Area of workInformation Ecosystems, Participation & Dissent
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)300,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis is a 24-month grant to support Scrolla's ambitions to establish Scrolla.Africa as the pre-eminent popular mobile news platform in South Africa, with the aim to expand its work into the rest of southern Africa, and later to create regional hubs in Nigeria and Kenya.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)400,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA 2-year grant to Open Cities Lab to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to facilitate the provision of reliable information to citizens of various countries, especially Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, to enable participation in civic and political life.
DescriptionA 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.
DescriptionThis 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.
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.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)350,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionTASCK is a creative company with access to a wide network of creative influencers across many fields, across Nigeria and Africa. They have engaged the creative space in Nigeria including the movie, music, art, fashion, etc. industries and worked to harness the the power of creatives for advocacy and social change.
DescriptionTo support ALT Advisory's work towards an effective digital and information rights landscape in South Africa and in the region more broadly.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo fund Big Cabal Media with seed equity investment to support the scaling of their core operations, storytelling, and citizen engagement media platforms
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core operating support to Premium Times Centre for Investigation (PTCIJ) and their efforts at improving Nigeria's investigative journalism landscape, promoting press freedom in Nigeria, and for the expansion of Dubawa, their factchecking platform.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionTo support CcHub's GoVote initiative geared towards improving citizens' participation in elections through voter education, registration, and voter-turnout activities.
DescriptionTo 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.
DescriptionTo 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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support IBP Kenya in deepening the capacity and agency of citizens to influence the inclusivity, transparency, and responsiveness of national and county budgets, especially on budget execution.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted support to Katiba Institute, which works to achieve social transformation in Kenya through the Constitution. It uses research, collaborative workshops on constitutional issues, public interest litigation, and advocacy to achieve economic and social progress for all Kenyans through full implementation of the Constitution.
DescriptionTo support the Run-To-Win initiative that aims to increase the capacity and chances of youths in Nigeria to participate and get voted into elected offices.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo 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.
DescriptionTo provide a project grant to PMI to, in collaboration with Buni Media, launch the first season of a news and political satire TV show in Kenya.
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