African Women Rising

What it reported doing in 2024

Agriculture: providing trainings to 2,840 new participants in perma gardens and field crop production and continuing support to 3,620. The perma garden program helps participants develop a regenerative food forest using resilience design to provide food security throughout the year. 95% of participants created a garden and are food secure, have increased disposable income and are able to share food with neighbors. 1,320 of the new participants are refugees from south sudan, living in refugee camps in uganda. The field crop program focuses on soil fertility and water conservation to increase yields. Both programs provide monthly support through community extension workers. Agricultural programs provide food and income to over 25,000 dependents. Participants in both programs planted 130,000 fruit and native trees.training-of-trainers certification course in regenerative agriculture: this two-week regenerative agricultural training, based on the permaculture design system and agroecological principles, is designed as a training-of-trainers (tot) certification program. The target audience for this course is program management and staff working in public and private programs who are promoting agriculture, nutrition, food security, disaster risk reduction (drr), natural resource management (nrm), water, sanitation and hygiene (wash), market system development (msd), or developing infrastructure in both humanitarian or development settings. Practical and field-based, it supports the participants in learning the theory, the science and then practically applying regenerative agriculture approaches into community and refugee contexts. Participants experience a mix of classroom time, peer-to-peer sharing, curriculum reinforcing activities, design exercises, field practicum, community facilitation and reflection. Participants learn to use the resilience design toolkit to strengthen their existing programming by integrating agroecological methodologies, this process can assist management and technical field staff to design and implement more resilient and productive growing systems as part of their programming. A particular emphasis is on designing for refugee and internally displaced people (idp's) contexts. Awr provided one training for 55 participants from 14 different organizations working in 10 countries. 5 participants were awarded full scholarship.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
• Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $45.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings