Established in June 2006, the Multi-Agency Grants Initiative (MAGI) is a collaborative venture between Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries (HIVOS), Atlantic Philanthropies, Uthando and the Ford Foundation.
The purpose of the fund is to provide a responsive mechanism for the provision of small grant funding to organisations at community level.
MAGI promotes a stronger and more sustainable CBO sector through grant making support, capacity building, brokering of services, partnership-building and monitoring and evaluation. The participation of a number of donors in the initiative ensures sharing of resources, a reduction of overheads and increased effectiveness. The partnership has been set up with the explicit objective of developing best-practice methodologies and providing a model for indigenous grant-making capacity.
2010 CLOSING DATES FOR APPLICATIONS
15 July 2010
SECTORS: The focus of the fund is on the following sectors:- Arts and Culture: Activities that have a clearly articulated development component such as addressing social issues. Attention will also be given to activities that enrich the cultural life of communities.
- Farm workers & Rural livelihoods: focus on projects supporting and promoting the basic human rights of farm workers and the rural poor and projects advocating on behalf of this group
- Health including sexual and reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS and GBV. Focus on projects that promote integrated, holistic responses to community health needs, including but not limited to increasing access to treatment, safe spaces, justice, support services, awareness-raising and public education activities.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights: Emerging groups or organisations in communities that focus on safe-spaces, mainstreaming and promoting LGBT rights, awareness-raising and consciousness-raising activities, capacity-building and networking.
- Refugee Rights: focus on projects promoting rights awareness and protection of marginalised migrant groups, including refugees & asylum seekers. (Unsolicited applications are not accepted for this category).
- For further details on sector guidelines email: zaide@hivos.co.za
- Grantees must be community based.
- Groups and organisations must be constituted and have a written constitution.
- The groups must demonstrate that some activities have taken place successfully.
- Applicants must demonstrate a community contribution either volunteer time, funds or material. A value must be attributed to this.
- There must be a clear outline of the participation of women in leadership and decision making, as well as the specific outcomes for women in terms of empowerment and benefits (where applicable).
- There must be a clear demonstration thatthe project is operating in an area of identified needs.
- Benefits to the community must be clearly defined.
- Institutional costs subject to an appraisal by the project officer and the approval of the allocations committee
- Capacity building and training
- Direct programme and activity costs
- Workshops
- Events
- Small infrastructure development
- Exchange visits and peer learning
- Small items of equipment
- One off events related toany of the above setors
- Bursaries
- Individual educare institutions
- Individual entrepreneurs to establish businesses
- Loans, individual or otherwise
- CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERATION
The fund will not support:
HOW TO APPLY
