Deadline: 23 February 2015
AmplifyChange invites organizations, networks and coalitions in eligible countries that work at regional or national level, or as part of global consortia in the sector of sexual and reproductive health rights to apply for Network Grant. A Network grant is intended to contribute to building a stronger civil society movement in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Eligible organizations can receive up to EUR 350,000 to implement their project activities for minimum two years period. Proposed project must be at least two years long.
Priority Thematic Areas
- Gender-based violence, including sexual violence and female genital mutilation.
- Access to comprehensive reproductive health services for socially and economically marginalized and vulnerable people.
- Addressing the causes of unsafe abortion including criminalization of abortion and lack of availability of and access to comprehensive abortion care services.
- Sexual health of young people and girls, including through comprehensive sexuality education and ending child, early and forced marriage.
- Challenging stigma, discrimination, attitudes and laws that undermine human rights, including on grounds of gender identity or sexual orientation, particularly LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) individuals.
Areas of Action
- Capacity Building Support
- Building evidence for advocacy, policy and accountability in SRHR
- Enhancing communication to strengthen advocacy
- Strengthening coalitions and engaging new actors in the field of SRH
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be organizations, partnerships, networks and coalitions who have been established for at least three years.
- Applicants should have the financial and organizational capacity to manage a grant of up to EUR 350,000.
- Applicants must be able to operate at national and regional level, or across regions.
- Applicants must be active in one or more of the priority thematic areas and their areas of action must be one among the four stated above.
- Applicants should be working towards achieving positive policy outcomes through collaboration and links that serve to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of civil society as advocates for change.
- Applicants must be established in one of the following countries in South Asia & Sub Saharan Africa: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, CAR, Chad, Comoros, Congo R, Congo DR, Cote D’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
How to Apply?
- In the first stage, Submit Concept Note.
- Selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposal
For more information, please visit AmplifyChange Call for Network Grant.
