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2022-12-31-accounts

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for

the Year Ended 31st December 2022

Company number: 02874653 Charity number: 1029161

CONTENTS

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES IN 2022 ........................................................................................................................ 9 STRATEGY 1: THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT ................................................................................................................ 10 SUPPORTING GIRLS TO ATTEND AND THRIVE IN SCHOOL ...................................................................... 10 SUPPORTING YOUNG WOMEN TO BECOME CHANGE LEADERS ............................................................. 11 STRATEGY 2: THE LEARNER GUIDE ...................................................................................................................... 16 TRANSFORMING PROSPECTS FOR GIRLS, YOUNG WOMEN, AND COMMUNITIES ................................... 16 INTEGRATING THE LEARNER GUIDE ROLE INTO EDUCATION SYSTEMS - WORKING WITH MINISTRIES TOWARDS SYSTEMIC CHANGE ............................................................................................................ 19 STRATEGY 3: ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT .......................................................................................................... 21 SUPPORTING YOUNG WOMEN TO TRANSITION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS ............................................ 21 CLIMATE EDUCATION ......................................................................................................................... 26 EVALUATIONS AND RESEARCH ........................................................................................................................... 27 RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS .................................................................................................................. 27 ADVOCACY AND INFLUENCE ............................................................................................................................... 29 NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVOCACY ......................................................................................... 29 GLOBAL RECOGNITION AND EVENTS ................................................................................................... 33 LOOKING AHEAD TO 2023................................................................................................................................... 34 PARTNERSHIPS AND INVESTMENT TOWARDS OUR 5-YEAR STRATEGY .................................................. 35 INSPIRATION FROM SOME OF OUR GLOBAL CHAMPIONS ................................................................................ 36 GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS .................................................................................................... 38 FINANCIAL REVIEW ............................................................................................................................. 50 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS AND TRUSTEES OF CAMFED INTERNATIONAL .... 58 Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities .................................................................................... 62 Consolidated and Charity Balance Sheets ............................................................................................ 63 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT of CASH FLOWS ...................................................................................... 64 Notes to the Financial Statements ...................................................................................................... 65

LEGAL & ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Trustees

Miranda Curtis CMG (Chair of Trustees) Grace Owen (Chair of the Nominations Committee) Nick Swift (Chair of the Finance, Audit and Investments Committee) Ann Cotton (Retired October 1, 2022) Maidie Arkutu

Victoria Sabula Vicky Johnson Rosemary O’Mahony Caroline Kende-Robb (Joined September 21, 2022) Charlotte Watts CMG (Joined September 21, 2022)

Directors

Miranda Curtis CMG (Chair) Ann Cotton (Retired October 1, 2022) Lucy Lake Maidie Arkutu Victoria Sabula Vicky Johnson

Rosemary O’Mahony Grace Owen Nick Swift Caroline Kende-Robb (Joined September 21, 2022) Charlotte Watts CMG (Joined September 21, 2022)

Executive

Angeline Murimirwa (Chief Executive Officer) Lucy Lake (Chair of the Executive, formerly Chief Executive Officer) Luxon Shumba (Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary)

Principal and Registered Office

St Giles Court 24 Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AJ, UK Telephone: +44 (0)1223 362648 Website: www.CAMFED.org

Principal Bankers

Lloyds Bank plc 3 Sidney Street Cambridge CB2 3HQ, UK

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP 55 Ludgate Hill London EC4M 7JW, UK

Solicitors

Dentons UKMEA LLP One Fleet Place London EC4M 7WS, UK

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIR

As I prepare to step down from my position as Chair of the Board of Trustees in July 2023, I have been reflecting on the past 18 months, which have not only been a period of exceptional continuing accomplishment for CAMFED, but also a time in which the groundwork has been laid for a series of very important transitions for the organisation.

As the world began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the network of CAMFED Association leaders (now numbering more than 250,000 across Africa) have continued to play a critical role in their communities, helping and supporting girls to return to school, engaging with local primary health care initiatives, and leading the way in the implementation of climate-smart agricultural techniques in regions which have suffered the ravages of climate change, particularly drought and flooding. Many CAMFED Association members are also successful entrepreneurs, bringing stability and sustainable livelihood opportunities to their rural communities.

The impact of the CAMFED model is increasingly recognised as worthy of substantial support by key groups of leading philanthropists, trusts and foundations around the world. At the same time CAMFED has developed ever closer partnerships with African governments and Ministries of Education, leading to a major new focus on rolling out aspects of CAMFED’s model as a key component of national education programmes. These government partnerships pave the way for true systems change at significant scale, and further develop CAMFED’s amplifier effect.

At the same time CAMFED’s senior leadership team has undertaken a detailed and thoughtful process of considering its structure, with leadership and decision-making firmly anchored in Africa. This process has resulted in the recent appointment of Angeline Murimirwa as Chief Executive Officer of CAMFED International.

2022 was also the year in which we began to see the fruits of the CAMFED International Board evaluation and Trustee recruitment process. Our five new Trustees each contribute different skills and experience, and the entire organisation benefits immeasurably from their expertise. We have also launched a significant internal governance review, to ensure that CAMFED’s consortium-wide decision-making, communications and internal working arrangements are as effective as possible in focusing the entire organisation on meeting the needs and aspirations of the girls and young women we serve.

I consider the time I have served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of CAMFED International to be one of the greatest privileges and highlights of my professional career. I know that as I pass the baton to Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CAMFED could not be in better shape, and that she will provide thoughtful and expert support to the leadership team as they steer the organisation to ever greater heights of accomplishment and success.

Miranda Curtis CMG Chair of Trustees

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ABOUT CAMFED

CAMFED catalyses the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine — for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa.

CAMFED is a pan-African movement, revolutionising how girls’ education is delivered. Through a goldstandard system of accountability to the young people and communities we

serve, we have created a model that radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women. Our impact increases exponentially through the Association of young women educated with CAMFED’s support. Together, we multiply the number of girls in school, and accelerate their transition to secure livelihoods and leadership.

Through the CAMFED Association, women are leading action on the big challenges their countries face - from child marriage, and girls’ exclusion from education, to climate change. This unique pan-African network of teachers, lawyers, nurses, doctors, sustainable agriculture experts and entrepreneurs now numbers more than 254,000, and is growing every year as more girls complete school and join them.

Why girls’ education?

Education is a fundamental right, and a matter of justice. In the communities where we work, poverty and gender inequality mean that girls are the first to be excluded from school, and are also excluded within the school system , where learning environments lack the physical infrastructure and psychosocial support structures they need. Girls' education is also the starting point for women’s leadership — key to tackling our most pressing global challenges.

Girls’ education

Where we work

We work in partnership with communities, government schools, and education authorities in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, creating the conditions that support girls to learn, thrive and become independent and influential, leading change for the next generation.

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OUR APPROACH:

Girls’ education and women’s leadership are inextricably linked with social justice, economic development and climate action. Our approach is designed to catalyse self-propelling systemic change across these areas for generations to come.

SUPPORTING GIRLS TO ATTEND AND THRIVE IN SCHOOL

CAMFED’s goal is to support five million girls to attend and thrive in school , by leveraging the ‘Multiplier Effect’ – whereby women who have been supported by CAMFED through school provide social and economic support to the next generation of girls. To achieve this goal, CAMFED is implementing a threepronged approach:

  1. Anchor the strategy in the “Multiplier Effect” We will build the pipeline of girls who complete secondary school, join our CAMFED Association of women leaders, and together step forward as activists and leaders for girls’ education.

2. Scale the Learner Guide programme

3. Invest in Enterprise Development

ACCELERATING SYSTEMIC CHANGE AND CLIMATE ACTION

  1. By growing CAMFED Association membership to at least 280,000, we will also scale the powerful values system that propels its members and unites communities around the cause of girls’ education and women’s empowerment.

  2. By scaling the Learner Guide programme in partnership with ministries, we will transform school systems to provide an environment where the needs of marginalised girls are met.

  3. By investing in Enterprise Development, we will improve job opportunities for women. Our goal is to create at least 150,000 new jobs by 2025. Crucially, we will unlock a powerful force for effective climate action – indirectly through girls’ education, and directly through climate-smart agribusinesses run by young women contributing to increased community resilience.

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OUR OPERATING MODEL

CAMFED’s three-pronged operating model integrates operational excellence with community championship and the expertise of the CAMFED Association of women leaders educated with CAMFED support. Working together, these interdependent parts of the organisation ensure we remain accountable to each girl we support, and ensure her needs are met holistically in a way that is responsive to her specific context. As a result, CAMFED is able to deliver a resilient, highly efficient and ultimately sustainable programme that truly serves the needs of our clients, and multiplies the impact of donor investment:

The CAMFED Association

The Sisterhood of women leaders founded by former CAMFED clients, who organise and act on behalf of girls and young women in their communities, ensuring the most vulnerable are seen and served

CAMFED Champions

Members of the communities we work with, who actively champion and support the advancement of girls and young women, working hand in hand with CAMFED Association leaders to form networks of support around the most vulnerable

CAMFED Operations

The fundamental operations of CAMFED, including programme design, support systems, partnerships and governance, which are agile and responsive, ensuring continuity and innovation in times of crisis

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SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES IN 2022

“ Education is justice. Giving everybody an opportunity to go to school is justice. It tells every child that they belong, that they own their destiny, that they can shape it. ” - Angeline Murimirwa, Chief Executive Officer, CAMFED International

In the face of compounding health, economic and environmental challenges, CAMFED has continued to provide girls and young women across Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe with the support they need to thrive in school and transition into higher education, entrepreneurship and employment. We’ve announced pivotal new partnerships, and deepened our collaboration with Ministries to scale our impact. Young women graduates in the CAMFED Association have shared their expertise on global platforms, and through their activism are proving every day the power of girls’ education and women’s leadership.

It is testament to the commitment, skill, and confidence of the young women leaders of the CAMFED Association, of CAMFED Champions in the communities where we work, our teams across countries, and our steadfast partners and supporters that we are on track with the trajectory we set ourselves in 2020. In 2022 our supporter base grew by 110 new institutional and corporate donors.

This year the CAMFED Association of young women leaders grew to over a quarter of a million members across sub-Saharan Africa. The Association is the powerhouse of initiatives and capacity to support girls and young women through their educational and post-school pathways, supporting over 800,000 children in school, and over 80,000 young women through work in community Guide roles, in 2022 alone.

We made strong strides in our collaboration with governments to explore adoption of the Learner Guide programme into national education systems, securing new funding and partnerships that will accelerate our progress, and developing a digital platform that will underpin sustainability and scale.

We expanded our climate-related work, completing the development of important climate education resources to complement the My Better World curriculum, and training nearly 400 new Agriculture Guides. CAMFED Association climate activists and agriculture experts joined policy discussions at COP27.

We continued to strengthen and expand our research and advocacy partnerships, to deepen our learning about the implementation and impact of our core strategies, including examining the social return on investment associated with our post-school programmes, exploring ways to better measure improvements in girls’ agency, and understanding the financing needs of young women entrepreneurs.

We are thankful for everyone in CAMFED’s global movement who is working tirelessly to secure every child’s right to quality education. By deploying your influence, energy, expertise and generosity you’re helping to catalyse the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine — for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa.

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STRATEGY 1: THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT

Supporting girls to attend and thrive in school, join the CAMFED Association of women leaders, and support more girls in school

Girls’ education drives progress across health, democracy, equity and economic health. It is the foundation for women’s leadership, which in turn contributes to more equitable policies addressing the structural inequalities that keep girls and young women from reaching their full potential. CAMFED supports girls to access and thrive in school, and young women to become leaders in their communities and beyond. They join forces in the CAMFED Association, supporting each other to become independent and influential, and using their own resources to send more girls to school. This is the CAMFED Multiplier Effect.

SUPPORTING GIRLS TO ATTEND AND THRIVE IN SCHOOL

While governments have made significant progress in improving access and equity in primary school enrolment, this progress is not translating into successful completion of secondary education for girls; particularly those living in underserved rural communities. Girls in rural areas remain 4 to 5x less likely to have completed school than their urban counterparts: a complex array of financial, social and emotional barriers gets in the way of their ability to learn and stay in school, especially as girls reach adolescence.

CAMFED implements a comprehensive support system targeted at the most vulnerable girls, which combines financial, community, social and learning supports to address both the barriers to girls’ attendance, and the challenges that limit girls’ participation and performance in class.

Tackling the financial barriers to girls’ attendance

Costs are a major barrier to girls’ attendance - not just school fees and levies, but the costs of clothing and menstrual products to attend school regularly with dignity, and the costs of transportation or accommodation associated with distance. CAMFED provides direct financial support — ‘bursaries’ — to address these needs for marginalised girls. Bursary packages are designed to be comprehensive, to ensure a full range of girls’ needs are met and make class attendance less precarious.

SUPPORTING GIRLS TO ATTEND AND THRIVE IN SCHOOL 2022:

Through donor funds, CAMFED supported 176,731 students at 7,044 partner schools across 165 districts in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe , including by providing tailored packages of material support.

Donor funds helped us to support

44,331 students to go to primary school (33,902 girls / 10,429 boys). 132,400 students to go to secondary school (124,466 girls / 7,934 boys).

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Tapiwa, secondary student and aspiring lawyer, Malawi (video)

“ I want to remove the injustices and the biases which most women are facing…I’m dreaming of becoming a lawyer…to bring equity and equality to both men and women…I want to encourage both girls and boys to fight for their rights and work hard in education so that we may fight against the injustices together.”

Tapiwa was supported by CAMFED from Form 1 to Form 4 of secondary school. Now that she has

completed her leaving exams, she’s full of optimism about her future. Tapiwa aims to train as a lawyer and bring justice and gender equality to her community.

Vayant, secondary student and aspiring economist, Ghana (video)

“Education has really changed my life. It has helped me realise my dreams and to plan my future well. Now, I can relate well with others, regardless of their status and take up leadership roles without fear. I can also now read, write and talk confidently because I have been educated. It is my dream to become an economist in future. I would like to help solve issues relating to my economy, to aid development in my country. Through this, I can empower young women to be confident and take up leadership roles in their schools and societies.”

CAMFED has been supporting Vayant through senior high school where she has gained confidence in her abilities. Vayant wants to empower other girls and young women, and when she graduates from school wants to be an economist and give back to her community.

SUPPORTING YOUNG WOMEN TO BECOME CHANGE LEADERS

“ The power of the girl is within her, but sometimes it’s locked by the circumstances. If we want to make the world better, we must commit to investing in girls’ education and women’s leadership. When you see a girl whose power has been unlocked, she shines.” - Lydia Wilbard, CAMFED’s Executive Director: Learning & Engagement, and founding member of the CAMFED Association in Tanzania

The CAMFED Association — the Multiplier Effect

CAMFED’s “Multiplier Effect” sees young women supported through school by CAMFED in turn offer financial and social support to the next generation, and inspire and galvanise their communities to do the same.

Girls educated with CAMFED support are invited to join our pan-African Sisterhood, the CAMFED Association, where they are welcomed by young women from similar backgrounds — role models and ‘big sisters,’ who support each other and pay forward their education to benefit more vulnerable children in their communities.

Today, the CAMFED Association is Africa’s largest and fastest growing peer support and leadership network of young women activists for girls’ education. The deep knowledge and understanding of young women who have personally experienced exclusion from education means they are uniquely positioned to spearhead CAMFED’s programmes, engage with local leaders and change the status quo for future generations of girls.

GROWING OUR LEADERSHIP NETWORK

The CAMFED Association grew to 254,470 members in 2022.

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68,761 CAMFED Association members belonged to decision-making bodies in 2022.

On average, each CAMFED Association member goes on to financially support three more girls to go to school, and offers mentoring and social support to countless more.

EDUCATED YOUNG WOMEN SUPPORTING MORE VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN EDUCATION IN 2022:

Members of the CAMFED Association collectively supported 824,548 students in education.

They provided economic support for:

458,821 students to go to primary school (308,599 girls / 150,222 boys).

293,460 students to go to secondary school (219,518 girls / 73,942 boys).

72,267 young people to attend post-school education (50,450 young women / 21,817 young men).

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CAMFED Association Philanthropy

“I was thrilled to join a call celebrating with CAMFED Association sisters in Zambia who are now professionals, and donated K12,000 (more than US$600) to CAMFED. Some were in the room, some joined virtually. Their message was, ‘CAMFED, you heard us, now we want to reach out to others.’ I first met some of them as girls when I visited the first schools we supported in Zambia. Back then they were desperate just to have a single pen. Now they are sharp executives - people would never believe that they started out with nothing. This is what thrills me every day.” - Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED CEO

Galvanising Communities to Act on Behalf of Vulnerable Children

“ I decided to help CAMFED and the CAMFED Association because of the passion that I developed for CAMFED. And they have the passion to help the vulnerable children, especially the girls. We organised the community meetings with my teams. Finally, we went to see the Chief. He understood the purpose and joined hands with CAMFED and with our team at district level. ” - Tesho Pardon, District Education Board Secretary, Chinsali District, Zambia

CAMFED convenes local education stakeholders such as ministry officials, parents, CAMFED Association members and traditional leaders in committees to champion girls’ education. As the embodiment of what can be achieved when girls are supported to go to school, learn and lead, CAMFED Association members help to inspire our Community Champions into collective action. These committees take responsibility for both identifying the girls in greatest need and determining what is needed to address the barriers to their attendance and welfare in school. This governance model means that communities take responsibility for — and a deep pride in — girls’ successes, and are part of a movement creating sustainable change.

CATALYSING COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR MORE CHILDREN TO LEARN AND THRIVE

122,030 CAMFED Community Champions collectively supported 261,874 vulnerable students in education in 2022

Through community initiatives, they provided economic support for: 133,181 students to go to primary school (81,958 girls / 51,223 boys).

105,270 students to go to secondary school (68,471 girls / 36,799 boys).

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Neema, Parent Support Group Chairperson and Teacher, Tanzania

“We would like to advise everyone in the community to support children and ensure their dreams are met regardless of poverty. Special thanks to CAMFED and all the people who support our efforts and our work. Our commitment to support marginalised students will continue forever.”

Neema, a professional teacher, joined the Parent Support Group at her local school after discovering the challenges some students were facing due to poverty, HIV/AIDS and other issues. Together, members of the Parent Support Group raise funds to provide essential school-going items, sew school uniforms, and encourage vulnerable students at the school. The group runs a day-care centre for pre-school children, employing a CAMFED Association member who is qualified in Early Childhood Education, and uses the profits to provide more children with school essentials.

Social support and safe schools

Girls’ education isn’t just about access to school. It’s about equity. That means ensuring that the school environment is safe and conducive to learning; and that those most marginalised receive the individualised support and attention they need to thrive in the classroom and beyond.

CAMFED works in partnership with District Education Committees, schools, teachers and parents to support girls to go to school, and provide a nurturing ecosystem for them to learn and progress, breaking down the barriers that push girls out of education. This support includes grants to schools for school infrastructure, including dormitories and WASH to support girls’ attendance and wellbeing. CAMFED also trains government teachers as Teacher Mentors, to provide counselling and psychosocial support to vulnerable students and act as a focal point for the reporting of child protection concerns and strengthening of child protection systems within schools.

Mrs Fortunate Matikiti, Teacher Mentor at a secondary school, Zimbabwe

“I support these learners not because I earn a lot, but because I love and admire charity work. I give them economic support, social support and emotional support. I am very proud of being a Teacher Mentor at my school. I love my work; I love charity work.”

Mrs Matikiti has been a CAMFED Teacher Mentor since 2017 and is passionate about and committed to promoting girls’ education. She provides vulnerable students with psychosocial support and encouragement, and has gone the extra mile to provide six girls, including some from child-headed families, with direct financial support and lodging in her own home. Mrs Matikiti is extremely proud of these students, two of whom have passed their school leaving exams with high grades and are aiming to go to university.

Mr Agbeko, Teacher Mentor at a secondary school, Ghana

“Education is important for every nation because without education, no nation can develop, especially education of the girl child. When you educate a man, you educate an individual. But when you educate a woman you educate a whole nation. So for me, getting a girl child [into education] is very important and very crucial to every country.”

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Mr Agbeko trained as a Teacher Mentor when he saw that girls in his school in Northern Ghana needed additional support. He was keen to gain skills in guidance and counselling in order to better support them. Now, Mr Agbeko works closely in collaboration with Learner Guide Mariam, helping vulnerable students to learn effectively in class. He is also a disability advocate, helping to raise awareness — both in school and with parents and guardians — of the benefits of education for all students.

The impact of our support on girls’ success and wellbeing

A survey of our programme in Zimbabwe found that 97% of learners receiving financial support felt they could concentrate on their studies without being worried, while 98% agreed they felt happier and more confident because of CAMFED support.

A study to assess the value of school dormitories found that 100% of Teacher Mentors were positive about the impact that boarding facilities had on learners not dropping out, their ability to study and do homework, and students' attendance.

As part of an evaluation into our primary school programme in Malawi, over 90% of students surveyed reported that they knew who to turn to in order to report cases of abuse, and subsequently identified a relevant school or community stakeholder, such as a Teacher Mentor.

As part of CAMFED’s work in Zimbabwe to strengthen the support received by Teacher Mentors themselves, 90% of teachers surveyed said that they now felt supported in the work that they do - both in terms of adequate training materials and space to undertake their work, and in personal development and supervision.

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STRATEGY 2: THE LEARNER GUIDE

A pivotal role in schools to enable all children to learn and thrive, with a focus on girls

“ The Learner Guide at my school helped me so much by listening to any problems I had in school or at home and by inspiring me to dream big and imagine a brighter future. I enjoyed participating in her sessions, which empowered us with tools to navigate life’s challenges and manage our emotions. I grew in confidence and developed leadership qualities including empathy, tolerance, optimism and a desire to uplift others.” - Faiza, secondary student, Ghana

TRANSFORMING PROSPECTS FOR GIRLS, YOUNG WOMEN, AND COMMUNITIES

Learner Guides are recent female school graduates who volunteer for 18-24 months in their local schools to identify children who are vulnerable to drop-out; mentor at-risk girls through their school career; and deliver a structured life skills and self-development curriculum called My Better World , co-developed with children and young women. Learner Guides provide a vital school-home link in a context in which most teachers are from outside the local area, and they connect vulnerable children to additional support from school staff, the community and local services (education, health, social welfare).

At the same time as supporting girls through school, the Learner Guide role also offers young people a structured pathway to further education and employment. In addition to the training and mentoring they receive, Learner Guides are eligible for an accredited BTEC (Business and Technology Education Council) qualification recognized by employers and teacher training institutions. This means that, in turn, the role creates a pipeline of trained teachers, professionals, entrepreneurs and policy leaders who are attuned and able to respond to the needs of marginalised young people. In exchange for volunteering weekly at local schools, young women can also access interest-free loans to start or grow their businesses, on the basis that they are paying “social interest” as role models and mentors. This supports young women to improve their ability to earn an income through running their own enterprises, while increasing their employability and leadership skills.

Through this holistic package of support, young women can simultaneously develop the skills they need to fulfil their role as Learner Guides and access the tools they need to make a successful transition into secure livelihoods.

Tatu, Learner Guide and BTEC graduate, Tanzania

“Learner Guides are game changers because we empower students with life skills and work with community stakeholders to ensure vulnerable girls stay in school.”

Tatu grew up in a big family, where her home life was made really challenging due to poverty. With the financial and emotional support she received from CAMFED, she graduated secondary school in 2011 and went on to join the CAMFED Association. In 2014, Tatu trained as a Learner Guide, volunteering back in her former secondary school as a mentor and role model to marginalised students. Later, she took up the opportunity offered to CAMFED Guides to work towards a BTEC Level 3 Advanced Diploma - an internationally recognized vocational qualification. Tatu’s work was assessed by Madam Lilian, a CAMFED Teacher Mentor, who was impressed, particularly with the classroom observations. Earning the BTEC certificate has helped Tatu add valuable experience to her CV and stand out from other applicants in the job market. In 2022, she successfully applied for a record-keeping position, and today, is a permanent employee at Kondoa District Council as a District Record Keeping Officer.

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CAMFED designed the Learner Guide role in collaboration with Ministries of Education, teachers, local communities and young people, and created the My Better World self-development curriculum with young people in Africa alongside international teacher training and curriculum development experts. Sessions run by Learner Guides are now formally timetabled in the majority of our partner schools, and the role is an established and respected part of school communities. My Better World has since been developed into a multimedia series by partner Impact(Ed) International and broadcast on TV and radio across sub-Saharan Africa, reaching more than 200 million people.

THE LEARNER GUIDE PROGRAMME

14,114 Learner Guides were active in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2022.

939,455 students were reached by Learner Guide activities in 4,247 partner schools in 2022. 5,103 Learner Guides were newly trained in 2022, with 22,550 trained cumulatively.

Mariam, Learner Guide, Ghana, Photo

“The main challenge of the students is their lack of confidence in class. When it comes to talking in class, they don't want to talk because they fear making mistakes. So because of that, we create groups for them to study and do presentations. Their confidence level has really changed and they can now boldly speak anywhere they find themselves. This has really improved their academic performance. The My Better World programme has also benefited the students in so many ways, such as being able to make decisions on their own. They're able to express themselves very well, and they are also able to set goals for themselves.”

Mariam, who was supported by CAMFED through secondary school, returned to school to volunteer as a Learner Guide and deliver sessions using My Better World - our bespoke life skills and wellbeing curriculum. She has been an invaluable mentor for student Sussana, who is affected by a disability and was struggling to participate in class due to lack of confidence and difficulties communicating. Through Mariam’s mentorship, Sussana is now participating in class, and is included in classroom activities. Mariam has even visited her and checked up on her at home.

Sussana, student supported by Learner Guide Mariam, Ghana

“I first met sister Mariam in 2021. She’s bold, confident, and she cares about everyone. I feel free to talk to her about my personal problems outside the class. My favourite thing in My Better World is the 37 powers, and powers simply means your inner strengths. My Better World has helped me by endeavouring me to set up my specific goals. Prior to CAMFED support, I thought I would have dropped out from school. But now my dream of becoming an art teacher is becoming reality.”

Sussana, a student in Yendi, Ghana was on the verge of dropping out from school before CAMFED stepped in to support her. Through CAMFED she received access to physical support sessions, groceries, menstrual products, and other school-going materials to help her remain in school, alongside counselling from a Teacher Mentor and mentorship from Learner Guide, Mariam. Mariam has helped build Sussana’s self-esteem and ensure she has the confidence to participate fully in lessons. Now Sussana is in her final year of senior high school, specialising in visual arts, and in future aims to train as an art teacher.

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Delivering the My Better World self-development and life skills curriculum

In delivering the My Better World curriculum, Learner Guides are in the unique position to help vulnerable children recognise and grow their wellbeing and deeper learning skills. The curriculum — centred around a fun, illustrated workbook with relatable examples and real-life stories — is designed to improve students’ confidence, resilience, self-reflection, and autonomy. It encourages children to hone their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and become more aware of their rights, responsibilities, and values, as they engage in group work and lead presentations. The curriculum is tailored to local needs, including life skills, sexual and reproductive health, literacy and study skills. To date, Learner Guides have reached over two million children (girls and boys) with regular curriculum sessions, and participation in the programme has been linked to improved academic learning outcomes, lower drop-out rates, and greater agency for all students, especially marginalised girls. In 2022, a study in Malawi linked participation in the programme to higher academic-self esteem, and in Zimbabwe 97% of students felt they would do better in their school exams as a result of participating.

MY BETTER WORLD MULTIMEDIA SERIES WINS INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD

In December 2022, the My Better World television series won an International Emmy in the Kids: Factual & Entertainment category. The multimedia series, which follows the adventures of six African teenagers discovering their power to navigate life’s big challenges, was produced by our partner Impact(Ed) International with Fundi Films and MAAN Creative, working with young people and educators in five African countries. It is based around the themes of CAMFED’s My Better World curriculum.

CAMFED colleagues in Tanzania, Ghana and the UK worked closely with the production teams to advise on style, guide character development, host script workshops with students, review storylines, and more. The resulting 55 My Better World episodes combine animation with short documentaries, some of which feature Learner Guides, CAMFED Association members and girls supported to go to school by CAMFED.

POST-SECONDARY QUALIFICATIONS FOR LEARNER GUIDES: A STEPPING STONE TO FURTHER EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

233 CAMFED Association Guides earned a post-secondary qualification in 2022 ( Pearson SRF BTEC Level 3 Advanced Diploma) after participating in the Learner Guide programme, bringing the cumulative total to 5,263 .

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DEVELOPING THE LEARNER GUIDE DIGITAL HUB

The Learner Guide Hub is a bespoke digital platform designed to provide ready access to training curricula and resources, interactive learning content, online reporting by Learner Guides, and opportunities for networking and peer support. It is a key enabler of CAMFED’s strategy to scale the Learner Guide programme - by opening up online access to resources and support, it will improve the scope and speed of support we can provide to Learner Guides, and allow us to scale recruitment and training cost-effectively. Prototype testing took place in mid-2022 following a user-centric design and development process anchored by a committee of Learner Guides, Core Trainers, and CAMFED Association technology experts, with the launch of the initial pilot product to the first 500 users scheduled for early 2023.

The Hub is designed to ensure seamless online/offline usage - critical in rural contexts where power and connectivity are challenges - and is built as a progressive web app, to provide accessibility across different device types. It links directly to our programme database to facilitate simpler reporting by Guides, and to more readily allow them to track their impact. The Hub architecture is intentionally extensible, to ensure that, once it is fully rolled out to Learner Guides, similar support to other Guide roles as well as the wider CAMFED Association can be easily built in.

INTEGRATING THE LEARNER GUIDE ROLE INTO EDUCATION SYSTEMS - WORKING WITH MINISTRIES TOWARDS SYSTEMIC CHANGE

“This is a sustainable strategy and the biggest way of influencing for positive change through knowledge sharing, and shaping attitudes and practices that make communities better places for all.” - Douglas Siakalima, Minister of Education, Zambia, speaking at CAMFED Zambia’s AGM

There is growing global recognition of the power of girls’ education in driving progress on development outcomes, and governments across sub-Saharan Africa are increasing commitment to addressing these issues. The disruption to schooling caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in education access and success, especially for the most marginalised girls - but in doing so, has also brought these issues to the fore. This presents us with an important window of opportunity, to bring our experience and evidence of ‘what works’ to help vulnerable girls to thrive in school to drive change at the national level, and embed best practices in education systems to orient them to the needs of the most marginalised.

To this end, during 2022 we continued to grow our collaboration with relevant Ministries - including those focused on education, youth, and gender - to explore conditions for broader take-up of components of the Learner Guide programme within education systems. With the support of a Design Grant from Co-Impact, and in collaboration with key government and other stakeholders, we developed a strategy for embedding the Learner Guide role in secondary school systems in Tanzania and Zambia, as a catalyst for the orientation of those systems towards the needs of the most marginalised. Our ambition is that within 5-7 years, the Learner Guide role will be embedded in national systems in Tanzania and Zambia, with a significant proportion of the young women who volunteer in the role graduating to take up places in teacher training and being deployed as qualified teachers with a nuanced understanding of what it takes to get marginalised girls through school. We were pleased to be awarded a seven-year grant from Co-Impact’s Foundational Fund towards this ambition.

We have established National Advisory councils in each country, which draw together senior government decision-makers across a variety of relevant Ministries, including those focused on education, youth, gender and labour, as well as representatives from national education bodies (e.g. teacher training institutions and

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exam boards). They advise on entry points for system integration of the Learner Guide role, and champion the wider roll-out of the programme.

Core elements of the Learner Guide programme are already integrated into school systems across our partner countries, including the formal timetabling of Learner Guide sessions in partner schools, approval of the My Better World curriculum for use in classrooms, and the training of teachers and education officials as assessors for the BTEC qualification open to Learner Guides. In Tanzania and Zambia, where our strategy is most advanced, recognition and support for the model continued to grow at pace in 2022:

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STRATEGY 3: ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

Enabling young women who complete school to transition to pathways of opportunity

"I'm super proud of my business because of the impact it's making in the lives of rural women in Ghana. My organic shea butter enterprise is supporting local shea producers, creating employment opportunities for the youth and empowering women economically. The business is geared towards reducing poverty, reducing hunger, and also promoting quality education....My profits are used to provide menstrual products for the less privileged and also educational materials for orphans and the needy." - Portia, Entrepreneur, CAMFED Association Ghana

For young women in rural Africa, the exhilaration of completing secondary school is fleeting, as they are faced with new obstacles ahead. Eager to support family members — which may include a single parent or grandparent, an older sibling they have previously relied on, or younger siblings of school-going age — the pressure can be considerable. At this vital period of transition, young women remain at risk of exploitation and early marriage, as they seek financial security in areas with high unemployment, vulnerabilities that have been exacerbated by the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. CAMFED’s enterprise programmes support young women to lift themselves and their families out of poverty, contributing to jobs and prosperity in their communities, and enabling them to support their own, as well as other children, to go to school.

SUPPORTING YOUNG WOMEN TO TRANSITION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS

Our programmes are designed and delivered in partnership with the young women of the CAMFED Association: they have identified the critical barriers young women face after graduation, and we have worked together to develop a set of interventions to help them navigate these barriers and provide the support they need to build independent and successful lives. These include:

Support in the transition out of school

Building on the proven model of the Learner Guide programme, CAMFED trains young women with a few years’ post-school experience as Transition Guides . They step in as girls approach secondary school graduation, providing mentoring and skills support, and delivering a curriculum that combines financial literacy and the basics of running a business with key sexual and reproductive health information, career guidance and access to seed finance (small business practice grants). This support is delivered over a period of around six months to a year, and is designed to help bridge the gap between leaving school and a secure livelihood: nearly 85,000 young women benefited from it this year.

THE TRANSITION GUIDE PROGRAMME IN 2022

3,936 Transition Guides were active in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2022.

86,122 young women were supported by Transition Guides in 2022, with 254,042 supported cumulatively.

948 Transition Guides were newly trained in 2022, with 12,081 trained cumulatively.

Support for enterprise development

Further extending the Guide model to support young women to develop and grow local businesses, with a particular focus on climate-smart agribusiness. Agriculture Guides and Business Guides are women who have developed successful enterprises and become mentors to those who are starting out, facilitating connections to markets, collaborating to achieve supply chain efficiency, including through establishing collectives, and providing context-specific technical training, know-how and support. Agriculture Guides have

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a particular focus on community climate resilience, helping others to develop thriving agricultural enterprises to improve food security at family, school and community level. CAMFED additionally connects young women, who are usually unbanked and lack assets to secure loans, with business financing opportunities , providing access to loan capital via partnership with Kiva, and through the recently established Revolving Investment Fund.

BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN 2022

36,297 young women started a business .

55,084 businesses were supported by Business Guides and Climate-smart Agriculture Guides .

2,182 loans were provided to entrepreneurs, with a total value of $780,122.

Support for further education and professional career development

CAMFED also identifies opportunities for young women to pursue further education, whether this is technical, vocational, or degree level. This includes sharing information on options, assisting with applications, and facilitating access to financial support, either through direct funding, via partnerships, or through making connections to opportunities, such as government loan schemes, from which marginalised young women may previously have been excluded. Young women are accessing further education opportunities in a variety of sectors including where there is significant need in rural communities, including education, agriculture, and health - for example, 778 CAMFED Association members were supported to access midwifery and nursing courses in Tanzania and Ghana in 2022, responding to gaps in provision of adequate maternal healthcare.

Happiness, Business Guide, Zimbabwe

“I’m encouraging other young women in my community to consider Information Technology as a career and learn skills in that area. Young girls always get inspired when I tell them my story, so I ask them to come to the shop and see what I do. Although my bigger impact is to come, already I am an inspiration.”

CAMFED Association member and entrepreneur Happiness set up her mobile phone repairs and accessories business in 2017, after noticing a demand in her community for technology-related services. She used a loan from CAMFED of US$4,800 to diversify into solar power and batteries and to open a second shop. In 2022, Happiness’ business went from strength to strength, as she saw her profits more than double. Determined to ensure that more children in her community stay in school, she uses the profits from her business to support six students with school fees, stationery, and menstrual products.

Happiness’ reputation in her community as a successful entrepreneur in a typically male-dominated field is testament to her drive and passion for business and technology. As a Business Guide, Happiness unlocks the power in other young women in the CAMFED Association, helping them to develop their entrepreneurial and IT skills.

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Needmore, Business Guide, Zimbabwe

“I am a Business Guide, working to expand my own businesses of rearing broiler chickens and selling baked goods. With access to a loan from CAMFED, I have been able to expand and increase my profits. I’m dreaming of growing big!”

As a Business Guide, Needmore provides advice and training to other aspiring young women entrepreneurs in her community in Zimbabwe. Needmore’s financial knowledge and business skills have enabled her to strengthen her business and diversify into different markets, and now she is excited to help other young women do the same.

Faudhiati, Revolving Investment Fund Loan Recipient, Tanzania

“I urge CAMFED to continue to provide support to marginalised girls like me to make their dreams a reality through education and economic empowerment.”

CAMFED Association member Faudhiati is an entrepreneur who launched a bakery business in 2022 with a TZS 2 million (around US$850) loan from the Revolving Investment Fund, and has since trained 15 other young women to run bakery businesses. She is also a Learner Guide, and has directly helped six girls who had dropped out of school to continue their education.

Olivia, CAMFED Association entrepreneur, Ghana

“ Through my business, I am creating employment for 25 women in my community and supporting 35 children with books and other learning materials to help keep them in school.”

CAMFED supported Olivia, who was determined to lift herself and her community out of poverty after graduation, in senior high school and university. Wanting to create local job opportunities and tackle urban migration in her area, she started Kobaa Farms—an organic vegetable farm enterprise. Olivia uses sustainable technologies to solve productivity challenges and food insecurity in her community, providing a source of fresh and affordable vegetables all year round.

Having recently expanded her business even further into organic waste management, Olivia is proud to support members of her community through employment opportunities and with her profits, and is well on her way to achieving her dream of having one of the most successful vegetable farms in Upper West Ghana.

Transformative impact on young women’s livelihoods

Data from business tracking surveys conducted in Tanzania in November 2022, with 1,327 entrepreneurs selected randomly from the 19,000 so far reached by Business Guides, found powerful impact despite a challenging macroeconomic context, high inflation and drought over the recent period:

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Climate-smart Agriculture Guides: A growing need

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events reinforces the critical importance of embedding climate resilience across all of our work. CAMFED Association Agriculture Guides are at the forefront for this, and in 2022 we trained 389 new Guides, doubling the team. Results from a survey conducted with over 2,000 CAMFED Association members running agricultural businesses in Zambia and Zimbabwe reinforce the need for targeted support, and revealed young women’s priorities:

Juliana, Nursing Officer and entrepreneur, Ghana

“ Because I am a CAMFED Association member, I believe in the power of giving back to my society. I always educate school children on courses they can take to help them become good nurses and the professionals they want to be. After introducing myself to them as a Nursing Officer, a lot of them always get inspired to become nurses in the future just like me.”

As smallholder farmers, Juliana’s parents struggled to provide school essentials for her and her six other siblings. With CAMFED support, Juliana excelled in high school and after graduation, won admission to Central University to study Nursing. She found employment as a Nursing Officer at the Baptist Medical Centre at Nalerigu and was soon able to put her resourcefulness and medical training into action when, while travelling on a bus, a fellow passenger’s waters broke. In spite of not having been trained as a midwife, Juliana used her medical knowledge to deliver the baby by the side of the road, ensuring both mother and baby were safe and proving that girls’ education really does save lives. In addition to her nursing achievements, she has founded a shea butter processing enterprise, and today works with more than 100 women in Nalerigu and its neighbouring villages employing them in shea butter production. Juliana is an inspiration to many in her community, encouraging girls to be confident in their abilities and follow their ambitions to study science and health related courses.

Rebecca, Medical student at Kamuzu University of Health Science, Malawi

“ Just like a river that never flows back, I keep on aiming high and focusing on my dream of becoming a neurosurgeon.”

When Rebecca’s parents were unable to meet the costs of her secondary schooling, CAMFED stepped in to support her with fees and school necessities. Rebecca excelled academically, graduated secondary school with very high grades, and secured a place to study for a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Kamuzu University of Health Science, Malawi. CAMFED supported Rebecca with tuition fees, a stipend for living

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costs, and a laptop for her studies. Committed to giving back to her community, Rebecca reaches out to students across six primary and secondary schools to deliver motivational talks. With her fellow CAMFED Association sisters, she has also provided disadvantaged school students with donations of exercise books and pens. Rebecca recalls that when she was in secondary school, her parents would call her ‘Dr. Rebecca’, to encourage her to dream big - now she is on the way to making this a reality.

Caroline, Nursing and Midwifery student at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi

“My life is improving every day!”

Caroline from Mchinji district, Malawi was supported through secondary school by CAMFED when her parents could no longer afford the fees. After graduating from secondary school with high grades and a determination to help others, Caroline secured a place to study Nursing and Midwifery at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences under our partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. Caroline received everything she needed to thrive at university, including tuition fees, accommodation, study materials, and a laptop. When Caroline completes her degree, she hopes to return to Mchinji district and work to reduce the high maternal death rate. Already Caroline is an inspiration to many, and during her vacations speaks to girls in her village, motivating them to study hard and reach their dreams.

FURTHER EDUCATION SUPPORT IN 2022

7,153 young women were supported in tertiary/further education in 2022, with 20,342 supported to date.

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CLIMATE EDUCATION

The importance of education for improving climate resilience is well-documented: among lower-income countries, higher rates of girls’ education correlate with lower rates of injury and death in climate-weather disasters. Education protects girls and women from the gendered risk to life from extreme weather events because it equips them with critical thinking skills and resources. Quality education also equips young women with the skills they need to respond and adapt in a climate-impacted world; with climate adaptation and resilience being critical. It also has a mitigating effect to avert future carbon emissions - preparing young women to maximise green jobs opportunities and build a thriving, sustainable future for themselves, their families and communities.

CAMFED has innovated to integrate climate education within our tried-and-tested model of support to girls in school, resulting in an approach that combines social and economic support for the most marginalised girls to thrive in school with a whole-class approach for broad skills development and climate resilience. Over the last period we have worked with a broad team of stakeholders and experts, including CAMFED Association members, representatives of national ministries of agriculture and education, national education and climate experts, and educational consultants, to design and develop new, context-specific and curriculum-aligned climate education content. This content has been developed to complement the My Better World curriculum already delivered in schools by Learner Guides, and to be integrated into Learner Guide delivery with the support of locally based Agriculture Guides.

The content development followed an intensive needs assessment in early 2022, conducted with children, teachers and young women, including Learner and Agriculture Guides, in partnership with Ministry of Education partners in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The assessment sought to understand what children already know - and are taught - about climate change, how it is affecting their lives, and their priorities for learning, as well as the information and resources teachers and Guides need to increase their support. Findings informed the four focal areas for our climate education approach:

The completed resources are now being trialled with young people and CAMFED Association Guides in Zambia and Zimbabwe; resulting feedback will be incorporated into the resources prior to seeking final approval from Ministries of Education to roll out the approach across schools during 2023.

Mary, CAMFED Association member and Sustainable Agriculture expert, Zimbabwe

“ l have noted with concern that women and children are hardest hit by climate change. That’s why I support vulnerable rural residents to build resilience in the face of the global climate change emergency - by sharing knowledge and strategies on how to address the impacts we face in rural Zimbabwe.”

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Mary, a CAMFED Association member in Zimbabwe, noticed with concern how her community— particularly women and vulnerable families— has been increasingly impacted by extreme weather events and changes in weather patterns. She decided to train as a CAMFED Agriculture Guide in order to learn skills to help farmers and small business owners adapt. Mary now trains other young women with agribusinesses on how to successfully continue to run their businesses and make profit, despite the climate challenges. She has worked across 29 districts in Zimbabwe as well as in Malawi and Zambia, helping individuals and families adapt and build climate resilience.

In 2022 alone, Mary reached 3,000 young women in Nyanga District, Zimbabwe with climate smart farming knowledge, in addition to 300 agricultural workers and 200 schools in Zimbabwe. Together with other CAMFED Association Guides, she has partnered with Education and Agriculture ministry stakeholders to cascade her knowledge even further. Mary is a proud agri-business owner herself, farming potato, maize, and beans to supply both her local community and national buyers, in addition to selling goat and cows’ milk.

EVALUATIONS AND RESEARCH

“We feel privileged and excited to work with CAMFED and be part of a scaling journey of the Learner Guide programme by supporting the generation of evidence on how to adapt and scale the programme at a national level in equitable and sustainable ways. We believe that the generated evidence will support both CAMFED, and the governments with which they are engaged, in deciding how to go about scaling the impact of the programme and ultimately improving education access and quality for marginalised girls. The information gained can also be useful to other collaborations among NGO, government and donor partners seeking to scale promising education innovations.” -Tricia Wind, KIX Programme Leader, International Development Research Centre

RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

CAMFED’s learning culture is anchored in accountability to the constituency we serve: girls and young women. Our approach to learning, measurement and evaluation is grounded in strong data platforms, powered by local stakeholder engagement and deepened through our research partnerships.

Exploring routes to scaling the Learner Guide programme

CAMFED’s long term partnership with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge is centred around our mutual commitment to gender equality in and through education. Supported by the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) programme, a joint endeavour with the International Development Research Centre, Canada, CAMFED and the REAL Centre have been working together under the leadership of the University of Dar es Salaam and alongside Altamont Group to understand possible modalities for scaling up CAMFED’s transformative Learner Guide programme into the national education systems of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. One element of the research examines the implementation of a government-led adaptation of the Learner Guide model in Tanzania and compares this to the CAMFED-led model in terms of student outcomes. A second element of the research has been the creation of policy briefs to examine opportunities within existing government policies and practices for scaling the Learner Guide model within the education systems of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Both the results of the pilot and the policy briefs will be shared with government, communities, and with NGO and donor partners in 2023.

Examining the process of unlocking girls’ potential

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The CAMFED-REAL Centre partnership has led to further collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam on a new research project, funded by the Allan and Gill Gray Philanthropies, to identify if and how the Learner Guide programme is altering gender norms and the balance of power within schools and communities where it is active. The research, being conducted in Tanzania, aims to identify what unlocks, complements and grows the capacity of young women who volunteer as Learner Guides to act as agents of change — looking at programme elements such as training, mentoring, community support and young women’s access to capital to grow financial independence.

Supporting girls and young women to grow their self-esteem and agency is at the core of CAMFED’s work, making it a priority to find the most effective ways to measure how this change takes place. CAMFED has entered a new partnership with AMPLIFY Girls, a collective of community-driven organisations collaborating to unleash the power and potential of adolescent girls. Through a collaborative funding partnership, led by Echidna Giving, AMPLIFY Girls has developed a new approach to measuring agency that takes account of local contexts and the specific needs of adolescent girls, and CAMFED is working with them to test and adapt the tool in Malawi and Zambia, with the ambition of using the tool to measure agency outcomes across our programme.

Quantifying the impact of enterprise support on the Multiplier Effect.

Building on the cost effectiveness study of CAMFED’s school-going programme, CAMFED is collaborating with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to design and deliver a research strategy to evaluate the social return on investment and cost effectiveness of CAMFED’s enterprise support programme. The first phase of the collaboration has focussed on developing the methodology, and our plan is that this will be followed by a three- year research initiative running from 2024-2026. The research agenda will evaluate the business, philanthropy, health and social outcomes being achieved by entrepreneurs supported through our programme and assess the cost-effectiveness of CAMFED’s intervention.

CAMFED also commissioned research to further explore and understand the particular role of loan finance for CAMFED Association entrepreneurs in Malawi and Ghana. Researchers met with CAMFED Association members to explore the role of loan finance in their business success and to examine the effectiveness of CAMFED’s ‘social interest’ model - where in lieu of financial interest, borrowers undertake ‘social interest’ repayment activities, such as mentoring, community outreach or philanthropy. The research found that the social interest commitment was a key attraction of the loan package, alongside the opportunity to drive wider community benefit: “The social interest is best as it also helps to develop our communities,” a CAMFED Association borrower in Malawi explained.

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ADVOCACY AND INFLUENCE

CAMFED builds strong advocacy and communications partnerships to extend and accelerate our influence and impact, leveraging the expertise of 254,000 graduates and change leaders in our CAMFED Association. We partner with communities, schools and education authorities, sharing replicable models and best practice with government Ministries. We join forces with strategic partners like the UN Girls’ Education Initiative, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Devex, the Yidan Prize Foundation, and the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance to hold events, seminars and advocacy campaigns, underpinned by research from leading academic partners like the Research for Equitable Access to Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge and the University of Dar es Salaam. And we mobilise the public through awareness and movement building via news media, social media, influential champions, and corporate partners’ causerelated marketing campaigns - showing how girls’ education drives gender equality, social justice, economic development and climate action.

NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVOCACY

CAMFED Tanzania has continued to collaborate with the government and other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on the newly introduced re-entry policy for out of school students, including through a joint caucus meeting held through the Tanzania Education Network (TEN/MET) in March, which explored practical options for supporting returning students. CAMFED Tanzania was also the only CSO invited to a strategic meeting between the World Bank Vice President for Africa, Dr Hafez Ghanem, the Minister of Education, Professor Joyce Ndalichako, and other senior government ministers, which focused on solutions to the issue of pregnant girls’ return to school. Following the meeting the World Bank agreed to re-commit $500 million in support of Tanzania’s new five-year Secondary Education Quality Improvement Programme (SEQUIP), with 50% of the resources devoted to girls and $50 million ring-fenced for support to girls to re-enrol and finish school after giving birth. Engagement and advocacy have also focussed specifically on the scaling and mainstreaming of CAMFED’s Learner Guide model and the promotion of life skills and youth engagement in schools.

CAMFED Tanzania, through our membership of TEN/MET, supported the organisation of the International Quality Education Conference in Dar es Salaam in August. Barbara Chilangwa, CAMFED Executive Advisor Government Relations, represented CAMFED on the panel, discussing the role of youth in education and sharing CAMFED’s youth-led interventions. CAMFED Tanzania has also provided input on the government life skills guidelines for out-of-school youth, championing issues of gender inclusion. CAMFED was invited by MoEST to draft an agreement for implementation of the Learner Guide programme between CAMFED and MoEST, detailing the respective roles and responsibilities of both parties, and facilitated a regional advisory meeting in November for key stakeholders — including government officials and researchers from Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe — to discuss specifically how the Learner Guide model might be integrated into the education systems in all three countries.

Agnes, CAMFED Association member, author, and District Programme Coordinator, Tanzania, photo

“I hope to see that no girl is left behind, especially because of poverty. As a community we should work together, making sure a girl is educated and empowered because the effects of leaving her behind is unbearable. I am a leader to myself, to my family, and to my community as well. I am a leader who wants to see the world as a better place for everyone living in this universe. I want to be a national and international influential and public woman figure who has touched millions of lives through my passions and career.”

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Agnes Mgoji is a CAMFED Association member and author of multiple books in both English and Swahili. She draws on her own life experience of poverty and hardship growing up in Tanzania in a single parent household, often missing school to help her mother at work. Through her writing, Agnes aims to inspire the next generation of young African women leaders, as well as provide herself with an income. The launch of her latest book “Malkia wa uzuri” (Beauty Queen), held in Dar es Salaam in November 2022 to coincide with 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, was attended by community leaders and local school children. Agnes then also presented a copy of her book to the Hon. Dr Dorothy Onesphoro Gwajima, Minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Seniors and Children. Agnes plans to write more stories that touch people's lives and reflect on women’s progress and agency. She is a firm believer that education and supporting young people’s development is the best route to eradicating abuse and discrimination.

CAMFED Zambia has continued to advocate for improved quality of education, particularly for rural girls, in the context of the free education policy which came into effect at the beginning of 2022. This includes continuing to work directly with the Ministry of Education in the strengthening of the Re-Entry Policy, to help more girls return to school after pregnancy. In preparation for Zambia’s participation in the United Nations General Assembly Transforming Education Summit in September 2023, CAMFED Zambia has also continued to lobby the government on a number of other policies to improve education, including the development of a mentorship programme for children, the provision of additional support for those with special educational needs, and establishing a Directorate for Guidance and Counselling in recognition of the mental health needs of learners. CAMFED is also forging new partnerships to support our programme post school, and is currently in the process of drafting a new MoU with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries to support collaboration on the Agriculture Guide programme.

Lisa, CAMFED Association member and policy expert, Zambia

“What I am learning will give me an opportunity to enact real change in policies and in the programs developed to serve the public... I am going to continue supporting girls’ education by spreading awareness and lobbying for a change of mindsets in our communities.”

Lisa almost dropped out of education due to lack of funds, until CAMFED stepped in to support her through secondary school and later university, where she chose to pursue a degree in Public Administration. Lisa got her first real taste of enacting policy when she entered the People’s Budget Competition 2022, which was organised by The Centre for Trade Policy and Development and broadcast on national television in its later stages. During the competition she made speeches advocating for girls’ education and gender equality. Lisa set out her priorities for remodelling Zambia into a middle income country, including through a 20% increase to the education budget to help build 120 schools, recruit teachers, build teacher accommodation, and provide quality education. She also prioritised renewable energy, healthcare and agriculture. Lisa’s persuasive final remarks led her to triumph over two other finalists and hundreds of competition entrants, winning a prize of ZK8,000 Zambian Kwacha (about US$500).

CAMFED Malawi met with the UK Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford, on her visit to Malawi in April 2022 — the only NGO invited to participate. A CAMFED Learner Guide and two girls receiving from school-going support CAMFED joined the British High Commissioner David Beer, Malawi’s Minister of Education Agness Nyalonje, and the Minister of Homeland Security Jean Sendeza in discussions around the core challenges girls in rural schools face and the impact of interventions to enable them to complete their education. The girls also

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outlined the effects of Cyclone Ana, which hit Malawi in January 2022, and the wider consequences of climate change on their communities and education provision. CAMFED Malawi was also invited by the Ministry of Education to lead the development of national Child Protection Guidelines through community consultation and partnership with UNICEF. The Ministry of Education now plans to roll out the guidelines across all Malawi primary schools to improve welfare and safety for all children across the country.

Racheal, CAMFED Association member, Nurse and Second Lieutenant, Malawi

“ I’m very proud of myself because I’ve managed to get a nursing degree, I’ve managed to reach this far, to join the Malawi Defence Force. I’ve managed to help my siblings with school fees. I take myself as a hard worker and most resilient young woman. It’s something that my fellow young women admire about me.”

CAMFED stepped in to support Racheal when she was on the verge of dropping out of secondary school, providing her with school fees, uniform, stationery and menstrual products so she could continue her studies. She graduated and successfully trained as a nurse at Kamuzu College of Nursing in 2019. Racheal is an advocate for the rights of women and girls, sharing sexual and reproductive health information with both patients and girls in her community. Alongside her profession, she is a second lieutenant in the and proudly represented her platoon during Poppy Week — a week to commemorate those who fought in World War One and World War Two — where she met President Lazarus Chakwera. Racheal is an active member of the CAMFED Association, rallying her community to support more children through school. Committed to paying forward the benefits of her education, she has paid for another student nurse to attend Kamuzu College of Nursing, as well as supporting her siblings with school fees.

CAMFED Ghana regularly collaborates with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Girls’ Education Network to influence and shape girls’ education policy and programming at organisational and national levels, including contributions to the government’s draft Gender in Education Policy in 2022, which seeks to mainstream gender equality at all levels of education in Ghana. CAMFED Ghana also collaborated with the GES to organise a workshop for Senior High School Guidance and Counselling Coordinators in two main regions in Ghana to support their delivery of mentorship, career guidance, and related services to in-school youth; the decision to hold this workshop was based on the GES’s acknowledgement that CAMFED resources have become the primary resources for the delivery of Guidance and Counselling in schools. In the post school space, CAMFED has now signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Food and Drugs Authority to promote support for young women’s entrepreneurship and is continuing to link young women to the support available through each of these government agencies. CAMFED Ghana also continues to engage with the government’s Commission for Technical Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) to discuss issues pertaining to further education.

CAMFED Zimbabwe has continued to work with the Ministry of Primary and Malawi Defence Force Secondary Education (MoPSE) to amplify the voices of marginalised rural girls in national education policy making. In 2022, Low-Cost Boarding guidelines drafted by CAMFED were adopted as a deliverable under the Aide Memoire, which directs the focus of sector activity for the next 12 months. This has elevated the issue of safe, affordable accommodation for girls living at distance from school to a sector priority, on track to be adopted for all schools. CAMFED also successfully argued for a gender lens to be applied to all Aide Memoire recommendations covering education financing, pedagogy, curriculum, school governance as well as infrastructure. Alongside the Education Coordination Group, CAMFED Zimbabwe is the Chair of the Gender and Disability Thematic Group under the Education Coalition of Zimbabwe (ECOZI). In October, CAMFED hosted the ECOZI National Girls Education Forum, attended by parliamentarians, representatives from MoPSE and other ministries and NGOs, and used this to celebrate recent policy successes, such as the 2020 Education Amendment Act, and engage attendees on strengthening the implementation of the policy at school and district level, including around re-entry. Presentations from young mothers who had returned to school demonstrated both the success and the stigma still faced by young women who want to attend school after giving birth. CAMFED Zimbabwe was also able to use its Annual General Meeting to showcase

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the impact of CAMFED Association philanthropy and the power of female leadership, a model which was praised by the MoPSE Permanent Secretary, who attended the event.

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GLOBAL RECOGNITION AND EVENTS

In 2022, the young educated women in our movement continued to share their expertise and activism on global platforms, in collaboration with an ever growing number of committed global partners, philanthropists and storytellers. Together we are shining a spotlight on the challenges our partner communities face; the power of girls’ education and women’s leadership to confront these challenges headon; and the importance of partnership as we reshape the structures that hold girls back, transforming poverty and inequality to possibility and social justice.

CNN profiles CAMFED’s work

“ Unable to pay school fees as a child, she now heads up the very organisation that helped her stay in class. ” - CNN African Voices Changemakers

In June 2022, CNN released a new episode of its African Voices Changemakers series, highlighting the leadership of Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa and her sisters in the CAMFED Association, working together to address girls’ exclusion from education. Filmed in Malawi, the segment shows Angie engaging with staff, students supported by CAMFED, as well as young women who have stepped into leadership and entrepreneurship after graduation — running businesses, taking steps to build their communities’ resilience to climate change, and supporting the next generation of girls through school.

Joining Michelle Obama to launch the "Get Her There" campaign

In October 2022, CAMFED Association members from Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania joined former First Lady Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates, Amal Clooney, Wanjiru Wahome and Sara Sidner at an exclusive luncheon at the Manhattan Center in New York City to launch the Obama Foundation Girls Opportunity Alliance’s “Get Her There” campaign. CAMFED is a longstanding member of the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance and a “Get Her There” campaign partner.

Hilton Humanitarian Symposium and Prize Ceremony - A laureate interview

October 2022 also represented the first opportunity to meet up in person with the wider Hilton Prize community since the start of the global pandemic. As recipient of the 2021 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world’s largest annual humanitarian award presented to a non-profit in recognition of extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering, we were thrilled that CAMFED’s Angeline Murimirwa was invited to join journalist, producer and philanthropist Soledad O’Brien for a conversation about “Girls’ education as a catalyst for change” at the Symposium in Los Angeles, USA.

CAMFED’s climate experts at COP27

“ Our COP27 event was a chance for audiences to learn more about the action taking place right now, in collaboration with government ministries, researchers, local leaders and more, to share our knowledge and skills both inside and outside classrooms. We talked about CAMFED’s exciting new work to extend the climate education that young women deliver to school children — meaning that this generation of girls and boys can graduate school already equipped to thrive and lead in a changing world. ” - Harriet Cheelo and Natasha Lwanda, CAMFED Association climate experts

In November 2022, CAMFED Association climate activists Harriet Cheelo and Natasha Lwanda joined other climate experts for a 1-hour panel discussion and Q&A at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Egypt on the theme “Climate Education for Resilience and Equity in sub-Saharan Africa.” They represented thousands of young women in CAMFED’s graduate network who are experts in reaching members of their rural communities with the climate solutions they urgently need, supporting people and the planet to thrive.

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LOOKING AHEAD TO 2023

“For every girl out there, poor or not, struggling or not: You matter. You are important. You have an opportunity to make this world a better place. There’s only one you. And the world needs you in this time, in this generation. Be you, and you’ll always have a cheerleader in me.” - Angeline Murimirwa, Chief Executive Officer

At the end of 2022, we are approaching the midpoint of our existing strategic phase (2021-25) and looking back at an implementation period dominated by the disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the challenging context in which we have been working - prolonged school closures, restrictions on movement, and economic challenges - we have stayed on track with the trajectory we set for ourselves at the outset. The pandemic exposed new challenges and exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and inequities for the girls and young women we serve, underlining the need for targeted, cost-effective strategies to support them to access and succeed in education and transition into secure livelihoods.

We now have an important window of opportunity to build on our impact to date, and capitalise on the momentum around secondary education improvements among governments across our partner countries. Commitments to improved and expanded education provision, and significant multilateral investment programmes offer clear opportunities for collaboration with government to bring our learning around ‘what works’ into education systems to influence shifts towards a system that enables all girls to succeed in secondary school and improve their life outcomes.

During 2023 we will:

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PARTNERSHIPS AND INVESTMENT TOWARDS OUR 5-YEAR STRATEGY

The projected cost of our 5-year Strategic Plan is $250M. As far as possible, we aim to secure most of the funding within the earlier phase of the plan in order to be able to make longer term commitments to girls and young women that extend through 2025. To this end, we have received leadership gifts up front to be used over the course of the 5-year plan period.

As the primary steward of CAMFED’s global strategy, CAMFED International is responsible for the judicious allocation of this flexible funding over the 5-year timeframe to meet funding needs. CAMFED International holds a proportion in a designated reserve to ensure sufficient funds are available to honour commitments to girls and young women in the later years of the plan, and to mitigate the longer term impact the global pandemic is likely to have on funding, which may otherwise hinder our ability to meet our 5-year targets. This allocation is reviewed on at least a bi-annual basis in consultation with members of CAMFED’s global consortium. The allocation of funding (restricted and flexible) secured to date for the five years to 2025 is illustrated below.

With the support of one of our generous donor partners, we have also established the ‘Completion Reserve’. This is a long-term endowment that will enable us to make commitments into the future to support girls to go to school.

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INSPIRATION FROM SOME OF OUR GLOBAL CHAMPIONS

Across the world, inspired by the activism and philanthropy of the young educated women in our CAMFED Association and their community members, people joined our movement, pledging Sisterhood, donating, raising funds, and raising awareness across digital platforms. We can assure you that every action and every dollar counts. Here are just a few of the many fundraisers that stood out for their passion, creativity, courage and grit. Don’t forget to join us on social media, and tag us in your fundraising photos - We’re @camfed across most platforms, @CamfedSisterhood on TikTok:

Mount Kilimanjaro climb - Liz, Debbie and Sharon

“We wanted to raise some money to put back into the area that we were visiting. We all believe passionately in girls’ education and the value that this can bring to individuals and whole communities – and so CAMFED seemed like the perfect charity for us. Our brilliant supporters were also very happy to donate to such a good cause.”

“We thought we were really prepared physically for the climb, but the altitude, dust and lack of sleep were much more challenging than we had anticipated. When we were at about the halfway mark and our spirits were ebbing, we finally managed to connect to the internet and waiting for us was a lovely email from CAMFED telling us how our sponsorship money would be used. It brought a tear to all our eyes and was a real boost!”

Liz, Debbie and Sharon from the UK climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for CAMFED, and fundraised an amazing £7000 - enough to provide financial and social support for 58 girls to go to secondary school for a year.

Everest Base Camp Trek - Apex Group

“Apex Group is committed to driving positive change, so it wasn’t surprising so many people decided to take on the challenge. Most of us had never met before; however, the friendships we developed, and the challenges we overcame together, will stay with us and be carried into the work we do for our clients. I hope our adventure will inspire others to take on adventures of their own”. Valerie Mantot-Groene, Regional Managing Director-ASEAN, Apex Group A group of 19 intrepid employees from our corporate partner, Apex Group, supported our One Million School Day campaign with a sponsored climb to Everest Base Camp. Apex employees from 18 different locations around the world took part in the group’s 12-day trek, covering 130 km and reaching an altitude of 2,750m.

Marathon des Sables , Rick Cross

“CAMFED is such an inspirational charity, and one I have supported for many years. Completing the Marathon des Sables in the knowledge I would be doing my tiny bit to improve educational opportunities for girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa was an important motivation. Keep doing what you do CAMFED, and thank you.”

In March 2022 Rick Cross, school principal of Reddam House Berkshire in the UK, raced across the Moroccan Sahara Desert for girls’ education. The Marathon des Sables known as ‘the toughest foot race on Earth’ is a six day ‘ultra-marathon’ that sees competitors run over 150 miles (254 kms) in gruelling conditions. Rick completed this incredible feat, finishing in the top 200 runners and raising £3,040 for CAMFED.

An African-inspired fundraising lunch, Olivia Loewendahl

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"I am keen to support CAMFED, and to encourage others to, because it is clear that young women in Africa are emotionally, socially and economically empowered when they complete secondary education. I find the dedication of the alumnae, who help support the next generation of girls, truly inspiring. Serendipitously, during our lunch, we spotted an osprey in the garden! We have never seen one here before, but they winter in Africa and head north in spring — a lovely and unexpected visitor from Africa.” One of our amazing supporters — Olivia Loewendahl from Cornwall, UK — held a lunch to raise awareness of CAMFED’s work. Olivia’s event raised funds equivalent to 518 school days — enough to support three girls in education for a year.

Ironman Triathlon, Yanni

"I've decided to fundraise for girls’ education because, like CAMFED, I believe every child should be educated, protected, respected and valued."

Committed CAMFED supporter Yanni challenged herself to complete an Ironman triathlon in France in May 2022. She took on the arduous 2.4-mile (3.8km) swim, 112 mile (180km) bicycle ride and 26.2 mile (42.2km) run to support girls to go to school. Completing the race had been a long-held ambition of Yanni’s, after she first heard about it in school and wrote in her yearbook about her hopes to compete.

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GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Board of Trustees

CAMFED International is a company limited by guarantee, company registration number 02874653 and registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales, Charity Registration Number 1029161. It is governed by its Memorandum & Articles of Association. The Board of Trustees is responsible for the supervision of the management of all the affairs of CAMFED International. The Board is committed to maintaining a high standard of corporate governance. Board meetings are held four times a year. Trustees, all of whom are non-executive, are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of relevant experience and skills. They are elected to the Board by existing Trustees. An induction for new Trustees covers all aspects of the role, the objectives of the charity and the responsibilities of Trustees. No other organisation or body has the right to appoint Trustees of the charity.

Directors’ and Trustees’ Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are also directors of CAMFED International for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the Trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable company’s transactions, disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and the provisions of the charity’s constitution. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Disclosure of Information to Auditors

Insofar as each of the trustees of the charity at the date of approval of this report is aware there is no relevant audit information (information needed by the charity’s auditor in connection with preparing the audit report) of which the charity’s auditor is unaware. Each trustee has taken all of the steps that he/she should have taken

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as a trustee in order to make himself/herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity’s auditor is aware of that information.

There are clear distinctions between the roles of the Board of Trustees and Executive Officers of CAMFED to whom day to day management is delegated. Matters such as policy and strategic plans are prepared by the Executive for consideration and approval by the Board. The Board acts on advice and information including from regular meetings with members of the Executive Team, in addition to wider input from other sources.

Statement by the Trustees relating to their statutory duties under Section 172(1) of the Companies Act 2006

The Trustees, in line with their duties under s172(1) of the Companies Act 2006, act individually and collectively in the way they consider, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the success of the organisation and in doing so have regard, amongst other matters, to the:

The Trustees’ regard to these matters is embedded in their decision-making process, through the organisation’s mission & vision, culture, governance framework, management information flows and stakeholder engagement processes. The Trustees and management recognise that CAMFED’s mission to tackle poverty and inequality through girls’ education can only be achieved through collaborative efforts of all stakeholders and to that end the organisation considers the impact of relevant factors and stakeholder interests on the organisation’s performance. The Trustees and management also identify principal risks facing the organisation and sets risk management objectives. The organisation promotes a culture of upholding the highest standards of operational and regulatory conduct, and its core values are embedded in the organisation’s policies and procedures, employee induction and training programmes and its risk control and oversight framework. The Trustees recognise that building strong and lasting relationships with our stakeholders will help to deliver the organisation’s strategy in line with its mission and vision.

The Trustees and management regularly review issues concerning employees, young people benefiting from CAMFED’s programmes, suppliers, the environment, regulators, and other stakeholders. Below summarises the key stakeholders and how CAMFED engages with them:

Stakeholders Engagement
Employees CAMFED’s employees contribute to a positive working culture and healthy working
environment. Employees are key to the success of our work. In addition to aiming to
be a responsible employer in our approach to pay and benefits, we continue to engage
with our employees to ascertain which training and development opportunities should
be made available to improve the quality of our work. We operate a 360-evaluation
policy that encourages employee feedback and facilitates the opportunity for all
CAMFED employees to set performance goals on an annual basis. Our culture invites
different perspectives, new ideas and opportunities for staff growth. We work hard to
ensure employees feel valued and recognized for the work they do.

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Girls on
CAMFED’s
programme		 Marginalised girls and young women are at the centre of CAMFED’s work and shape all
decision-making. How we implement activities is based on their needs and input.
Consultation is an ongoing process to ensure that the organisation continuously learns
from and reflects their feedback. We have robust procedures in place to ensure their
welfare is safeguarded through a comprehensive Child Protection policy. The resources
we hold on their behalf are delivered to them transparently and without leakage by
investing in a robust accountability system. Accountability to the young people we
serve is fundamental to our work. Every young person on the programme is treated
individually, her needs are specific to her, and the support is tailored to reflect that.
Young people are informed about the support due to them and if they do not receive
it, they have a channel to communicate back to CAMFED, which gives them a voice to
demand what is due to them.
Suppliers We work with various suppliers in five countries of our work in Africa, in the USA,
Australia, Canada and the UK. We have put in place a supplier code of conduct that
describes CAMFED’s expectations of how suppliers conduct business. All suppliers
engaged in providing products and services to CAMFED are strongly urged to
familiarize themselves with this Code of Conduct and are expected to act in
accordance with the Code, including aligning guidelines, policies, and practices, and
communicating and enforcing the Code provisions throughout their entities and across
their supply chain, including to subcontractors.
Suppliers must act with integrity and are expected to demonstrate a commitment to
legal, ethical, safe, fair, transparent and responsible business practices. We require
that our suppliers understand the requirements of this Code, operate in accordance
with the expectations outlined in this Code and comply, at a minimum with all
applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards within the geographies in which they
operate. In instances where standards outlined in the Code differ from local laws,
suppliers must respect these standards within the framework of the applicable local
laws. Suppliers must be open and cooperative with the regulators and comply with the
local jurisdictional requirements.
Environment CAMFED recognises the potential impact of its work and operations to the
environment and climate change and is committed to limiting its carbon and
environmental footprints, including reducing the need for international travel,
promoting the avoidance of printing documents whenever possible (and as a cost
cutting measure too), waste management including recycling and encouraging
environmentally friendly policies in all areas of our work. CAMFED is engaged in
promoting climate-smart activities as a core aspect of its work.
Regulators Compliance with laws is mandatory at CAMFED. All offices follow local laws and
regulations. Local laws take precedence to the provisions of CAMFED’s global internal
procedure handbook. Management is required to behave responsibly and implement
activities in compliance with local laws and international good practice, acting with the
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organisation. In doing so, we believe we will achieve our long-term vision, mission, and objectives. Others Other stakeholders include the communities in which the children live, the funders who invest in CAMFED’s work, Governments, and other international organisations. CAMFED Trustees and management recognise the importance of other stakeholders’ input to achieve the organisation’s objectives.

Committees of the Board

There are three committees of the Board, the Finance, Audit and Investment Committee; the Remuneration Committee; and the Nominations Committee. The Finance, Audit and Investment Committee consists of four Board members. The committee meets at least four times a year to monitor and review financial statements, the internal control environment, risk, internal and external audit activities, investments, financial management and budgetary control. The Remuneration Committee consists of three members, who meet annually to review remuneration and succession planning, and to set senior management pay. The Nominations Committee oversees the appointment of new Trustees, and the appointment of the Chair.

Risk Management

The Trustees are responsible for the effectiveness and adequacy of risk management and internal control systems and processes of the Charity to manage the risks to which the CAMFED is exposed. They discharge this responsibility through a review of the effectiveness of the Charity’s risk management framework. This is designed to support informed decision-making regarding the risks that affect the Charity’s performance and its ability to achieve its objectives. Processes in place regarding risk management and internal control include the following:

The risk framework is classified into five broad categories (strategic, financial, operational, external and governance) that are further defined into specific potential risk elements. The current risk register identifies a total of forty specific risk elements across all the five categories and below is a list of five major risks the Trustees have identified and the mitigating strategies in place:

Trustees have identified and the mitigating strategies in place:
COVID-19
As an organization, CAMFED’s response
to COVID-19 was to take a position of
caution, keeping the safety of our
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the initial phase of the pandemic, across
countries staff either attended the
office on rotation or were fully home-
based, and all travel was suspended,
including within countries. COVID-19
response and travel policies are
reviewed on a regular basis, recognising
the potential for the global picture to
change quickly. Throughout the
pandemic CAMFED adopted remote
working contemporary technologies,
and practices which will support
connection and efficiencies in the long
term.
During 2022, travel, by staff and by
partners resumed within and between
countries, reflecting positive changes in
COVID-19 incidence rates, restrictions,
and vaccinations in our operating
context. We retain contingency plans
for essential operations e.g. monitoring
if we can’t get into districts or staff need
to work from home. COVID-19 response
and travel policies are reviewed on a
regular basis, recognising the potential
for the global picture to change quickly.
Risk of fraud, corruption, bribery or other misuse of funds -
loss of assets and loss of confidence in CAMFED or the
programmes.		 CAMFED operates a zero-tolerance
attitude to fraud and is committed to
the prevention of fraud and the
promotion of an anti-fraud culture as
demonstrated in the Fraud Prevention
and Response Policy and Procedure.
The key mitigating risk strategy against
fraud is the organisation's internal
controls, and, fundamentally,
segregation of duties. This is enforced
by the Internal Audit (IA) function within
CAMFED. Regional in-house IA is headed
by a Senior Manager responsible for
risk, audit, investigations and
compliance, and has day-to-day
responsibility for enforcing compliance
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transactions; the in-house team also
develop an annual IA plan that is signed
off by the Board each year before
implementation The in-house team are
supported by A & K Forensics &
Investigations LLP, to which complicated
fraud, corruption and bribery
investigations are outsourced. The
conventional standard controls enforced
through IA become diluted as
transactions progress through the three
stages of operation and
implementation: International, National
and District. However, at district level
there is a strong community ethic
preventing misuse of funds and which
has compelled repayment of any
misappropriated funds in the past.
Procurement Committees are set up at
national and district levels including the
establishment of preferred supplier lists
and controls are in place to monitor
adherence to these structures and
processes. In addition, monitoring is
done at national level by CAMFED
employees in each country and district
and community levels by trained
CAMFED stakeholders, i.e. CDCs, CAMA,
MSGs, SBCs.
CAMFED has also significantly reduced
the carrying of significant cash for
programme activities, mitigating risk of
robberies, cash lost in transit, misuse
and fraud etc. Mobile payments are
now the preferred mode of payment in
all countries where this payment option
exists, with cash payments taking place
when exceptionally pre-approved.
All serious incidents are reported to the
Charity Commission for England and
Wales. A serious incident is defined as
an adverse event whether actual or
alleged that materially affects CAMFED.
Risk of a child or vulnerable young adult being harmed or
exploited.		 CAMFED requires absolute duty of care
and accountability to girls supported by
CAMFED programmes. CAMFED’s Child
Protection Policy and Code of Practice
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and vulnerable adults, sets out in detail
how any CAMFED representative,
including staff, board members,
volunteers, consultants, and community
partners must conduct themselves in
their interactions with children. All team
members, consultants and volunteers
are required to sign the CAMFED Child
Protection Policy before the
commencement or engagement on any
CAMFED activities or programmes and
to confirm this in writing as a
prerequisite to engagement with
CAMFED. Violation of the Child
Protection Policy and Code of Practice
constitutes gross misconduct, leading to
summary dismissal or termination of
contract.
CAMFED’s governance model ensures a
safe and trusted environment whereby
all processes and structures of the
programme are designed to protect not
only beneficiaries but translate to the
protection of all children and young
adults in schools and communities.
CAMFED embeds child protection with
stakeholders in the community ensuring
they receive training to advance child
protection. Integration of programme
delivery within district and national
education structures means that our
Child Protection Policy is firmly
positioned within and influences the
wider child protection system, including
national governments, civil society,
religious and traditional stakeholders.
CAMFED’s Child Protection Policy
complements existing national and local
legislation. Strong partnerships with
national and local government ensure
we receive commitment from legislative
authorities for all aspects of our
programme, including our work in child
protection.
Foreign currency risk
1. The risk arising from income received in a currency that is
different to that of expenditure.		 1. This risk arises from the difference
between the budget exchange rate used
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2. Currency risk arising from FCDO contracts that requires
spend to be reported using the Oanda average rate for the
month and the contractual requirement that grantees bear full
responsibility for managing the resulting exchange rate risks.
3. The risk that funds kept in local currencies in Africa lose
purchase value due to
devaluation.
exchange rate achieved when funds are
received and transferred to a country
for programme activities. Whenever
possible, CAMFED applies the lower end
of historical rates for proposal budgets
as a hedge against exchange rate
movements when the contract is finally
signed. In addition, the CAMFED Board,
through the Finance Audit and
Investment Committee, has approved
the use of forward contracts as an
instrument to manage currency risk.
Forward contracts give certainty of
future value. However, due to the risk
associated with FCDO contracts
reporting exchange explained in 2
below, no forward contracts are in place
as all current significant sterling
contracts are FCDO
funded.
2. CAMFED receives a material part of
its income in sterling and spends most
of this in currencies linked to the US
Dollar, giving rise to a currency
exposure.
Unfortunately, the sterling income is
received under contracts which take any
currency gains for the benefit of the
donor, and leave currency losses with
CAMFED. This asymmetry makes it
impractical for CAMFED to hedge its
exposure in a cost effective way, using
forward contracts for example.
3. Currency depreciation is a significant
risk in all operational currencies in the
countries CAMFED works in. CAMFED’s
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currency risk through limiting transfers to up to one month’s operational expenses, and by maintaining operational limits on individual transfers. Cash positions and cash flow forecasts are also produced by each office on a weekly basis and reviewed by CAMFED International. Additional control measures are in place where a country has a particularly unstable macroeconomic environment (currently applicable in Zimbabwe).

Public Benefit

CAMFED’s Trustees have a statutory duty to report on the charity’s public benefit in the Annual Report. The 2021 – 2025 CAMFED Strategic Plan identifies CAMFED’s objectives, and defines key strategies and actions required to ensure that the charity provides public benefit. These objectives include the support for girls to enrol in and succeed at school, and to enable young women to make the transition to a secure livelihood and into positions of leadership. These objectives fall under the purposes defined by the Charities Act 2011. In shaping our aims and objectives for the year and planning our activities, the Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity (PB2)’.

Child Protection and Safeguarding

The protection of vulnerable children and young people is core to CAMFED’s work. CAMFED International has, in collaboration with national CAMFED organisations, developed a comprehensive Child Protection Policy and Code of Practice that is embedded in all project planning and at every stage of programme delivery, to ensure children and vulnerable young adults are protected from harm. This sets out in detail how any CAMFED representative, including staff, board members, volunteers, consultants and community partners should conduct themselves and their interactions with children.

All CAMFED representatives, including staff, whether paid or unpaid, and staff of subcontracting partners, are expected to be aware of and comply with CAMFED’s Child Protection Policy and Code of Practice, and to confirm this in writing as a prerequisite to engagement with CAMFED. This includes all staff, volunteers, partner agencies, government authorities, consultants, visiting funding and research agencies, or any person presenting themselves to a child, young person, or vulnerable adult because of their relationship with CAMFED. Any violation of the policy and code constitutes gross misconduct, leading to summary dismissal or termination of contract.

The CAMFED Child Protection Policy is reviewed annually by the Executive and ratified by the CAMFED International Board of Trustees, and is published on our website: www.CAMFED.org

CAMFED’s governance model, as documented by Linklaters LLP in the report “CAMFED Governance, Accounting to the Girl: Working Towards a Standard for Governance in the International Development Sector” requires absolute duty of care and accountability to girls and young women supported by CAMFED programmes. We have mainstreamed a culture of accountability to our beneficiaries into all aspects of our programming, supported by former beneficiaries of CAMFED support, who are employed as staff at every level of the organisation (including our Chief Executive Officer) and on our advisory boards, and, through CAMA,

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form the majority of the activist base supporting CAMFED’s work in the community. This reinforces the culture of safeguarding in our organisation. Our programmes are integrated into the education system in the countries where we work, meaning that we are able to influence the advancement of safeguarding standards and approaches beyond the direct remit of the organisation, helping to protect all children and young adults in schools and communities.

Code of Charity Governance

CAMFED has utilised the Code as a tool to support the Board to reflect upon its current governance structures and consider the ways in which the Charity and its Trustees currently apply the Charity Governance Code’s seven principles and recommended practice. The Charity’s Trustees acknowledge that the Charity is best placed to fulfil its vision, mission and strategic goals if it has effective governance in place. The Charity’s Board has established a solid foundation in governance in which all of its Trustees are clear about their roles and legal responsibilities, are committed to supporting the Charity to deliver its objects most effectively for its beneficiaries’ benefit and contribute to the Charity’s continued improvement. CAMFED’s Trustees observe high standards of governance. They have reviewed the requirements of Code of Charity Governance and confirm that CAMFED’s governance upholds the good practice guidance of the Code.

Fundraising

CAMFED International raises funds from the public. The Charity Commission provides charity fundraising guidance to Trustees (CC20), a helpful reference for Trustees to take responsibility for ethical fundraising. The Trustees demand high standards of transparency and honesty in our fundraising. CAMFED is registered with the Fundraising Regulator and is a member of the Institute of Fundraising to demonstrate our commitment to achieving the highest standards. We comply with both the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice, and the Fundraising Promise, which set the standards for fundraising activity throughout the UK.

CAMFED’s approach to fundraising is based on the following principles:

Planning - A fully costed detailed fundraising plan is drawn up annually and reviewed by the Executive Team and approved by the Board. The plan includes a timeline, deliverables and projections of income and costs expected from activities, e.g. the New York and London Marathons, galas, and other fundraising events. The Board reviews the plan to ensure it is consistent with CAMFED’s values, ethos and that it is financially sound.

Accountability - Staff and members of the public who fundraise on behalf of CAMFED are required to understand the organisation’s values and ethos, that CAMFED does not promote aggressive fundraising techniques and will not put pressure on members of the public.

Openness - CAMFED actively promotes transparency and openness in its dealings with the public, the donors and all interested parties. We believe creating trust, confidence and rapport with the public is the best enduring fundraising approach.

Respect - We respect the public, their preferences and wishes and follow their choices in engaging with them. Our supporters’ unique preferences are always observed.

Diversity - CAMFED embraces diversity. We are a fully inclusive organisation and value everyone’s contribution towards sending girls to school, irrespective of colour, creed, religion, gender, political affiliation or location.

Complaints - CAMFED has not received a complaint arising from its fundraising practices during the year (2021: none). We do not engage agencies in our fundraising activities.

Protection of vulnerable people and members of the public – CAMFED’s safeguarding policy applies to both beneficiaries of the programme and other vulnerable people including the public in general. The policy defines

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CAMFED’s values and expectations from staff and everyone working for or representing CAMFED. Also, CAMFED’s membership of the Institute of Fundraising and registration with the Fundraising Regulator requires compliance with good practice in fundraising including protection of vulnerable members of the public.

The Board of Trustees has reviewed the requirements of charity fundraising to Trustees (CC20) and confirms full compliance.

Environmental Policy

CAMFED International recognises the potential impact of its work and operations to the environment and climate change and is committed to limiting its carbon and environmental footprints, including reducing the need for international travel, promoting the avoidance of printing documents whenever possible (and as a cost cutting measure too), waste management including recycling and encouraging environmental friendly policies in all areas of our work.

Anti-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy

CAMFED operates a zero-tolerance attitude to fraud, bribery and corruption, and is committed to their prevention and the promotion of an anti-fraud, anti-bribery and anti-corruption culture. Staff and all stakeholders are required to act honestly and with integrity at all times and to safeguard the resources for which they are responsible. The policy is established to facilitate the development and maintenance of a culture and controls which will aid the prevention and detection of fraud, bribery and/or corruption. CAMFED is committed to investigating all cases of suspected fraud, bribery and corruption and its policy sets out CAMFED’s process and procedures in cases where fraud and corrupt practices are discovered or suspected. The detailed policy is part of CAMFED’s Operations Manual.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

CAMFED is a charitable organisation committed to the promotion of equal educational opportunity. It takes affirmative action to make educational opportunity a reality for girls in Africa. In carrying out this objective it treats individuals with respect, through its programmes and within the organisation, and creates a broad base for consultation and decision-making wherever possible and appropriate. Upholding diversity, equality and inclusion is integral to CAMFED’s mission. Accordingly, CAMFED:

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Liability of Members

CAMFED International is a registered Company, limited by guarantee. Members of the Company have guaranteed the liabilities of the Company up to £1 each.

The CAMFED Global Consortium

CAMFED operates as a global consortium of equal partners of which CAMFED International is the coordinating hub, overseen by the CAMFED International Board of Trustees. CAMFED is registered as a national non-profit organisation in each country of operation with the oversight of a national Board of Trustees. A representative from CAMFED International sits on each national Board in order to reinforce coordination and governance between structures. The relationship between CAMFED International and each CAMFED national office is underpinned by a Master Cooperative Agreement entered between the parties. The Agreement is intended to reinforce the principles that underpin the governance of CAMFED as an international consortium of separate entities with a shared vision and mission and sets out in one comprehensive agreement:

Below are the global CAMFED consortium legal entities:

Address: 64 Lagos Avenue, East Legon, (P. O. Box MD 2387, Madina), Accra, Ghana

Address: 16 Grasmere Lane, Borrowdale, (P.O. Box 4104), Harare, Zimbabwe

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

Summary Financial Performance

CAMFED’s annual income for 2022 decreased year-on-year by 5% to £47.7 million (2021: £50.4 million). This decrease was mainly due to no endowment gifts being received during the year (2021: £2 million).

Income from Trusts and Foundations continued to be the highest percentage of overall income at 70% (2021: 53%). The increase of 17% was driven by restricted (£28.5 million) and unrestricted (£3.2 million) Trust and Foundations income from Charitable Activities; income from statutory donors was 14% of total income, compared to 27% in 2021. Donations from individuals reduced slightly as a proportion of overall income at 12% (2021: 14%) of total income in 2022.

The net result for the year was a £1.3 million surplus (2021: £11.9 million surplus), with a £2.5m restricted fund surplus being set off by deficits of £0.7m in unrestricted funds and £0.5m for endowment funds (2021: £6.4 million surplus in unrestricted funds, £2.7 million surplus in restricted funds and £2.8 million surplus in endowment funds). The unrestricted and endowment funds losses were primarily due to an unrealised loss on investments of £2.1 million (2021: £2.5 million gain).

Total funds carried forward at year-end were £57.3 million (2021: £56.1 million), of which unrestricted funds were £40.9 million, restricted funds were £10.5 million and endowment funds were £5.9 million (2021: £40.9 million, £8.7 million and £6.4 million respectively). Year-end cash and short-term deposits decreased to £33.7 million, from £39.8 million at the end of 2021. Investments also decreased in value, from £27.6 million to £25.4 million at the end of 2022 as a result of the unrealised losses mentioned above. The financial results for the year are set out in the consolidated statement of financial activities on page 62.

Income

The main source of income in 2022 was from Trusts and Foundations, with a total of £32.8 million (2021: £26.8 million), representing 70% of total income for the year (2021: 53%). Statutory (Institutional) sources of income reduced from £13.8m in 2021 to £6.6m in 2022 (52% decrease), mainly due to the end of the Girls Education Challenge projects funded through FCDO. Detailed analysis of income is shown in the consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) and Note 5 to the accounts.

Expenditure

Total charitable spending has increased by 6% on 2022 levels (£41.7 million; 2021 £39.2 million), mainly attributable to additional expenditure taking place as part of the enterprise development strategy. Expenditure included £18.7 million dedicated to the core strategy of leveraging the multiplier effect (2021: £18.8 million), representing 42% of total charitable spend (2021: 48%). Investment in enterprise development

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was £13.8 million (2021: £11.7 million), representing 31% of total charitable spend (2021: 30%). Expenditure on the Learner Guide Programme slightly increased to £5.9 million from £5.7 million in 2021.

Expenditure on fundraising of £2.6 million was 6% of total expenditure (2021: £1.7 million; 4%). Further analysis of charitable expenditure and fundraising costs are shown in notes 6 and 7 respectively of the financial statements.

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Significant movements year on year

Support costs (excluding foreign exchange movements) were £3.8 million for the year (2021: £3.3 million). Overall headcount increased from 49 to 54 in the UK during the year, to provide co-ordination and support as part of the delivery of the current Strategic Plan.

Staff costs Total number of employees increased from 300 in 2021 to 336 in 2022. Total employment costs for the year increased by 27% to £10.3 million (2021: £8.1 million). The increase in employment costs relates to both UK and Overseas staff costs, and relates to a combination of the increase in staff numbers as well as the depreciation of sterling against the US dollar during the year.

Tangible fixed assets total value increased from £0.5 million to £1.6 million during the year. In November 2022, CAMFED acquired a property in Harare, Zimbabwe for use as a Regional Leadership & Training Centre, funded by the estate of Anthony Welsh. 15 motorcycles (programme vehicles) were also purchased during the year in Zimbabwe totalling £33k, (2021: £114k). Office equipment additions were £116k (2021: £118k). Further analysis of tangible fixed assets is shown in note 14.

Debtors’ balance was £1.9 million (2021: £3.9million). The decrease was mainly driven by a decrease in funds due from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) (2022: £0.3 million; 2021: £1.7 million) as 2 significant projects ended which were funded through the Girls Education Challenge

Creditors’ balance was £5.6 million (2021: £15.7 million). The decrease is mainly due to a decrease in deferred income (2022: £4.2 million; 2021: £14.4 million. The Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works program ended at the end of 2022 (2021 deferred income: £8.3 million). Further analysis of creditors is shown in note 18.

Lease commitments worth £504k were held at the end of the year (2021: £769k reinstated). This includes the UK office lease, which was renewed in 2018 for a five-year period (£97k, 2021: 218k) and the Overseas leases being £397k (2021: £532k). Leases for office equipment, including printers, was £11k at the end of 2022 (2021: £20k). Further analysis of lease commitments is shown in note 20.

Subsidiary undertakings – CAMFED International subsidiaries held net funds of £13.8 million (2021: £21.6 million), a decrease of 36%. £10 million of net funds were held by CAMFED USA Foundation (2021: £19.9 million), £9.3 million of which were cash balances. Deposit and notice US dollar account rates improved in the UK compared to the US during the year, leading to the reduced pool of funds being held in the US. CAMFED’s group treasury management approach, which seeks to balance and optimise risk and return (as defined by CAMFED’s Boards), allows resources to be pooled for investment where appropriate. Project specific bank balances were also held in Canada (£0.6m) and Malawi (£0.4m).

Investments decreased to £25.4 million (2021: £27.6 million). The decrease in investments relate to fund revaluations for which we have incurred in unrealised losses, totalling £2.1 million (2021: £2.5 million gain).

Environmental Impact Assessment

CAMFED has reviewed the requirements of Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR), and for the period this report is prepared (January to December 2022) the organisation consumed less than 40,000 kWh of energy in the UK, and is exempt from a further detailed disclosure.

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Financial Position

Funds

At 31[st] December 2022, CAMFED held £57.3 million in fund balances (2021: £56.1 million) split as follows:

Cash

At 31[st] December 2022, CAMFED held £33.7 million in cash and short term deposits, from £39.8 million at the end of 2021. The decrease was mainly due to the reduction of funds received in advance, mainly Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works deferred income (see Notes 17 and 18 for respectively further breakdown). Short term deposits increased by £11.3 million to £15.9 million in 2022. The funds held include $3 million in a 95 day notice account, $3 million in a 32 day notice account, $3 million in a 43 day notice account, $3 million in a 90 day notice account and $7m in a 12 month deposit account.

Going concern

CAMFED is positive about the outlook of the organisation and that is supported by the level of sustainable cash flow projections. The twenty-four months and five-year cash projections illustrate that the organisation will not breach the minimum cash and reserves limit set by CAMFED’s Board. The limits of £2.5m and £6m respectively were set to preserve the organisation’s good financial health.

Also, in assessing the future, management has considered the broad contemporary environmental factors, the extent to which they can affect the viability of the organisation, including the impact on fundraising efforts. These include the geo-political events (the war in Ukraine), current and future inflation projections, current interest rates and forecasts, implications of potential economic recessions, the global cost of living crisis as well as trends in the funding landscape, e.g., the

reduction in UK government aid expenditure from 0.7% to 0.5% of the UK’s GNI in 2021 that has seen funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) decrease significantly as a proportion of CAMFED’s income. The organisation continues to review, monitor and evolve its strategies to mitigate the risks associated with these environmental factors - a broader funding base of grants and donations from trusts and foundations has been built to allow the organisation to continue to deliver the aims of the current Strategic Plan within a more flexible funding portfolio

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Financial Policies

Reserves policy

CAMFED International’s Board of Trustees believe that keeping adequate liquid reserves enables the charity to safeguard on-going commitments and operations, make long-term commitments for girls’ education and protect the charity from risk of disruption at short notice due to a lack of funds and economic downturns and short term income volatility, while at the same time ensuring that we do not retain income for longer than required. The reserves target of £6.6m includes the following: a) the number of girls and boys committed to receive school fees as at 1st of January of 2023; b) a commitment to hold a minimum of 3 months’ and a maximum of 6 months’ core expenditure; c) a provision for the risk of currency fluctuations; and d) a commitment to support young women who move into tertiary education (A detailed analysis of a) to d) is shown on Note 22.) At the end of the year, CAMFED held £40.9 million, (2021: £40.9 million) in unrestricted funds, £34.3 million more than the reserves target of £6.6 million. Of the £40.9 million, £1 million was held for currency risk; £6.6 million was held as a designated reserve to meet the educational needs for children who are on the CAMFED programme and to support young women to continue their tertiary education. The remaining £28.3 million of unrestricted funds are held as a designated reserve to meet the objectives of the current 5-year strategic plan (see more information in the paragraph below). The Board believes this level of reserve is appropriate and adequate in line with CAMFED’s risks above, the size of operations of the charity, the continued requirement for investment in fundraising, the increasing need to pay in advance for expenditure on grant contracts and to cushion CAMFED from the uncertainties of the COVID-19 crisis.

5-year strategy funding commitments

CAMFED has launched a new 5-year strategic plan 2021-25, centred on our goal to support the education of five million girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The projected cost of this plan over five years is $250M (£200M). As far as possible, we aim to secure the majority of funding within the first phase of the plan in order to be able to make longer term commitments to girls and young women that extend through 2025. CAMFED’s strategic plan reserve decreased from £33.9 million in 2021 to £27.7 million in 2022, primarily due to ringfencing £5.6 million of unrestricted funds to meet commitments of educational needs of children on the CAMFED programme as a specific designated reserve. As the primary steward of CAMFED’s global strategy, CAMFED International is responsible for the judicious allocation of this flexible funding over the 5-year timeframe to meet funding needs. CAMFED International holds a proportion in a designated reserve to ensure sufficient funds are available to honour commitments to girls and young women in the later years of the plan, and to mitigate the longer term impact on funding of the global pandemic which may otherwise hinder our ability to meet our 5-year targets. This allocation is reviewed on at least a bi-annual basis in consultation with members of CAMFED’s global consortium. The allocation of funding (restricted and flexible) secured to date for our strategic plan is illustrated below.

With the support of one of our generous donor partners, we have also established the ‘Completion Reserve’. This is a long-term endowment that will enable us to make commitments into the future to support girls to go to school.

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Foreign exchange policy

In order to mitigate risks associated with not only the volatility of local currencies in some countries, limits are placed on transfers to CAMFED’s partner offices in Africa. Funds are transferred overseas to cover spend up to one month ahead, with reference to approved quarterly budgets and after adjusting for existing cash balances held overseas. Except in the case where a contract does not allow co-mingling of funds, the transfer of funds for programme activities is based on the calculated benefit of using a specific currency, i.e., cash requirements arising from cash flow forecasts received from countries in Africa are processed using a currency and bank account that gives the best value at a given time.

Remuneration policy

CAMFED’s recruitment, evaluation and pay policies are informed by the following principles:

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Investment policy

The Board, through the Finance Audit and Investment Committee, decide on the investments of the charity. The policy to maximise returns on investments is balanced by the short and long term financial plans of the charity as well as an ethical investment policy. Investments consist of four main asset classes: short term operating funds, reserve funds, restricted funds and endowment funds. The investment objectives of each asset class are as follows:

Grant making policy

CAMFED International works with partner organisations that contribute specific expertise to the execution of its programmes. Grants payable to partner organisations are made in line with CAMFED’s strategic objectives. The grants contribute directly towards the development of the charity’s programmes by helping local organisations provide sustainable benefits for communities, and they are therefore considered part of furthering CAMFED International’s own objectives. CAMFED International monitors all grants in accordance with the relevant partnership agreement.

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Volunteering

CAMFED International is grateful for the invaluable in-kind support received from corporate bodies and individuals during the year, representing an important contribution towards realising CAMFED International’s ambition for girls’ education in Africa.

In approving this Trustees’ Report, the Directors and Trustees are also approving the Strategic Report included herein, in their capacity as Company Directors.

Miranda Curtis

Date: 20[th] September 2023

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS AND TRUSTEES OF CAMFED INTERNATIONAL

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Camfed International (‘the charitable company’) and its subsidiaries (‘the group’) for the year ended 31st December 2022 which comprise the consolidated statement of financial activities, the consolidated and charity balance sheets, the consolidated statement of cashflows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustee's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's or the group’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and

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our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and charitable company and their environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the strategic report or the directors’ report included within the trustees’ report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 53, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.

Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Details of the extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations are set out below.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements from irregularities, whether due to fraud or error, and discussed these between our audit team. We then designed and performed audit procedures responsive to those risks, including obtaining audit evidence sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the charitable company and group operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act 2011 together with the Charities SORP (FRS 102). We assessed the required compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our audit procedures on the related financial statement items.

In addition, we considered provisions of other laws and regulations that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which might be fundamental to the charitable company’s and the group’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty. We also considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the charitable company and the group for fraud. The laws and regulations we considered in this context for the UK operations were Employment legislation, Taxation legislation,

Anti-fraud, bribery and corruption legislation and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We also considered compliance with local legislation for the group’s overseas operating segments.

Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these laws and regulations to enquiry of the Trustees and other management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be within the timing of recognition of grant and contract income and the override of controls by management. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management, and the Finance, Audit & Investment Committee about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, sample testing of funding received in the year and post year end to underlying documents, sample testing of year end balances for accrued and deferred income, sample testing on the posting of journals, reviewing accounting estimates for biases, reviewing

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regulatory correspondence with the Charity Commission and reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulation.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Nicola May

Senior Statutory Auditor

For and on behalf of Crowe U.K. LLP Statutory Auditor London

Date: 25 September 2023

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

(Incorporating Income and Expenditure Account) For Year ended 31[st] December 2022

Unrestricted
Funds		 Restricted
Funds		 Endowment
Funds		 Endowment
Funds		 2022 Total
funds		 2022 Total
funds		 2021 Total
funds
£ £ £ £ £
7,021,524
3,175,176
347,950		 763,109
36,048,207
72,538		 7,777,154
39,223,383
420,488
Income and endowments from: Notes
Income from donations and legacies 5 (7,479) 12,314,195
Income from charitable activities 5 - 37,869,918
Investment Income - 175,049
Other 296,488 - - 296,488 4,042
Total income 10,841,138 36,883,854 (7,479) 47,717,513
 50,363,204
2,631,512 26,789 2,658,301
Expenditure on:
Raising funds 6 - 1,701,441
Charitable activities
The Multiplier Effect 4,129,506 14,606,008 - 18,735,514 18,840,556
The Learner Guide Program 687,873 5,260,871 - 5,948,744 5,701,910
Enterprise Development 982,473 12,799,971 - 13,782,444 11,729,637
Evaluation and Research 619,362 1,423,944 - 2,043,306 1,707,403
Advocacy& Influence 915,554 313,050 - 1,228,604 1,260,842
Total charitable activitycosts 7 7,334,768 34,403,844 - 41,738,612 39,240,348
Total expenditure 9,966,280 34,430,633 - 44,396,913 40,941,789
- (2,062,020)
1,258,576
-
Net gains and losses on investments (1,548,339) (513,681) 2,455,066
Net income before transfers (673,481) 2,453,221
(684,510)		 (521,160) 11,876,481
684,510
Transfers between funds - -
-
11,029
40,910,500		 -
1,768,711
8,735,101		 -
1,258,580
56,073,430
Other recognized gains/(losses) - -
Net movement of funds (521,160) 11,876,481
Reconciliation of funds
Funds brought forward at 01.01.2022 6,427,829 44,196,949
Funds carried forward at 31.12.2022 40,921,529 10,503,812 5,906,669 57,332,010 56,073,430

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CONSOLIDATED AND CHARITY BALANCE SHEETS

Company Number: 02874653

As at 31[st] December 2022

Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated Charity Charity Charity Charity
Notes 2022 2021 2022 2021
Fixed Assets
Intangible Fixed Assets 15 256,502 - 256,502 -
Tangible Fixed Assets 14 1,626,550 461,818 22,737 19,046
Investments 16 25,410,998 27,647,986 25,407,003 27,636,859
27,294,050 28,109,804 25,686,242 27,655,905
Current Assets
Debtors 17 1,946,545 3,865,105 13,085,349 18,892,198
Short term deposits 15,876,108 4,527,564 15,869,826 4,521,263
Cash and bank balances 17,822,877 35,280,778 5,446,519 7,174,382
35,645,530 43,673,447 34,401,694 30,587,843
Creditors
Amounts falling within one year 18 (5,607,570) (15,709,821) (4,120,106) (6,805,408)
Net Current Assets 30,037,960 27,963,626 30,281,588 23,782,435
NET ASSETS 57,332,010 56,073,430 55,967,830 51,438,340
FUNDS
Endowment funds 23 5,906,669 6,427,829 5,902,875 6,416,556
Restricted funds 21 10,503,812 8,735,101 9,143,426 4,111,284
Unrestricted funds
General reserve 22 6,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000
Designated reserve 22 6,578,805 1,000,000 6,578,805 1,000,000
Strategic Plan reserve 22 28,342,724 33,910,500 28,342,724 33,910,500
TOTAL FUNDS 57,332,010 56,073,430 55,967,830 51,438,340

The parent charity’s net movement in funds for the year was £4,529,490 (2021: £9,351,765).

The accounts were approved by the Trustees and authorised for signature on and signed on its behalf by:

Miranda Curtis CMG Chair of Trustees

Date: 20[th] September 2023

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS As at 31[st] December 2022

Note 2022
£
(1,378,227)
420,488
3,034
(1,390,093)
(256,502)
-
977,226
4,333
(241,514)
(1,619,741)
39,808,342
(4,489,612)
33,698,989		 2021
£
8,263,165
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
24
175,049
1,828
(243,414)
-
1,310
168,874
4,882
Cash flows from investing activities:
Bank interest received
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
Purchase of digital assets
Purchase of trademarks
Proceeds from sale of investments
Gain on disposal of stocks
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities 108,529
8,391,694

31,333,038
83,610

39,808,342
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period
Change in cash and cash equivalents due to exchange rate movement
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

For Year ended 31[st] December 2022

1. Registration

The charity is a private limited company (registered number 02874653) which is incorporated and domiciled in the UK. The address of the registered office is St Giles Court, 24 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AJ, UK.

2. Accounting Policies

a) Accounting Convention

The accounts are prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), the Charities Act 2011 and the Companies Act 2006. The charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102. The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis. The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the inclusion of investments at fair market value, and on an accrual’s basis. The principal accounting policies, which have been applied consistently throughout the year, are set out below.

b) Consolidation

The Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) and Balance Sheet consolidate the Financial Statements of the Charity and its nine subsidiary undertakings. The results of the subsidiaries are consolidated on a line by line basis. No separate SOFA has been presented for the Charity alone as permitted by Section 408 of the Companies Act 2006.

c) Preparation of Accounts on a Going Concern Basis

CAMFED International’s Board of Trustees have reviewed the key risks and uncertainties emerging as a result of the COVID-19 crisis in the context of CAMFED’s operations and how these affect both immediate liquidity and longer term solvency.

The charity is funded through income from donations and legacies, and income from charitable activities. These grants and donations come from a variety of sources, including statutory bodies, trusts and foundations, corporates and individuals.

The trustees prepare annual budgets and forecasts in order to ensure there is adequate funding in place to deliver charitable activities for the coming year. In addition, the Board in formulating its plan and strategy for the future operations of the organisation has considered a period beyond that for which formal budgets and forecasts are prepared.

Ongoing liquidity of the charity is dependent on three main areas – maintaining levels of unrestricted funding sufficient to cover the gap between total operating costs and restricted funding for staff and overheads; secondly, timely and full receipt of funds from restricted sources where these are received in arrears; thirdly, the ability to recover operating costs from restricted contracts, whether or not related programme activities can take place.

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The Board will continue to review and monitor the financial picture during the current period of uncertainty, and the financial modelling described above will be frequently updated as the crisis evolves.

Having regard to the above, the Trustees believe it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

d) Fund Accounting

Income received during the year was accounted for between two primary classes as required in trust law: unrestricted funds, representing funds to be spent at the Trustees' discretion in furtherance of CAMFED’s charitable objectives and restricted funds, which can only be lawfully used for a specific charitable purpose. Unrestricted funds were further analysed between designated reserve (comprising unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the Trustees for particular purposes, the aim and use of each designated fund is set out in note 21. The nature and purpose of restricted, unrestricted and designated funds are explained in Note 15.

e) Income

Income recognition

In line with Charity SORP 2015 (FRS 102) guidance, at a first level, all income is accounted for when CAMFED has entitlement to the funds, the amount can be quantified, and receipt of the funds is probable. Consideration is made whether a grant imposes specified future performance conditions on CAMFED or not. A grant that is subject to performance-related conditions received in advance of delivering the goods and services required by that condition, or is subject to unmet conditions wholly outside the control of CAMFED, is accounted for as a liability and shown on the balance sheet as deferred income and the deferred income is released to income in the reporting period in which the performancerelated or other conditions that limit recognition are met. When terms or conditions are within CAMFED’s control and there is sufficient evidence that they will be met, then the income must be recognised. Where there are no performance conditions, income is recognised when the grant proceeds are receivable.

Donated goods and services are recognised as income when they are received and used by CAMFED. The goods and services are measured at fair value to CAMFED.

Donations and legacies

Donations include all income received by the charity that is, in substance, a gift made to it on a voluntary basis and it can either be unrestricted or restricted. Such income does not provide any significant benefit to the donor in return for their payment other than that CAMFED should use the funds for the furtherance of its charitable activities. In 2022, donations received by CAMFED related to the following classifications:

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Legacies , like donations, are a gift made on a voluntary basis that can be pecuniary, residuary or reversionary. Recognition of legacy income is dependent on the type of legacy. Pecuniary legacies are recognised as receivable when notification is received upon granting of probate. Residuary legacies are recognised as receivable when entitlement is established, and the value can be measured after probate is granted. Reversionary legacies take effect subject to the prior right of a named person or persons to receive the benefit of those assets or income produced by them during his or her lifetime. The gift passes absolutely to CAMFED as the “reversionary beneficiary” on the death of the named person or persons.

Income from Charitable Activities

Income from charitable activities includes income earned from the supply of goods or services under contractual arrangements and from performance- related grants which have conditions that specify the provision of particular goods or services to be provided by CAMFED. In 2022, Income from Charitable Activities received by CAMFED related to the following classifications:

f) Expenditure

Expenditure is included on an accruals basis.

Fundraising expenditure

Fundraising expenditure includes all expenditure incurred by CAMFED to raise funds for its charitable purposes. It includes the costs of all fundraising activities and events. Fundraising costs incurred include costs associated with:

Expenditure on charitable activities

Expenditure on charitable activities includes all costs incurred by CAMFED in undertaking activities that further its charitable aims for the benefit of its beneficiaries, including those support costs and costs relating to the governance of the charity apportioned to charitable activities. Costs involved in negotiating contracts or grants that require CAMFED to provide specific charitable services are also regarded as part of the cost of carrying out that activity. These costs include UK level of effort involved in supporting charitable activities. From the perspective of cause and effect, indirect costs are first allocated to activities that cause or drive them and where this is not possible, they are apportioned based on a fair and equitable basis. Support costs are detailed in Note 8.

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Governance costs

Governance costs are the costs associated with the governance arrangements of CAMFED. These costs include internal and external audit, legal advice for Trustees, and costs associated with constitutional and statutory requirements, including Trustee meetings, their trips to visit CAMFED’s work overseas and costs for preparing statutory accounts. The costs also include CAMFED staff attending Trustees’ meetings and administrative support provided for Trustees’ activities. The governance costs incurred during the year are included in support costs.

Revolving investment expenditure

The Revolving Investment Fund operates similarly to the KIVA loan scheme. However, while the KIVA loan scheme is a direct loan from our partner KIVA to a young woman, with CAMFED providing administrative support, the Revolving Investment Fund was set up through a grant from The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust to CAMFED in 2020, which in turn passes on the funds to young women as grants. Grants related to the Revolving Investment Fund are treated as part of CAMFED’s income for the year and the amounts paid to young women are recorded in CAMFED’s books as expenditure. In substance as these are grants to young women, they are treated as expenditure in the accounts, but with an expectation of the recipient giving back either by repayment in cash or through in-kind contributions. The revolving aspect of the scheme is managed through the CAMFED Association to ensure repayments are made and further disbursements are met.

g) Depreciation of Tangible and Intangible Fixed Assets

Assets costing more than £250 are included in the financial statements as fixed assets at cost less depreciation.

Depreciation is provided on all tangible and intangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost of each asset systematically over its expected useful life:

Office equipment: 33% of original cost
Fixtures & fittings: 33% of original cost
Vehicles: 25% of original cost
Intangible Assets: 20% of original cost
Land and Buildings: 20% of original cost

Fixed assets used within specific projects and purchased from funds donated for those projects are capitalised.

h) Investments

Unless agreed by prior arrangement with donors through an endowment structure, donations of stocks and shares are immediately sold, and any gains and losses arising on disposal or other revaluation of investments are taken through the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA). Longer term investments are included on the balance sheet at their market value at the end of the financial year. Realised and unrealised gains/(losses) are credited/(debited) to the Statement of Financial Activities in the year in which they arise.

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i) Foreign Currency Translation

Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate prevailing at the date of the most recent transfer of funds.

j) Pension Scheme Arrangements

The company makes contributions to private pension plans of all staff. The pension charge included in the financial statements represents contributions paid to the scheme. The company’s liability is limited to the amount of the contributions.

k) Operating Leases

Rentals applicable to operating leases, where substantially all the benefits of ownership remain with the lessor, are charged in the Income and Expenditure account, as incurred.

l) Stock

Stock consists of purchased goods for resale. Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

m) Critical accounting judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the accounting policies, Trustees are required to make judgement, estimates, and assumptions about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affected current and future periods.

Judgements made by the Trustees, in the application of these accounting policies that have significant effect on the financial statements and estimates with a significant risk of material adjustment in the next year are deemed to be in relation to the depreciation rates of tangible fixed assets and are discussed above.

In the view of the Trustees, no assumptions concerning the future or estimation uncertainty affecting assets or liabilities at the balance sheet date are likely to result in a material adjustment to their carrying amounts in the next financial year.

n) Financial instruments

Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at amortised cost with the exception of investments which are held at fair value. Financial assets held at amortised cost comprise cash at bank and in hand, together with trade and other debtors. A specific provision is made for debts for which recoverability is in doubt. Cash at bank and in hand is defined as all cash held in instant access bank accounts and used as working capital. Financial liabilities held at amortised cost comprise all creditors except social security, other taxes and deferred income.

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Forward contracts:

Forward contracts are used as an instrument to manage currency risk where necessary. Gains or losses on these contracts are recognised in line with FRS 102 guidance.

Debtors:

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered.

Cash at bank and in hand:

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments.

Creditors and provisions:

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

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3. Overseas Organisations

CAMFED operates as a global Consortium of locally registered entities of which CAMFED International is the coordinating hub, overseen by CAMFED International Board of Trustees. CAMFED is registered as a national non-profit organisation in each country of operation with the oversight of a national Board of Trustees. A representative from CAMFED International sits on each national Board in order to reinforce coordination and governance between structures. The relationship between CAMFED International and each CAMFED national office is underpinned by a Master Cooperative Agreement entered between the parties. The Agreement is intended to reinforce the principles that underpin the governance of CAMFED as an international Consortium of separate entities with a shared vision and mission and sets out in one comprehensive agreement:

The effect of this agreement is that the CAMFED International Board has the ability to exercise control over the national offices, and as such their figures are consolidated into the group accounts.

Below are the global CAMFED Consortium legal entities:

Address: St Giles Court, 24 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AJ, United Kingdom

Address: 64 Lagos Avenue, East Legon, (P. O. Box MD 2387, Madina), Accra, Ghana

Address: Ursino Estate South, Plot No 44, Uporoto Street, (PO Box 33835), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Address: Keza Office Park, Next to Chichiri Roundabout, P.O.Box 2593, Blantyre, Malawi

Address: Plot 19011, Off Parliament Road, Olympia, (P.O.Box 51354), Lusaka, Zambia

Address: 16 Grasmere Lane, Borrowdale, (P.O. Box 4104), Harare, Zimbabwe

Address: 466 Geary Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States

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4. Grant Payable to Partner Organizations

There were no grants to other organisations in 2022 (2021 - None)

5. Income

Income from donations and legacies and charitable activities for the year fall into the following categories:

Unrestricted
Funds
£
5,407,331
261,992
944,628
407,572
-		 Restricted
Funds
£
301,740
-
178,054
6,103
277,212		 Endowment
Funds
£
(7,479)
-
-
-		 2022
£		 2021
£
a) Donations and Legacies
Donations 5,701,592 7,229,288
Legacies 261,992 1,256,594
Trusts and Foundations 1,122,682 3,299,549
Corporate donations 413,675 160,655
Gifts in Kind* 277,212 368,109
7,021,523 763,109 (7,479) 7,777,153 12,314,195
-
3,175,176
-
-		 -
-
-
-
b) Income from Charitable Activities
Statutories 6,622,102 13,747,735
Trusts and Foundations 31,670,222 23,495,253
Corporate donations 931,059 626,930
Universities, Colleges & Schools - -
3,175,176 36,048,207 - 39,223,383 37,869,918
Total Voluntary income 10,196,699 36,811,316 (7,479) 47,000,536 50,184,113

*Gifts in Kind includes AstraZeneca pro-bono support to the design of the Revolving Loan Fund process and BTEC verification from Pearson Education Ltd.

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6. Raising Funds

6. Raising Funds
Fundraising costs
Allocation of support costs		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
2,496,438
135,074
2,631,512		 Restricted
Funds
£
13,067
13,722
26,789		 2022
£
2,509,505
148,796
2,658,301		 2021
£
1,513,933
187,508
1,701,441

Included in fundraising costs is staff employment costs directly associated with raising funds for the charity. Allocation of support costs include overheads and Finance, Human resources, IT, Administration and a percentage of Key Management Personnel who provided support towards fundraising activities.

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7. Charitable Activity Costs

The Multiplier Effect
The Learner Guide Program
Enterprise Development
Evaluation and Research
Advocacy& Influence		 Support
costs
£		 2022
£		 2021
£
18,905,790 811,715 (981,988) 18,735,517 18,840,556
5,849,833 529,731 (430,820) 5,948,744 5,701,910
13,842,521 666,823 (726,900) 13,782,444 11,729,637
1,434,998 675,105 (66,797) 2,043,306 1,707,403
379,109 900,325 (50,830) 1,228,604 1,260,842
Total direct charitable expenditure 40,412,251 3,583,699 (2,257,335) 41,738,615 39,240,348

Support costs of £3.6 million (2021: £3.1 million) were 9% of the total (2021: 8%)

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8. Support Costs

8. Support Costs 8. Support Costs
The Multiplier Effect
The Learner Guide Program
Enterprise Development
Evaluation and Research		 Overhead
costs
£		 Total
2022
£		 Total
Foreign Exchange
£ 2021
£
248,109 (981,988) (170,273) 723,309
134,136 (430,820) 98,911 426,263
63,421 (726,900) (60,077) 673,108
111,389 (66,797) 608,308 307,523
Advocacy& Influence 648,936 251,389 (50,830) 849,495 879,366
2,775,255 808,444 (2,257,335) 1,326,364 3,009,569
Raising funds 205,126 48,527 (104,858) 148,796
187,508
Total costs allocated 2,980,381 856,971 (2,362,193) 1,475,160 3,197,077

9. Governance

Audit fees and expenses
Allocation of support costs
Meetings
Internal Audit
Recruitment of trustees
In-Kind Legal Fees
CAMFED Malawi Legal Fees
CAMFED UK Legal Fees
CAMFED Canada Legal Fees
Trademark Application
CAMFED Zambia Legal Fees
USA governance costs
CAMFED Australia Legal Fees
Governance training & review
CAMFED Ghana Legal Fees
Total		 2022
£
198,923
84,499
73,774
38,804
28,353
27,990
26,541
27,208
14,325
1,951
864
441
160
-
-
523,833		 2021
£
162,054
71,936
14,330
91,347
31,013
15,473
-
26,992
15,194
8,548
1,005
167
-
911
23,692
462,662

All governance costs above have been allocated to charitable expenditure.

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10. Trustees

a) Fees

No Trustees were paid any remuneration or received any other benefits from an employment with the charity or related entities (2021 – none).

b) Expenses

Expenses including travel reimbursed to and / or paid for Trustees for activities in furtherance of CAMFED’s work were as follows:

Trustee’s other expenses, including travel to Board meetings 2022: nil (2021: nil).

c) Insurance Indemnity

CAMFED took out indemnity insurance at a total cost of £1,912 (2021: £1,891) as cover for the following: Charity Trustee Management Liability up to the value of £500,000 and Employers Liability up to the value of £10 million.

d) Conflict of interest

No Trustee had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity during the year (2021 – none).

e) Donations

Total donations from trustees were £1,720 (2021: £2,700), none of which had conditions requiring a change to existing activities or plans.

11. Auditor’s remuneration

Audit of charity
Audit of subsidiary
Total statutory audit fees
Internal Audit
Other Audit related services
Total Auditor's remuneration		 2022
£
49,875
169,109
218,984
9,313
34,582
262,879		 2021
£
36,225
110,370
146,595
25,392
78,550
250,537

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12. Employees

2. Employees
a) Staff Costs
UK Salaries & Wages
UK National Insurance
UK Pensions
Total UK Payroll staff costs
International Salaries & Wages
International Pensions
Other staff costs
Total UK and International Payroll staff costs		 2022
£
2,739,620
323,830
211,837
3,275,287
5,829,209
711,808
473,950
10,290,254		 2021
£
2,163,085
242,023
167,901
2,573,009
4,450,381
653,769
385,916
8,063,075

Staff time is allocated directly to activities that cause or drive them and where direct allocation is not possible, they are apportioned based on a fair and equitable basis

b) Employees benefits within bands

The following staff numbers received total employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) within the listed bands:

Salary Range
£60,000 - £69,999
£70,000 - £79,999
£80,000 - £89,999
£90,000 - £99,999
£100,000 - £109,999
£110,000 - £119,999
£120,000 - £129,999
£130,000 - £139,999
£140,000 - £149,999
£150,000 - £159,999
£160,000 - £169,999
Total		 UK
3
1
4
-
2
-
2
-
-
1
-		 2022
International
3
3
1
-
4
-
1
-
-
-
1
13		 UK
3
3
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-		 2021
International
4
3
2
-
1
-
1
-
1
1
-
13 10 13

c) Headcount

The average headcount number of employees for the year was:

UK
Overseas
Total		 2022
Total
Number
54
282
336		 2021
Total
Number
49
262
311

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d) Remuneration and benefits received by Key management Personnel

Key management personnel are CAMFED staff to whom the Trustees have delegated significant planning, directing, and controlling authority or responsibility. The total employment costs of Key Management Personnel during the year were £493,085 (2021: £531,880).

The following positions within CAMFED are classified as Key Management Personnel:

The remuneration and benefits received by individuals who were employed in the above positions was as follows:

Salaries
Pensions
National Insurance
Medical Insurance
Total		 2022
UK
£
275,336
27,094
37,208
-		 International
£
134,273
12,466
1,769
4,940
153,448		 2021
UK
£
330,529
30,671
41,957
-		 International
£
113,298
10,630
1,375
3,420
339,638 403,157 128,723

The key personnel are identified as the Executives at CAMFED International who have oversight and coordination of the global CAMFED Executive Team which draws together national Directors from all offices (the national Directors report to the board of the respective CAMFED entity, which also goes for the Directors of CAMFED USA Foundation and CAMFED Canada). This includes the CEO, CFO and Chair of the Global Executive.

13.Taxation

As a charity, CAMFED International is exempt from tax on income and gains under sections 466 to 493 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010, to the extent that all income is applied for charitable purposes. No tax charges have arisen in the charity in the current or prior year.

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14.Tangible Fixed Assets

14.Tangible Fixed Assets
Tangible Fixed Assets (Consolidated)
Cost
Brought forward
Additions		 Office equipment Fixtures and Fittings Total
£
749,829
116,156		 £
105,304
5,723		 £
2,005,007
1,390,094
Disposals (41,878) (3,035) (44,913)
at 31 December 2022 824,107 107,992 3,350,188
Depreciation
Brought forward
Charge for the year
Disposals		 598,970
95,109
(40,795)		 91,114
7,530
(3,035)
1,543,189
224,283
(43,830)
As at 31 December 2022 653,284 95,609 1,723,642
Net Book Value at 31 December 2022 170,823 12,383 1,626,546
Net Book Value at 31 December 2021 150,859 14,190 461,818
Tangible Fixed Assets (Charity)
Cost
Brought forward
Additions		 Office equipment Fixtures and Fittings Fixtures and Fittings Total
£
103,624
17,422		 £
15,778
-		 £
119,402
17,422
Disposals (13,327) - (13,327)
at 31 December 2022 107,719 15,778 123,497
Depreciation
Brought forward
Charge for the year
Disposals		 84,583
13,719
(13,315)		 15,773
-
-
100,356
13,719
(13,315)
As at 31 December 2022 84,987 15,773 100,760
Net Book Value at 31 December 2022 22,732 5 22,737
Net Book Value at 31 December 2021 19,041 5 19,046

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15.Intangible Fixed Assets

15.Intangible Fixed Assets
Intangible Fixed Assets (Consolidated)
Cost
Brought forward
Additions
Disposals		 Digital Asset Total
£
-
256,502		 £
-
256,502		 £
-
- -
at 31 December 2022 256,502 256,502
Depreciation
Brought forward
Charge for the year
- -
- -
Disposals - -
As at 31 December 2022 - -
Net Book Value at 31 December 2022 256,502 256,502
Net Book Value at 31 December 2021 - -
Intangible Fixed Assets (Charity)
Cost
Brought forward
Additions
Disposals		 Digital Asset Total
£
-
256,502
-		 £
-
-
at 31 December 2022 256,502 256,502
Depreciation
Brought forward
Charge for the year		 -
-
-
-
Disposals - -
As at 31 December 2022 - -
Net Book Value at 31 December 2022 256,502 256,502
Net Book Value at 31 December 2021 - -

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16.Investments

16.Investments
Consolidated Consolidated Charity
2022
27,647,986		 2021 2022
Brought forward 23,318,603
Additions (stocks donations received) 942,779
20,549
-
(30,115)
(947,111)
4,333
(169,579)		 164,018 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
Additions (Endowments) 2,000,000
Additions (Other Investments) -
Disposals (Endowments) -
Disposals (stock donations sold) (168,874)
Gain on disposal of stocks 4,882
Investment management fees (120,828)
Revaluation of investments (2,057,844) 2,450,185 (2,229,856) 2,329,244
25,410,998
Consolidated
2022
£
271,601
132,528
35,958
1,134,759
371,699
-		 25,407,003
Charity
2022
£
346,339
132,528
35,958
41,036
187,886
12,341,602
Carried forward 27,647,986
17.Debtors Consolidated
2021
£
2,525,810
11,129
60,270
962,421
305,475
-
Grants receivable
Investment income
Gift Aid
Other debtors
Prepayments, Stamps, Staff loans
Balances owed by CAMFED subsidiaries
1,946,545 3,865,105 13,085,349 18,892,198

18.Creditors – Amounts Falling Due Within One Year

Consolidated
2022		 Consolidated
2022		 Consolidated
2021		 Charity
2022		 Charity
2022		 Charity 2021
£ £ £ £
Accruals 485,688
423,518
351,105
139,632
1,515
4,206,112		 184,404
569,718
510,645
78,351
1,460
14,365,243		 61,275
Trade Creditors & School going costs
payable		 457,912
Employment Costs Payable 41,659
PAYE and other taxes payable 72,422
Other creditors 1,461
Deferred income 6,170,679
Balances owed to CAMFED subsidiaries - - - -
5,607,570 15,709,821 4,120,106 6,805,408

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19.Lease commitments – Operating Leases

Payment due:
Within one year
Within one to five years		 2022
Land and
Buildings
£
315,075
178,461		 Other
Equipment
£
8,437
2,489		 2021 (Restated)
Land and
Buildings
Other
Equipment
£
£
356,064
9,380
392,529
10,925		 2021 (Restated)
Land and
Buildings
Other
Equipment
£
£
356,064
9,380
392,529
10,925		 2021 (Restated)
Land and
Buildings
Other
Equipment
£
£
356,064
9,380
392,529
10,925
493,536 10,926 748,593 20,305

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20.Restricted Funds

tricted Funds
Incoming Outgoing Purchase of
Fixed Assets		 Transfers
Between
Funds
AKO Foundation 221,620 422,530 (221,798) - 178 422,530
The Ambrogio Foundation 78,492 75,000 (147,663) - (5,829) -

Be That Girl Foundation		 - 129,840 - - 4,365 134,205
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK) - 426,172 (197,677) - (7,889) 220,606
Co-Impact 261,170 2,531,612 (277,529) - (113,618) 2,401,635

Cummins Foundation		 (1,029) 155,903 (135,864) - 13,635 32,645
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
(203292-101)		 - 3,274,135
(3,243,380)		 - (30,755) -
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
(Aid Match)		 - 1,655,616
(1,546,440)		 - (109,176) -
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
(300075-106)		 - 76,687
(76,246)		 - (441) -
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
GEC TW (5101)		 - 37,234
(39,109)		 - 1,875 -
The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable
Foundation		 184,749 -
(214,756)		 - 30,007 -
Eurofins Foundation - 60,200
(43,215)		 - 732 17,717
Global Partnership for Education/KIX and
International Development Research Centre		 119,863 409,643
(355,495)		 - - 174,011
European Commission Delegation in Malawi - 563,777
(241,169)		 - - 322,608
King Philanthropies 2,507,500 796,052
(3,812,587)		 - 211,429 (297,606)

Lifes2good Foundation		 35,371 224,466
(249,382)		 - (10,455) -

Mastercard Foundation (Scholars Program)		 - 1,924,079
(2,075,829)		 - 151,750 -

Mastercard Foundation (Transitions Program)		 - 3,223,891
(3,245,298)		 (18,982) 40,389 -

Mastercard Foundation (Young Africa Works
Program)		 346,526 9,105,376
(8,578,170)		 - (873,732) -
Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation 433,783 484,352
(488,258)		 - (57,732) 372,145
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - 516,294
(534,719)		 - 18,425 -

Roger Federer Foundation		 384,038 -
(748,189)		 (45,569) (22,526) (432,246)
Stone Family Foundation 222,050 150,387
(59,251)		 - 3 313,189

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Sint Antonius Stichting -
417,463
(217,059)
(2,132)
-
198,272
Trimble Foundation 74,018
82,115
(67,025)
-
-
89,108
UNICEF Zambia (26,461)
29,065
(54,633)
-
52,029
-
The Estate of Anthony Welsh 100,000
1,022,000
(23,042)
(1,234,847)
135,889
-
The Waterloo Foundation 144,272
40,559
(125,783)
-
(31)
59,017
Upside Trust -
80,000
-
-
-
80,000
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (Victoria) 68,675
55,000
(90,706)
-
-
32,969
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (NEXT) 155,741
218,118
(265,036)
-
(7,216)
101,607
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (SPF) 56,043
-
(55,048)
-
3,598
4,593
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (SPF) -
92,035
-
-
-
92,035
Yidan Prize Foundation 312,384
552,844
(236,786)
-
-
628,442
In Kind donations -
277,212
(277,212)
-
-
-
Other Grants under £50,000 1,713,866
644,814
(957,829)
-
357
1,401,208
Donors wishing to remain anonymous 1,251,008
7,129,383
(5,528,450)
(2,446)
(74,026)
2,775,469
Investments in Fixed Assets 91,422
-
-
1,303,976
(35,745)
1,359,653
8,735,101
36,883,854
(34,430,633)
-
(684,510)
10,503,812

Transfers between funds of £684,510 relates to:

Fund deficits represent expenditure in advance of funding being received.

Restricted funds are those funds raised for a specific purpose within the charitable objectives of CAMFED International.

Restricted Funds Continued (prior year)

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60 Million Girls Foundation
AKO Foundation
The Ambrogio Foundation
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Co-Impact
Cummins Foundation
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (203292-103)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (205210-221)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (Accountability in Tanzania
Programme Phase 2)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (300075-106)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office GEC TW (5101)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office GEC TW (5276)
ELMA Foundation
The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation
Eurofins Foundation
Human Dignity Foundation
International Development Research Centre
DFAT Civil Society Fund
Embassy of Ireland in Zambia
King Philanthropies
Lifes2good Foundation
Mastercard Foundation (Scholars Program)
Mastercard Foundation (Transitions Program)
Mastercard Foundation (Young Africa Works Program)
Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
The Queen's Commonwealth Trust		 Balance
01.01.2021
-
465,449
45,521
167,624
-
12,055
-
-
-
-
-
-
182,849
215,090
64,000
39,288
-
3,486
182,692
935,803
84,098
-
-
52,750
142,263
27,091
17,514		 Incoming
Outgoing
57,743
(55,769)
333,334
(577,163)
75,000
(42,029)
-
(162,954)
361,894
(108,056)
147,823
(159,355)
4,904,869
(4,909,615)
140,545
(141,797)
270,000
(280,977)
2,336,705
(2,190,318)
3,996,772
(3,950,202)
1,172,222
(1,186,683)
-
(183,386)
182,642
(213,089)
-
(63,178)
-
(32,443)
120,263
(7,268)
-
(3,646)
1,348
(158,060)
2,881,880
(1,363,602)
279,180
(327,127)
2,798,926
(2,798,200)
3,232,232
(3,237,383)
5,938,860
(5,624,153)
479,243
(185,928)
535,509
(562,703)
-
(13,552)		 Purchase
of Fixed
Assets
Transfer
Between
Funds
-
562
-
-
-
-
-
(3,366)
-
7,332
-
(1,552)
-
4,746
-
1,252
-
8,759
- (146,837)
(24,898)
(21,172)
-
14,461
-
537
-
106
-
(822)
-
(197)
-
6,868
-
160
-
(21,428)
-
53,419
-
(780)
(6,277)
5,551
(2,001)
7,152
(12,846)
(8,085)
-
(1,795)
-
103
-
-		 Balance
31.12.2021
2,536
221,620
78,492
1,304
261,170
(1,029)
-
-
(2,218)
-
-
-
-
184,749
-
6,648
119,863
-
4,552
2,507,500
35,371
-
-
346,526
433,783
-
3,962

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Roger Federer Foundation
Stone Family Foundation
Sint Antonius Stichting
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Carl M. Stevens Family trust
Trimble Foundation
UNICEF Zambia
The Estate of Anthony Welsh
The Waterloo Foundation
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (Victoria)
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (NEXT)
WISE Philanthropy Advisors (SPF)
YIDAN Prize Foundation
In Kind donations
Other Grants under £50,000
Donors wishing to remain anonymous
Investments in Fixed Assets		 177,915
502,194
(294,558)
-
(1,513)
384,038
5,651
408,557
(188,868)
-
(3,290)
222,050
-
402,818
(426,396)
(1,509)
25,087
-
-
100,000
(82,669)
-
-
17,331
-
133,498
(60,154)
-
580
73,924
-
74,217
(17,868)
-
17,669
74,018
105,823
211,054
(284,982)
-
(58,356)
(26,461)
-
100,000
-
-
-
100,000
238,708
191,000
(284,703)
(733)
-
144,272
42,216
55,399
(37,172)
-
8,232
68,675
156,312
189,022
(191,034)
-
1,441
155,741
34,313
85,262
(62,453)
-
(1,079)
56,043
-
423,541
(107,764)
-
(3,393)
312,384
-
368,109
(368,109)
-
-
-
1,801,364
1,111,064
(1,294,231)
(12,420)
50
1,605,827
766,517
2,842,022
(2,359,431)
(6,048)
7,948
1,251,007
117,161
-
-
66,732
(92,471)
91,422
6,083,553 37,444,247 (34,599,028)
- (193,671)
8,735,101

Transfers between funds of £193,671 relates to:

Fund deficits represent expenditure in advance of funding being received.

Restricted funds are those funds raised for a specific purpose within the charitable objectives of CAMFED International.

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21.Unrestricted Funds - Reserves

General funds represent any free funds of the charity which are not designated for particular purposes.

Designated funds represent funds earmarked by the Board of Trustees for particular purposes (please see notes below)

Target designated reserve:
School going and tertiary costs (see below)
Currency Risk
2021-25 Strategic Plan – designated funds
Required Reserves
Funded by Restricted funds
Designated reserve from Unrestricted Funds
Total Unrestricted funds
Less: Allocated to Designated Reserves
Remaining Unrestricted Funds**		 2022
£
12,363,591
1,000,000
28,342,719
41,706,310
(6,784,780)
34,921,530
40,921,530
(34,921,530)
6,000,000		 2021
£
9,964,464
1,000,000
33,910,500
44,874,964
(9,964,464)
34,910,500
40,910,500
(34,910,500)
6,000,000

Analysis of designated reserves - School going and tertiary costs

Country
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Tanzania
Malawi
Ghana
12 months target reserve		 Number of
Tertiary
Students
2022
208
15
753
779
1,050		 Number of
Tertiary
Students
2022
208
15
753
779
1,050		 Number of
Bursary
Students
Amount
£
2022
2022
7,217
1,534,872
26,281
3,049,363
5,522
1,518,627
34,913
3,440,666
11,706
2,820,063
85,639
12,363,591		 Number of
Tertiary
Students
Number of
Bursary
Students
Amount
£
2021
2021
2021
275
11,760
1,976,926
45
19,245
1,613,903
608
14,724
1,548,432
221
23,284
1,631,414
1,401
15,963
3,193,789		 Number of
Tertiary
Students
Number of
Bursary
Students
Amount
£
2021
2021
2021
275
11,760
1,976,926
45
19,245
1,613,903
608
14,724
1,548,432
221
23,284
1,631,414
1,401
15,963
3,193,789
2,805 2,550 84,976
9,964,464

** A currency risk reserve has been created to provide for the risk of exchange fluctuations between UK Sterling and other currencies to which CAMFED is susceptible to. CAMFED receives most of its funding in UK Sterling, however most of the programme expenditure is in US Dollars or currencies whose movements closely correlate to the US Dollar.

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***CAMFED is implementing the current 5-year strategic plan 2021-25, centred on our goal to support the education of five million girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The projected cost of this plan over five years is $250M. As far as possible, we aim to secure the majority of funding within the first phase of the plan in order to be able to make longer term commitments to girls and young women that extend through 2025. CAMFED’s strategic plan reserve decreased from £33.9m in 2021 to £27.7 million in 2022.

As the primary steward of CAMFED’s global strategy, CAMFED International is responsible for the judicious allocation of this flexible funding over the 5-year timeframe to meet funding needs. To this end, CAMFED International holds a proportion in a designated reserve to ensure sufficient funds are available to honour commitments to girls and young women in the later years of the plan, and to mitigate the longer-term impact on funding of the global pandemic which may otherwise hinder our ability to meet our 5-year targets.

22.Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds

Restricted
Unrestricted
Endowment
Restricted
Unrestricted
Endowment		 Fixed Assets
£
1,359,653
266,893
5,906,669
27,037,548
Fixed Assets
£
91,422
370,396
6,427,829
28,109,804		 Intangible Fixed
Assets
£
256,502
-
-
256,502
Intangible Fixed
Assets
£
-
-
-
-		 Net Current
Assets
£
8,887,653
21,150,302
-
20,037,960
Net Current
Assets
£
8,643,681
19,319,945
27,963,626		 Creditors due
after one year
£
-
-
-
-
Creditors
due after
one year
£
-
-
-
-		 Total
2022
£
10,503,812
40,921,529
5,906,669
57,332,010
Tota
l
202
1
£
8,735,103
40,910,498
6,427,829
56,073,430

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23.Notes to the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31 December 2022

a) Reconciliation of net income to net cash flow from operating activities

Net income for the reporting period (as per the statement
of financial activities)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges
Losses/ (Gains) on the disposal of fixed assets
(Gains)/Losses on investments
FX losses arising from revaluation of fixed assets
Donated stock
Donated investments
(Gain)/loss on foreign exchange movements on cash and cash equivalents
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Increase in debtors
(Decrease) in creditors
Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities		 2022
£
1,258,580
225,366
(3,034)
2,223,090
(4,333)
(942,779)
(20,549)
4,489,611
(420,488)
1,918,560
(10,102,251)
(1,378,227)		 2021
£
11,876,481
175,852
1,170
(2,334,238)
(4,882)
(164,018)
(2,000,000)
(83,610)
(175,049)
2,284,322
(1,292,863)
8,283,166

b) Analysis of cash and cash equivalents

Cash at bank and in hand
Short-term deposits
Total		 01-Jan-2022
£
Cashflow
£
35,280,778
(17,457,901)
4,527,564
11,348,544		 31-Dec-2022
£
17,822,877
15,876,108
39,808,342
(6,109,357)		 33,698,985

24. Endowment Funds

Donors wishing to remain
anonymous
Completion Reserve
Other endowments under
£50,000		 Balance
01.01.2022
1,692,987
4,723,569
11,273		 Incoming
-
-
(7,479)		 Outgoing
-
-
-		 Gains/(loss)
on
investment
(196,864)
(316,817)
-		 Purchase
of Fixed
Assets		 Purchase
of Fixed
Assets		 Purchase
of Fixed
Assets		 Transfer
Between
Funds
-
-
-		 Transfer
Between
Funds
-
-
-		 Balance
31.12.2022
1,496,123
4,406,752
3,794
6,427,829 (7,479) - (513,681) - - 5,906,669

25. Activities by Fund in Previous Year

Income and endowments from:
Note
s
Income from donations and legacies
5
Income from charitable activities
5
Investment Income
Other
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
6
Charitable activities
Multiply girls' educational opportunities
Enable educated women to lead change
Extend our Influence and Impact
Advocacy and Influence
Evaluation and Research
Total charitable activity costs
7
Total expenditure
Net gains and losses on investments
Net income/(expenditure) before
transfers
Transfers between funds
21
Other recognized gains/(losses)
Net movement of funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
9,199,507
1,604,859
110,549
4,042
10,918,957		 Restricted
Funds
£
1,114,687
36,265,059
64,500
-		 Endowment
Funds
£
2,000,001
-
-
-
2,000,001		 2021
Total Funds
£
12,314,195
37,869,918
175,049
4,042
50,363,204		 2020
Total Funds
£
10,846,430
50,474,431
304,622
30,446
37,444,246 61,655,929
1,691,476
1,443,160
594,885
1,309,935
881,566
421,740
4,651,286
6,342,762
1,778,946
6,355,141
193,671
-
6,548,812
34,361,688		 9,965
17,397,396
5,107,025
10,419,702
379,276
1,285,663		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
676,120
2,676,121
-
-
2,676,121
3,751,708		 1,701,441
18,840,556
5,701,910
11,729,637
1,260,842
1,707,403
39,240,348
40,941,789
2,455,066
11,876,481
-
11,876,481
44,196,949		 1,472,031
16,070,800
11,098,934
1,117,489
-
1,980,074
34,589,062 30,267,297
34,599,027 31,739,328
2,845,219
(193,671)		 (1,142,205)
28,774,396
-
2,651,548
6,083,553		 -
28,774,396
15,422,553

Total funds carried forward 40,910,500 8,735.101 6,427,829 56,073,430 44,196,949

26. Subsidiary Undertakings

The charity has nine (2021 - nine) wholly owned subsidiary companies, which operate to support the charity's aims:

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Grants and donations
Other income
Total income
Cost of generating
funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net gains and losses
on investments
Net result
Assets
Liabilities
Net funds		 CAMFED Ghana
2022
2021		 CAMFED Tanzania
2022
2021		 CAMFED Malawi
2022
2021		 CAMFED Zambia
2022
2021
£
£
439,643
841,629
-
2,697
439,643
844,326
-
-
4,773,708
4,398,089
4,773,708
4,398,089
-
-
(4,334,065)
(3,553,763)
290,596
261,281
(120,694)
(74,772)
169,902
186,510
£
£
563,777
21,328
669
473
564,446
21,801
-
-
6,704,064
6,443,349
6,704,064
6,443,349
-
-
(6,139,618)
(6,421,548)
742,417
94,073
(58,336)
(64,546)
684,081
29,527		 £
£
58,715
246,350
820
1,475
59,535
247,825
7,259
-
5,059,238
4,168,771
5,066,497
4,168,771
-
-
(5,006,962)
(3,920,946)
75,199
26,457
(85,191)
(361,004)
(9,992)
(334,547)

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Grants and donations
Other income
Total income
Cost of generating funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net Gains and losses on
investments
Net result
Assets
Liabilities
Net funds		 Camfed Zimbabwe
2022
2021
-
398,079
22
3,077
22
401,156
-
-
9,742,708
8,893,287
9,742,708
8,893,287
-
-
(9,742,686)
(8,492,131)
1,430,154
87,123
(163,822)
(11,129)
1,266,332
75,994		 Camfed Canada
2022
2021
9,272,740
6,096,914
-
-
9,272,740
6,096,914
89,320
2,643
646,071
131,990
735,391
134,633
-
-
8,537,349
5,962,280
1,159,374
8,272,320
(178,536)
(7,846,993)
980,838
425,327		 Camfed Regional (South
Camfed Australia
Camfed USA Foundation
Africa)
2022
2021
2022
2021
2022
2021
8,300,592
10,974,543
-
-
805,862
466,440
344,808
49,184
-
-
-
-
8,645,400
11,023,727
-
-
805,862
466,440
446,338
165,699
-
-
1,509
808
(14,809)
703,005
446,546
291,344
8,951
22,881
431,529
868,704
446,546
291,344
10,459
23,689
-
-
-
-
-
-
8,213,871
10,155,023
(446,546)
(291,344)
795,403
442,751
10,104,105
20,334,966
3,218
3,450
202,986
429,525
(119,470)
(395,146)
(11,722)
(33,441)
(5,376)
(53,728)
9,984,635
19,939,820
(8,504)
(29,991)
197,610
375,797		 Camfed Regional (South
Camfed Australia
Camfed USA Foundation
Africa)
2022
2021
2022
2021
2022
2021
8,300,592
10,974,543
-
-
805,862
466,440
344,808
49,184
-
-
-
-
8,645,400
11,023,727
-
-
805,862
466,440
446,338
165,699
-
-
1,509
808
(14,809)
703,005
446,546
291,344
8,951
22,881
431,529
868,704
446,546
291,344
10,459
23,689
-
-
-
-
-
-
8,213,871
10,155,023
(446,546)
(291,344)
795,403
442,751
10,104,105
20,334,966
3,218
3,450
202,986
429,525
(119,470)
(395,146)
(11,722)
(33,441)
(5,376)
(53,728)
9,984,635
19,939,820
(8,504)
(29,991)
197,610
375,797
805,862
466,440
-
-
805,862
466,440
1,509
808
8,951
22,881
10,459
23,689
-
-
795,403
442,751
202,986
429,525
(5,376)
(53,728)
197,610
375,797

Total income denotes funds received by each subsidiary in-country relating to grant contracts, public donations and other sources, and expenditure against operating activities. The net result for each subsidiary (with the exception of CAMFED USA Foundation, CAMFED Canada and CAMFED Australia) show deficits as this note excludes income received in the UK that was utilised in overseas operations; UK income is included in the consolidated Statement of Financial Activities

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