National Partners
FPD – Fund for Sports Promotion
The Government of Mozambique’s Fund for Sports Promotion is the mechanism with which the Government of Mozambique has supported the Foundation’s activity. Their initial support for the Foundations projects and grants in 2004 have allowed for support of the Mozambican Volleyball Federation, the Maputo Tennis Club and the Mozambican Athletics Federation. Their budget support also lead to the creation of a Website called CEDID, the Center for Documentation and Information on Sports in Mozambique. More recently, their support of the process to create the Strategic Plan for 2008-12 proved essential.
Royal Netherlands Embassy of Maputo
As a partner in Mozambican development, the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Maputo, through a Ministry of Development Corporation Sport for Development Fund, will begin funding the Foundation with a three-year commitment to the Desport Da Vida Program for its expansion into Nampula Province and for critical elements of development of the program and the Foundation’s work in creating sporting and competition potential out of Mozambican traditional games.
USA Embassy
Partnering with FLM in the YES Program…
Ministry of Education and Culture
FLM’s partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture is instrumental in the implementation of the two school projects. In January 2007, FLM signed a three-year MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Ministry of Education and Culture to implement programs in secondary schools. In early 2008, FLM was called to work closely together with the MEC to create sports programs in three pilot secondary schools. The partnership is mutually beneficial and was signed for the implementation of Cantina Escolar.
Ernst & Young
The reputable worldwide consultancy and auditing firm Ernst & Young in Mozambique has, since 2004, provided free external auditing of the Foundations accounts. The purpose serving both the donors who need this type of oversight to proceed in granting to a young Foundation, and for the benefit of the Foundation, for it to rapidly learn the expected norms of accountability and transparency. The outcome has been excellent, accounting for most of the positive changes to the financial management.
VDB Sports
The official Nike athletics distributor in Mozambique, VDB Sports has graciously offered large discounts on soccer balls for the Desporto da Vida Program in Zambezia
International Partners
Ford Foundation
As of February of 2008 the Ford Foundation has been financing the SGPM program. Their financial contribution to the program has allowed for associations led by and who work for the benefit of young women in Manica province to have access to micro funding to sustain their organizations and programs.
Oxfam - NOVIB
The Oxfam – NOVIB partnership stems from a previous partnership with a local Company, Iris Imaginaçoes, that worked with FLM in creating the idea of holistic sport development with a strong focus on HIV and sexual and reproductive health. The Project called Desporto da Vida, is the first sport for development endeavor by a Mozambican Institution, and its implementation in Gurue district in Zambezia Province is in line with the strategic geographic areas of development for Oxfam Novib. The partnership began at the beginning of 2007 with the initial grant to fund the pilot program.
Friend of Lurdes Mutola Foundation
The Friends of the Lurdes Mutola Foundation is the Foundation started in the United States that works on fund-raising from American philanthropist for specific projects implemented by the FLM. The projects that its donors are currently supporting are the Mais Escola Pra Mim, Cantina Escolar and the Sport Gives Life programs. Their two largest donors are the Lee and Gund Foundation and the Phillip and Rebecca Hochman Foundation.
Synergos Institute
A strategic Regional Partner in Southern Africa, the Synergos Institute organizes the Southern African Community Grant-Makers Cooperative, where the FLM is a member, one of two members from Mozambique, the other being FDC. The Synergoes Institute also supports the FLM with connections to its Global Philanthropy Circle, which is how it was initially presented to the Lee and Gund Foundation. The Cape Town based synergoes team meets regularly with FLM to discuss the possible expansion of activities among the two organizations.
AFS Interculture South Africa
The Foundation’s newest partner.
AFS Interculture South Africa is the implementing partner of the YES Program, the first Intercultural exchange program implemented by the Foundation. The partnership is signed for two years for the duration of the scholarship program for five Mozambican students that will study in the USA during the 2009-10 academic year. AFS Intercultural South Africa is part of the seasoned network of AFS International, and the only AFS organization in Southern Africa. FLM is honored to have partnered with them on this important intercultural program.
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation granted the FLM with its largest foreign grant, whose purpose was to develop the institutional capacity of the Foundation. The grant covers most of the current staff and current Projects, specifically Cantina Escolar, Abraco and CEDID. Much of the FLM’s development as an institution since the grant began in mid-2006 can be traced back to the support and possibilities created by this grant. The most significant output was the creation of FLM’s first Strategic Plan for 2008-12.
HIVOS
HIVOS the first international Donor experience for the FLM in 2004, was a grant to develop the policies around working with Young Women and to assess the FLM as a institution within the Mozambican Civil Soceity. There were several key outcomes to this grant including a full Institutional Assessment completed at the end of 2005, and a Round Table meeting on the key issues that affect young women. Key participants where young men and women from different walks of life along with the High Commissoner of the Rpublic of South Africa to Mozambique, the CEO of the Office of the Status of Women from Pretoria and the Minister of Women and Social Action, Mrs. Virginia Matabele.