DescriptionAfricaNoFilter supports storytellers and organisations already working to shift stereotypical narratives of Africa through the development of nuanced and contemporary stories. This grant will support AfricaNoFilter implement its strategic plan in accordance with its key pillars: grant-making, research, community building, and advocacy.
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.
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.
Area of workInformation Ecosystems, Participation & Dissent
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)300,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis is a 24-month grant to support Scrolla's ambitions to establish Scrolla.Africa as the pre-eminent popular mobile news platform in South Africa, with the aim to expand its work into the rest of southern Africa, and later to create regional hubs in Nigeria and Kenya.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support the Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ), a community-centred non-profit organisation, to work on enhancing citizen engagement, social accountability and monitoring of local government officials, and civic education at grassroots level.
DescriptionTo support a research project evaluating how administrative and political devolution can improve accountability, foster the provision of local public goods and services, and promote citizen engagement in sub-national governance to overcome unequal development and allocation of resources between counties in Kenya.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Katiba Institute, which uses the constitution as an instrument to achieve the rule of law, greater respect for human rights, more transparent and accountable leadership, good governance, and eventually a more just society in Kenya. This is a core grant to support their work on improving citizens' access to information and ability to hold those in power accountable through the courts.
DescriptionTo support post-production of "Softie," a documentary film which follows Kenyan activist and photojournalist Boniface Mwangi as he enters mainstream politics to challenge social injustice.
DescriptionTo support #AfricaNoFilter, a donor collaborative designed to support innovative narratives on Africa that can change the way both Africans and the rest of the world see the continent. ANF is a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA 2-year grant to Accountability Lab Nigeria to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to shift civic engagement and support the advancement of fundamental freedoms of individuals and communities, particularly those historically marginalized.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA 2-year grant to Africa's Voices Foundation to support core operations and program work. This grant's broad aim will be to amplify citizens' voices - placing them at the centre of decision-making, policy responses, and development planning.
DescriptionThis is a two-year core grant to Cedar Seed Foundation in support of their work to enhance inclusion and diversity in political leadership in Nigeria.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis grant will support Gavel to institutionalize its operations and work around improving Nigeria's justice system and increasing citizens' awareness on related issues
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.
DescriptionNaija NextGen is a Social Impact TV show aimed at changing the narrative about, and encouraging, youth participation in civic and political processes in Nigeria.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionA two-year program grant to support Futurelect's work in East Africa. Through the EAC Public Leadership Programme, Futurelect will design and deliver non-partisan, intensive, and interdisciplinary leadership development and training to 25-30 emerging young leaders from East Africa annually.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is an unrestricted grant to support Katiba Institute's work to entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya which creates a society in which human rights are protected, government is accountable and transparent, and everyone is able to participate in decision-making.
DescriptionThis is a three-year grant contribution to the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a $5 million fund created by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fund provides targeted capacity building, youth ecosystem building and financial support to burgeoning youth-led movements in Nigeria, in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning.
DescriptionA project grant to Macondo Book Society to support putting together the Macondo Festival as well as side events with the aim of creating avenues for youth to engage with information regarding the country's‚Äö (and continent's) history and current affairs and using this to inform debates on political issues with the aim of promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture.
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