Context - Creative Initiatives
ISDAO is flexible and supports activists so they can work in areas that are rarely funded by donors and that aim to advance and strengthen movements for social change, inclusion, and justice. Recognizing that very few resources are dedicated to innovative and creative activism, ISDAO is launching the fifth cycle of the Asanka Fund.
For ISDAO, within the scope of this grant, creative initiatives are those that go beyond traditional forms of activism. This includes, but is not limited to, all innovative initiatives undertaken by individual LGBTQI activists to support LGBTQI activism in at least one of ISDAO’s focus countries.
ISDAO encourages innovative strategies for advocacy, mobilization, and movement-building, including strategies aimed at shifting narratives through literature, video, digital content creation, photography, choreography, film, radio, painting, drawing, and all forms of art in general at the local and regional levels.
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Eligibility criteria
Asanka grants will be awarded to:
- Individual LGBTQI activists based in one of the ISDAO focus countries or originating from one of the ISDAO focus countries, whose work is rooted in and connected to the local movement in the region or in one of the ISDAO focus countries. These focus countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.
Please note that :
- Individual LGBTQI activists are people who identify as members of the LGBTQI community and are recognized as such by their peers.
- For this fund, only initiatives proposed by individual LGBTQI activists will be accepted.
- Concept notes submitted by groups or organizations are not eligible for funding.
Individual activists from francophone countries, as well as members of the LBQ, trans*, and intersex communities, are strongly encouraged to apply.
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