Deadline: 4-Jul-25
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is pleased to announce an open call for applications to support emerging civil society organizations in Southern Africa through its Small Organisational Development Grants.
This initiative is designed to strengthen grassroots groups by enhancing their institutional capacity and financial resilience. Alongside funding support, selected organizations will also receive tailored technical assistance from SALC to help advance their development and sustainability.
The broader aim of the initiative is to build stronger, more resilient organizations that are better equipped to advocate for human rights and social justice across the region. The grants specifically target community-based organizations (CBOs) working with marginalized and underrepresented groups.
The call is limited to organizations in the following focus areas:
Disability-led organizations that advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities, combat discrimination through legal empowerment and advocacy, or work to improve the relationship between persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities and the criminal justice system.
Trans-led organizations that defend the rights of trans and gender-diverse individuals, support legal gender marker changes, offer legal defense to individuals arrested due to their gender identity or expression, or challenge abusive policing practices.
Sex worker-led organizations that promote sex workers’ rights through advocacy and legal empowerment or engage with law enforcement to ensure respectful policing practices.
Women’s rights and women-led organizations that work at the community level to promote customary land rights and legal empowerment for women, or that support survivors of gender-based violence in navigating the justice system through advocacy and legal interventions.
The maximum grant amount available under this program is USD 15,000 for a one-year period.
Eligible applicants must be community-based organizations located in Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, or Zimbabwe. Additionally, applying organizations must be grassroots in nature, have community representation in leadership, be operational for more than three years, and have an annual income of less than USD 100,000.
For more information, visit SALC.
