Deadline: 10-Jun-22
She’s the First is looking for community-based organizations (CBOs) in Nepal and India (Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat) to join their partner coalition!
She’s the First is seeking organizations that work to secure rights and transform outcomes for girls in their communities. They know firsthand that girls’ organizations are often under-resourced (whether in money, staff, or time). If you are a girls’ organization with an annual budget of less than $750,000 USD, one way they hope to help you grow is to provide their tools and resources free of charge.
Their tools are designed for any grassroots organization to use, regardless of your experience with girl-centered programs.
She’s the First creates custom training for coalitions and foundations interested in providing organizations with girl-centered design tools and skills. All of their trainings use participatory methods to design the agenda, and many include Girl Hour, a module they developed to ethically integrate girls’ voices into the training process.
Benefits
- Members of their partner coalition receive long-term flexible funding, training, networks, and resources to help them better deliver outcomes for girls.
- What happens after you use these tools? Girls will have more power and voice within your organization, so you can create more effective programming for them.
- Listening to Girls Toolkit: This toolkit for organizations walks you through how to hold focus groups with girls, to design and evaluate programs that work for your specific community. No research experience? No monitoring and evaluation department? No problem! This kit, which includes a case study and training video, was made for all community-based organizations.
- Discover Your Power Journal: This is a self-empowerment workbook for secondary-school aged girls to develop their voice. Through this experience, girls learn to build their community, identify their personal goals, cultivate safe spaces, and create strategies on how to advocate for themselves and others.
- The Global Girls’ Bill of Rights Toolkit: More than 1,000 girls in 36 countries (and five languages!) contributed to this declaration of their top ten rights. The final bill was presented to the United Nations in 2019. The toolkit includes discussion guides for mentors or peer-led girls’ groups.
- Girl-Centered Risk Register: This simple tool re-envisions a risk register to assist organizations in analyzing and mitigating the risks girls in their communities face. They recommend working with a group of girls at least once per year to update the register and develop mitigation strategies. It is useful when an emergency situation emerges (such as a pandemic) and you need to assess girls’ changing needs.
Eligibility Criteria
They are looking for organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Community-based organizations that are primarily local and female-led.
- Legally registered in the country and has been in operation for at least 3 years.
- Registered with FCRA (India)
- Organization that focuses primarily on girls.
- Annual budget of less than 1.5M USD.
- Based in Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, India, or Gujarat, India.
For more information, visit https://shesthefirst.org/girl-centered-tools