Implementing the Sustainable Action Fund in Malawi

Description

1) Objective

Hivos’ Connect, Defend, Act! team in Malawi is looking for partners to implement the Sustainable Action Fund. The Fund is established to provide targeted financial and technical support for community-driven and civil society-led initiatives that protect, expand and promote inclusive civic space and human rights. Project objectives are:

• By promoting coalition building among diverse civil society actors, including human rights defenders, rights holder-led civil society organizations, and independent media actors, grounded in civil society-led evidence gathering and knowledge production, and facilitated by context-specific communities of action.
• By contributing to safe and inclusive digital civic spaces for sustained collaboration and action among civil society actors through localized holistic digital security capacity strengthening, knowledge production, and active referral to digital protection providers.
• By increasing civil society actors’ flexibility to rapidly respond to changes in civic space through organizational capacity strengthening and the provision of strategic funding for sustainable action.

2) Eligibility

They encourage applications from national, regional, or local civil society actors including Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), grassroots organizations, action-based/movement groups, etc. It is essential that the organizations have balanced composition of youth, women, local/traditional/indigenous, diverse groups and (if any) person with disabilities.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Malawi.

4) Budget

The total amount of the Sustainable Action Grant is EUR 80,000 for one partner annually. Applications should be within this range.

5) Application

Submissions must be received at by July 3, 2025 16:00 hrs.