Issuance date:         May 19, 2023
Closing date:          June 30, 2023
Project duration:    Multi Year
Award amount:       Year 1: USD 100,000 / Year 2: USD 100,000

Eligible countries

Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Background

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• About the Regional SRHR Fund

  The Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Fund is a regional funding mechanism that was set up in 2010 by Hivos Southern Africa and Ford Foundation to strengthen SRHR work in the region. The Fund was established in recognition of the critical need for a strategic regional response to collectively address the myriad of SRHR issues in Southern Africa with particular attention to young people and adolescents as well as to provide an opportunity for donors to coordinate their support to SRHR in the region. The Fund secured additional funding from Sida to continue and expand the breadth and focus from the first phase.

  The Fund will focus on strengthening and empowering youth-led and youth-focused organizations to increasingly defend and promote their SRHR. Engage and influence duty bearers to increasingly design, adopt and implement laws and practices that promote the SRHR of adolescents and young people and finally to strengthen and empower youth researchers to generate evidence on SRHR in the East and Southern Africa region.

  The Fund will in the next four years build stronger, more diverse and better-coordinated youth-led civil society organizations to be able to demand and promote access to inclusive and affirmed SRHR information and services for adolescents and young people.

  The Regional SRHR Fund will expand SRHR work at the regional level by convening and supporting the convening of spaces for collaboration of regional partners aimed at collaborative advocacy, youth-led action research, knowledge exchange of strategies, best practices and lessons learned and movement building to move the ASRHR agenda forward. These processes will leverage on and strengthen cross-country collaboration and regional engagements.

  The Regional SRHR Fund key activities will include: sub-granting, coordination of key actors, convening of meetings, capacity building and gathering and sharing information on advocacy and related SRHR issues to strengthen the efforts of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working on SRHR in the East and Southern Africa region. Youth participation and youth leadership is viewed as a core component of the program as well as a cross-cutting issue that is linked to building a cadre of youths who can be leaders of CSOs, research, policy and issues-based advocates and legitimate frontrunners for adolescent and youth ASRHR concerns within the broader regional SRHR agenda.

Proposal focus

The collaboration grant will support advocacy collaboration efforts and initiatives by consortia or networks with the aim to reinforce collaboration and networks of Civil Society Organizations. The purpose is to amplify voices and promote collaboration in promoting adolescent and youth SRHR in East and Southern Africa. By supporting collaboration, the fund will harness the power of networks and partnerships for stronger voice agency in East and Southern Africa. Please note that second year grants will be based on performance for renewal.

The grant will focus on supporting advocacy initiatives, and strengthen them so that they can bring about positive change using the drivers of change as stated below:

• Strategic engagement and policy dialogues for young people to engage duty bearers are made possible
• Civil Society Organizations have enhanced spaces to air out SRHR issues affecting young people
• Supporting legal environment and political will to repeal and replace restrictive retrogressive laws
• Young people have the necessary technical expertise to undertake advocacy work

Expected key results to include

• Improved engagement of policy makers/legislatures, law enforcers, politicians, religious & community leaders.
• Enhanced capacity for young people to undertake advocacy on SRHR issues affecting them.

The key results should ultimately result in duty bearers increasingly designing, adopting and implementing laws and practices that promote the SRHR of adolescents and young people. The Fund is committed to bringing about long-lasting, sustainable change, but also understand that the best way to do so is through collective action.

Applications should be developed jointly with network/consortia members. The proposal development, budget and governance of the network should reflect the participation and involvement of the whole network/consortia. Organizations may submit only one application through the lead organization in this grant. There are no limits in terms of the number of implementation countries in the East and Southern African region, however the lead organization should be based in one of the five focus countries. Applicants can propose to implement their advocacy initiative in any number of countries in the East and Southern Africa. Applications in a network or consortia are welcome to apply for this grant, the consortium members would be implementing partners. There are no limits to the number of organizations in the consortia or network. The proposal should clearly demonstrate anticipated outcomes linked to the objectives of the call for proposal.

Preference will be given to

• Organizations or institutions in a network or consortia both at national and regional level (lead organization applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the initiative).
• Proposals that are well thought out and demonstrate an innovative clear connection to the objectives of the Regional SRHR Fund and the call for proposal.
• Proposals that articulate an innovative approach to working with key change makers and authorities that have power to bring about change.
• Proposals that have the potential to realize meaningful youth participation in the ASRHR agenda in East and Southern Africa.
• Proposals that demonstrate knowledge on related advocacy work being done in the same environment and provide justification on how the Regional SRHR Fund will complement it.
• Proposals must demonstrate how the initiative will empower marginalized groups to advocate for their rights and access to services.
• Proposals that factor in the linkage between SRHR and environmental matters such as climate change will be highly considered.

Additional information

• Proposals should demonstrate that the organization or institution applying for the grant has an understanding of ASRHR issues.
• Proposals should be submitted with a corresponding summary budget in United States Dollars (USD).
• Proposals must be received on time and should conform to the information requested as articulated in the proposal guidelines.
• If successful, applicants must be able to ensure strong governance and financial management through the provision of the necessary paperwork/systems to demonstrate this.
• Proposals must be received on time and should conform to the information requested as articulated.
• Submission of a proposal does not automatically guarantee funding.

Templates

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Proposal template
Budget template

Submission of proposals

Please submit your application via email with the subject line Regional SRHR Fund_collaboration Grant Proposal to proposals.hubsaf@hivos.org  by 5pm (CAT) on Friday 30 June, 2023.

Should you not hear from us in 2 months after submission closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Hivos reserves the right to withdraw this call of application at any time