Core Grants

The overall goal of this grant is to support civic agency and social accountability through catalytic interventions aimed at unlocking access to urban land for pro-poor housing and good local governance. The activities proposed herein are in line with the organisation's mission and its vision of self-reliant societies and of ensuring that public institutions are responsive, inclusive and accountable.

The overall goal of this grant is to address the democratic deficit and underdevelopment of our field, we develop investigative journalism, a public interest task we believe is key to free, capable media and open, accountable, just democracy.

The overall goal of this grant is an inclusive and gender equitable society where human rights are valued, realised and protected and where all citizens have access to the means to ensure a decent standard of living and quality of life. Through the promotion, realisation and protection of the human rights of farm dwellers, by the end of 2027 farm dwellers in the uMgungundlovu District have achieved an improved standard of living and quality of life, thereby restoring their human dignity as equal citizens in a democratic society.

The overall goal of this grant is to encourage South African decision makers to support the just transition to agroecology in their policies and programmes  and that duty bearers are held to account, to give effect to human rights and for food sovereignty, climate resilience and social justice.

The overall goal of this grant is to collaboratively build people’s participation in, and understanding and monitoring of, South Africa’s budget, planning and implementation processes, serving as both a catalyst and a resource in support of mobilisation.

The overall goal of this grant is to support the growth of a diverse environmental and climate justice movement in South Africa that is influencing institutions of power, and to ensure a regulatory system that gives effect to environmental and climate justice, and Constitutional rights.