About Us
About Us
Our Mission
Our Approach
Our Governance
How JOA is Funded
Key Policies, Publications & Documents
FAQS
Our Team
Jersey Overseas Aid is managed by a small team of professional staff and governed by a Commission.
Meet the Team
Partner with JOA
Jersey Overseas Aid provides international development grants and humanitarian funding to approved partners only. Find out more about how to become a partner.
Partner with JOA
Our Work
Grant Programmes
International Development Grants
- Dairy For Development
- Financial Inclusion
- Conservation Livelihoods
Jersey Charities Grants
Humanitarian Grants
- Ukraine Response
Monitoring Impact
Discover how Jersey Overseas Aid monitors impact to ensure our aid is effective and sustainable.
Monitoring Impact
Volunteering and Outreach
Find out how JOA facilitates islanders to help in the world's poorest countries through volunteering, bursaries, education and work opportunities.
Volunteering and Outreach
Get Involved
Volunteer
Volunteering
Bursaries
Learn
Schools
Jersey International Development Network
Work with JOA
Jobs
Programme Associate (Internship)
United Nations Junior Professional Officer
Partner with JOA
News & Events

Jersey Overseas Aid is the Island’s official, publicly-funded relief 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.

 

What we do

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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

Where we work - 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.

Did you know?

£36.4 m

Value of current portfolio of multi-year international development grants

687,000+

Number of people we are working to support through ongoing international development projects

£3.5 m

The amount JOA has allocated (so far) in 2023 to help people impacted by crises

1,000+

The number of islanders who have volunteered abroad with JOA

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
Find out more about our work

News & Updates

06 December 2023

Dental Care in The Gambia

Sarah Pollard has previously spent time in The Gambia providing dental care to school children in the town...
30 November 2023

Jersey's UN Junior Professional Officers benefit from fantastic training at the UN System Staff College

One of the big perks of working for such a large global institution as the UN, is the amount of useful...
17 November 2023

Farewell JOA - Luke Tumelty, our eighth programme associate, reflects on his time at JOA

Luke Tumelty, our eighth programme associate, will soon be leaving the JOA office to embark on the next...