National Partners
FPD – Fund for Sports Promotion
The Government of Mozambique’s Fund for Sports Promotion is the mechanism in which the Government of Mozambique has supported the Foundation’s activity. Since their initial support for the Foundations projects and grants in 2004, that 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 was essential.
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 with the Ministry of Education and Culture to implement programs in secondary schools. In early 2008, FLM was called to work closely together with MEC to create sports programs in three pilot secondary schools. The partnership is mutually beneficial and was signed for the implementation of Cantina Escolar.
FDC - Foundation for Community Development
The Foundation for the Development of the Community (FDC) is the largest and renowned as the largest the Foundation with the largest impact in Mozambique. Its support of the FLM has been institutional, helping finance trips to conferences, FDC invited FLM to participate in the Synergos Southern African Community Grant Makers cooperative. Even more recently, it sponsored a trip to the CPLP conference in Luanda for the Executive Director of FLM.
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.
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
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, the current Projects, specifically Cantina Escolar, Abraco and CEDID. But 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.
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.
HIVOS
HIVOS is 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.
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 program. 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.
Lee and Gund Foundation
In May 2007, Iara Lee and George Gund of the Lee & Gund Foundation and members of the Synergos Global Philanthropy Circle, met with FLM and expressed interested in supporting an education project. The result was the seed financing for the More School for Me pilot project, which empowers young women by providing scholarships for girls with limited access to secondary school education.
Princeton In Africa
Princeton In Africa based in Princeton, New Jersey and with direct ties to Princeton University entered into a partnership with FLM to provide Fellows for one-year positions with FLM for the next three years. The Fellows are chosen by FLM through an interview process and much of their expenses are covered by Princeton in Africa. The Fellows assist with work on projects and have the task of passing on capacity to the Mozambican counterparts of the projects as well as the beneficiaries. The agreement with Princeton in Africa was signed during the trip to the USA in June of 2007.
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.
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.