IHRDA receives funding from diverse sources to support its programmes and administrative costs. We are grateful to the following foundations, government agencies (who only fund our promotional non-litigation work) and individuals who have supported us in the past:
- Ashoka
- Australian Aid
- CIDA [Canada]
- Department for International Development UK [DFID]
- Echoing Green Foundation
- European Human Rights Foundation
- Finnish NGO Foundations [KIOS]
- Ford Foundation
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- John Merck Fund
- Norwegian Human Rights Fund
- Foundation Open Society Institute [OSI]
- Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa [OSISA]
- Open Society Initiative for West Africa [OSIWA]
- Sandy Spring Young Friends Group
- Swedish International Development Agency [SIDA]
- Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights
- US Embassy in The Gambia
IHRDA also raises part of its funding by undertaking consultancy in human rights issues in the following areas:
1. The African Human Rights System
2. Women’s Human Rights
3. Gender and Development
4. Children’s Rights
5. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the African Human Rights System
6. Legal literacy in human rights.
7. Litigation in the African system of human rights.
