Following nutrition funding from the UK to western Kenya

Three publishers recorded the funding trail for a UK Aid Match nutrition project. The UK and Kenyan activities report an actual start of May 1, 2018 and a planned end of April 30, 2021. Ripple Effect identifies Busia and Bungoma as the project counties. Read the project account.

Which organizations and activities connect

1. UK Aid Match II identifies the UK government as the funder and Mannion Daniels as the grant manager. The manager’s outgoing rows name the UK charity and exact project GB-CHC-299717-KY0002. The project rows carry two grant references, 203559-201 and 205210-201.
2. The UK charity reports under GB-CHC-299717. This is Ripple Effect International, formerly Send a Cow, in the Companies House record. Open the Index’s filing history for charity 299717.
3. Both project activities name KE-NCB-2180511703310709 as the Kenyan implementer. Its project file names the UK charity as the funding party. The two files cover the same project dates and country. Some individual records use incomplete or misspelled references. The exact publisher files and literal transaction fields are in the download.

The later UK accounts identify the Kenyan subsidiary as Ripple Effect Kenya and print its full NGO registration 218/051/17-033/10709. Removing the separators gives the digits in its IATI organization reference. A verified crosswalk to the shortened public-directory references requires separate registry evidence. Read the registration in Note 15.

What the UK charity budgeted

The UK publisher reports four original budget periods totaling GBP 1,458,735.13. All four carry IATI budget status 2, committed. The budget rows keep their own period dates. The transactions below describe later reported events.

Read all four budget periods

Budget period	Reported original budget
2018-05-01 to 2019-03-31	GBP 565,113.21
2019-04-01 to 2020-03-31	GBP 477,909.78
2020-04-01 to 2021-03-31	GBP 394,707.55
2021-04-01 to 2021-04-30	GBP 21,004.59

From the grant manager to the UK charity

The manager reports GBP 1,310,796.45 in 12 outgoing rows. All 12 amounts have a unique counterpart in the UK charity’s incoming rows for this project. Only 1 pair also shares the same reported transaction date. The match uses the exact recipient activity on the manager side, then a unique amount and currency within the UK activity.

For example, the manager dates its last row May 14, 2021. The UK record gives April 30, 2021 and a malformed Aid Match III reference. Both report GBP 48,761.24. Keep both dates and the original references when checking this pair.

Reference	Mannion Daniels Date and amount	Send a Cow UK Date and amount	Comparison
UKAMDISB-943	2018-09-07 GBP 241,348.14 Code 3 · XML row 253	2018-09-07 GBP 241,348.14 Code 1 · XML row 6	Amount and date agree
UKAMDISB-1057	2018-12-17 GBP 26,025.57 Code 3 · XML row 265	2018-12-31 GBP 26,025.57 Code 1 · XML row 16	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-1239	2019-03-19 GBP 174,456.58 Code 3 · XML row 268	2019-03-31 GBP 174,456.58 Code 1 · XML row 8	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-1312	2019-05-14 GBP 148,544.94 Code 3 · XML row 260	2019-06-30 GBP 148,544.94 Code 1 · XML row 17	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-1438	2019-08-05 GBP 98,861.22 Code 3 · XML row 263	2019-09-30 GBP 98,861.22 Code 1 · XML row 9	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-1581	2019-11-01 GBP 91,145.40 Code 3 · XML row 266	2019-12-31 GBP 91,145.40 Code 1 · XML row 18	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-1788	2020-02-19 GBP 113,458.35 Code 3 · XML row 269	2020-03-31 GBP 113,458.35 Code 1 · XML row 19	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-1933	2020-05-15 GBP 114,949.02 Code 3 · XML row 261	2020-06-30 GBP 114,949.02 Code 1 · XML row 10	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-2151	2020-08-12 GBP 77,021.49 Code 3 · XML row 264	2020-09-30 GBP 77,021.49 Code 1 · XML row 11	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-2337	2020-11-11 GBP 92,458.08 Code 3 · XML row 267	2020-12-31 GBP 92,458.08 Code 1 · XML row 12	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-2557	2021-02-16 GBP 83,766.42 Code 3 · XML row 270	2021-03-31 GBP 83,766.42 Code 1 · XML row 33	Amount agrees. Dates differ.
UKAMDISB-2738	2021-05-14 GBP 48,761.24 Code 3 · XML row 262	2021-04-30 GBP 48,761.24 Code 1 · XML row 51	Amount agrees. Dates differ.

From the UK charity to the Kenyan implementer

The UK file reports GBP 1,182,456.37 in 13 onward disbursements. The Kenyan file has a counterpart for each reported quarter and date. 12 amounts agree, and Q12 differs by GBP 0.11. The Kenyan counterpart total is GBP 1,182,456.26 with Q10 included.

The Kenya file calls Q10 income in the reference field and uses code 3, disbursement, in the transaction-type field. The UK row also uses code 3. The Kenyan source keeps its original code. Some Kenyan rows leave one or both party references blank. The quarter, date and the two activity records support the comparison.

Reference	Send a Cow UK Date and amount	Send a Cow Kenya Date and amount	Comparison
Q1	2018-06-30 GBP 64,491.31 Code 3 · XML row 2	2018-06-30 GBP 64,491.31 Code 1 · XML row 56	Amount and date agree
Q2	2018-09-30 GBP 76,177.65 Code 3 · XML row 20	2018-09-30 GBP 76,177.65 Code 1 · XML row 60	Amount and date agree
Q3	2018-12-31 GBP 133,842.77 Code 3 · XML row 13	2018-12-31 GBP 133,842.77 Code 1 · XML row 32	Amount and date agree
Q4	2019-03-31 GBP 139,200.85 Code 3 · XML row 21	2019-03-31 GBP 139,200.85 Code 1 · XML row 41	Amount and date agree
Q5	2019-06-30 GBP 108,896.81 Code 3 · XML row 15	2019-06-30 GBP 108,896.81 Code 1 · XML row 44	Amount and date agree
Q6	2019-09-30 GBP 102,568.51 Code 3 · XML row 26	2019-09-30 GBP 102,568.51 Code 1 · XML row 47	Amount and date agree
Q7	2019-12-31 GBP 90,906.55 Code 3 · XML row 14	2019-12-31 GBP 90,906.55 Code 1 · XML row 62	Amount and date agree
Q8	2020-03-31 GBP 94,201.50 Code 3 · XML row 41	2020-03-31 GBP 94,201.50 Code 1 · XML row 10	Amount and date agree
Q9	2020-06-30 GBP 70,861.00 Code 3 · XML row 38	2020-06-30 GBP 70,861.00 Code 1 · XML row 9	Amount and date agree
Q10	2020-09-30 GBP 101,310.09 Code 3 · XML row 7	2020-09-30 GBP 101,310.09 Code 3 · XML row 19	Amount agrees. Kenya code conflicts with its income reference.
Q11	2020-12-31 GBP 76,299.34 Code 3 · XML row 45	2020-12-31 GBP 76,299.34 Code 1 · XML row 3	Amount and date agree
Q12	2021-03-31 GBP 91,473.98 Code 3 · XML row 34	2021-03-31 GBP 91,473.87 Code 1 · XML row 69	GBP 0.11 higher in the UK file
Q13	2021-04-30 GBP 32,226.01 Code 3 · XML row 50	2021-04-30 GBP 32,226.01 Code 1 · XML row 23	Amount and date agree

What each publisher recorded as expenditure

• Send a Cow Kenya reports GBP 1,182,466.25 across 56 code 4 rows, including staff, administration and project activities.
• Send a Cow UK reports GBP 208,915.85 across 31 code 4 rows, including staff, administration, monitoring and evaluation.

These are separate publisher expense records. Both sides of each transfer pair represent a single stage in the trail. Calculating project-wide cost would require resolving overlaps across the publishers, while proving payment or final use would require the underlying financial records.

Food poverty before the project

Kenya’s statistics bureau measured the share of individuals below its food poverty line in 2015/16. The measure uses food consumption expenditure and predates the project. The two project counties had different estimated rates. The source covers the county populations and gives the national figure for context.

County amounts and participant outcomes require separate records. The three IATI activities supply no county allocation for the published project amounts. Open KNBS Annex Table B1 · See other funding and need comparisons.

For a wider time period and a different accounting scope, see the annual grants and expenditure in Ripple Effect’s Kenya accounts.

Read the Heal Nepal funding comparison for a separate UK Aid Match case where onward receipts are reported in a different currency.

Download the records and sources

The JSON preserves the original currency, row coordinates, dates, transaction types and literal identifiers. The paired CSV keeps both reported sides in separate columns. The expenditure CSV contains only code 4 rows. See the IATI transaction codes (1 incoming funds, 3 disbursement, 4 expenditure).

• Full comparison and source receipts (JSON)
• 25 paired reports (CSV)
• 87 separate expenditure records (CSV)

See the Kenya registration and filing coverage for the scope of the national directory. Report a correction below with the activity identifier and XML transaction reference.