Small Grants

Small Grants, as an approach of Faith to Action Network, provides financial support to grassroots organizations and initiatives that promote social justice, peace, and development.

Our Approach

Small Grants

Faith to Action Network implements various interfaith interventions to respond to community and other needs within its thematic areas of focus. The implementation often through the members with few directly. Implementation through members is through a sub-grant mechanism where Faith to Action Network serves as a fund manager. The sub-grants are either pre-determined at the time of grant application or a competitive application process. In case a competitive application is applied, a jury comprising of representatives from various faith groups and other experts vets the applications. The members in pre-determined or competitive application process undergo due diligence to assess their compliance to various requirements. Where gaps are identified, the members receive requisite capacity.

The Network members have extensive experience implementing interfaith interventions collaboration on family health and wellbeing, gender and women’s rights and pluralism. However, sometimes, the members are limited by lack of funding, technical and management experience to replicate or scale up the interfaith interventions.

Most of the interfaith interventions do not limit themselves to focus on faith leaders but cultural actors, actors in the education sector, civil society organisations and local authorities. The grants allow strengthening or complementing existing interventions, and leverage more resources, primarily from faith organizations.

The granting mechanism helps to build the members capacity as they use various programme management tools (workplans, logframes, theories of change, M&E frameworks, financial reporting tools etc) improving their competency.