**CLOSING SOON**Funding Opportunity - Africa Malawi : Community of Action Grant

21 Feb
by Eleni Rozali
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General discussion

Deadline:  February 28, 2025

Language : English

Grant Size :  $10,000 to $100,000

Countries : Malawi

Link: https://hivos.org/call/call-for-partners-to-implement-community-of-actio...

Description:

To support this vision, they aim to have a partner who will serve and maintain platforms for sustained exchange, learning, and joint action among Civil Society Actors, guided by local ownership and influence over policy and practice.

The primary role of Community of Action Facilitator will be to:

  • Create and maintain inclusive, rights holder-led spaces to strengthen solidarity and trust among participants
  • Facilitate activities, administer meeting logistics, and support collaboration
  • Promote local ownership while receiving strategic support from Hivos and other CDA Partners (CDA Core Group), including comparative linking and learning across contexts and external outreach to stakeholders.

Focus Area(s) of Interest

  • Community Development
  • Information Technology
Objectives
  • By promoting coalition building among diverse civil society actors, including human rights defenders, rights holder-led civil society organizations, and independent media actors, grounded in civil society-led evidence gathering and knowledge production, and facilitated by context-specific communities of action.
  • By contributing to safe and inclusive digital civic spaces for sustained collaboration and action among civil society actors through localized holistic digital security capacity strengthening, knowledge production, and active referral to digital protection providers.
  • By increasing civil society actors’ flexibility to rapidly respond to changes in civic space through organizational capacity strengthening and the provision of strategic funding for sustainable action.
  • The project aims to strategically support relevant actors within civil society whose work actively to contribute to civic space from the perspective of different sectors and interests, particularly including groups who are marginalized within civil society, such as women, youth, marginalized persons, indigenous people, and others.
Funding Information
  • The total amount of Community of Action Grants is: EUR 23,000 for one organization annually. Applications proposed by the candidates should be within this range.

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