Deadline: 26-Jan-24
With support from The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Health Development Initiative (HDI) is implementing a 3-Year Partnership aiming at “Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Rwanda”.
Under this partnership, HDI has committed 25% of the funding from SIDA for sub-granting to local implementing partner organizations that will expand work and engagement on Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). These partners will benefit from a strengthened and streamlined partnership selection and management approach.
Areas of the Selected Sub-Grantees and Projects
- This call for proposals is structured around HDI’s main areas of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Gender Equity and Equality. As an indication and without being exhaustive, the potential implementing partners’ activities/interventions should be around the following Four Thematic areas:
- Leveraging Public Interest Litigation (PIL) – To advance gender equality and SRHR in Rwanda
- Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) – Empowering young people and out-of-school adolescents on comprehensive sexuality education.
- LGBTQIA+ Rights – Building the capacity of duty bearers on inclusion and LGBTQIA+ rights, HIV prevention with key populations and support towards building agency of the SOGIESC movements, coalitions and organisations.
- Safe Abortion Information and Services – Empowering healthcare providers and other relevant providers to deliver quality SRHR rights-based health services (esp. VCAT, safe abortion, stigma-free service provision, counselling)
- Preference will be given to innovative projects with structured activities that are likely to create a leverage effect and be able to be replicated and be scaled up.
- The selection committee will pay particular attention to interventions targeting inclusion, specifically addressing people in vulnerable situations inter alia: women and girls, adolescents and young people, LGBTQIA+ persons, sex workers, people living with HIV, GBV survivors, prisoners, refugees, and historically marginalized communities.
Funding Information
- A grant ranging to a maximum of RWF 50,000,000 Per Year (for each sub-grantee) will be awarded to 4 selected Sub-Grantee Partner Organizations.
- The proposed project cannot exceed Twelve (12) Months.
Eligibility Criteria
- This Call for Sub-Grantees is aimed at Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) headquartered, registered, and working in Rwanda such as:
- Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Community Based Organisations (CBOs).
- Development-focused organisations working on SRHR issues.
- Organisations and collectives led by or represents the HDI target communities of Vulnerable and Specific Marginalized Groups as detailed below:
- Organisations of the Vulnerable Groups viz: adolescents, young people, women and girls, women and girls seeking safe abortion, GBV survivors as well as; women or youth groups, umbrella structures, feminist organisations, etc.
- Organisations of the Specific Marginalized Groups: people living with HIV, LGBTQIA+ persons, prisoners, sex workers, refugees, and historically marginalized communities.
- CSOs that serve the vulnerable and specific marginalized groups whom HDI seeks to support in its work viz: adolescents, young people, women and girls, women and girls seeking safe abortion, GBV survivors, people living with HIV, LGBTQIA+ persons, prisoners, sex workers, refugees, and historically marginalized communities.
- These organisations should have at the core of their Mission: the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights, rights of the specific Marginalized groups, gender equality and women’s empowerment, elimination of GBV and IPV, strategic litigation, legal aid provision and ensuring access to justice on SRHR issues, comprehensive sexuality education, the improvement of the well-being of youth as well as the promotion of social inclusion.
- In order to be eligible, CSOs must be registered at the Rwanda Governance Board and have a Bank Account in Rwandan Francs opened under their name at the time of submission of their application.
- Public institutions or local authorities are not eligible.
For more information, visit HDI.