U.S. Embassy Small Grants Zimbabwe – Funding Application
U.S. Embassy Small Grants
The U.S. Embassy in Harare offers financial support to projects initiated by Zimbabwean community groups, schools, and faith based organizations that promote the well-being of Zimbabwean people. There are four programs that provide grassroots funding – the Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Program, the Ambassador’s PEPFAR Small Grants Program, the Ambassador’s African Development Foundation Fund and the Democracy and Human Rights Fund.
- Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Program (SSHP)
The Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Program (SSHP) is a grassroots assistance program that allows for a quick response to local requests for small community-based development projects. The SSHP funds community-initiated projects that support education, access to healthy food, income-generating activities, and water/sanitation initiatives, as well as other activities that improve living conditions, provide education or increase income.Click here (PDF 83 KB) for program guidelines and suggested application.
- Ambassador’s African Development Foundation Fund (ADF)
The Ambassador’s African Development Foundation Fund (ADF) is identical to the SSHP with one major difference – it only funds income generating projects. Examples of projects previously funded include sewing projects, nutritional gardens, grinding mills, artisan activities, etc. Click here (PDF 302 KB) for program guidelines and suggested application.
- Ambassador’s PEPFAR Small Grants Program
The Ambassador’s PEPFAR Small Grants Program funds activities that enable community- and faith-based organizations, as well as organized groups of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), to implement small-scale projects that provide care and support by providing access to clean water and nutritional food, and promoting income generating activities. The program is new and will commence solicitation, review and selection of projects in calendar year 2011. Click here (PDF 131 KB) for program guidelines and suggested application.
- Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF)
The American Embassy’s Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) finances small, short-term, high impact activities that build democratic institutions, encourage political pluralism, and protect human rights. Activities must be completed within 12 months of the signing of the grant agreement, and be designed to achieve measurable results. Check here for additional information.
- Projects supported by our programs have helped build schools in towns where children were previously unable to attend; provided access to clean water by constructing boreholes; purchased grinding mills so that community members have a place to grind their maize; purchased building materials so that communities can build homes for their families to live in; helped to start nutritional gardens and erected irrigation systems for those gardens so that Zimbabweans have access to fresh and healthy nutritional food; and supported income-generating activities, such as sewing projects and peanut butter making mills that enable single mothers living with HIV/AIDS to increase their earnings to care for their children, and families to pay for school fees.
If your project promises to improve the lives of Zimbabweans in ways described above, we invite you to apply for funding.