Health, Conservation, Women, Reporting and Entrepreneurship are the most important issues towards being emphasized in order to make a proficient world.We have tried to put up our little but lasting initiative in order to emphasize such issues by creating a list of open grant opportunities which focus on the same.
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AmplifyChange: Empowering People for their Sexual Rights
Deadline: 17 August 2015
AmplifyChange is seeking applications from organizations to empower young people, men and women to realise their sexual and reproductive rights.
The fund’s vision is to help to secure universal recognition of sexual and reproductive health and rights as human rights, enabling women, men and young people to realise their full potential in safe and supportive environments.
AmplifyChange provide grants to directly fund local civil society organisations (CSOs) that advocate for better policy and action on neglected sexual and reproductive health and rights issues. The grant is intended to contribute towards stronger civil society movement in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Focus Areas
- Capacity building support in technical and organisational areas to civil society organisations and groups
- Building evidence for advocacy, policy and accountability
- Enhancing communication to strengthen advocacy
- Strengthening coalitions and engaging new actors
Priorities
- Gender-based violence, including sexual violence and female genital mutilation
- Access to comprehensive reproductive health services for socially and economically marginalized and vulnerable
- Addressing the causes of unsafe abortion including decriminalisation of abortion and supporting women’s rights to safe and legal abortion
- Sexual health of young people and girls, including comprehensive sexuality education and addressing child and early marriage
- Challenging stigma, discrimination, attitudes and laws that undermine human rights, including on grounds of gender or sexual orientation of LGBTI individuals
Eligibility Criteria
- CSOs in all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are eligible to apply for the grant program.
- The organizations must:
- have been established for three years or more
- have the financial and organisational capacity to manage a grant between EUR 100,000 and EUR 350,000
How to Apply
The application process consists of two phases
- Organizations must first complete the online concept note via given website.
- Selected groups will be invited to submit the full applications.
For more information, please visit AmplifyChange.
