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About Us
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How JOA is Funded
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Jersey Overseas Aid is managed by a small team of professional staff and governed by a Commission.
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Jersey Overseas Aid provides international development grants and humanitarian funding to approved partners only. Find out more about how to become a partner.
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Monitoring Impact
Discover how Jersey Overseas Aid monitors impact to ensure our aid is effective and sustainable.
Monitoring Impact
Volunteering Overview
Find out how JOA facilitates islanders to help in the world's poorest countries through volunteering and bursaries.
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Jersey Overseas Aid is the Island’s official, publicly-funded aid and development agency.

JOA’s mission is to translate the generosity, skills and compassion of the people of Jersey into effective assistance for the world’s most vulnerable people.

 

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Development Grants

Funding multi-year development projects
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Humanitarian Response

Rapid response to emergencies
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Jersey Charities

Local charities working abroad
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Volunteering & Outreach

Providing opportunities to Islanders

Our current grants

JOA concentrates its development grants on six countries selected for their need, low levels of corruption and strength of relationship with Jersey.

Our target countries are Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Nepal. JOA also supports Jersey Charities working overseas and provides humanitarian assistance in many other countries.

>1.1m

People benefitting from JOA funded projects 

17

Humanitarian emergency grants made in the first half of 2025

37

Volunteers deployed in 2025 to Kenya, Malawi and Nepal

>500

Young people explored global challenges through JOA’s school workshops this year 

FROM THE MINISTER

“Jersey Overseas Aid continues to deliver ever-more effective assistance to hundreds of thousands of people. Our projects and partners achieve extraordinary things in some of the most challenging environments in the world.”

Deputy Carolyn Labey
Jersey’s Minister for International Development & Chair of the JOA Commission
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