Call for Proposals to support Cultural Projects in Kenya (€20,000)

Deadline: 08-Dec-2024

Africalia has announced a call for proposals designed to strengthen the cultural and creative ecosystem in Nairobi County by offering diversified cultural goods and strengthening local distribution capacities.

Within its multi-year programme in Kenya, Africalia supports a set of cultural actors and stakeholders who are an integral part of their country’s civil society and work in various artistic and creative fields. These actors are called “creators of change” and include cultural and creative enterprises and organizations, cultural training institutions, cultural incubators, and groups of individual artists brought together under cultural and creative umbrella organizations. As a result, the visibility and creativity of Kenyan artists and their works will be enhanced.

Objectives

• The objectives of this call for proposals are:
  • to strengthen local distribution capacities for cultural and creative goods and services,
  • to increase the visibility of Kenyan creativity (artists and works),
  • to strengthen the networking of Kenyan cultural professionals.

Funding Information

• Maximum budget of twenty thousand euros (€20,000)

Geographical Focus

• This call for proposals is aimed exclusively at legal entities operating in the Cultural and Creative Industries sector and headquartered in Nairobi County.

Eligible Projects

• The following types of projects are eligible:
  • Festivals (music festivals, film festivals, dance festivals);
  • Circulation of cultural works and content (traveling exhibitions, tours, etc.);
  • Development of online distribution and websites designed to increase the value of works (audiovisual, fashion, design, crafts, visual arts, heritage, etc.)

Ineligible Projects

• The following types of projects are not eligible:
  • Local activities (festivals) that remain in their usual venues;
  • Activities linked to events but not aimed at a general public;
  • Actions aimed at raising funds or promoting the applicant’s visibility;
  • Local dissemination actions intended for a general public but characterized by discrimination against individuals or groups on the grounds of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, wealth, birth or any other status;
  • Dissemination actions but which directly or indirectly support political parties or actions of a propaganda, proselytizing or pornographic nature.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible applicants must:
  • Be a legal entity;
  • Be a non-profit organization or cooperative, and be able to prove this by means of approval or a certificate of recognition issued by the province;
  • Have notarized statutes proving its existence for at least two years;
  • Have its head office in Nairobi county;
  • Carry out cultural activities focusing primarily on the dissemination of cultural works;
  • Have already managed one or more projects with a budget equivalent to at least 30% of the amount requested under this call for proposals, and be able to prove this through activity reports, financial reports and bank statements;
  • Be responsible for the preparation and management of funded activities;
  • Have a bank account opened in the name of the organization, and be able to prove this by means of a bank statement;
  • Provide a complete application file, including all required annexes, by the specified deadline.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following are not eligible:
  • Individuals;
  • Start-up legal entities with no experience in the distribution of cultural and creative goods and services;
  • Cultural organizations operating in the field of dissemination, but whose directors are not resident in Kenya at the time of this call;
  • All incomplete or late applications;
  • Cultural enterprises in programs already supported by Africalia;
  • Cultural organizations operating in counties other than Nairobi;
  • Autonomous public establishments;
  • Universities, public and private schools.

For more information, visit Africalia.