What is getting in the way?
Producers, enterprises, buyers, programmes and funders can lose value when identity, provenance, quality, market opportunity, settlement and outcome evidence are fragmented across disconnected systems and paper trails.
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What we do, in plain language.
You are supporting Goblis Foundation, a Kenya-based non-profit foundation. Goblis runs two distinct programmes and uses specialist partners where another institution owns the relevant expertise.
01JikimuSocial entrepreneurship support: access, responsible handoff to learning and enterprise development, and later outcome follow-up.02MashinaniRural development support: diagnose a local challenge or opportunity, connect the right actors, then measure what changes.03AfriTrace LinkCross-cutting platform for traceability, evidence and market access. It supports the programmes; it is not itself a programme.04How Goblis worksGoblis coordinates relationships, safeguards accountability and follows evidence. Specialist partners remain responsible for the services they own.
Build trusted market-access infrastructure that helps evidence travel with opportunity.
The AfriTrace Link Fund supports the responsible development and adoption of Goblis Foundation’s cross-cutting AfriTrace Link platform for traceability, producer professionalisation, market access, funding/MERM interoperability and evidence.
The case for support
Need → opportunity → accountability.
We want supporters to understand the purpose before being asked to pay.
Why does this deserve attention?
AfriTrace R1.6 is moving toward continental interoperability across market access, payments/settlement evidence, funding relationships and MERM. Responsible scaling requires product engineering, assisted access, data governance, security, integrations and real operating evidence—not software alone.
What becomes possible?
Support can strengthen platform engineering, producer/buyer adoption, offline/assisted access, interoperability, cybersecurity, research/MERM, shared market infrastructure and controlled country expansion.
Who benefits
The people, communities or capabilities this fund exists to strengthen.
Producers, enterprises, buyers, programmes, researchers and funding partners who need stronger evidence, traceability and market-access coordination across fragmented value chains.
FoundationsDevelopment partnersTechnology fundersMarket-access institutionsResearch partners
Goblis responsibility
Who is accountable for the fund?
Goblis Foundation owns and governs AfriTrace Link as a cross-cutting platform. It sets public-interest governance, investment priorities and data/authority boundaries while technical delivery remains evidence and supplier controlled.
Where support can go
Examples of responsible, approved use.
Actual expenditure follows the fund purpose, approved budget, donor restrictions where applicable and delegated authority.
01Platform engineering and security
02Producer/buyer onboarding and assisted access
03Interoperability and evidence exchange
04Market-access, traceability and producer-netback capabilities
05Research, MERM, adoption and responsible country expansion
From support to evidence
A clear journey after you decide to help.
Choose the fund
Confirm that this is the purpose you want to support.
Create one reference
A GFD reference and payment advice are created before money moves.
Pay through an enabled route
Use only the payment instructions released for that reference.
Finance reconciles & allocates
Bank/provider evidence is matched and the contribution is allocated to AfriTrace Link Fund.
Acknowledgement
Reconciled support receives an acknowledgement; provider acceptance alone is not reconciliation.
Reporting & learning
Structured supporters receive the reporting/evidence appropriate to their agreement and purpose.
What supporters can expect
Traceability after the contribution.
Platform delivery and security evidence
Adoption and service-quality metrics
Qualified opportunity, fulfilment and repeat-trade evidence
Producer netback/payment-timeliness evidence where available
MERM and research outputs with provenance and privacy controls
Choose your relationship
Direct supporter, institutional funder or delivery partner?
Donors & funders
Finance the purpose responsiblySupport the AfriTrace Link Fund directly or structure a technology, country, market-access, research or infrastructure grant with defined milestones and evidence.
Give to this fundApplicants / participants
Use the programme route, not the payment routeThis campaign is not a producer registration shortcut. Producers and organisations enter AfriTrace through the appropriate governed onboarding and market-access journeys.
Partners
Contribute capability under clear authorityTechnology providers, researchers, market actors, governments and institutions can partner through scoped APIs, work orders, data terms and authority-specific evidence.
Discuss a partnershipEvidence boundary
Support enables work; it does not manufacture results.
AfriTrace does not become a bank, PSP, lender, customs/procurement authority, certification body or research ethics authority. External facts remain authoritative in the systems and institutions legally responsible for them.
Finance, activity, output and outcome evidence remain distinguishable. Goblis does not publish targets as achievements.
Need a larger structure?
Use a fund or funding-partner agreement.
If your support requires a named sub-fund, geographic restriction, multi-year budget, reporting conditions, matching arrangement or organisational portal, start with the structured support route rather than a simple payment.
Fund allocationEvery contribution is allocated to a governed fund ledger.
Payment ≠ impactFinancial reconciliation and impact evidence remain separate.
No guaranteed outcomeSupport enables approved work; evidence determines results.
Human accountabilityConsequential approvals remain attributable to authorised people.
Ready to support AfriTrace Link Fund?
Start with one traceable reference. For larger or restricted support, use Create a Fund or Funding Partner so purpose, budget, reporting and governance are agreed before activation.
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