Funding Amount

Up to $969,678 total distributed; individual award amounts not specified

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

GFF Civil Society and Youth-Led Organizations Grants

Organization: Population Action International (PAI) in partnership with Global Financing Facility (GFF)

Status: Active with multiple rounds. First round awarded in February 2023; second round notifications sent by March 30, 2023; third round to be announced.

Geographic Scope: Sub-Saharan Africa countries supported by GFF:

  • Burkina Faso

  • Central African Republic

  • Chad

  • Ethiopia

  • Malawi

  • Mozambique

  • Senegal

  • Zambia
  • Award Amount: First round: US$969,678 total distributed to 14 organizations

    Eligible Organizations:

  • Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

  • Youth-Led Organizations (YLOs)
  • Focus Areas:

  • Advance the health of women, children, and adolescents

  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)

  • Reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH+N)

  • Building capacity of CSOs and YLOs to conduct evidence-based advocacy

  • Strengthening community voices and engagement with policymakers

  • Advocacy for GFF investment cases

  • Domestic resource mobilization for health

  • Social accountability and monitoring of health services

  • Knowledge dissemination on SRHR and primary health services

  • Community awareness and demand for essential health services

  • Capacity and coalition building among civil society

  • Advocacy to remove barriers to sexual and reproductive health access
  • What They Support:

  • Financial grants to selected CSOs and YLOs

  • Strategic advocacy support

  • Capacity strengthening

  • Technical assistance

  • Resources to build networks of health champions

  • Projects addressing hard-to-reach and excluded communities

  • Youth engagement in health decision-making

  • Migrant and student SRHR initiatives

  • Advocacy with Parliament and Ministry of Finance

  • Private sector engagement for health financing
  • Partner Countries and Organizations (First Round Recipients):

  • Ethiopia: Fiker Behiwot Children & Youth Development Association (FBCYDA), Future Hopes Integrated Development Organization

  • Zambia: Marie Stopes Zambia

  • Mozambique: Associação Observatório do Cidadão para Transparência e Boa Governação no Sector Saúde

  • Malawi: Health and Rights Education Programme, Youth Initiative for Community Development

  • Senegal: Réseau Jeunesse Population Développement, Alliance Nationale des Jeunes pour la Sante de la Reproduction

  • Burkina Faso: Organisation pour de Nouvelles Initiatives en Développement et Santé (ONIDS), SOS Jeunesse et Defis

  • Regional (Senegal): Réseau Des Plateformes d'ONG d'Afrique De L'ouest

  • Chad: Cellule de Liaison des Associations Féminines

  • Central African Republic: Association Nationale des Jeunes Femmes Actives pour la Solidarité, Mouvement d'Action des Jeunes de l'Association Centrafricaine pour le Bien-Être Familial
  • Funding Source: Global Financing Facility (GFF), channeled through a World Bank project

    Contact Information:
    Population Action International
    1300 19th Street NW, Suite 200
    Washington, DC 20036-1624 USA
    Phone: +1 (202) 557-3400
    Email: info@pai.org

    How to Apply

    Application Process

    Selection Process:

  • Competitive and transparent application process

  • Applications reviewed for subsequent rounds (second round notifications sent by March 30, 2023; third round to follow)
  • Application Submission:

  • Applications received through PAI

  • Announcements made through PAI website, partner websites, Civil Society Coordinating Group (CSCG), and other platforms
  • Timeline:

  • First round: Awards announced February 27, 2023

  • Second round: Awardee notifications by March 30, 2023

  • Third round: To be announced
  • Note: Specific application requirements, forms, and detailed submission instructions are not provided in the available website content. Contact PAI for detailed application materials and current deadlines for open rounds.

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    nonprofitsglobal-healthreproductive-healthyouth-leadershipcapacity-building

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