Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Program in Mozambique

Deadline: 10 September 2019

Nuffic is now inviting applications for its Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Program to address the capacity needs of health care professionals, government service providers, CSO workers and/or educational institutions that are active in the field of SRHR and/or able to facilitate or provide vocational or technical skills training to vulnerable groups.

Objective: Universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SDG 3 and 5).

Program Impacts

The following medium-term impact will contribute to this:

Partnerships between persons and organisations are inclusive and sustainable (SDG 17);
Organisations key to (sectoral) inclusive development of partner countries are strengthened by inflow of enhanced workforce.

The proposed project must contribute to at least one of the following long-term impacts:

More respect for the sexual and reproductive rights of groups who are currently denied these rights;
Better public and private health care for family planning, pregnancies and childbirth, including safe abortions; and/or
Better information and greater freedom of choice for young people about their sexuality.

Funding Information

Maximum available funding for this call, excluding co-funding is EUR 300,000.
Maximum funding per Tailor-Made Training Plus, excluding co-funding is EUR 300,000.

Outcome

Enhanced knowledge and skills of individuals and organisations (in partner countries and in the NL) in line with country/regional specific labour market needs and aiming at inclusiveness.

Eligibility Criteria

Grant Applicants
- Eligibility for OKP Group Training Courses grants extends to Dutch institutions providing secondary and higher vocational and academic education or other types of organisations that provide educational training courses and that also contribute to strengthening of the priority themes inthe Country List. These institutions must deliver the training themselves; intermediary organisations are not eligible.
- The institutions must have sufficient organisational and financial capacity to run a training course. This can be demonstrated using a COCA that is assessed as positive by Nuffic.
- The organisations must also have demonstrable experience in providing the desired training course.
Group Training Target Group
- To be eligible for an OKP Group Training Courses grant, an application must relate to running a training course for candidates who meet the following criteria:
  - The candidates work for one of the following types of national and/or local organisations: ministries, secondary or higher vocational or academic education institutions, universities, private sector, commissions or NGOs. The candidates may not work for:
    - a bilateral or multilateral organisation;
    - a non-governmental organisation that is internationally active and is focused on representing social interests, such as development cooperation, nature and environmental protection, health or human rights.
  - The candidates must have the nationality of or be resident and working in one of the OKP countries for which grant applications for providing the type of group training courses concerned can be awarded.
  - The candidates must be in a position to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in practice.