About

AmplifyChange is inviting applications for its Strengthening Grants which are aimed at small to medium civil society organisations from the Global South.

Strengthening grants support advocacy projects that seek to engage and contribute to bringing about change in one or more of AmplifyChange’s priority themes.

AmplifyChange’s Priority Areas

• They support advocacy and activist groups working on these five priority areas.

  • Eliminating gender-based violence

  • Removing barriers to safe abortion

  • Challenging stigma and discrimination

  • Improving sexual health of young people

  • Increasing access to reproductive health

Funding Information

• Grants Upto: up to £200,000

• The duration of a Strengthening Grant is 24 to 36 months.

• Up to 40% of a Strengthening Grant can be used to support the costs of organisational development and boosting organisational effectiveness.

What are they looking for?

• As a challenge fund they rely on you to propose your ideas for successful advocacy to strengthen SRHR.

• This Strengthening grant call focuses on supporting advocacy campaigns and organisational strengthening within civil society organisations seeking to 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

• AmplifyChange is committed to supporting pleasure-inclusive sexual health and sex positivity within SRHR. 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. They are happy to receive applications from organisations who wish to include pleasure-inclusive and pleasure-based approaches to their projects addressing one or more of their five priority themes.

• Applicants need to think strategically about their local movements and define a role that will make the most effective contribution to change. Applications must respond to one or more of their outcome areas in their Theory of Change:

  • 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 appreciate that direct service provision can make an immediate impact to SRHR but they advise careful consideration of applications focusing on service delivery activities. They are focused on achieving long-term, sustainable gains. Therefore, all service delivery applications will be appraised by their ability to contribute to advocacy and movement building for sustainable gains to SRHR.

Eligibility

• Only civil society organisations from the Global South are eligible to apply. Your organisation must be registered and implementing a project in one of AmplifyChange eligible countries. Applicants must also be small to medium sized organisations with an average annual expenditure over the past two years of less than £500,000 per year. All applicants need to have a bank account.

• 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 a Strengthening Grant proposal.

Focus Country(ies)

Afghanistan

Angola

Bangladesh

Benin

Bhutan

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Congo (Brazzaville)

Congo DR

Cote DIvoire (Ivory Coast)

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

India

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Maldives

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nepal

Niger

Nigeria

Pakistan

Rwanda

Sao Tome And Principe

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Eswatini

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

South Sudan

Post Date: 23-Nov-2022