Advocacy Flexi Fund provides small grants to NGOs working to advocate for sexual and reproductive health rights around the world. It is currently accepting applications to apply for funding of up to US $10,000 for advocacy-related activities for promoting, defending and advancing Sexual Rights. The Fund will “support advocacy activities on any of the articles of IPPF’s Declaration of Sexual Rights. Specifically, the fund will support the efforts of national civil society organizations to advance Sexual Rights in their countries, regions and/or globally. This can be through legislation, policy, programmes and budgets but must adopt a rights based approach and have a positive approach to sexuality.”
Advocacy can be carried out at many levels from local level to national and even up to the international level. Some example advocacy objectives given by the Fund are:
“We can advocate to:
- Increase public or political support for a cause
- Influence leaders and decision-makers so they prioritize Sexual Rights
- Influence the allocation of public resources
- Build an environment that enables people to exercise their Sexual Rights
- Change laws, legislation or policies, etc.”
Application form can be downloaded, completed and submitted by email. The deadline to submit proposals is 30 June 2010. For more information, visit this link.
