Deadline: 14 September 2023 | Creative Initiatives under the ASANKA Fund
The third cycle of the ASANKA Fund has been launched by the ISDAO to support creative advocacy, mobilisation, and movement-building tactics, including those aimed at shifting narratives through writing, film, radio, photography, dance, painting, and other visual arts in general at the local and regional levels.
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For ISDAO, projects that fall outside of the standard definition of activism are eligible for this funding. This includes, but is not limited to, all original projects undertaken by LGBTQI groups, organisations, or individual LGBTQI activists in support of LGBTQI Activism in at least one of the nations targeted by ISDAO. For instance, this could involve making a short documentary, editing a book or comic book, starting an online radio, making a photo project, etc.
ISDAO is a fund for LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) individuals that is run by activists in West Africa. By using a flexible grant-making strategy and creating a philanthropic culture dedicated to equality and social justice, it seeks to strengthen and support a West African movement for sexual and gender diversity.
ISDAO represents the following principles
- A fair portrayal of the LGBTQI community
- Create and support movements with an ideological foundation that acknowledge unequal power relations.
- Self-determination is made possible by autonomy, inclusion, diversity, and intersectionality.
- ISDAO offers flexible funding to support group/organizational overall coordination, operations, and strengthening, as well as group/organizational initiatives and projects. This support is provided for LGBTQI groups, organisations, and individual LGBTQI activists through the Asanka Creative Initiatives pilot grant.
Financial Details
- Variety of grants Spending limit of $3,000 to $5,000
- Grant Duration: 12 months (1 year) maximum time
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They support who?
- ISDAO will only provide funding for the ASANKA Fund to organisations and groups led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and individual LGBTQI activists who are based in or from one of the ISDAO focal countries and whose work is rooted in and connected to the local movement in the area or in one of the ISDAO focal countries and involves local partners.
- Organizations/groups/associations that are led by LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, intersex, and trans*) people and where these communities play a decision-making role, including defining the organization’s strategic and financial priorities, and represent at least 75% of staff, spokespeople, and board members, as well as organisations based in at least one of the ISDAO focal countries, will be awarded ISDAO grants for the ASANKA – Creative Initiatives Fund.
- An LGBTQI activist can submit a concept note for a creative project if they are based in one of the ISDAO’s focus countries or are from one of the ISDAO’s focal countries and their work is anchored in and connected to the local movement in the area or in one of the ISDAO’s focal countries and involves local partners.
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Please be aware that in order to get financing from ISDAO, a group is not need to be formally registered.
- For this pilot grant, individual projects are encouraged.
- Governmental or political entities that submit concept notes are not eligible for funding.
Eligibility
You cannot apply for ASANKA if your group or organisation is a current ISDAO grantee.
You cannot submit a concept note for ASANKA as an individual activist if you hold a leadership position (executive director, coordinator, president, programme officer, etc.) in a group or organisation that identifies as LGBTQI.
For more information visit ISDAO for additional details.
