Nhimbe Trust

Nhimbe Trust
Nhimbe Trust is a Pan-African CSO based in Zimbabwe working within culture and development. They conduct research, monitoring, training and advocacy on human rights. Their budget is a category 2 budget, between $100,000 and $300,000. Reports to be supported by Africalia, British Council, UNESCO, the Daneford Trust, Artists at Risk Connection, Mimeta and the Swedish Arts Council.

Nhimbe runs a program which monitors violations of artistic freedom in Sub-Saharan Africa culminating in an annual report on the topic. This annual report analyses cases of both civil and institutional artistic freedom violations which, in turn, can be used in the organisation’s advocacy. This program, which represents the majority of their work on Artists at Risk, is handled by one lead researcher. This program, despite the reconstruction of Freemuse, contributes to Freemuse’s annual report.
The challenges and limitations of the organisation are linked to the available resources but are  connected to their ability to maintain local networks and the verification process in general.