Education Projects

Faith and Development

A significant focus of our broader faith and globalization work has focused around faith and development.  In this, both of our major strands of work – education and social action – have come together to inform a wider audience of the role that the “faith communities” can play in international development. 

Faith and Malaria:Towards an Integrated Solution

In September 2009, the Foundation, with sponsorship by KPMG and in association with the Centre for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty in Washington D.C. and Yale World Fellows, co-hosted with Yale University an international conference that looked at the integration of faith into malaria control plans.  We brought together representatives from nine African countries,  the US State Department, private sector individuals, funders, intergovernmental organisations and religious leaders to work intensively  to understand how the faith based organisations, communities and leaders could work alongside government to play an effective and critical role in public health provision.

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New Perspectives on Faith and Development Seminar Series

In the autumn of 2009, the Foundation, in joint partnership with Islamic Relief, Oxfam, World Vision and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) , hosted a series of seminars around faith and development in London - with the intention of reaching out to a broad UK development audience to have an open and honest debate about the role that the faith sector can play in all aspects of international development. Find out more...