Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
26 August 2026
Post No. 471
The Week’s Contents
• CENFACS Annual Impact Review 2025/2026
• Trend Analysis 2026 Activities from 26/08/2026
• Environmental Poverty Reduction Market Trend Analysis by CENFACS
… And much more!
Coming This September 2026
Key Messages
• CENFACS Annual Impact Review 2025/2026
CENFACS Annual Impact Review 2025/2026 is a snapshot of what we did between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026. As it is stated, it is neither a statutory annual report nor an annual return.
It is a summary of the year 2025/2026 in the life of CENFACS that reports back to our supporters, users, project beneficiaries, members, followers and other stakeholders the impact we made; impact through stories, quantitative and qualitative data. The review considers CENFACS impact on its intended beneficiaries while including any unintended effects which may have occurred.
The review highlights accomplishments made and recollected milestones for the above stated year. It uncovers trends and data-driven insights into outcomes and about the changes that affected our noble and beautiful cause of poverty reduction.
It outlines some highlights from our 2025 Year-in-review Impact Report (from the start of July to the end of December 2025) while including our achievements made by the end of June 2026.
It is as well a performance review and annual impact review story of our finances.
It is finally the impact story of embedding long-term resilience through innovation to drive future progress, and of scaling evidence-based interventions, institutionalizing learning and strengthening local ownership.
For more on this review, please read under the Main Development section of this post.
• Trend Analysis 2026 Activities from 26/08/2026
We are continuing to work on the four types of Trend Analysis 2026 Activities, which are:
a) Trend Analysis for CENFACS as a Charity
b) User Activity Trend Analysis
c) Trend Analysis of the Poverty Reduction Market by following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via the Lack of Alternatives
d) Trend Analysis in Sustainable Development.
This week, we are working on the fourth focuses of these 2026 Summer Trend Analysis Activities; focuses which are given below.
• • Trend Analysis for CENFACS as a Charity –
In Focus from Wednesday 26/08/2026: Operational Efficiency
Operational Efficiency as an element of this week’s trend analysis includes volunteering levels and costs of having them, and technology adoption. Let us briefly analyse them.
• • • Volunteering level and efficiency
CENFACS is a volunteer-based organisation, meaning that it heavily relies on volunteers to deliver its services and mission. Analysing level of volunteers helping CENFACS, their turnover rates and associated costs can help understand how CENFACS optimise volunteering and resource allocation.
• • • Technology adoption
It is about tracking the use of technologies (e.g., CRM, online fundraising platforms) that can help identify areas where CENFACS can leverage technology to improve efficiency and reach. For instance, AI-powered technologies are invading all areas of human life including the charity sector. Checking how CENFACS is approaching these technologies is also a matter of interest as far as operational efficiency is concerned.
• • User Activity Trend Analysis –
In Focus from Wednesday 26/08/2026: Increase Product/Service Retention
Perhaps, the best way to start this analysis is to explain product or service retention.
• • • What Is Product/Service Retention
To explain it, let us refer to what ‘shipscience.com’ (1) argues about it, which is:
“Product retention is the practice of maintaining customer loyalty and engagement by keeping them back to use your product or service. It is a key metric that measures how long customers continue to use your product after their initial purchase or subscription”.
Although ‘shipscience.com’ speaks about customers, it is possible to extend this notion to charities and project beneficiaries. By extending it to beneficiaries and service users, service retention will be about ensuring that CENFACS beneficiaries and service users stay with the services provided by CENFACS (e.g., advice, advocacy, translation, etc.) for a long period, at least for the duration of the programme and project they are involved in.
Knowing what is product or service retention, it is possible to explain the increase in product/service retention.
• • Increase Product/Service Retention
The trend analysis of CENFACS’ increase of service retention will include the study of CENFACS‘ strategies in terms of personalised thank-you messages, communications and data-driven insights, community events, and brand awareness. Let us explain what these strategies mean.
Regarding personalised thank-you messages, we shall check if CENFACS promptly sent these messages to donors after their contributions to show appreciation and to reinforce their support.
Concerning communications, we shall verify if CENFACS regularly kept in touch with donors and funders through various channels to foster relationships, and provide updates on CENFACS‘ progress.
As to data-driven insights, checks will be made to find out if CENFACS uses data to measure and analyse metrics like donations secured per year, number of donors, number of lapsed donors, and average duration of the donor lifecycle to inform retention strategies.
With respect to community events, we shall look at if CENFACS organised or participated in local fundraising events to create a sense of community and connection among donors, which can significantly impact donor loyalty and trust.
As far as brand awareness is concerned, it will be appropriate to analyse whether or not CENFACS has increased its brand awareness by keeping itself top of mind for potential donors and funders, especially during the times of urgent and demanding humanitarian need or the cost-of-living pressures.
If CENFACS did apply these strategies, there would be a lot of chance for it to retain its donors and funders, while building a loyal base of supporters.
• • Trend Analysis of the Poverty Reduction Market by Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via the Lack of Alternatives –
In Focus from 26/08/2026: Infrastructure and Human Capital Deficits
It is known that limited access to reliable energy, transportation, basic education, and healthcare slows the transition towards high-productivity sectors. This tells us where there are infrastructure and human capital deficits, it would be interested to follow the direction of poverty reduction to see how these deficits could be an obstacle to reduce poverty and what can be done to overcome these deficits and obstacle.
• • • Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Infrastructure and Human Capital Deficits
It involves lifting people out of poverty by building physical systems like roads and power grids, and improving human skills through better education, health care, and job training.
Let us look at ways of following the direction of poverty reduction through each deficit.
• • • Following the direction of poverty reduction through infrastructure deficits
It includes navigating physical access, basic utilities, and digital reach.
σ Physical access: It is about checking the building of roads, bridges, and public transport to connect isolated areas to markets and job opportunities.
σ Basic utilities: It involves looking at if the provision of clean water, sanitation, and reliable electricity; provision which helps promote daily living and business growth.
σ Digital reach: It includes the expansion of internet and mobile networks that open up remote regions to digital banking and remote work.
By navigating physical access, basic utilities, and digital reach; it is possible to know if there are infrastructure deficits, and what it is being done to close these deficits and therefore to improve the chance or opportunity to reduce poverty.
• • • Following the direction of poverty reduction through human capital deficits
This follow-up relates to areas such as health and nutrition, education and training, and social protection.
σ Health and nutrition: It is known that better medical care and food security reduce illness so people can work consistently. Navigation this area will help know if people are healthy and have nutritious food or not.
σ Education and training: Quality schools and skill programmes help workers earn higher wages. By looking at education and training, it is possible to find out if workers had the possibility to be out of in-working poverty.
σ Social protection: Safety nets protect families from falling deeper into poverty during emergency. By checking social protection, you can know if poor people have enough social cover to protect themselves.
So, it is conceivable to follow the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Infrastructure and Human Capital Deficits. To follow with us this direction of poverty reduction, please contact CENFACS.
• • Trend Analysis in Sustainable Development –
In Focus from 26/08/2026: Governance and Operations
Governance and operations involve reporting and organizational culture. Governance and reporting relate to adapting to evolving regulatory frameworks and ESG accountability standards. Organizational culture is about strengthening internal ethics, transparency, and strategic leadership alignment.
• • • Trend analysis in governance and operations
It is the practice of reviewing historical data over multiple time periods to spot persistent patterns, predict future outcomes, and guide proactive decision-making rather than reacting to single-joint anomalies.
There are key trend analysis applications in governance and operations
• • • • Key trend analysis applications in governance
These applications are relating to risk management, policy evaluation and accountability.
σ Risk management: It involves tracking compliance failures, audit findings, or safety incidents over time to see if risk levels are rising.
σ Policy evaluation: It encompasses assessing whether established governance controls and rules produce desired long-term behavioural changes.
σ Accountability: It includes providing boards and leaders with metrics to verify if organizational performance aligns with strategic targets.
• • • • Key trend analysis applications in operations
They cover process efficiency, resource allocation, and early warning.
σ Process efficiency: It deals with monitoring cycle times or product defect rates across quarters to catch degrading performance.
σ Resource allocation: It focuses on evaluating historical usage trends to optimize staffing, inventory levels, and budget planning.
σ Early warning: It concerns identifying gradual equipment wear or supply chain delays before they cause major disruptions.
The above summarizes our trend analysis work from Wednesday 26/08/2026.
For any queries and/or enquiries about the Trend Analysis Month, please do not hesitate to communicate with CENFACS.
• Environmental Poverty Reduction Market Trend Analysis by CENFACS
Our Trend Analysis Month and work has taken another step this week. We are analysing trend in environmental poverty reduction market. We are doing it since environmental poverty reduction is one of the goals in CENFACS 2020s Development Agenda and Poverty Reduction Programme and we focus on developing sustainable initiatives as part of our charity objects. But what is Environmental Poverty Reduction Market Trend Analysis (EPRMTA)?
• • Explaining EPRMTA
EPRMTA is the study of how commercial markets, green investments, and economic policies shift to lift people out of poverty while healing the planet. It tracks financial focus, eco-innovation, and green jobs that simultaneously cut carbon and raise low-income living standards.
Its key focus areas include green finance flows, eco-innovation adoption, ecosystem services, policy and tax impacts. The core market drivers are demand for ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investments, climate resilience and digital inclusion.
Charities can also analyse trends in environmental poverty reduction market.
• • CENFACS’ EPRMTA
It is an evaluation of how green economic shifts, climate policies, and sustainable industries impact low-income people and communities, including CENFACS community. It identifies eco-friendly job growth, funding patterns, and market gaps to help CENFACS design programmes that simultaneously lift people out of poverty and protect nature.
EPRMTA has goals and focus areas.
• • • EPRMTA’s main goals
The main goals here are to create projects that build eco-friendly skills. This implies the following:
σ Smart resource use: Directing money to areas/sections of our community where green projects help those of our members in most need
σ Policy influence: Showing stakeholders how environmental rules affect poor members of our community
σ Donor attraction: Using data to prove to supporters that their funds create lasting double-benefit results.
• • • EPRMTA’s key focus areas
They cover green opportunities/jobs growth, funding and grants, climate vulnerability, and market barriers.
Concerning green opportunities/jobs growth, it involves tracking demand for work in solar energy, organic farming, and waste recycling. This trend analysis information will help us when advising community members about opportunities and alternatives in environmental poverty reduction market.
Regarding funding and grants, it focuses on identifying where statutory and private donors spend money on climate and some welfare programmes and projects. This information will be included or fitted into our next fundraising strategy for alternative funding.
As to climate vulnerability, it is about mapping which poor countries/areas in Africa and sections of our community in the UK face the highest environmental risks (e.g., extreme heats or floods).
With respect to market barriers, it encompasses finding out why poor populations or communities struggle to join green markets (like lack of training or money) and how they can overcome these barriers.
• • • EPRMTA metrics
By following the environmental poverty reduction market, we are as well tracking dual-impact metrics that combine ecological health with community economic wellbeing. We are trying to look at key indicators that measure job creation, resource access, and environmental restoration to prove that green programmes reduce both poverty and environmental harms.
Among these metrics, it is worth mentioning the following ones.
σ Economic and livelihood metrics
They include green jobs created, income change, cost savings, and skills gained.
σ Environmental and health metrics
They incorporate carbon reduced, resource access, health improvements, and land restored.
σ Market and system metrics
They comprise local enterprise growth, funding leverage, and policy shifts.
As said earlier, these metrics will enable track dual impact in terms of ecological heath and community economic wellbeing.
For any queries and or enquiries about the above-mentioned trend analysis, please contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• Summer 2026 Creative Economic Development Activity of the Week: Construct and Post an E-card or a P-card
• All-in-one Double-entry Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal for Summer 2026 – Creative Activity No. 6: Create Your All-in-one Double -entry Journal of Freedom to Choose and Capabilities with the Triple Bottom Line
• Coming Next Week: Implementing Intergenerational Financial Planning for Families
• Summer 2026 Creative Economic Development Activity of the Week: Construct and Post an E-card or a P-card
One can construct and post paper (p) cards or electronic (e) cards or objects as expressions or ways of dealing with desertification to resonate the 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification which is taking place in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) from 17 to 28 August 2026. The theme for 2026 Desertification Conference is: “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope” (2).
• • Constructing and Posting an e-Card for this Annual Desertification Event
It is a good way to echo this year’s message: “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope”. You can create a digital card using design tools like Canva or Adobe Express and post it to social media to highlight the importance of land restoration.
• • • How to break down the message
To echo the campaign’s call-to-action structure, you can structure your e-card or accompanying caption around two key pillars: “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope”.
• • • How to construct your e-card
You can follow these basic steps:
a) Choose a template by using Canva or Adobe Express
b) Incorporate official assets (Access official campaign imagery and translated resource toolkits or daily journals from the official website for COP17 at https://unccdcop17.org)
c) Add text
d) Include Hashtag.
• • Constructing and Posting a p-Card for this Desertification Event
Constructing and posting this paper card is a hands-on way to echo the United Nations’ theme: “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope”. It is a physical, artistic commitment to raising awareness about land restoration and desertification.
• • • What it means to echo the message
Your p-card is a physical medium to spread the campaign’s core pillars: “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope”.
• • • How to construct and post your p-card
• • • • Constructing your p-card
You can follow these essential steps:
a) Use recycled or hand-made seed papers for your DIY paper craft
b) Use design platforms like ‘PosterMyWall’ to craft an eco-friendly graphic for your digital design
c) Emblazon the front or inside of the card with the official message: “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope”.
• • • • Posting your p-card
There are many ways of posting your well-crafted p-card, ways which include the following:
a) Mail or hand-deliver your p-cards to the public to spur local environmental action
b) Share it digitally with policymakers, community leaders, places of summer activities, etc. to spur local environmental action
c) Photograph your handmade card and post it to social media using the official and core campaign hashtags like
#COP17Mongolia
#UNCCDCOP17
#UNited4Land
etc.
So, those who wish and want can design and post an e-card, p-card, e-object or p-object to feature the theme of “Restoring Land, Restoring Hope” linked to the Desertification Conference.
This Summer 2026 Creative Activity is part of Art and Design for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development run by CENFACS.
To support and or enquire about Art and Design for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development, please contact CENFACS.
• All-in-one Double-entry Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal for Summer 2026 – Creative Activity No. 6: Create Your All-in-one Double-entry Journal of Freedom to Choose and Capabilities with the Triple Bottom Line
The last episode of our Summer series of Journal of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness is about Freedom to Choose and Capabilities. It is about writing on the things that have expanded your freedoms (i.e., liberty or independence) and opened more choices for you to find your own development paths according to socially acceptable values rather than being prescribed to follow a particular path. As Armarthya Sen (3) explains in the following words:
“Freedom implies not just to do something but the capabilities to make it happen”.
Yet, personal circumstances and external factors (e.g., extreme temperatures, higher costs of living) have restricted the freedom to choose, incapacitated people, and limited the choice one can make about their happiness, healthiness and wellness over Summer 2026.
Despite these restrictions, limitations and incapabilities; one can create or write a journal of freedom or unfreedom to choose to reflect their conditions and circumstances of life brought by the lingering effects of these circumstances and factors.
Before embarking on writing this journal, it is better to get some clues about the relationships between happiness and freedom, between healthiness and freedom, between wellness and freedom.
Equally, it is better to understand the relationships between happiness and capabilities, between healthiness and capabilities, between wellness and capabilities.
• • Relationships between Happiness and Freedom, between Healthiness and Freedom, between Wellness and Freedom
• • • Relationships between Happiness and Freedom
There could be a link between happiness and freedom. Ruut Veenhoven (4) explains that
“Freedom is the possibility to choose, and involves both the opportunity and capability to choose… Freedom does not always contribute to happiness, but it does not destroy it either. The data strongly suggest that economic freedom leads to happiness, especially for those in conditions of poverty and low capability. The effect that political and private freedom can add to happiness has been restricted to rich and capable countries”.
One can use Veenhoven’s view or other views on the relationship between happiness and freedom to narrate their experiences, feelings, sentiments and thoughts in terms of happiness and freedom over this Summer.
• • • Relationships between Healthiness and Freedom
The pursuit of healthiness can lead to some degree of freedom. For some people, healthiness can facilitate freedom and be dependent on a personal orientation towards freedom. For other ones (like the neo-liberals who value individual responsibility), they blame the health victims. From this blame perspective, De Jong et al. (5) explain that
“Freedom is understood from an individualistic, neoliberal point of view, which is characterised by voluntarily demonstrating individual responsibility, prudence, health consciousness, health commitment and productivity regarding the construction of one’s healthiness”.
One can use the argument of De Jong et al. or other arguments regarding the relationship between healthiness and freedom to write their experiences, feelings, sentiments and thoughts in terms of healthiness and freedom over this Summer.
• • • Relationships between Wellness and Freedom
Let us first explain wellness. Di Martino et al. (6) quotes Prilleltenskj to define wellness in psychology as
“A positive state of affairs brought about by the simultaneous and balanced satisfaction of diverse objective and subjective needs of individuals, relationships, organisations and communities”.
This positive state of affairs can lead to freedom. In return, freedom (e.g., freedom of movement and occupation) can contribute to well-being.
One can use the link between the positive state of affairs and freedom to journal their experiences, feelings, sentiments and thoughts in terms of wellness and freedom over this Summer.
• • Relationships between Happiness and Capabilities, between Healthiness and Capabilities, between Wellness and Capabilities.
Capability can be related to happiness, healthiness and wellness. But, what is capability?
According to ‘cloudassess.com’ (7),
“A capability represents a blend of personal and technical skills, knowledge and behaviours that allow an individual or an organisation to perform effectively. For individuals, it is about the potential to apply skills and knowledge in different situations”.
Armarthya Sen goes further in its capabilities approach by pairing functionings and capabilities. Tom Jacobson and Leanne Chang (8) refer to Sen’s capabilities approach and write this:
“Capabilities refer to real opportunities citizens have to enjoy a functioning rather than to the actual enjoyment of the functioning”.
Still for Jacobson and Chang, Sen believes that development must focus on a range of doings and beings, or functionings, which are much broader than material well-being.
One can refer to the definition of capability by ‘cloudassess.com’ and Sen’s capabilities approach or any other perspective on capabilities, and journal their experiences, feelings, sentiments and thoughts in terms of the relationships between capability and happiness, between capability and healthiness, between capability and wellness over this Summer.
• • Create or Write a Journal of Freedom or Unfreedom to Choose and Capabilities for Any Life Circumstance
To reflect the above-mentioned restrictions or limitations or even incapabilities as well as relationships, one can create or write a journal of freedom or unfreedom for the things that have made them to feel happy, healthy, well, capable and free during this Summer 2026. Alternatively, one can consider journaling the things that have made them unhappy, unhealthy, unwell, incapable and confined this Summer 2026.
Since, the work of CENFACS is on poverty reduction, one can as well think of writing a journal that explains the freedom and ability they have to choose solutions to reduce or end poverty and hardships. Such a journal can include things like being able to choose items within the basic necessities of life (e.g. kinds of food, shelter, education, information, health, etc.).
For example, one can write about fostering their own or people’s competence to make their own choices to exercise their own agency or about the freedom to meet their own needs. One can as well write on deficit in freedom to choose.
You can create your journal for any aspects of Summertime linked to freedom to choose. You can explain your experiences, feelings, sentiments and thoughts in terms of happiness, healthiness and wellness about freedom to choose and capabilities over this Summer.
In short, you can create or write a journal of the following:
∝ Things that have made you to feel happy, healthy, well, free and capable over this Summer 2026
∝ Things that have made you unhappy, unhealthy, unwell, incapable and confined over this Summer 2026
∝ Explaining the freedom and capability you have to choose solutions to reduce or end poverty and hardships over this Summer 2026.
However, your journal could be incomplete if you do not incorporate the triple bottom line (that is, people, planet and prosperity). You could even improve it by making it an all-in-one double-entry one.
• • Creating Your All-in-one Double -entry Journal of Freedom to Choose and Capabilities with the Triple Bottom Line
An all-in-one double-entry journal of freedom to choose and capabilities with a triple bottom line is a comprehensive accounting framework. It tracks financial progress alongside human well-being (capabilities) and ecological health (triple bottom line) using a dual-sided ledgers to ensure equity, agency, and sustainability are balanced.
The core components of this journal are as follows.
σ Freedom to choose: It records individual and community agency, ensuring actions reflect genuine personal and social autonomy rather than coercion.
σ Capabilities: It measures real opportunities people have to live well, such as health, education, and participation, inspired by Amartya Sen’s capability approach.
σ Double-entry structure: It balances every resource use or choice against its social and environmental impact, ensuring accountability and reciprocity.
σ Triple Bottom Line: It evaluates access across three pillars, which are People (social equity), Planet (environmental stewardship), and Prosperity (economic viability).
• • Impact Record and Share of Your Journal of Freedom to Choose and Capabilities
You can impact record your thoughts, feelings, sentiments, experiences, souvenirs and memories in relation to happiness, healthiness and wellness regarding the freedom to choose and capabilities. This can be recorded in your journal and be shared by the end of Summer 2026.
To impact share the contents of your journal of happiness, healthiness and wellness relating to happy, healthy, good, capable and free livelihoods during this Summer 2026 as well as to help build a better Summer holiday experience, you can contact CENFACS.
• Coming Next Week: Implementing Intergenerational Financial Planning for Families
Eliminating (inter/intra) generational poverty among women and children is the fifth poverty goal of CENFACS’ 2020s Development Agenda and Poverty Reduction Programme (9). To eliminate it, it requires both financial planning and the implementation of this planning. Last year, we dealt with the planning process. This year, we will be working on the implementation of this plan. Before tackling this implementation, let us re-explain intergenerational financial planning and intergenerational poverty.
• • What Is Intergenerational Poverty?
To understand intergenerational poverty, we have selected the following online definition given by a Commission on Poverty of Hong Kong (10):
“Intergenerational poverty refers to the poverty induced by the socially/economically challenged background of a person’s parents”.
Like any type of poverty, intergenerational poverty has its channels of transmission.
• • What Is Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty?
Briony Smith and Karen Moore (11) point out that
“Intergenerational transmission of poverty can be defined in terms of the type of transmission, the type of poverty, its irreversibility, and the individual/household/contextual factors which enhance or interrupt transmissions” (p. 4)
From the points made by the above named authors, we can now borrow the definition of intergenerational transmission of poverty from Kate Bird and Kate Higgins (12), who argue the following:
“The intergenerational transmission of poverty can be described as the private and public transfer of deficits in assets and resources from one generation to another. Poverty is not transferred intergenerationally as a package; but as a complex set of positive and negative factors that affect an individual’s chance of experiencing in the present or at a future point in their life-course” (p. 9)
In terms of our work with families, we are talking about private intergenerational transfers of these deficits in assets and resources. We are and will be as well working on poverty transmitted from parents to children and grandchildren, but not the one transmitted from young generation to old generation.
To avoid this type of poverty to happen or to reduce its impact if it happens, one needs not only to set up an intergenerational financial plan but to implement this/his/her plans.
• • Implementing Intergenerational Financial Planning for Families
It is a crucial step after creating an intergenerational financial plan. It means shifting from paper strategies to real-world execution, actively educating heirs, establishing clear communication protocols and staging lifetime transfers or executing legal vehicles like trusts.
There are key implementation actions that need to be taken. Among these actions, we can mention financial literacy and mentorship, family governance charters, phased lifetime gifting, and periodic plan reviews.
σ Financial literacy and mentorship
It is about training younger generation to manage wealth responsibly through guided involvement.
σ Family governance charters
It involves drafting a shared family constitution or charter to document core values, expectations, and rules for asset use.
σ Phased lifetime gifting
It deals with the execution of structured, tax-efficient transfers early (“warm hands”) to fund major milestones like education or home deposits.
σ Periodic plan reviews
It encompasses updating legal documents (wills, powers of attorney, trust deeds) and adjust cash-flow models as tax laws or family needs change.
From September 2026, we shall be working with families/households making the CENFACS Community on these implementation actions.
• • Working with the Community on the Implementation of Intergenerational Financial Planning
The following topics and dates will be part of our work with the community:
∝ Financial literacy and mentorship (02/09/2026)
∝ Family governance charters (09/09/2026)
∝ Phased lifetime gifting (16/09/2026)
∝ Periodic plan reviews (23/09/2026)
Those who may be interested in the Implementation of Intergenerational Financial Planning or in discussing their Intergenerational Financial Plan, they should not hesitate to contact CENFACS. Equally, those who would like to tackle intergenerational poverty can communicate with CENFACS.
Message in English-French (Message en Anglais-Français)
Ebola Humanitarian Re-Appeal
Because of the aggressivity of the outbreak driven by the rare Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) spreading across multiple provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are relaunching this campaign.
According to the World Health Organization (13),
“As of 12 August 2026, a total of 4665 confirmed cases, including 2984 deaths, have been reported, corresponding to a crude case fatality ratio (CFR) of 46.8%”.
The campaign is an emergency fundraising and resource development relaunched by CENFACS to help combat deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the multiple provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The appeal will help raise funds to support the already deployed medical teams, provide safe burial services, distribute hygiene kits, counter disease misinformation, and support the highly vulnerable survivors.
Ebola outbreaks in the DRC and in other parts of Africa can quickly escalate from medical emergencies into a severe humanitarian crisis. Yet, it is possible to
σ stop the rapid spread of the highly infectious virus like Ebola
σ avoid the long disruption of livelihoods
σ fight fear and misinformation
σ mitigate regional vulnerabilities brought by conflicts causing massive population displacement.
You can donate any amount to this appeal. Your support will help carry out life-saving and -sustaining work like
σ sensitization of communities where these outbreaks have appeared
σ the conduct of safe and dignified burials
σ the provision of hygiene and water supplies
σ support livelihoods and survival
σ in brief, help survivors and restore local health facilities.
To donate, please use our usual contact address on this website.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give and help save the lives of the Ebola Humanitarian Crisis-impacted in the DRC.
Nouvel Appel Humanitaire CONTRE Ebola
En raison de l’agressivité de l’épidémie provoquée par le virus rare Bundibugyo qui se propage dans plusieurs provinces de la République Démocratique du Congo, nous relançons cette campagne.
Selon l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (13),
“Au 12 août 2026, 4 665 cas confirmés, dont 2 984 décès, ont été recensés, soit un taux de létalité brut de 46,8 %”.
Cette campagne de collecte de fonds d’urgence, relancée par le CENFACS, vise à lutter contre l’épidémie mortelle du virus Ebola qui frappe plusieurs provinces de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC). L’appel aux dons permettra de financer les équipes médicales déjà déployées, d’assurer des services funéraires sécurisés, de distribuer des kits d’hygiène, de lutter contre la désinformation et d’apporter un soutien aux survivants les plus vulnérables.
En RDC et ailleurs en Afrique, les épidémies d’Ebola peuvent rapidement dégénérer d’urgences sanitaires en graves crises humanitaires. Il est toutefois possible de…
σ stopper la propagation rapide de ce virus hautement contagieux qu’Ebola ;
σ éviter la perturbation durable des moyens de subsistance ;
σ lutter contre la peur et la désinformation ;
σ atténuer les vulnérabilités régionales engendrées par les conflits provoquant des déplacements massifs de population.
Vous pouvez faire un don du montant de votre choix. Votre soutien contribuera à la réalisation d’actions vitales et essentielles telles que celles-ci:
σ la sensibilisation des communautés touchées par ces épidémies
σ l’organisation d’inhumations dignes et sécurisées
σ la fourniture de produits d’hygiène et d’eau potable
σ le soutien aux moyens de subsistance et à la survie
σ en bref, l’aide aux survivants et la restauration des infrastructures sanitaires locales.
Pour faire un don, veuillez utiliser notre adresse de contact habituelle sur ce site web.
Nous vous remercions par avance de votre générosité qui permettra de sauver des vies face à la crise humanitaire Ebola en RDC.
Main Development
• CENFACS Annual Impact Review 2025/2026
This impact review aims at those who are interested in the work that CENFACS does to get a glimpse of the impact on beneficiaries and what happened during the financial year 2025/2026. It is a summary of our activities, performance, achievements and accounts for the financial year 2025/2026.
The following contents make this review:
∝ CENFACS Mission Statement
∝ Theme of CENFACS’ 2025/2026 Annual Impact Review
∝ Annual Impact Review Summary 2025/2026.
Let us uncover these contents.
• • CENFACS Mission Statement
The mission statement of CENFACS is to enhance the quality of life for Africans in Africa and the UK.
As part of this mission, we work together with our beneficiaries by providing practical and people-centred support as well as developing sustainable solutions for them to overcome poverty and improve the quality of their life. During the financial year 2025-2026, we have done the same.
• • Theme of CENFACS’ 2025/2026 Annual Impact Review
The theme for this impact review is embedding long-term resilience through innovation to secure future progress. It means during the financial year 2025-2026, we used new ideas and technology to build strong systems that survive long-term challenges and keep moving forward. We also prepared ourselves for future risks while growing and improving over time to further reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
• • Annual Impact Review Summary 2025/2026
The summary of our annual impact review 2025/2026 is presented under the following four headings:
∝ Activities Review
∝ Key Produce or Achievements of the Year
∝ Financial Performance Review
∝ Thank you
Let us review the activities, achievements and financial performance of the year.
• • • Activities Review
• • • • Summary of the Year
2025/2026 financial year was all about finding alternative funding sources and business models for our Africa-based Sister Organisations (ASOs) as they were experiencing and continue to suffer from international and foreign aid cuts.
For our individual beneficiaries, there was also the need to develop alternative income sources and streams to help them transition out of poverty, particularly but not exclusively income poverty.
Working on the proposals for alternative funding sources software became self-evident. The software is project designed to provide to ASOs and other users targeted information on alternative sources of funding, to keep or realise momentum of ASO mission.
Finding alternative funding sources and business models imply looking at other viable economic models and paradigms. One of these models that our ASOs thought would help them was/is the New Social and Solidarity Economy System in Africa. Together with ASOs, we explored strategies that could help them continue their poverty reduction mission and benefit from being part of this new economic system. One of the possible strategies was to develop a directory of social and social economy organisations (SSE) in Africa. Together with ASOs, we conducted research to develop methodologies to capture and increase the statistical visibility of these SSE organisations in Africa.
However, since many of our ASOs, particular those working on climate issues, were facing the double problem of climate technology and climate finance, it became obvious that the only way to keep serving local people and increase their poverty reduction outcomes in Africa was to resolve the double transfer (of climate technology and finance) issue with multinational charities and non-governmental organisations engaged with them.
Strategies were developed to appeal to these multinational and transnational organisations to facilitate this double transfer process, that is the access to equipment, knowledge, and skills with financial mechanisms to overcome significant barriers (such as upfront costs, perceived investment risks and lack of technical capacity).
Our work with ASOs and local people on finding alternatives went on in exploring approaches to fostering alternatives to high-emission industrialization and tackling pollution-induced poverty in Africa. This meant undertaking poverty reduction without pollution by decoupling growth from environmental degradation, enabling a green industrialisation that reduces poverty, creates jobs, and lowers emissions simultaneously.
We worked with both ASOs and individuals via Information, Guidance and Signposting (IGS) services on these approaches. A great number of ASO representatives and individuals benefited from these IGS sessions/services. This also signified integrating the Triple Bottom Line (that is, People, Planet and Prosperity) into most our projects and programmes with them. For instance, many of the users of All-Year-Round Projects included the Triple Bottom Line into the application of their individual projects.
From the above summary, there are many things one can take away in terms of impact.
• • • • Key Takeaways of the Year
The points or facts to remember about 2025/2026 from within and around CENFACS are as follows.
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of information, guidance and signposts on alternatives to high-emission processes and pollution-induced poverty reduction
We worked with organisations (like Africa-based Sister Organisations) and members of the CENFACS Community looking for information, guidance and signposts for alternative ways of life (such transitioning way from greenhouse gas emissions processes or industrialisation and poverty stemming from pollution).
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of scaling evidence-based interventions, institutionalizing learning and strengthening local ownership
As part of Rebuilding Africa programme, we work together with ASCOs to scale up proven interventions (in expanding successful, evaluated pilot projects), translate MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) findings into policy changes, deepen local ownership (shifting from external evaluation to strengthening local capacity for MEL), more focus on pro-poor structural growth, and manage risk proactively.
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of creations and innovations to mitigate the impacts of energy crisis and to reduce long-term energy poverty
To help mitigate the impacts of energy crisis we worked with our users on innovations, systems and policies designed to reduce reliance on volatile energy supplies, lower energy costs, and buffer economies against sudden shortages. We also worked on the development and implementation of new technologies, policies, and systemic practices designed to reduce dependency on volatile fuel sources, prevent widespread power outages, and stabilize energy costs.
To help tackle the causes of long-term energy poverty (that is, the persistent inability of a household to access or afford essential energy services), we worked on creations and innovations helping long-term energy poor to reduce this type of poverty. Through our Basic Community Support Service, we assisted the chronically low-income households – through tips, hints and hacks – to reduce or avoid the persistent inability to afford or access essential energy services – such as heating, cooling, lighting, and cooking – necessary for a decent standard of living and health.
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of advocacy to save critically endangered amphibian species via MAMBILANGA project
Through the MAMBILANGA (which is stands for Mind Amphibians for Maintaining the Balance of Insects in the Lives of Aquatics and Nutrients, and for Guarding Agriculture) project and ‘A la une’ (Autumn Leaves of Action for the Upkeep of the Nature in Existence) campaign, we tirelessly worked with the community and others outside our community to raise awareness of the upkeep of endangered amphibian species like
Pickersgill’s Reed Frog (Hyperolius pickersgill), Western Nimba Toad (Nimbaphrynoides occidentalis), Togo Slippery Frog (Conraua derooi), Rough Moss Frog (Arthroleptella rugosa), Blommersia Dupeezi, Krokosua Squeaking Frog (Arthroleptis krokosua), Atewa Slippery Frog, Manengouba Long-fingered Frog, Nsoung Long-fingered Frog, Rebelly Egg Frog, Alexterron jyux, Leopard Toad, Goliath Frog, Big-eyed Forest Tree Frog, Perret’s Night Frog, etc.,
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of matching organisation-investor programme
We quarterly ran four matching 0rganisation-investor projects which were on the following four areas: Sustainable Educational System, Small Lottery Scheme, Sustainable Water, and Clean Cooking.
These projects, which were the matching opportunities of the year 2025/2026, offered to both ASOs and not-for-profit investors a chance to make their dream come true. In other words, there were occasions for ASOs to find the investment they were looking for and not-for-profit investors the organisation to invest in, and both of them could move forward with certainty in their chosen direction.
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of spatial analysis of poverty with the orange space-focused and spacing analysis
2025/2026 was as well a year of engaging space to deal with poverty induced or linked to orange space. It was a year of addressing spatialisation of poverty, particularly the relationship between orange space and spatial poverty. We explored with poor living in or around orange spaces ways of reducing or ending this type of poverty. Besides that, we made efforts with them to reduce any hazards from orange spaces.
∝) 2025/2026 as a year of household empowerment
Continuing to empower households making the CENFACS Community is what makes these households strong and links us as a community. During 2025/2026, we relentlessly worked with them through initiatives such as
Financial Empowerment Programme for Households; AI-powered Financial Monitoring and Controls for Households’ Finance Capacity and Capability Building Experiences; Household- and Area-focused Programmes for Assets and Economic Building for Families, Climate-resilient Asset Building Programme for Households in 2026, Basic Home-based Bookkeeping and Accounting for Poverty Reduction, etc.
∝ 2025/2026 as another year of developing skills within the community
Skills development with the community members included
Business Education Programme for Low-income Families, Economic Thinking Skills, Skills to Integrate Generative AI into Household Data Storytelling and Communications, Business Education Programme for Low-income Families to Reduce Poverty, the Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household, Restoration Skills to Handle a Crisis with No End in Sight, etc.
∝ 2025/2026 as year of making proposals or ideas for actions for a better Africa
To help reduce poverty in Africa and ensure the public benefit from our work, the following topics were dealt with through CENFACS’ Better Africa Forum:
Poverty Reduction in Africa, the Impacts of Football on Poverty Reduction, How to Bridge the Gap between African Charities’ Reliance on Grant Models and Not-for-profit Impact Investors’ Request for Scalable, Self-sustaining Market Mechanisms, the Impact of Credit Bonobo on Poverty Reduction within Local Communities, National Resource Crime and Poverty Reduction in Africa, Media Choice, Information Consumption, etc.
∝ 2025/2026 as year of making influence work for humanitarian relief in Africa
Making influence support endangered and, in some circumstances, destroyed lives as war and disastrous natural events were unfolding in some places in Africa is another takeaway. Further to these events, together with those stricken by them or their representatives we made the following appeals:
1) Act in the Interest of Children’s Education (September 2025 Education Appeal)
2) Autumn 2025 Humanitarian Relief and Nature Conservation Appeals
3) Support Children with Diverse Educational Needs and Victims of Crises with No End in Sight in Africa
4) The Internally Displaced Persons of Central Sahel Region Need Your Support
5) Halving Poverty for and with the Unprotected Children in Africa
6) People with Acute Needs in Africa Want to Rebuild and Renew Their Lives: Can You Help?
7) The Severe Humanitarian Crisis-impacted People of Mali Need Your Positive Influence Right Now: Can You Help?
8) End Childhood Distress in Africa
9) Ebola Humanitarian Appeal.
With the support of the community in terms of data and stories from these places or areas of CENFACS’ operation, we made together appeal so that lives and livelihoods could be saved from civil violence, attacks, gender-based violence, aid cuts, severe climate conditions, other life-threatening and destroying conditions (such as the coronavirus, Ebola, Mpox, cholera, etc.) and the cost-of-living crisis.
In total, we launched nine humanitarian relief appeals. As a result of these appeals, there have been some support to the sufferers of these events while there is still much to be done.
There are many good and positive results to take away from this financial year, although we limit ourselves to the above-mentioned key takeaways.
• • • 2025/2026 Key Produce or Achievements
2025/2026 was a notable year of wins in poverty reduction produce or accomplishments. It will be known as the year of the three key achievements below.
a) 2025/2026 has been a year of integration of the triple bottom line (that is people, planet and prosperity) into our projects and programmes as we included these three values in our system of poverty reduction, particularly and so far in our all-year-round projects and summer journals.
b) 2025/2026 could also be remembered as a year of improved way of informing our stakeholders with a new information and communications tool – Metrics News.
c) 2025/2026 has finally been a year of upgraded climate response as we developed a new climate programme to reply to the wish of the communities in Africa and work with Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations (ASCOs) as well as the community in the UK on climate issues. This new programme is made of four projects which will enable to combat climate disinformation, develop zero-waste skills, reduce long-term energy poverty, and deal with finance mobilization roadmap.
The above are just the few selected accomplishments or produce we wanted to share with our audiences and supporters in this annual-impact-review campaign. However, for those who would like to get more insights into them and other achievements of the year 2025/2026, they can let us know.
• • • Financial Performance Review
The following is the summary of our receipts and payments for the year ending 30 June 2026.
On the payments side: Digital shift, remote or hybrid work, paperless processes and fewer in-person events organised by CENFACS meant less money spent on Stationery and Books account and IT (Information Technologies) Consumables account. The two accounts displayed a huge drop of 51% and 42% respectively. We also spent less on Transport and Travel (-57%) and Refreshments (-25%). This is due to remote work and virtual meetings, fewer in-person events, and utilizing public transport alternatives for Transport and Travel account. For Refreshments account, the reasons are fewer in-person event attendees and higher supply costs. Our Office Miscellaneous also sensibly dropped because of reclassified expenses and reduced spending on office activities.
Besides these decreases, we also registered some increases, like Volunteers account went up 25%, reflecting the expansion of our programmes and new investment as well as inflationary pressures on our finances. There was also increase in Printing and Photocopying account due to high fundraising and new campaign rollouts. Rising market costs and facility changes meant an increase in the price of office space and utilities whether working from commercial premises or from home. This increased to almost 46%.
There were as well accounts that showed a moderate increase like tele/mobile phone and internet (4.9%). Likewise, high energy rates and extreme weather (running air conditioning and heater) drove Utilities account up. As to our IT subscription, the charge of web hosting service and broadband was increased; meaning that our IT subscription could not stay the same. There was an increase of 12% in their costs, reflecting the current ascending trends of prices of services of this kind.
On the fundraising and receipts side: the challenge to raise the funds needed to meet the level of needs in the community remained. This could be partly explained by the cumulative effect of the lingering impacts of the cost-of-living pressures and the economic uncertainty which continued to drive hesitations or reluctance to many individual donors/funders. In addition, cuts in international aid had an indirect effect on the way people support good causes in Africa.
We have to admit that funding promised has not yet arrived when we closed our accounts. Also, we made funding applications which we have not yet received replies from potential donors/funders/grant makers. This means there is a reason to believe that there is still a possibility for positive replies from them or to generate funds.
Concerning the cash funds account, our cash funds kept their ascending trends in the last three years. For the financial year 2025/2026, there has been a reversal. This is due to delayed pledges from those who promised funds. The cash did not arrive before our accounting period closes as we run our accounting records on cash basis not accrual one. This is let alone the impact of inflation on our movement in funds account.
We continued to make savings on overseas budget, publicity and advertising, translation, office equipment and furniture, project beneficiaries, research and development, and fundraising costs. This increase and savings made on payments enabled to avoid a huge deficit in our receipts and payments account for the year.
We hope that when we received the promised funds and positive replies from applications made, our cash funds will bounce back and steadily continue to increase in the financial year 2026/2027 and afterwards. We can as well expect that the fruits of our fundraising efforts relating to alternative funding models and of our new business models will fully appear in the new financial year (2026/2027) and beyond.
• • • Thank you
CENFACS’ work is a team effort that depends on others’ voluntary contributions, which are essential to our success. As a result, many individuals and organizations helped make our financial year 2025–2026 a reality.
We want to acknowledge them without distinction. We wouldn’t be able to do the aforementioned without their generous and helpful assistance. We are appreciative of our members, website/blog readers, volunteers, users, project/programme beneficiaries, and supporters.
We would like to express our gratitude to each and every one of them for their unshakable dedication and significant assistance in enabling us to reiterate and spread our message of poverty reduction throughout the world of development, particularly during this extremely difficult period due to the lingering impacts of the polycrises.
Many thanks for making 2025-2026 another deservingly memorable year at CENFACS and for being there with us for those in need.
More details about CENFACS Annual Impact Review 2025/2026 can be requested.
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