One month from now, the world will celebrate the International Youth Day on August 12, 2015 to highlight the role of youth in international development. Many donor agencies, including the United Nations have an important focus on youth and provide enormous resources to assist their development. Here we discuss major grant opportunities and resources available for youths and youth-based organizations from around the world.
Grant Opportunity for Young NGO Leaders from Developing Countries: The Joke Waller-Hunter (JWH) Initiative creates opportunities for young people in the environmental sector in developing countries to unfold their full potential. By giving small grants to individuals to expand their knowledge, experience and training, the Initiative aims to strengthen environmental Civil Society Organisations capacity and efficiency…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Young Leaders seeking to build Good Governance in their countries: The toolkit helps young person understand and raise awareness on transparency and accountability of the authorities to ensure an honest and responsive government. It helps you learn about governance, accountability, transparency, participation, post-2015 agenda and the important role of civil society organizations…[more]
A Professional Development Fellowship opportunity for youths in developing countries: CIPE and Atlas Corps are accepting applications for the ‘Think Tank Links Fellowships for Professional Youth in Developing Countries’ that gives an opportunity for youths to undertake training and exposure in USA…[more]
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A Free Toolkit that helps you become a Young Leader for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: Women Deliver developed the this toolkit called ‘Respecting, Protecting and Fulfilling our Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights’ which helps young leaders provide with information and guidance in order to become a impactful, expert young leader for sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Whether you have been involved in the field of SRHR for years…[more]
Future Awards for Young People in Education, Advocacy, Community Action and more: The Future Awards Africa is offering a set of awards for young persons adopting innovative ways to address social issues in areas of education, advocacy, community action, technology…[more]
United Nations International Youth Day 2015 Toolkit: The 2015 theme is the Youth Civic Engagement which aims at promoting civic engagement and participation of youth in politics and public life, so that young people can be empowered and bring a full contribution to society, development and peace…[more]
2016 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work: The Commonwealth Youth Programme’s Commonwealth Youth Awards is for those working to promote youth participation, economic empowerment, human rights, education, health, environment…[more]
A Free Guide on How to engage Youth in Conflict Areas: This toolkit from USAID youth participation in violent conflict and draws out lessons for development programming…[more]
$10,000 Grant Opportunity for Peacebuilding Youth: Peace Direct is currently accepting applications for its third Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders Awards to showcase the best locally led peacebuilding organisations across the world…[more]
Training Opportunities for Youths – Be an Entrepreneur for Social Change: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and Fondazione CRT are currently accepting applications for its Entrepreneur for Social Change (E4SC) Programme. E4SC is a one-year programme which aims to support young social entrepreneurs…[more]
World Youth Alliance UN Democracy Funds for Emerging Leaders: The World Youth Alliance (WYA) Middle East in collaboration with United Nations democracy Fund is currently inviting applications for its Emerging Leaders Training Programme 2015 Round 3 to train young leaders…[more]
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A Guide to help Young People advocate for Sport for Development: The CYSDP have created a youth advocacy toolkit to provide young people with advice about skills and tools to become advocates of SDP. The resource aims to enhance their ability to create awareness and influence decision-making…[more]
UN-HABITAT Youth Innovation Cash Grant Award of $20,000: UN-Habitat and the International Ecological Safety Collaboration Organization (IESCO) supported by China Development Orient Urban Development and Investment Company Limited (“CDB-ORIENT”) providing cash grants to young persons in developing countries…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Youths to advocate for Quality of Education: The ‘Youth Advocacy Toolkit’ developed by Plan International, A World at School and the Youth Advocacy Group of the Global Education First Initiative. The purpose of this toolkit is help young people to advocate quality education…[more]
The Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit 2015: Making Cents International is inviting youths for The Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit 2015 to be held fro 6-8 October 2015 in USA in order to provide a demand-driven Knowledge Management (KM) platform to build the capacity of positive youth development stakeholders worldwide to design, implement, and evaluate high-impact youth economic opportunity programs, policies, and partnerships…[more]
A Toolkit on Youth Consultations for Post-2015 Agenda: The ‘Youth Consultations for a Post-2015 Framework: a Toolkit’ is a 75-page guide developed by to facilitate conversations with young people around the world on the subject of the post-2015 development framework, i.e. what should follow the Millennium Development Goals…[more]
Search for Common Ground’s Toolkit for Mapping Youth Leaders for Peacebuilding: Search for Common Ground’s toolkit on ‘Mapping Youth Leaders for Peacebuilding’ to provide overarching guidance for integrating and implementing youth mapping activities into programs…[more]
Nestle Nutrition Institute Fellowship of Young Professionals: The Nestle Nutrition Institute offers research grants in the fields of young women’s health, mother and child health and nutrition. The institute offer these fellowship grants to health professionals…[more]
A toolkit on how to start a youth radio program: UNESCO’s ‘Linking Generations through Radio’ is an important toolkit that can help you start a customised youth radio programme that can be further adapted to the capacity of your radio station and the needs of your community listeners…[more]
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