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Our Story
Our Story
Our story began in 2021 when co-founders- Allwell and Tolulope, began to wonder how African social impact organizations could consolidate on their impact in local communities. At this point, both co-founders had worked extensively with local grassroots organization- youth-led and women-led, and noticed that while these organizations were impactful, some fundamentals gaps still existed. The problem was that these African social impact organizations had little consistent funding, lacked core business development skills to approach local and international donors and partners, and were not well-connected with their peers to share and maximize learning experiences. Allwell and Tolulope started Travaille Ensemble to work side-by-side with African organizations to fill in these gaps and provide grant writing, training and technical support to consolidate their impact in local communities.
Global South nonprofits have a strong understanding of the dynamics of the local context and are the best placed to lead interventions with sustainable outcomes. Donors and other key stakeholders have realized it is time to shift power to where it matters the most. In 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Administrator, Samantha Power, announced the localization policy would shift 25% of the agency’s funding to Global South organizations, up from just 6% then by 2030. In addition, USAID, the world’s biggest donor, seeks to ensure that 50% of its programming in the Global South, have local leadership by 2030.
Travaille Ensemble empowers African social impact organizations to better position themselves to benefit from the localization and #ShiftThePower agenda. We solve the problem of inadequate resources for social impact for African social impact organizations