Context
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.
Aware that very few resources are dedicated to innovative and creative activism, ISDAO is launching the third cycle of the ASANKA Fund. For this call, ISDAO is encouraging 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.
Creative Initiatives
For ISDAO, for the purpose of this grant, creative initiatives are those that are not included in traditional forms of activism. This includes but is not limited to, all creative initiatives carried out by LGBTQI groups/organizations or individual LGBTQI activists in support of LGBTQI Activism in at least one of ISDAO's focal countries. This could be, for example, the production of a mini-documentary, the editing of a book, a comic book, the creation of a web radio, the creation of a photo project, etc.
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Eligibility Criteria
- If your group/organization is a current ISDAO grant recipient, you cannot apply for ASANKA.
- If you are in a leadership role (executive director, coordinator, president, program officer, etc.) in an LGBTQI identity group/organization, you may not submit a concept note for ASANKA as an individual activist.
Please read the checklist carefully to assess the other eligibility criteria for the ASANKA Fund
