Hivos is pleased to announce that African Crossroads Collaboration Grants cycle for 2023 is now open!

Deadline: June 15, 2023 by 12:00 (CAT)
Grant amount: 25,000 Euros (including VAT)
Grant period: June 2023 to January 31, 2024
Final Reporting Deadline: January 31, 2024

About African Crossroads

African Crossroads is a Pan African network that is inspired to collaborate to engage seasonally critically reflecting and act together on emerging issues across the continent. African Crossroads aims to tap into Africa’s vast potential and thrives on collective intelligence, cooperative action, experimentation to positively shape the future of African societies.

Why collaborate?

Collaboration grants are intended to support and develop peer to peer learnings and skills exchange among creatives and tech entrepreneurs. We invite proposals contemplating collaboration and other forms of partnerships that will increase knowledge and capacities to achieve more together than each can accomplish alone.

Types of projects funded

We are offering collaboration grants of up to EUR 25,000 to organizations and individuals, multidisciplinary hubs and collectives that are working across arts practice, culture, heritage and technology to collaborate and deliver projects that speak to the following:

The grant will support the production of works that aim to build connections, and partnerships across North, East and Southern African countries.

• Project proposals that seek to share knowledge with wider groups and communities to exchange ideas
• Project proposals that propel digital innovation and practice
• Projects that offer diversification of dialogue, debate and dissent in society referring to history, memory, challenging pre-dominant narratives and media in different disciplines.
• Projects can take the form of regional exchanges, exhibitions, installations, dialogues and production and presentation of new work across all creative art forms including music, literature, film and audiovisual, to be presented at the annual African Crossroads showcasing event in October 2023
• Projects that focus on the following audio and visual disciplines: graphic design, fashion design, comics, cartoons, animation, comedy, satire, poetry, slam poetry, spoken word, storytelling, music, rap, hip hop, DJ-ing VJ-ing, radio shows, radio series, TV show, TV series, online TV show, TV series, sculpture (objects), vlogs, visual art (painting, drawing, printmaking, digital art), photography, feature film, documentary, mixed media, installation, performance, short film, video, virtual reality, and videogame

Thematic areas of focus

• Creative solidarity and interconnection
• Responsibility and accountability of climate justice in Africa
• Why popular cultural expressions matter: influences on gender and feminism
• Creative expressions: challenging exclusionary beliefs and embodying new narratives.
• African Futurism: creating the Africa we want

Application guidelines

• The grants are open to African Crossroads and R.O.O.M. applicants based in East, North and Southern Africa
• A maximum of two partners can collaborate and should submit one grant application
• Applicants should determine beforehand who will act as lead applicant. The lead applicant takes full responsibility for the application process, contract intake, receiving the grant amount, distributing the funds according to the budget, securing project implementation, delivering both the narrative report and financial report.
• Applicants need to have a bank account and a registered legal entity.
• Activities should take place between June 2023 – January 31, 2024

How to apply

To submit your application in English, please fill in the application form on this link. In addition to that please submit a budget (to be attached to the application form) and a proposed work plan.

If you have a question or you need support regarding your application, please send an email to proposals.hubsaf@hivos.org