IREX in Africa
IREX implements a wide portfolio of programs in 41 countries in Africa. More than 20% of IREX program funds go to Africa related projects.
Programs focus on building local capacity for development, conflict resolution, and providing citizens with access to information.
All IREX programs in Africa draw on African expertise in the form of partner organizations, staff and consultants, ensuring sustainable solutions well-suited for the African context.
IREX projects in Africa:
IREX results in Africa:
identify civil society leaders, help local NGOs find sustainable means to deliver services and provide information.
In Liberia’s recent presidential election, IREX worked with civil society partners to promote of peaceful elections. IREX trained and equipped reporters to produce conflict sensitive coverage of the campaign and media monitoring of polling station results.
work on higher education reform and with primary and secondary teachers to introduce new class subjects and teaching styles.
At universities in Ghana and Tanzania, there is a new focus on faculty development and innovation in teaching as a result of an administrator’s participation in IREX’s US-based training program.
provide local newspaper, radio and TV and journalists with training and resources to deliver sustainable, high quality news and information. bring together youth in post-conflict regions to promote peace and reconciliation through community dialogue. measure the sustainability of media (freedom of speech, professional journalism, plurality of news, business management, and supporting institutions) in 41 countries on the continent.
In Rwanda and Kenya youth leaders participated in community theater performances to increase reconciliation dialogue facilitated by IREX. Local NGOs received training and support from IREX to expand their services and youth engagement. A community leader from Sierra Leone spent time in the United States learning about ways to increase the involvement of men in combating violence against women. In Chad, despite very limited resources, community radio stations improved their management and broadcasts with training and consulting from IREX, providing ciizens with an important source of local information. Over 4,500 Senegalese girls are closer to better education and jobs thanks to the training one teacher received in the US and shared with his peer vocational and English language teachers in Senegal. Activists from Uganda and Zimbabwe strengthened their experience and skills in HIV/AIDS interventions working hands on with US organizations.