Deadline: 30-Sep-24
Join the movement to empower young women and men in Africa with entrepreneurial skills and digital literacy! The Going Beyond project is a five-year collaboration between Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) and the Mastercard Foundation, empowering over 300,000 youths, particularly young women (70%), in Africa to lead transformational change.
The Going Beyond project will foster a network ecosystem of support for young leaders with the aim of improving their quality of life and building their resilience, agency, and amplifying their voice. Notably, the project will also introduce a leaner, more scalable model for long-term, transformational change by fostering a community of practice among a continuously expanding ecosystem of partners.
Approaches
- Over five years, and with the support of DOT regional hubs in Africa, the Going Beyond project will progressively transfer the responsibility for delivering DOT’s programs and equip youth as leaders of the future through a three-pronged approach:
- Strengthening the capacity of 40 local youth-led and youth serving organizations (YLOs) to deliver high-quality digital livelihoods programming.
- Training and supporting 4,000 young people (Youth Leaders) under the guidance of YLOs as digital business coaches and facilitators to deliver locally appropriate and culturally relevant digital inclusion and enterprise growth programs to their peers.
- Training 300,000 disadvantaged young people with nascent Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in digital and entrepreneurship skills, 70 percent of whom are young women.
- Most importantly, the project places young people at the center of the solution, tapping into their creativity, energy, and passion for making a difference; going beyond conventional development practices and extending impact to new countries for both organizations, without the need to establish and operate new offices.
Scope
- Informed by the recommendations of the consultation meetings, this call will be open to Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia youth-led organizations (YLOs 70%) and youth-serving organizations (YSOs30%) from all sectors. These YSOs/YLOs must be legally registered and operating in Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. Below are the definitions of both terms:
- Youth-serving Organisations (YSOs) include youth-led organizations and Youth Serving Organizations targeting youth.11
- Youth-led organizations (YLOs) are organizations that are fully led, managed and coordinated by young people that are between 18 and 35 years old.
Funding Information
- Selected organizations will receive funding ranging between USD 40,000 and 120,000, based upon mutually agreed upon targets and institutional capacity.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call is open to Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia youth-led organizations (YLOs 70%) and youth-serving organizations (YSOs 30%) from all sectors. These YSOs/YLOs must be legally registered and operating in Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. Youth-led and youth-focused CSOs from all are invited to apply to be part of this project.
- List of Eligibility Criteria:
- Being a youth-led or youth-serving YSO
- Having a track record of 2+ years in operation and having at least 1 completed project
- Being legally registered and operating in Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and being compliant with all relevant laws and regulations.
- Having dedicated team member(s) willing to invest time and effort in the capacity-building process, and to pass on learning to other members and staff.
- Having a dedicated team member willing to be the focal point for all communication related to the project.
- Having clear, specific, and aligned mission, vision, and values statements that are relevant to the organization’s mandate.
- Having existing and/or strategic prioritization of a digital strategy and/or digital communication strategy.
For more information, visit DOT.