Deadline: 20-Oct-20
The African Culture Fund (ACF) has launched SOFACO Call for proposals Batch No 2 “Special Covid-19 / Cultural organizations”, to support the resilience of African artists and cultural actors whose activities have been negatively affected by the COVID 19 crisis.
After a first batch, intended only for individual artists, the ACF is launching on September 26, 2020, the second batch of SOFACO, this time dedicated to cultural organizations in Africa.
For this call, the ACF supports the activities and projects of creation, production and dissemination of works, and capacity building in the fields of performing arts (music, dance and theater) and visual arts (arts traditional plastics, photography, digital art, design, fashion, decorative arts as well as all pre-production, production, post-production, broadcast and distribution activities in the cinematographic and audiovisual disciplines).
Funding Information
- ACF grant under this Call will not exceed an amount of $5,000 (Five thousand) United States Dollars per cultural organization.
- The funding covers a period between a minimum of 4 months and a maximum of 6 months.
Funding Modalities
The Fund will sign a Grant Agreement with the beneficiary cultural organization. The Agreement will include information on the activities to be carried out, the grant amount, the disbursement schedule, and the delivery of implementation reports. Funding to the selected projects will be disbursed in two (02) installments:
- 80% of the grant, upon signing the Grant Agreement;
- 20% of the grant, at mid-term and upon submission and approval of the narrative and interim financial reports.
Eligible Projects
For this Call for “Special Covid-19 / Cultural Organizations”, ACF is supporting applications in one of the following two categories of projects:
- Category 1: Professional grants
- The professional grant is a subsidy to help a cultural organization cover all or part of its operating expenses which it cannot temporarily face, due to the crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Category 2: Requests for assistance to creation
- Assistance to creation has to do with any creative or artistic innovation project adapted to the context of Covid-19 in Africa.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, cultural organizations applicants must meet the following conditions:
- Be an artistic cultural organization operating in Africa, with at least five years of experience (proof of legal existence to provide).
- Submit a document showing the artistic career, process and an overview of the artistic works of your organization (maximum3 pages).
- Submit a résumé (biography) of the head of the organization.
- Submit a letter of recommendation from at least one recognized reference person in the field of competency of your organization (pointing out the need and urgency to provide financial support to your organization).
Selection Procedure
The selection procedure follows five (05) steps:
- Recording of files.
- Administrative review of applications.
- Evaluation by the selection committee (Panel).
- Approval of the list of selected projects.
- Approval of funding allocation.
*Applications will be assessed by an independent selection committee made of professionals working in the African cultural sector and knowledgeable of the artistic realities in the different African regions.
How to Apply
- Applicants must complete an online funding application form via the link given on the website.
- Applications submitted by any other channel will not be considered.
- Applications can be submitted in English or French.
- The applications must be submitted to the deadline mentioned in the call.
- Incomplete applications will not be considered.
- The applicant will receive an automatic acknowledgment email once the application has been received.
- The results will be published on the ACF website and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram).
NOTE: Only successful applicants will receive notification by ACF. The latter must then provide all the administrative documents mentioned above, within a time limit set by the ACF.
For more information, visit https://www.africanculturefund.net/en/launch-of-sofaco-call-for-proposals-batch-no-2-special-covid-19-cultural-organizations/