Established in June 2006, the Multi-Agency Grants Initiative (MAGI) started as a collaborative venture between Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries (HIVOS), Breadline Africa (BLA), Atlantic Philanthropies and Women’s Hope Education and Training (WHEAT) Trust.
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:
- HIV/AIDS, sexual & reproductive health/rights: Focus on increasing access to treatment, awareness & demystifying the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.
- Sustainable economic development: Community level responses that aim and have the potential to increase resources available through local and national government and other agencies, income and job opportunities, including access to skills development and training.
- Culture and recreation: 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. Recreational opportunities such as games, sports for youth and children, particularly young women and girls, will also fall under this category.
- Gender based violence: Focus on projects working to: reduce levels of domestic violence and generalised violence against women; increase women's access to justice; campaign against hate related crimes; provide safe spaces and support services for those affected by violence.
- Refugee & migrant rights: Focus on projects supporting and enhancing the human rights of refugees/migrants and advocating on behalf of this group. BY invitation only.
- Farm-worker rights & the rural poor: Focus on projects supporting and enhancing the human rights of farmworkers and the rural poor, and advocating on behalf of this group.
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered emancipation: emerging groups or organisations in townships & rural areas
- Health, sexual & reproductive rights: Focus on projects that promote health, develop holistic responses to community level health needs and integrate health promotion into the sectors outlined above.
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 support:
The fund will not support:
HOW TO APPLY
