Discover the latest grant opportunities from multiple donor agencies, accessible with just one click, for organizations, individuals, and companies in Kenya.
Kenya: Civic Action and Community Empowerment Grants for Grassroots Organisations
Deadline: 31-Jul-2024
KIOS Foundation is excited to announce the opening of the Civic Action and Community Empowerment Grant Program in Kenya.
This “Small Grant Scheme” is designed to empower community-level initiatives. These initiatives are vital, especially given the diverse and sometimes informal setups of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and their varying capacities to absorb resources.
The overall objectives to be achieved through this sub-granting support include:
- Strengthening the capacity of selected CBOs and grassroots organizations that work on defending the human rights of people in vulnerable positions and marginalized groups, while also increasing the accountability of duty bearers.
- Encouraging CBOs and grassroots organizations to meaningfully participate in holding local and national authorities accountable for improving the delivery of services related to Economic, Social, and Cultural rights, and ensuring the rule of law and human rights.
Fund for Local Cooperation for Kenya
Deadline: 30-Aug-2024
The Embassy of Finland hereby invites Kenya civil society organizations and private sector to submit proposals to apply for funding from the Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC).
FLC is a development cooperation instrument managed by the Embassy in Nairobi. The fund provides grants to well-defined projects in selected priority areas of Finland in Kenya. The support is intended for project-based support only.
The local partners implementing FLC projects must abide by the relevant local legislation. As a rule, a local partner should implement the project.
The focus of the “Call for Proposals” is on democratic governance, peace and security with the following outcome areas;
- Accountability and transparency in democratic processes improved
- Women and youth rights protected and advanced
- Citizen resilience against manipulation enhance
Young Environmentalist Innovative Challenge – Kenya
Deadline: 31-Jul-2024
The Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) is inviting applications for the Young Environmentalist Innovative Challenge (YEIC).
The Young Environmentalist Innovation Challenge (YEIC) is an environmental innovation fund established by KCDF through the generous gift of Mackenzie Scott with the aim of developing action-oriented young people with strong values and commitment to the conservation of the environment. The Challenge fund is inviting submissions of Innovation ideas and solutions for environmental challenges while inculcation spirit of environmental responsibility.
The 1st Series of the Call awarded 5 youth led organizations with a total of 23.9Milion Shillings to implement environmental innovations around tree growing, waste management and agriculture.
This is the 2nd public call for applications to the KCDF YEIC fund. The award will be given to young people (15-35 years) and community focused organizations registered or unregistered in any form that will present innovations that demonstrate passion and commitment to environmental conservation. This fund will catalyze young Kenyans into implementing innovations that advance technology and environmental responsibility. It seeks to support Innovation ideas and solutions that promote green and digital transformation adoption.
NOFO: Bolstering East Africa’s Investigative Journalism Ecosystem (Kenya)
Deadline: 15-Jul-24
The U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Department of State invites organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to support investigative journalism and practices that aim to build up Nairobi as a hub for public interest journalism.
This program will focus on teaching investigative journalism techniques to professional and citizen journalists, civil society members, and others, with an emphasis on how to identify inauthentic behavior and the application of artificial intelligence in online publications. The program must include designing an investigative journalism curriculum, developing materials, virtual exchanges, training, and mentoring. The program should include a structured fellowship program which would host and support participants conducting investigative projects. Finally, the program should lead to the creation of an independent Center for Investigative Reporting in Kenya and an institutional sustainability strategy. Funds are authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act.
Nairobi’s media sector is the most developed in East Africa and boasts a professional corps of journalists across multiple established outlets in broadcast, print, radio, and online. Kenya’s leading media houses provide news coverage in neighboring countries, and Nairobi is also home to East Africa correspondents for most major international news organizations. Nairobi’s strengths as a regional media hub with academic, social, and professional journalism infrastructure make it an ideal location for developing stronger public interest journalism across East Africa. However, Kenyan journalists face many of the same challenges as their counterparts in neighboring countries and will benefit from training and support. Financial challenges including declining revenue and struggles monetizing online content have resulted in headcount reductions and resource cuts across the industry. This difficult financial situation, coupled with occasional political pressure, have stretched remaining members of the media and left limited resources for in-depth reporting.
Call for Proposals: GEF Small Grants Programme (Kenya)
Deadline: 26-Jul-2024
The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) implemented by UNDP, awards grants on a competitive basis for initiatives implemented by civil society organizations, to enable them to implement environmental projects while at the same time supporting poverty reduction and local empowerment objectives.
The Seventh Operational Phase of the GEF Small Grants Program in Kenya aims to empower communities and organizations to take collective action through a participatory landscape planning and management approach aimed at enhancing socio-ecological resilience by producing global environmental and local sustainable development benefits. The project will do so by strengthening adaptive management capabilities, increasing technical know-how, developing planning and organizational skills, and strengthening innovation and experimentation capacities to enhance civil society’s capacity to build landscape resilience.
The project will also invest in strategic projects to build knowledge and capacity and generate synergies among other smaller local actions, to build long-term ecological social and economic resilience in landscapes. This project aims to promote synergies, coordination, and collaboration among local actions to accrue results and acquire a critical mass of practitioners to achieve landscape-level resilience. The project has a strong commitment to attending the specific needs of vulnerable sub-groups within the communities that often tend to be placed on the margin of social processes – women, youth, and indigenous communities – by supporting their productive and sustainable initiatives and enhancing their participation in multi-stakeholder structures.
GrowthAfrica Accelerator Opens for 2023 Cohort Applications: Receive Investment Support
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Are you an ambitious and committed entrepreneur from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia or Ghana with the potential to grow and create impact through their businesses? Then this Accelerator program is for you.
The GrowthAfrica has launched its Accelerator, a 6-months support programme that guides you in understanding all components of your business, internal and external realities, and identifying growth challenges to help you develop clear goals and a comprehensive strategic implementation-ready growth plan.
The programme develops your entrepreneurial leadership and grows your venture through business acceleration activities, strategic advice, and access to investments.
Win up to Kshs 300,000! WIDU Local Call on Food Security for Kenya
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Are you an entrepreneur running a micro or small enterprise that contributes to sufficient, safe and/or nutritious food and agricultural production in Kenya? If yes, then the new WIDU Local Call: #FoodCallKenya is your opportunity to scale-up or start off your business!
Target Sectors
- Farming and food production
- Agri-Services
- Food processing
- Nutritional health
- Reduction of food waste
- IT and data for food security
Funding Information
Participating Entrepreneurs privately invest between Kshs 30,000 and Kshs 120,000. WIDU will multiply the investment by 2.5 – successful participants can receive a grant of up to Kshs 300,000 (the grant will not have to be paid back).
Villgro Africa Business Incubator Program in Kenya
Deadline: Ongoing
Apply for the Villgro Africa Business Incubator Program that discovers and supports innovative businesses that significantly improve healthcare access for low-income populations across Africa.
They support startups in the healthcare and life sciences, which cuts across biotech, medtech, service delivery, health systems strengthening, nutrition, sanitation, etc.
Successful applicants will receive up to $50,000 in funding, business development expertise, and access to additional investment opportunities.
Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award
Deadline: 9 August 2024
Thomson Foundation in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association (FPA) is currently inviting submissions for the Young Journalist Award.
The award brings international recognition and as Yara discovered opportunities to meet international editors. She has had several articles published by The Guardian after visiting the media group’s London Headquarters when she was in the UK to receive her prize.
Yara joins a select group of talented young journalists from countries including from India, Taiwan, Sudan, Peru, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Uganda, and Kenya who have won the award.
East African Photography Competition
Deadline: 10 August 2024
Submissions are now open for photographers to participate in the annual photography competitions, which celebrate the photographic talents of Uganda and East Africa.
Now, in its 6th edition, they have the annual East African Photography Award (EAPA), open to all East African visual storytellers.
The world around them is changing fast, and as creative workers, it is the job to understand, keep up with, and explain those changes. The impacts of cultural, socio-political, environmental, and technological issues are growing larger as globalization links them all together closer and the old collides with the new at every turn.
P4G Call for Partnerships working on Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Solutions
Deadline: 8-Sep-24
P4G is now accepting applications for partnerships working on climate mitigation or adaptation solutions in the areas of food, energy and water.
Partnerships must comprise at least one early-stage business and one nonprofit organization implementing in one of P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia and Vietnam. Applicants must provide services or products that contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equity and economic growth in one of the following sub-sectors: climate-smart agriculture, food loss and waste, water resilience, zero emission mobility and renewable energy.
P4G will provide grant funding and technical assistance to help the early-stage business in the partnership become investment ready.
Call for Applications: Karura Photo Competition (Kenya)
Deadline: 31 July 2024
The Friends of Karura Community Forest Association (FKF) is inviting applications for the Karura Photo Competition.
The Friends of Karura is a Community Forest Association comprising Kenyans and other champions of participatory forest management who are dedicated in particular to protecting for future generations the city’s largest green area, the Karura Forest Reserve.
Friends of Karura Community Forest Association (FKF), in partnership with the Kenya Forest Service and numerous private supporters, is committed to a future for people and nature though participatory forest management. Since FKF was registered under the Societies Act of Kenya in October 2009, Karura Forest had offered tens of thousands of visitors some 50 km of well-maintained secure trails to walk, run or bike, as well as for FKF staff to restore the forest to its natural state and maintain it for future generations.
The Agribusiness Challenge Fund
Deadline: 22 November 2024
Submissions are now open for the Agribusiness Challenge Fund that will offer direct financial support to address the resource flow barriers faced by SMEs looking to scale-up and, in turn, create and sustain employment opportunities for young women and men.
The objective of the Fund is to unlock enterprise growth and catalyse, scale-up and sustain the creation of dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young women and young men. Through several sector-specific rolling challenges, the Fund will target entities that have innovative and scalable business models with significant potential to create jobs, supporting them to create sustainable impact.
Call for Fellowships: Research into Online Gender Based Harassment
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Do you want to take an active role in combating coordinated online abuse that targets African women journalists, election candidates or other human rights defenders? Code for Africa (CfA) in partnership with Jigsaw, is offering research grants and technical support for evidence-driven analysis into how malign actors coordinate harassment and complaints against African women journalists and fact-checkers across 21 African countries.
The research fellowships come with a financial stipend, along with access to CfA’s in-house research desk, as well as forensic analysts, data scientists and open source intelligence (OSINT) researchers, and machine learning tools for social listening or data/network analysis.
The research fellows will compile evidence about online gender-based harassment into substantive public research reports that shines new light on the actors, networks and motives behind the online harassment and how it undermines public participation of marginalised groups on the African continent. Selected fellows will be invited to share their research at seminars or international events.
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