CARTA is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant No–B 8606.R02), Sida (Grant No:54100113), Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the DELTAS Africa Initiative (Grant No:107768/Z/15/Z).

The DELTAS Africa Initiative is an independent funding scheme of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) ‘s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) and supported by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency) with funding from the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the UK government.