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72067424APS00001: Southern Africa Regional Investigative Journalism Activity – South Africa Addendum to the Justice Rights and Security APS

Closed Closed January 12, 2024 Opportunity 72067424APS00001 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$8.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligibility for this funding opportunity is restricted to local entities in selected countries in the SADC region, excluding Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas awards averaged $8.7 million; this notice allows up to $8.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (54% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Through this Addendum to the Justice, Rights, and Security Annual Program Statement(JRS-APS) #7200AA22APS00007 (APS Full Announcement), USAID/SA is making a special call for the submission of Concept Notes focused on Southern Africa Regional Investigative Journalism Activity. The purpose of the Southern Africa Regional Investigative Journalism Activity is to strengthen the capacity and collaboration among Southern African investigative journalists, editors and their newsrooms to produce investigative reports of local, regional, and global importance on crime and corruption, including its transnational dimensions. The Activity will cultivate a new and diverse cadre of investigative journalists in the region with expanded skills for reporting, editing and reaching audiences, and help them use technology to collaborate across borders, access information, work with data, and produce innovative ways of telling the stories they unearth to the communities most affected.

Category: Other.

Applying now

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