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Karibu’s African grantmaking program is an African-led and co-designed participatory grantmaking program within the Karibu Foundation, launched in 2025 and now fully in operation.

The grantmaking program’s “Core Group” (consisting of African activists and civil society members) looks to support groups of change-agents in Africa who have bold, innovative, forward-thinking, and “constructive troublemaking” ideas that disrupt the status quo of injustices that the continent and our world are currently facing.

We specifically seek to support groups of change agents — social movements and/or networks, organizations, cooperatives, collectives, and associations in social movement eco-systems- who are undertaking imaginative initiatives that strengthen and add new dimensions to the collective struggle for systemic justice. This is specifically related to the economic, socio-cultural, political, and ecological crises we face.

Deadline for Notes of Interest:
TBA early 2027

Application Deadline:
By invitation from the Core Group

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Read more information about the history and background of the program.

Eligibility

In order to be invited to apply for the Karibu Africa grants, your group (social movements, associations, organizations, cooperatives, collectives, and/or networks) must:

  • Be based in Africa and be African-led
  • Have particular focus on the root causes of injustice, and how systems are interconnected (systemic approach)
  • Have a non-violent approach
  • Have a plan and provide a jointly-decided upon concept note (maximum 6 pages) or optional video application (maximum 10 minutes) describing your new initiative
  • Provide a simple budget draft to help us understand how the funds are expected to be used
  • If your group is not registered, this is not a problem. We will just need a registered fiscal sponsor who can potentially receive and financially administer the funds. We are also open to hearing alternative models.

What we are not funding

  • For-profit and/or income-generating efforts
  • Government programs
  • Infrastructure (homes, buildings, etc)
  • Humanitarian aid (food, water and sanitation, school kits, disaster relief, etc.)
  • Capital investments (farm equipment, livestock, computers, etc)
  • Individual scholarships

How to apply

The Africa Grant programme is currently closed for applications and Notes of Interest.The next application deadline will be announced in early 2027.

1. Eligibility, Selection Criteria, and Application Process (2025)

– Eligibility and selection info

– Application guidelines

– Submission instructions

Information Packet
2025
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(PDF, 2MB)
Information Packet
2025
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(PDF, 350 KB)
Application Documents Overview

2. Frequently Asked Questions

Read the frequently asked questions about this grant before potentially applying.

Read FAQ

3. Application Link

Karibu’s “Grant Management System” is open to receive Notes of Interest

Login to Karibu’s Grant Management System (GMS) to send in a Note of Interest.

(Instruction guide found in the “information packet”).

Questions?

We encourage you to carefully read our “Frequently Asked Questions” and read carefully the “Information Packet” (updated 10. April 2025) for the program.

You can view our 30-min Informational Webinar that was updated for 2023 (during the program’s pilot phase). A majority of the general information is still valid (note: the deadlines/dates are not correct). The video can be found below or here.

For general questions, you can send us an email at KNRG@karibu.no.

Given the large amount of emails and messages that Karibu receives, however, we cannot guarantee that we can respond to all inquires about individual projects.  

Informational Webinar

Watch our 30-minute informational webinar that has been updated for Cycle 2 (2023), where we present the grant program. A majority of this information is still valid.

Watch video