{"id":3347,"date":"2017-04-19T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:16:05","slug":"open-society-offers-media-grants-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2017\/04\/19\/open-society-offers-media-grants-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Society offers media grants [West Africa]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo_Osiwa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3348 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo_Osiwa-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo_Osiwa-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo_Osiwa.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Local organizations based in West Africa can apply for funding.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osiwa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Society Initiative for West Africa<\/a> (OSIWA) is accepting proposals to support initiatives in Benin, Burkina Faso,\u00a0Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, S\u00e3o Tome and Pr\u00edncipe and Togo.<\/p>\n<p>Possible target areas include journalism, justice reform and the rule of law, the democratic practice and more. Proposals must promote investigative journalism and free, quality and independent media.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of funding varies.\u00a0In the event that OSIWA cannot fund the entire project budget, it may choose to fund part of it and request the grant seeker to source for the outstanding balance.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline is April 30.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osiwa.org\/grants\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local organizations based in West Africa can apply for funding. The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) is accepting proposals to support initiatives in Benin, Burkina Faso,\u00a0Cape Verde, Gambia,&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2017\/04\/19\/open-society-offers-media-grants-west-africa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grants","category-opportunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13131,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/13131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}