CHASE Africa

In parallel to its core health programmes, CHASE Africa also supports activities that aim to protect the environment by supporting community-level activities to promote and improve sustainable management of natural resources and reduce land degradation and biodiversity loss. For rural communities that are heavily dependent on natural resources, this not only benefits ecosystems but improves livelihoods and lives, especially of rural women and children who bear the burden of activities such as collecting water and firewood. CHASE Africa supports local partner organisations in East Africa to run community health programmes. Over the past 10 years, we have delivered 1.2 million healthcare services and over 550,000 rights-based family planning services to marginalised communities in Kenya and Uganda. We work entirely through local partners. These are organisations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, already working with rural communities on a variety of activities. We provide financial, technical, and capacity-building support to our partners. We facilitate exchange visits between partners, organise webinars and host an annual CHASE Africa Partner Network Conference, where knowledge exchange and learning takes place – both across the network and by bringing in relevant external experts and practitioners to speak. The CHASE Africa partner network has become a powerful and valuable forum for sharing best practices and experiences. CHASE Africa is a small, friendly and dedicated team, based in North Somerset, that is going through an exciting period of transition and growth, with a new CEO in 2022, a change of charitable structure to a CIO in 2023, ongoing review of governance structures and plans to set-up a CHASE Africa entity in East Africa in 2025. We have ambitious plans to increase our impact and income over the next 5 years. The team have developed excellent relationships with numerous trusts and foundations, high net-worth individuals and regular donors and has an excellent retention rate of existing funders.