Capacity strengthening of youth-led organizations

Description

1) Objective

These grants are aimed at supporting capacity strengthening and organizational development of youth led/youth-focused organizations to enable youth to gather and control the knowledge about their sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs and issues as well as to sustain their efforts over a longer period of time. Capacity strengthening is needed to facilitate genuine youth participation and leadership, to enable youth to gather and control the knowledge about their SRHR needs and issues as well as to build the foundation for a cadre of youth-led/youth-focused organizations that can sustain their efforts over a longer period of time.

The grants are aimed at supporting capacity strengthening and organizational development of youth led/youth-focused organizations. The grants will be undertaken through an accompaniment model where grantees will be graduated from one level to the next of the grant, based on the attainment of a particular score on their capacity development plans.

To achieve this, the Fund will support organizational capacity strengthening to the selected youth-led/youth focused organizations over the lifetime of the program. This will include organizational development support, leadership trainings, mentorship and accompaniment including exchange visits across the portfolios to learn best practices. The capacity strengthening grants will ensure national and regional specific stronger voices, inclusion and representation of adolescents and youths. These grants will also enable organizations to undertake work on adolescent and youth SRHR and ensure full participation at all levels of decision making. Furthermore, the grant will support coordination, collaboration and learning among youth-led organizations and groups to promote movement building, learning and mutual accountability through program reflection and linking and learning processes.

2) Eligibility

Youth-led organizations led by a youth aged 35 years and younger working on SRHR in the focus countries (organizations with a regional focus are welcome to apply).

3) Location

Actions must take place in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

4) Budget

Successful organizations will receive comprehensive capacity strengthening for their organizations, and multi-year grants of up to USD 50,000 (Year 1: USD 25,000 and Year 2: USD 25,000) for seed grants and $100,000 (Year 1: USD 50,000 and Year 2: USD 50,000) for growth grants. Second year grants will be based on performance for renewal.

5) Application

Please submit your application via email with the subject line Regional SRHR Fund- YRA Proposal to proposals.hubsaf@hivos.org by 5pm (CAT) on Friday 30 June, 2023.