In the course of 2025, the board of Stem van Afrika (SVA) has been rethinking its strategy. Part of this process was an external evaluation, which included a meeting in Nairobi with representatives from some grantees and with other stakeholders active in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among other things, we learned that many partners that received SVA grants have generated valuable impacts with the \u2013 limited \u2013 resources they received from SVA. We also learned that SVA is only a very small actor in the field and that the physical and cultural distance between the board and the local realities is not altogether helpful in providing partners with comprehensive and strategic support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drawing on all the lessons learned and on the feedback from a broad range of actors in the field, the board has decided to discontinue the current grantmaking process. In 2026, we will be working with independent African Community Media experts to develop a new grantmaking mechanism that transfers decision-making on policies and specific grants to African actors who are closer to the realities of Community Media in Eastern Africa and more knowledgeable of their needs and priorities.\nThis strategic transformation means that from now on we will no longer consider any project proposals submitted to CAMECO or directly to SVA. For news on the ongoing progress of this co-design process to develop an alternative, please check our website.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In de loop van 2025 heeft het bestuur van Stem van Afrika (SVA) zich bezonnen op haar strategie. Een onderdeel van dit proces was een externe evaluatie en een bijeenkomst in Nairobi met vertegenwoordigers van partners en andere belanghebbenden die actief zijn in het veld. We hebben onder andere geleerd dat veel partners die SVA-subsidies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actueel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n