Deadline: 13-Apr-23
AmplifyChange through its Opportunity Grant Program seeks to fund civil society organisations that aim to implement projects focusing on sexual and reproductive health rights.
Opportunity grants aim to nurture and encourage innovative ideas and approaches on SRHR advocacy in new contexts. They allow local, small civil society and grassroots organisations to drive the advocacy agenda and ensure change happens.
Funding Information
- This funding round is open for applications up to £75,000 GBP. The duration of an Opportunity grant can be 18 or 24 months.
What are they looking for?
- The purpose of this Opportunity grant call is to fund 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:
- Eliminating gender-based violence, including sexual violence, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage
- Increasing safe abortion choices
- Challenging stigma and discrimination, attitudes and laws that undermine human rights, including based on gender or sexual orientation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals
- Improving sexual health of young people and girls, including comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), promoting menstrual health and youth-friendly service delivery
- Increasing access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services for poor, vulnerable and marginalised people
- It is important that applicants think strategically about their local movements and how they will make the most effective contribution to change. Applications must respond to one or more of the outcome areas:
- Increasing individual awareness of SRHR as human rights
- Improving access to SRHR resources, information & services
- Transforming social norms
- Changing policies & laws
- Building stronger, more inclusive movements for SRHR
- AmplifyChange funds advocacy. They are focused on achieving long-term, sustainable change, however they recognise that collective actions are the best way to achieve change, so understanding how you connect to the wider movement and being able to demonstrate how you are working towards the same change is critical.
- AmplifyChange does not support organisations seeking to deliver services unless they contribute to advocacy and movement building for sustainable gains to SRHR.
- They work as a challenge fund, and applications are considered on a competitive basis. They aim to be flexible in the funding approach so that smaller and new organisations can access the funding, but they do expect a project to have promising potential to achieve meaningful change.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only civil society organisations from the Global South are eligible to apply. Your organisation must be located in, and implementing a project in one of Amplify Change’s eligible countries.
- Applicants must also be small to medium sized organisations with an average annual expenditure over the past two years of less than £200,000 per year. For example, if your expenditure in 2021 was £100,000 GBP, and in 2022 it was £350,000, the average would be £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.
- They recognise the broad scope of civil society and the wide range of organisations, actors and coalitions it encompasses. Civil Society Organisations can include:
- Community groups
- Youth Groups
- Non-governmental organisations
- Indigenous groups
- Charitable organisations
- Faith-based organisations
- Research institutes
- Social enterprise groups
- Public-private partnerships
- Communications and media groups
- Professional associations
- International Non-Governmental Organisations based in the Global North and UN agencies are not eligible to lead an Opportunity Grant proposal.
- AmplifyChange supports grassroots groups that find it difficult to access funding, including unregistered groups. They understand that it may not be possible for your group to register officially as an organisation or to have your own bank account if your application is successful. They will either support you to get registered and open a bank account or support you to identify a fiscal sponsor – an organisation that is prepared and able to help manage grant funds on your behalf.
- They will conduct due diligence and financial assessments on your organisation and on the sponsoring organisation.
For more information, visit AmplifyChange.