OSISA

Who We Are

OSISA is a growing African Institution committed to deepening democracy, protecting human rights and enhancing good governance in the region.

OSISA

What We Do

OSISA’s vision is to promote and sustain the ideals, values, institutions and practices of open society, with the aim of establishing vibrant and tolerant….

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Our Grants

OSISA is a grant making and advocacy foundation that is part of the global Open Society Foundations Network.

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Call For Applications (COVID-19 Response)

SOUTHERN AFRICA
CLOSING DATE: CURRENTLY CLOSED

 

In our COVID-19 response, OSISA is supporting projects aligned to the following specific strategic objectives and themes: 

 

  1. Promoting information democracy in Southern Africa;
  2. Building resilient social services systems that deliver equitable and sustainable universal access to health, education and water;
  3. Charting pathways to new economic realities in a new world (Dis)Order;
  4. Curbing corruption while promoting transparency and accountability;
  5. Responding to diminishing human rights protections due to increased securitisation, authoritarianism and constitutional reversals; and
  6. Protecting women’s rights: a gender lens to the COVID-19 response.
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Submission Of Applications

Applications should be completed and sent by email to: GrantProposalsCOVID-19@osisa.org

To submit your concept/idea for review by our Clusters, please kindly download and fill in our Concept Note form.

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COVID-19 STRATEGY
STRATEGY INFOGRAPHIC (2019 -2022)
THEORY OF CHANGE (2019 -2022)
EXECUTIVE STRATEGY (2019 - 2022)

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NEWS AND ARTICLES FROM OSISA

Buwa! Issue X

The 10th issue of BUWA! is focusing on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs). Across the globe, continent and much more recently in southern Africa, there are increased reports of political violence, arbitrary detentions, systematic attacks on human rights and pro-democracy activists. We are alive to the fact that while all HRDS have increasingly faced tougher operating conditions in the past decade, WHRDs have faced even more multiple layers of the brunt in such a context – given the manner in which patriarchy often colludes with other oppressive systems that characterise the field in which HRDs work.

Buwa! 10, therefore, comes at an opportune time to look back on decades of promoting and defending women’s human rights in Africa. It unpacks the experiences of WHRDs on the continent, highlighting their struggles in a context where civic space is increasingly and systematically closing. The issue unpacks how WHRDs, in particular, have navigated this 70-year-old terrain and the 2 decades of dedicated ‘recognition’ of their commitment to stand in the gap for others. The issue shines the spotlight on WHRDs to understand their struggles, victories and lessons to further shape the terrain in which WHRDs operate.

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