AmplifyChange has launched the Opportunity Grant Program to nurture and encourage innovative ideas and approaches on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) advocacy in new contexts
Priority Themes
The purpose of this Opportunity Grant call is to fund small civil society organisations, support their advocacy work, and strengthen them so they can bring about positive change in one of the AmplifyChange priority themes or an intersection or combination of themes:
Abortion: Safe Abortion Choices
Violence: Eliminating Gender-based Violence
Youth: Better Sexual Health for Young People
Stigma: Challenging Stigma and Discrimination
Access: Access to SRHR services for Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must meet the general eligibility criteria as well as the criteria detailed below:
Your organisation must be based in and implementing a project in one of the AmplifyChange eligible countries.
You must be a small to medium sized organisation with an average annual expenditure over the past two years of less than GBP 200,000. For example, if your expenditure in 2021 was GBP 100,000, and in 2022 it was GBP 350,000, the average would be GBP 225,000 – this would mean you would not be eligible to apply.
You will be asked to submit evidence for your expenditure values. This could be an audited report or a profit and loss statement.
Both registered and unregistered groups can apply for an Opportunity Grant. If your organisation is unregistered and your application is successful, they will either work with you to Register and open a bank account or work with you to identify an organisation that can help manage grant funds on your behalf (‘fiscal sponsor’).
Eligible Projects
They are particularly interested to fund projects that:
Are submitted by small, grassroots organisations that find it challenging to access funding.
Aim to address the root causes and drivers of discriminatory social norms and inequitable power relations.
Pilot a new idea or innovative approach and to learn lessons about what is effective.
Implementing a promising practice that have shown initial success.
Empower marginalised groups to advocate for their rights and access to services.
Work towards the development, improvement and effective implementation of laws and policies, including by-laws.
Outcomes Areas
Applications must respond to one or more of the outcome areas in the Theory of Change:
Increasing individual awareness of SRH
Improving access to SRHR resources, information & services;
Transforming social norms;
Changing policies & laws;
and building stronger, more inclusive movements for SRHR.
Funding Information
The duration of an Opportunity Grant can be 18 to 36 months. This funding round is open for applications up to GBP 75,000. They encourage you to be realistic and apply for the amount that is best for your organisation and project.
