Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)350,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionTASCK is a creative company with access to a wide network of creative influencers across many fields, across Nigeria and Africa. They have engaged the creative space in Nigeria including the movie, music, art, fashion, etc. industries and worked to harness the the power of creatives for advocacy and social change.
DescriptionTo support The World Investigates, an organisation comprised of award-winning journalists and filmmakers focused on supporting African investigative journalism and bringing those stories to a global audience.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide general operating support to amaBhungane, a non-profit organisation that conducts and develops investigative journalism to promote free, capable media and open, accountable, just democracy.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two year pilot grant to support AfroBarometer train local civil society organisations in data collection, management and story telling using data and pilot tools to get perspectives on youth across Africa.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support The Big Debate, a townhall debate TV show produced by the Black Stripe Foundation that provides a unique platform for public engagement that helps to promote informed discussion and accountability on critical topics.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA two-year unrestricted sunset grant to the Black Stripe Foundation to support the production of the Big Debate - a popular TV show that brings together civil society, state actors and the general public to discuss issues of national interest to South Africans.
DescriptionTo support Procurement Nigeria (BudgIT), a social enterprise focused on using technology to drive civic participation and fiscal transparency in Nigeria.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core operating support to Connected Development, to support their work to empower citizens in Nigeria to participate in holding government accountable for public spending.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a core grant to support Connected Development's programmatic work around participation in civic and political life, and operations in support of these programmes.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support IBP Kenya in deepening the capacity and agency of citizens to influence the inclusivity, transparency, and responsiveness of national and county budgets, especially on budget execution.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)400,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA 2-year grant to Open Cities Lab to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to facilitate the provision of reliable information to citizens of various countries, especially Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, to enable participation in civic and political life.
DescriptionThis is a core operating grant support to the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance, a school that seeks to build a base and pipeline of a new value-based and disruptive thinking political class with the requisite knowledge and skills to solve complex problems of development.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a core grant to SERAP in support of their strategic litigation work to protect dissent and to expand the space for civic participation in Nigeria.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)410,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two year grant to Paradigm Initiative to support its core operations and programs around digital rights and digital inclusion in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
DescriptionTo support Buni Media, a Kenyan non-profit producing creative digital content challenging the country's socio-political status quo including the XYZ Show.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Connected Development (CODE), a non-profit organisation focused on advocacy and the tracking of funds spent by government and donors in Nigeria.
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