Apply: Civic Tech Solutions to Strengthen Democratic Governance in South Africa

Civic Tech Solutions to Strengthen Democratic Governance in South Africa

The Charter Project Africa in South Africa has launched a call to support civil society organisations in using civic technology to promote and popularise the African Governance Architecture.

This call will focus on using civic tech solutions to strengthen democratic governance in South Africa. Its main aim will be to support civil society in South Africa to raise awareness about the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) and, among other things, advocate for its ratification and popularization as an important instrument that can help promote, monitor, and assess the democratic consolidation and entrenchment of a democratic political culture.

Priorities

• This Call seeks to support civil society in South Africa to raise awareness about and utilise the African Charter for Democracy, Elections, and Governance to promote, monitor, and assess democratic consolidation and democratic culture as well as to strengthen engagement with SADC and the AGA.
• The mobilisation of citizens’ groups at the various national, sub-regional and regional levels in an inclusive and multi-stakeholder approach should allow for the construction of consensus positions within civil society on the ACDEG and to share them among CSOs and citizens in South Africa as well as with national, sub-regional and regional institutions.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Call will focus on providing support to non-profit organisations (CSOs, NGOs, Associations, etc.) active in the civic space, the civic technology ecosystem, and democratic governance.
• In summary, the eligibility criteria are as follows:
  1. The organisation must be registered in South Africa;
  2. The organization must be a legal entity;
  3. The organization must be non-governmental, independent of local or regional government;
  4. The organization can be a non-profit organization but must – in this case – be strongly committed to advancing civic participation.
  5. The organization must be able to sign a grant agreement;
  6. The organization must not have received any unfavourable opinions, either from its auditors or from those of its donors;
  7. The organization should have policies and/or practices in place to ensure the ethical management of personally identifiable information;
  8. The organization must not have been judged for fraud, corruption, participation in a criminal organization, or any other illegal activity.

• In addition, the beneficiaries of the call must adhere to several (but not necessarily all) of the following high-level guiding principles:
  1. The organization’s activities are positioned to foster innovation, sustainable growth and/or large-scale change in policies, behaviour and systems;
  2. The organization has an approach that fundamentally adopts a sustainable balance to solve social and/or economic problems;
  3. The organization has established local, regional, and/or national partnerships to optimize its model and deliver its mission on a larger scale.
  4. The organization can grow in terms of its ability to manage additional resources and the work associated with expansion;
  5. The organisation can already show evidence of the impact of its work and can indicate how additional resources will increase its impact;
  6. The organization can demonstrate how the intervention supported by the appeal will be sustained.

For more information, visit https://civictechfund.africa/southafrica/

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