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Water Witness – Fair Water Action Fund

Location:
Low and medium-income countries
Grant Size:
GBP £3,000 to GBP £36,000 per 12-month project
Eligibility:
CSOs, media organisations, coalitions/networks, investigative journalists, and research institutes in the “Global South” [sic]
Status:
Open
Closing Date:
Thu 31 Jul, 2025
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The Fund supports civil society, research, and media organisations in the “Global South” [sic] to enhance accountability monitoring, amplify community voices, conduct research, and advocate for system change to advance water justice and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6.

N.B. The Global South/Global North terms are inaccurate and misleading. First, they are descriptively inaccurate, even when they refer to general notions such as (economic) development. Second, they are homogenizing, obscuring important differences between countries supposedly part of the Global South and North groups. In this respect, these terms are no better than alternatives that they are trying to replace, such as ‘the West‘ or the ‘Third World‘. Third, the Global South/Global North terms imply a geographic determinism that is wrong and demotivational. Poor countries are not doomed to be poor, because they happen to be in the South, and their geographic position is not a verdict on their developmental prospects. The correct terms are low or medium-income countries.