AAHEFA Members

The members of AAHEFA are

1. Higher Education Loans Board, Kenya (HELB) –www.helb.co.ke
2. Higher Education Students’ Loans Board, Tanzania (HESLB) – www.heslb.go.tz
3. Students Loan Trust Fund,Ghana (SLTF)  www.sltf.gov.gh
4. Higher Education Students’ Financing Board (HESFB), Uganda – www.hesfb.go.ug
5. Human Resource Development Council (HRDC), Botswana – www.hrdc.org.bw
6. National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), South Africa – www.nsfas.org.za
7. National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS), Lesotho – www.planning.gov.ls
8. Namibia Students’ Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF), Namibia – www.nsfaf.na
9. Development Bank of Rwanda –  www.brd.rw
10. Higher Education Loans Scholarship Board, Zambia –  www.helsb.gov.zm
11. Higher Education Students Loans & Grants Board (HESLGB), Malawi – http://www.heslgb.mw

Prospective members:

The prospective members who are in the process of joining the Association are as follows;

1. Zanzibar Higher Education Loans Board (ZHELB), Zanzibar – www.zhelb.go.tz
2. Ministry of Labour & Social Security, Swaziland – www.gov.sz
3. Ministry of Higher & Tertiary Education, Zimbabwe – www.mhtestd.gov.zw

Key stakeholders and prospective partner institutions

Key AAHEFA stakeholders include

• Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) – www.iucea.org
• African Association of Universities (AAU) – www.aau.org
• African Union (AU) – www.au.int
• Southern African Development Community (SADC) – www.sadc.int
• East African Community (EAC) – www.eac.int
• Similar institutions in Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe and Australia.

Membership of AAHEFA is open to institutions which deal with issuance of loans, bursaries/grants and scholarship to Higher Education Students in Africa as well as collecting back the loans issued.