Deadline: 31 December 2018
Nominations are open for African CSO Excellence Awards which is a joint initiative between EPIC-Africa and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Awards highlight the importance of organizational capacity to achieve program impact.
Elements
The African CSO Excellence Awards reward organizations that demonstrate excellence across eight key elements of organizational capacity: Strategic Ability and Adaptability, Leadership and Governance, Financial Health and Management, Human Resources and Staff Development, Operations, Communications, Partnerships and Alliances, Monitoring and Evaluation.
Benefits
- Applicants’ organization will get an opportunity to fundraise on the international GlobalGiving Platform with a series of capacity building workshops for 3 members of staff.
- Applicants will get media visibility and networking opportunities through the African CSO Excellence Awards community.
- The Awards also offer applicants’ organization the chance to:
- Assess their organizational capacity.
- Receive a confidential capacity diagnostic report to help benchmark their organization.
- Increase their visibility to local and international funders.
- Increase their credibility by demonstrating transparency and accountability.
Eligibility Criteria
All legally registered not-for-profit, or other classification of social purpose organization, founded and led by Africans, composed in majority of African staff and working on major challenges impacting Africa are able to apply. Under this definition, international NGOs operating in Africa are not eligible for the Awards but their local partners who fit this description are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
- Required
- Certificate of Registration (Proof of legal registration is required to be eligible to apply for the awards)
- OPTIONAL (BUT STRONGLY ENCOURAGED)
- Current strategic plan
- Human resources manual or other staff development policies
- Most recent audited financial statement
- Financial management procedures or policies
- Communications strategy
- Most recent annual report
- OPTIONAL (BUT STRONGLY ENCOURAGED)
- The award strongly encourage applicants to share as many of these documents as possible. Sharing helps to demonstrate their transparency and increase their score in the relevant category as they are better able to assess their application.
- Certificate of Registration (Proof of legal registration is required to be eligible to apply for the awards)
- Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit African CSO Excellence Awards.