Open Call for Small Organisational Development Grants 2025

Deadline: 4-Jul-25

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is excited to announce its open call to support emerging civil society organisations in Southern Africa through Small Organisational Development Grants.

The long-term goal of this project is to build stronger, more resilient organisations with greater capacity to advocate for human rights and social justice in Southern Africa. The funding will be accompanied by technical support from SALC to support organisational development and financial resilience.

Focus Areas

This call is limited to the following Community-based organisations (CBOs):
- Disability-led organisations that:
  - Promote the rights of persons with disabilities;
  - Challenge discrimination against persons with disabilities through advocacy and legal empowerment; and/or
  - Seek to improve the interaction between persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities and the criminal justice system.
- Trans-led organisations that:
  - Promote the rights of trans and gender diverse persons through advocacy and legal empowerment initiatives;
  - Support trans and gender diverse persons to change the gender marker on their identity documents;
  - Provide legal defence to persons who were arbitrarily arrested based on their gender identity or expression and/or;
  - Challenge abusive policing practices.
- Sex worker-led organisations that:
  - Promote the rights of sex workers through advocacy and legal empowerment initiatives; and/or
  - Engage with police to ensure policing practices respect sex workers rights.
- Womens rights and women-led organisations that:
  - Work at community-level to promote womens customary land rights and legal empowerment; and/or
  - Uses advocacy and legal empowerment methods to improve the interaction between survivors of gender-based violence and the criminal justice system.

Funding Information

The maximum grant amount is USD15,000 for a year.

Geographic Focus

Community-based organisations (CBOs) based in the following countries can submit applications: Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Eligibility Criteria

You can apply if:
- your organisation is a grassroots organisation
- the management of your organisation representative of the community you serve
- your organisation been in operation for more than 3 years
- your organisation’s annual income less than $100 000.

For more information, visit SALC.