Forums:
Donor Name: Wademos
Deadline: Sept 30 2025
Language : English
Grant Size : $10,000 to $15,000 per applicant.
Countries : Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo
Link: https://wademosnetwork.org/dosf/
Focus Areas:
- Support in-country civil society actors to safeguard and assure peaceful and credible elections and electoral outcomes.
- Protect against shrinkage of the civic space
- Protect and support at-risk frontline democracy and human rights defenders
- Support efforts toward democratic restoration in countries where democracy has collapsed
- Support national and regional efforts against violent extremism and terrorism.
Description:
The Democracy Opportunity Support Fund (DEMOS-Fund) is one of the core initiatives established under the West Africa Democracy Solidarity Network (WADEMOS) to complement interventions at the regional level.
The DEMOS Fund supports initiatives to address democratic backsliding and respond to timely needed democratic interventions within the sub-region. DEMOS-Fund is a competitive small grant scheme.