Call for Concept Notes - Asanka Creative Initiatives Fund

ISDAO is flexible and provides support for communities to work in areas that are rarely funded by donors and that aim to advance and strengthen movements for social change, inclusion, and justice.

Aware that very few resources are dedicated to innovative and creative activism, ISDAO is launching the third cycle of the Asanka Fund. For this call, ISDAO encourages innovative advocacy, mobilization and movement-building strategies, including those aimed at changing narratives through literature, video, digital content production, photography, choreography, film, radio, painting, drawing, and all art forms in general at local and regional levels.

For ISDAO, in the context of this grant, creative initiatives refer to approaches beyond traditional forms of activism. This includes but is not limited to projects led by LGBTQI individual activists that contribute to LGBTQI activism in at least one of ISDAO's focal countries. Examples include producing a mini-documentary, editing a book, creating a comic strip, launching a web radio, or developing a photography project, among others.

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If you are in a leadership role in an organization (executive director, coordinator, president, program manager etc.) please ensure that the creative initiative you wish to implement does not fall within your organization's focus areas.

Please read the checklist carefully to assess the other eligibility criteria for the Asanka fund.