HOPE Africa

HOPE Africa (The Health, Opportunity, Partnership and Employment in Africa) is a social development organisation of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. The HOPE Africa operates in six Southern African countries, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola. The main aim of the HOPE Africa is to build the capacity of Dioceses and parishes by facilitating social development through partnerships. The work of the HOPE Africa focuses on Socio-Economic transformation through leadership, capacity building and partnership development on non-denominational basis. Currently, the HOPE Africa focuses on Innovations and North South dialogue within the FSAA project.
www.hopeafrica.co.za

ELCSA-DS

ELCSA-DS is a development service organisation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa. The ELCSA-DS is a humanitarian aid organisation focusing on integrated community development activities amongst the poor parts of less developed provinces in South Africa. The overall objective of the organisation is to improve and ensure sustainable development of communities and individuals in the selected project areas. The ELCSA-DS utilises the FSAA funding to provide the Micro MBA training in Eastern Cape, KwaZuluNatal and Limpopo provinces.
www.elcsads-lwf.org

The Thembalitsha Foundation

The Thembalitsha Foundation is a non-denominational Christian community development organisation focusing on health care, education and training within geographical boundaries of Western Cape. The Thembalitsha has clinic for HIV/Aids positive children, a school that provides special needs education to youth at risk, adult hospice including home based care services, pre-school and training services. The training services include the Micro MBA training and community health education. The Thembalitsha has been involved in the FSAA project from 2001 and the funding from the FSAA is utilised for the Micro MBA training for individuals in Western Cape.
www.thembalitsha.org.za

The Elgin Learning Foundation

The Elgin Learning Foundation (ELF) is actively involved in poverty eradication in disadvantaged rural communities in South Africa through education, training and development the ELF The ELF has a college, which is based in Grabouw, Western Cape. The College provides services in nine rural communities in Cape Winelands and Boland district. The ELF develops and provides accredited training courses which are based on the Adult Basic Education Training (ABET) and the National Qualification Framework (NQF) standards. All training course modules contribute towards obtaining the NQF certified education. The FSAA funding is used for the four-day Documents for Financial and Banking Processes course and for the six-day course on Manage Personal Finances.
www.elf1.co.za

The Greater Stellenbosch Development Trust

The GSDT is based in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch in Western Cape. The GSDT focuses on sustainable community projects including basic business skills training and mentoring, educational programmes for children as well as cultural and artistic programmes including training in art and craft making skills. The GSDT utilises the FSAA funding to provide the Micro MBA training for individuals from the communities in close proximity of Stellenbosch.
www.ikhayatrust.co.za

» Micro Entrepreneurial Development Alliance

The Micro Entrepreneurial Development Alliance (MEDA) is a network of NGO's whose core focus to beneficiaries is to train, mentor and empower previously disadvantaged people to become effective entrepreneurs.

The alliance also exists to share our collectivebest practice experiences within the alliance and externally toother NGO's, government, donors, service providersand other interested parties.

The alliance consists of the following NGO's: ELCSA Development Services, Elgin Learning Foundation (ELF), Greater Stellenbosch Development Trust (GSDT), Thembalitsha Foundation.                         http://meda.yolasite.com/

Micro-MBA

The Micro-MBA is not a partner but a service provider in the project. Most of the trainees in the FSAA project have been trained on the Micro-MBA course. In the programme over 160 000 entrepreneurs have been trained since 1991. The founder of the programme was a candidate in South Africa for the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007-award.
www.micro-mba.com