Call will be announced on late 2015
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF) provides seed funding to outstanding youth-led initiatives that promote long-term constructive relationships between people from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. The Fund links small scale and local work to larger movements for social and global change. The YSF supports the development of young peoples’ organizations and other means for their work to have an even broader and deeper impact and to be expanded.
Projects that are developed by youth and targets youth (with gender balance) are supported with grants up to USD 25,000 to implement activities that can build positive and long-term collaborative relationships between youth. It only supports projects that are entirely developed and managed by youth for the benefit of youth. The age definition used by UNAOC to characterize youth is a person who is between 18 and 35 years old.
Types of Support
- Grant support up to USD 25,000 to youth-led activities for fostering constructive relationship contributing to long-term peace and stability.
- Technical support and trainings to the YSF projects
- Assistance with media relations, lobbying, financial management, networking, evaluation, monitoring and sustainability
In addition, the UNAOC organizes various events to which the selected organizations are invited and where they have an opportunity to promote both the YSF and their projects.
The Fund yearly calls applications from youth led organizations during November-December.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant must be a youth organization led by youth between 18 to 35 years of age.
- Proposed project must foster inter-cultural dialogue and promote long-term constructive relationships between the people of diverse culture.
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