The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa awards grants in four categories. Any organization, group, institution or association with the following types of programs/projects can request grant support to conduct their project in the eligible countries:
Anchor Grants: grant support to an institutional partner playing unique role in the region and with strong capacity to act, whose values very closely align to OSISA’s.
Capacity Building Grants: grant support to individual organizations, groups, networks or alliances of NOGs, or to institutions of higher education that seek to work with a wide cross-section of a specific community.
Core Grants: grant support to organizations whose missions and programs align with that of OSISA’s aims and objectives. The core grants are distributed in the form of seed or operational funding.
Categories of Core-grantees:
- Organizations that have achieved a high degree of professional development, are strong players in a given field, and need very little guidance or support
- Less well developed organizations that are committed to conducting vital work in critical and usually under-represented spheres, which need core support to grow into effective players in the field.
Policy and Research Grants: grant support for efforts aimed at long-term systemic change at the policy or legal level.
Read about How to Apply.
