NEW YORK / NAIROBI, 23 May 2012 — The Ford Foundation today announced a program of special grants and activities to celebrate its 50th anniversary working in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The anniversary celebrations throughout 2012 will highlight efforts by the foundation and the organizations it supports to deepen democracy, build greater inclusion and expand opportunity in Eastern Africa.
The centerpiece of the program is a $2 million grant for the Tuvuke Initiative for Peaceful and Fair Electoral Process in Kenya—a national campaign being undertaken by a diverse group of 17 Kenyan NGOs and coordinated by Kenya Women Holding, a longstanding grantee of the foundation.