Zimba Grants
Zimba is a Luganda word meaning ‘Build’
This will support capacity strengthening and movement building in French-speaking Africa only.
ENDS IN:
- Girl-led movements, organisations and collectives led by African women and gender diverse persons organising in non-traditional ways (like creatives and artists among others) located in French-speaking African countries only.
- The grants will support the following interventions;
- Feminist political consciousness-raising, feminist education, feminist campaigns and amplifying feminist voice
- Alliance building, networking and coalition organising around critical issues
- Institutional capacity strengthening, including but not limited to funding skills and knowledge exchange training, workshops and teach-ins for activists or organisational staff, developing and reviewing organisational policies and procedures, affording the costs of facilitators to deliver organisational capacity activities.
- To apply for this grant, please click here. At the first page, after choosing the preferred language, please choose Emergency/Responsive Grant. Then at page 13, to the question “What are you requesting support for?” Choose Zimba Grants at the drop down
- Applicants can apply for between USD 5,000 and USD 20,000 to be implemented by December 2025. These are short term grants of not more than 6 months.
- Deadline for submitting your application is 11:59 GMT on 27th May