Long-running partnerships
Beyond climate: a broader path to resilience
In 2024, the Trafigura Foundation continued to support several strong and effective partnerships established before the introduction of our new strategy.
While these programmes lack the specific focus on climate adaptation at the heart of our current portfolio, they further the equally urgent and closely connected goal of improving social and economic conditions for vulnerable communities around the world.
These programmes are working in particular toward the creation of fair and sustainable employment and clean and safe supply chains.
Improving careers
Three of our partners – Germinal, Adie and AAMA – provide training and other support to young people and disadvantaged communities in different parts of the world so they can launch successful careers and businesses.
Two further organisations working to strengthen skills and career pathways – Fundación Don Bosco and REACH – received exit grants in 2024 to help sustain their programmes on the successful completion of their partnerships with the Foundation.
Entrepreneurial resilience
Adie provided funding or other support to 5,337 entrepreneurs in New Caledonia, 51% of them women, under our partnership that ended in 2024.
Emilie GNAI, 51, turned her passion for fishing into a business in 2023 with Adie’s support. Despite the 2024 crisis and fuel shortages, she adapted, relying on shore fishing and financial resilience to keep going.
Improving business
In addition, the Foundation continued its work with three partners focused on improving practices and working conditions in important industrial sectors and reducing their environmental impacts:
- The Alliance for Responsible Mining promotes best practices in artisanal and small-scale mining, protecting the environment, upholding human rights, and creating economic and sustainable development opportunities for mining communities.
- The Smart Freight Centre drives global logistics decarbonisation across key regions, including targeted initiatives in China, India and East Africa.
- The International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) supports seafarers and their families facing the challenges of life at sea.
Voice of partners
In 2024, support from the Trafigura Foundation has enabled us to ensure the continuity of our services for seafarers and their families, while also developing new initiatives, such as our Family Outreach Programme. The grant we received funded four core posts at ISWAN, providing us with financial stability and a sense of security for our team. As a result, we have been able to focus on building the sustainability of our organisation by developing initiatives to raise our profile, encourage new members to join and increase non-grant income.
Simon Grainge
Chief Executive, International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN)
Last year, Foundation support helped the Alliance for Responsible Mining to:
- Refresh its branding
- Release an updated standard on responsible sourcing
- Create an internal training platform
- Introduce a new membership model
