Deadline: 16-Jun-25
AmplifyChange has launched the Opportunity Grant Program to nurture and encourage innovative ideas and approaches on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) advocacy in new contexts.
Priority Themes
- The purpose of this Opportunity Grant call is to fund small civil society organisations, support their advocacy work, and strengthen them so they can bring about positive change in one of the AmplifyChange priority themes or an intersection or combination of themes:
- Abortion: Safe Abortion Choices
- Violence: Eliminating Gender-based Violence
- Youth: Better Sexual Health for Young People
- Stigma: Challenging Stigma and Discrimination
- Access: Access to SRHR services for Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups
Other Themes
- Within the priority themes, AmplifyChange supports cross-cutting themes that impact on SRHR and well-being and respond to challenges that advocates identify as their priorities for action.
- They are happy to receive applications from organisations who wish to integrate these issues into their proposals:
- Climate Justice:
- Climate change has far-reaching implications that extend beyond environmental concerns, affecting various aspects of human life, including SRHR, especially for the most marginalised communities.
- Limited access to healthcare, including family planning services, can be exacerbated by environmental pollution and resource scarcity. Displacement caused by environmental disasters heightens the risk of sexual violence and exploitation. Scarce resources and changing agricultural patterns can lead to economic instability, affecting access to education and increasing the risk of child marriage and female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C).
- AmplifyChange acknowledges the importance of climate justice and endeavours to support organisations seeking to address the consequences of climate change on SRHR outcomes in their communities.
- Pleasure Based Sexual Health:
- Pleasure is a key aspect to ensure that all individuals can access their full sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), prioritising joy, safety, and consent. Pleasure is recognised as a core component of sexual health and well-being, and evidence shows that embracing pleasure-based, sex-positive approaches contributes to positive outcomes for SRHR services and programming.
- AmplifyChange is committed to championing pleasure-based sexual health and sex positivity within SRHR through the support to civil society. They are endorsers of The Pleasure Principles, which have taken evidence and best practice from pleasure-based sexual health interventions and created a set of principles to follow for effective implementation.
- Mental Health:
- SRHR and mental health are interconnected. Mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress, may impact an individual’s sexual experiences and desire. They can also influence decision-making related to reproductive choices and engagement in safe and consensual sexual practices. Issues such as unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence, and discrimination can contribute to negative mental health outcomes. Stigma surrounding sexual and reproductive health choices and experiences can exacerbate mental health issues and create barriers to seeking necessary support and care.
- AmplifyChange welcomes advocacy efforts to address the challenges arising from mental health and SRHR, acknowledging that addressing this intersection is vital to promoting comprehensive, person-centred health and fostering a society that values and respects the diverse aspects of individual health and autonomy.
Outcomes Areas
- Applications must respond to one or more of the outcome areas in the Theory of Change:
- Increasing individual awareness of SRHR as c
- Improving access to SRHR resources, information & services;
- Transforming social norms;
- Changing policies & laws;
- and building stronger, more inclusive movements for SRHR.
Funding Information
- The duration of an Opportunity Grant can be 18 to 36 months. This funding round is open for applications up to GBP 75,000. They encourage you to be realistic and apply for the amount that is best for your organisation and project.
Eligible Projects
- They are particularly interested to fund projects that:
- Are submitted by small, grassroots organisations that find it challenging to access funding.
- Aim to address the root causes and drivers of discriminatory social norms and inequitable power relations.
- Pilot a new idea or innovative approach and to learn lessons about what is effective.
- Implementing a promising practice that have shown initial success.
- Empower marginalised groups to advocate for their rights and access to services.
- Work towards the development, improvement and effective implementation of laws and policies, including by-laws.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must meet the general eligibility criteria as well as the criteria detailed below:
- Your organisation must be based in and implementing a project in one of the AmplifyChange eligible countries.
- You must be a small to medium sized organisation with an average annual expenditure over the past two years of less than GBP 200,000. For example, if your expenditure in 2021 was GBP 100,000, and in 2022 it was GBP 350,000, the average would be GBP 225,000 – this would mean you would not be eligible to apply.
- You will be asked to submit evidence for your expenditure values. This could be an audited report or a profit and loss statement.
- Both registered and unregistered groups can apply for an Opportunity Grant. If your organisation is unregistered and your application is successful, they will either work with you to register and open a bank account or work with you to identify an organisation that can help manage grant funds on your behalf (‘fiscal sponsor’).
For more information, visit AmplifyChange.