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Year

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Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2020

250,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide core operating support to Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative, a civic organisation working to promote citizens’ active participation in the Nigerian public audit through its Value for Money project to foster public accountability, good governance, and development of rural communities.

Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2020

280,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 280,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide core support to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, which defends and supports whistleblowers, and conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.

Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2019

900,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 900,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support PPDC's work on Open Contracting with State governments in Nigeria and enable them to continue to build take-up and usage of Open Contracting information for accountability.

Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2016

300,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2016

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support the development of Budeshi, a project that links procurement data to public services using the Open Contracting Data Standard.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2017

240,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2017

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To 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.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Financial Transparency

Africa

2019

500,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support SERAP, a non-profit which promotes transparency and accountability in Nigeria primarily by advocating for improved implementation of the Freedom of Information Act to enable the public and civil society to know, understand, and act on what government is doing.

Tax Justice Network Africa

Financial Transparency

Africa

2014

450,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2014

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 450,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A), a pan-African initiative consisting of a network of members in 15 African countries.

The Accountability Lab

Financial Transparency

Africa

2019

420,000

Area of work Financial Transparency

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 420,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support programming, operations and learning for the Accountability Lab's South Africa and Nigeria country programmes.

Africa Check

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2019

64,952

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 64,952

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support the Digital Africa Research Lab in addressing the threat posed by the misuse of social media in the 2019 Nigerian general election and post-election period.

ALT Advisory

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2020

100,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support Alt Advisory's research, analysis, and policy work on data and digital rights issues arising directly and indirectly from the COVID-19 pandemic.

ALT Advisory

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2021

300,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description To support ALT Advisory's work towards an effective digital and information rights landscape in South Africa and in the region more broadly.

Article 19

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2018

30,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2018

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 30,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Other

Description To support Article 19's participation in a government taskforce working to propose a new data protection policy for urgent adoption in Kenya.

Atlantic Council

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2020

45,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 45,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)'s work to research and understand misinformation flows in Nigeria.

Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI)

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2021

100,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support two activities at DRLI: 1) publication of review of digital rights judgments, and 2) litigation surgeries to deepen digital rights in Nigeria with a view to ensuring that Nigerians' digital rights are comprehensively protected.

Education as a Vaccine (EVA)

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2021

35,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 35,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To uphold the rights of young people especially young women to utilize digital technology for accessing information and as a social accountability tool and to strengthen their understanding on digital rights and interlinkage with other rights.

Foxglove

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2019

41,200

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 41,200

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To support Foxglove in providing pre-litigation research related to tech accountability.

Local Development Research Institute

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2019

75,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 75,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Fellow engaged in the Kenya Open Government CSO Support program.

Paradigm Initiative

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2021

105,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 105,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support PIN, which is working as part of a cohort to strengthen the data and digital rights ecosystem in Nigeria. PIN will address threats and challenges to digital rights in Nigeria through a blend of: 1) building capacity of civil society actors; 2) supporting strategic litigation efforts; and 3) raising public awareness of digital and data rights more broadly.

Right2Know

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2019

240,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support the Right2Know Campaign, a grassroots organisation raising public awareness, mobilising communities, and undertaking research and targeted advocacy that aims to ensure the free flow of information necessary to meet people's social, economic, political, and ecological needs.

University of Johannesburg

Data & Digital Rights

Africa

2021

100,000

Area of work Data & Digital Rights

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 100,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To 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.

African Technology and Transparency Initiative

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2010

2,400,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2010

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 2,400,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support African Technology and Transparency Initiative, which seeks to support organisations in Africa that use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their countries to hold their leaders accountable by providing access to credible public information, influence, and stewardship of resources.

amandla.mobi

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2018

250,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2018

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 250,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support amandla.mobi's growth.

amandla.mobi

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2020

600,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 600,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide general support to amandla.mobi, which empowers anyone to initiate both online and offline campaigns to protest for a more just society and take co-ordinated, strategic action.

Black Stripe Foundation

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2018

331,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2018

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 331,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To 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.

Black Stripe Foundation

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2020

400,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

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