Deadline: 25 March 2025
The Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) is flexible and provides support for communities to work in areas that are rarely funded by donors and that aim to advance and strengthen movements for social change, inclusion, and justice.
For this call, ISDAO encourages innovative advocacy, mobilization and movement-building strategies, including those aimed at changing narratives through literature, video, digital content production, photography, choreography, film, radio, painting, drawing, and all art forms in general at local and regional levels.
Funding Information
- Maximum amount of $7,500.
- 1 year (12 months) maximum period.
Eligible Projects
- For ISDAO, in the context of this grant, creative initiatives refer to approaches beyond traditional forms of activism. This includes but is not limited to projects led by LGBTQI individual activists that contribute to LGBTQI activism in at least one of ISDAO’s focal countries. Examples include producing a mini-documentary, editing a book, creating a comic strip, launching a web radio, or developing a photography project, among others.
Eligibility Criteria
- If you are in a leadership role in an organization (executive director, coordinator, president, program manager etc.) please ensure that the creative initiative you wish to implement does not fall within your organization’s focus areas.
Application Requirements
- Please ensure your application includes the following:
- Project title
- Program target community(ies)
- Proposed timeline for the project – (12 months maximum)
- Brief description of your request in 1 to 4 sentences
For more information, visit ISDAO.
