfinance schemes has become prominent in recent years because of a shift in attitude towards the consideration of sustainability and gender equality as part of the development process.’Discuss the statement above.

Resource A

The project ‘The Size of Wales’ is campaigning to protect an area of Rainforest that is twice the size of Wales. The Mbele Trees project is one project supported by ‘The Size of Wales’, in which over 8 million trees have been planted , including one for every child born or adopted in Wales. (Note the charity is not entirely non-governmental as it does receive an element of its funding from the Welsh Government).

Source - https://sizeofwales.org.uk/
Resource B

Source: https://twitter.com/mbalecoed

A Twitter account that presents news about the Mbale Trees project which aims to plant 10 million trees in Mbale, Uganda.
Resource C

A video clip (2014) and further information about a scheme that lends ‘microfinance’ to women who live in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

Source: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/provide-1000-microloans-for-rural-women-in-east-africa/
Resource D

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cy/news/view/796316-developing-sustainable-agri-business

Developing agri-business, June 2017.

As prices for Uganda’s cash crops hit rock bottom, a Wales based collaboration – Community Enterprise Model for Plant Oil Production (CEMPOP) - is working to develop and trial a sustainable agri-business that supports local communities.
Resource E

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Where-We-Work/Africa-Office/Focus-Countries

The work of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Sub-Saharan African countries.