Amplification Grants Extension

• Eligibility Criteria:
  – Registered and previously audited entities that are, or are representing communities and networks of young makers, i.e., physical and virtual spaces in which they can safely work, collaborate, and produce critical content in the audio-visual sector such as creative spaces, groups of artists, music studios, hubs, cafés, art spaces, art galleries, independent production houses, networks of artists and producers, online platforms, collectives, co-working spaces focusing on the creative industry;
  – Entities that make use of digital means (online platforms) to strategically distribute their content to their audiences; and
  – Entities that produce content/work that aims to show alternative viewpoints on big issues affecting society that challenges or question certain norms in society and promote Pan-African social progress.
• Type of funding: Programmatic
• Target country: Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• Application language: English

Hivos (Southern Africa) is seeking concept notes for the “Amplification Grants Extension” from registered artistic collectives, creative hubs, and groups of content creators in the audio-visual sector. This grant aims to support the production of more consciously independent and self-sufficient makers, who create more critical, African cultural, media and intellectual productions, reach a wider and more diverse African audience and have an increased capacity to promote gender inclusivity, economic class diversity, and local accessibility and ownership in facilitating African cultural and media productions.

The “Amplification Grants Extension” open call is directed to registered entities that have grown their capacity to manage long-term grants and have carried out at least one project audit. Besides artistic imagination, the production of Afrocentric/ Pan-African independent and conscious work that challenges or questions norms in society will be an important factor in the awarding of grants.

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