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Area of work

Geographic focus

Year

Amount committed (US$)

Stears

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2022

150,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2022

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 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.

Spaces for Change

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

50,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 50,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 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.

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.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description This 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.

Siasa Place

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2023

240,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description A 2-year grant to Siasa Place to support core operations and program work. This grant's broad aim will be to promote youth participation in democratic processes through research, training, civic education, networking, and strategic partnerships.

School of Politics, Policy and Governance

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2022

400,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2022

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 400,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description This 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.

Samosa Festival Ltd

Participation & Dissent

Africa

2022

30,000

Area of work Participation & Dissent

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2022

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 30,000

Funding type Project Agreement

Funding purpose Project Agreement

Description A one-year project grant to support work on promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture through digitization and dissemination of visual representations of history and hosting sessions to engage the youth on themes arising.

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2015

1,122,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2015

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,122,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2017

240,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2017

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 240,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2011

150,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2011

300,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2011

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 300,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters

Independent Media

Africa

2013

1,085,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2013

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 1,085,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To provide support for Sahara Reporters, a citizen media website that encourages citizen journalists to publish stories focusing on corruption in Nigeria

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Other

Africa

2019

500,000

Area of work Other

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2019

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To 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.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Independent Media

Africa

2021

500,000

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2021

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 500,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description To provide unrestricted core funding to support Africa No Filter in advancing their narrative change work across the African continent.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Information Ecosystems

Africa

2023

530,000

Area of work Information Ecosystems

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2023

Status Current Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 530,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose Other

Description AfricaNoFilter 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.

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.

Rhodes University

Independent Media

Africa

2014

25,500

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2014

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 25,500

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose One-Off Funding Grant

Description To provide support to Rhodes University to help fund the Highway Africa journalism conference, the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world.

Rhize

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2020

150,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2020

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 150,000

Funding type Grant: US Public Charity

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Rhize's coaching and mentoring efforts geared towards building more people-powered movements that amplify the voices of historically marginalised groups and communities.

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.

Project Isizwe

Independent Media

Africa

2015

472,533

Area of work Independent Media

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2015

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 472,533

Funding type Grant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent

Funding purpose Project Grant

Description To support Project Isizwe's WiFi's TV project that delivers hyper-local news content to low-income communities via online channels.

Praekelt Foundation

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2012

275,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2012

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 275,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose Program Grant

Description To support the Praekelt Foundation's work on JoziHub, a technology hub in Johannesburg that seeks to catalyse the development of new technology ventures by creating an environment where social entrepreneurs, techies, and other stakeholders can interact.

Praekelt Foundation

Civic Empowerment

Africa

2010

825,000

Area of work Civic Empowerment

Geographic focus Africa

Year 2010

Status Alumni Partner

Type Non-Profit

Amount committed (US$) 825,000

Funding type Grant: Expenditure Responsibility

Funding purpose General Funding Grant

Description To support Praekelt Foundation in its pioneering use of mobile technology to drive positive social change.

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.

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