Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support SERAP in building awareness around the Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria, to support citizens and civil society to make use of it, and to conduct strategic litigation to build jurisprudence around the right of the public to access information.
DescriptionThis is a grant to Spaces for Change to support the tracking and documentation of civic space issues arising from the 2023 general elections, the Nigerian judiciary's contributions to these, and provide recommendations on appropriate responses.
DescriptionThis is a grant to support Stears in building an election situation room which is designed to engage internet enabled Nigerians who want to follow the elections, an estimated audience of 33 million people.
DescriptionA two year project agreement to Stears to; Support the flagship product - African Elections Monitor, of the Data for Storytelling Program. Utilise cutting-edge technologies such as real-time satellite imagery and interactive data visualisation technologies to share knowledge with and train independent media organisations within Luminate's existing portfolio on data visualisation
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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two-year core grant to TechHer, in support of their work to address Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) and building a Community of Practice for the protection of women's digital rights.
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.
DescriptionTo enable the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education to grow their regional work, and to operate as an activist education centre across multiple African countries
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support University of Johannesburg's Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) to carry out advocacy and further investigative reporting of instances of state-surveillance in Southern Africa.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network, a community of practice based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa that aims to advance research, learning, and application in the field of civic tech in southern Africa.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CTIN is a community of practice and a learning network of civic tech practitioners in South Africa, currently hosted as a programme of the Journalism and Media Department.
DescriptionThrough narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeS.A.F.E: Simple Agreement for Future Equity
DescriptionTo support Where Is My Transport, an integrated mass transit solution for emerging markets, focused on providing public transport data and technologies that enrich services, empower people, and enable innovation.
DescriptionThis grant will go towards supporting two of WILAN's activities, namely the Leading Woman Show and Women Running Circle, an aftercare programme for women politicians. It will also strengthen their MsRepresented project which is an online campaign for women misrepresented and underrepresented.
DescriptionThis is a two-year project agreement to support Women in Leadership Advancement Network's work in using technology to inspire a shift to gender-balanced leadership across all levels of political, economic, and public life.
DescriptionTo support The Women's Legal Centre, a public interest litigation non-profit that works to create a South Africa in which women and people identifying as women are free from violence, empowered to ensure their own reproductive and health rights, free to own their own share of property, have a safe place to stay, and are empowered to work in a safe and equitable environment.
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