THE Culture Fund Trust of Zimbabwe has invested over $1 million in 41 projects under the Culture Impacts Programme, the fund’s assistant projects officer Wadzanayi Mutiwanyuka has said.
BY ALOIS VINGA
Mutiwanyuka told the NewsDay this week that there was an overwhelming response to the grants, but of the 480 applications filed, only 41 were successful.
“Many grant applications were unsuccessful in this instance due to limited funds while some project proposals submitted were out of programme scope. Other project proposals were deemed more suitable for other funding streams or previously supported grantees whose projects were poorly implemented,” she said.
She said applications whose budgets were unrelated to the call for infrastructure development as well as applications with high risk of non-completion were also unsuccessful.
Among the successful applicants were Albert Nyathi ($20 000), Ignatius Mabasa ($26 000) and Ministry of Sport, Arts and Culture ($30 000).
The Culture Impacts Programme’s objectives are to foster social cohesion, peace and poverty reduction among Zimbabwean communities. It will strengthen the broad participation by Zimbabweans in all spheres of society through platforms that foster free expression, advance gender equality, promote, assert and defend human, cultural and socio-economic rights within communities.
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The Culture Fund works in partnership with the Swedish Government through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Danish International Development Agency and the European Union Delegation in Harare.
