Sub-Saharan Africa | NGO Explorer

Found 8,816 UK NGOs working in Sub-Saharan Africa

United Nations Development Programme region

Figures refer to charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, based on areas of operation supplied to the Charity Commission by the charities themselves. Charities that say they work in more than 50 countries are not included. Total spending of these organisations includes work they carry out outside of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Includes:

8,816
NGOs found

NGOs working in Sub-Saharan Africa also work in a further 234 countries, including the UK

Altogether, these NGOs spend £8.0bn
in all these countries*

This is equivalent to 10% of total UK charity spending of £79.2bn

* It is not possible to isolate spending only on Sub-Saharan Africa, we can only report spending by organisations in all the countries they work in.

Financial data is based on the latest available for these organisations. The latest available data is from 2020, though for some organisations it may be earlier.

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IATI Activity data

IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises. The data presented here is sourced from OIPA.

Select a country below to see a list of UK-registered organisations operating in these countries, sourced from data published by IATI publishers.

Angola [7 organisations]
Benin [6]
Botswana [1]
Burkina Faso [30]
Burundi [16]
Cabo Verde [2]
Cameroon [26]
Central African Republic [14]
Chad [12]
Comoros [1]
Congo [13]
Côte d'Ivoire [11]
Democratic Republic of the Congo [53]
Eritrea [2]
Eswatini [7]
Ethiopia [75]
Gabon [5]
Ghana [60]
Guinea [23]
Guinea-Bissau [5]
Kenya [115]
Lesotho [10]
Liberia [41]
Madagascar [9]
Malawi [71]
Mali [32]
Mauritania [19]
Mozambique [46]
Namibia [5]
Niger [28]
Nigeria [74]
Rwanda [45]
Senegal [30]
Seychelles [1]
Sierra Leone [78]
South Africa [38]
South Sudan [45]
Tanzania [79]
The Gambia [6]
Togo [5]
Uganda [111]
Zambia [61]
Zimbabwe [45]

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