Dear NGO,
National Foundation
for India (NFI) invites concept notes for work
on reproductive and sexual health amongst young people in India through the Youth Innovation Fund for the year 2013-2014.
The National Foundation for India (NFI), a grant making organization based in
New Delhi has established a “Youth Innovation Fund” (YIF) to support and
facilitate innovations at the intersections of gender,
sexuality and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) amongst young people (age
10 to 24years) in India. NFI along with the Ford Foundation and MacArthur
Foundation has set up this fund with a focus on “innovations” to address the
multiple and complex challenges of gender, and Sexual and Reproductive Health
and Rights (SRHR) faced by young people. The Youth Innovation Fund will strive
to nurture creativity, leadership and innovation in developing new and
effective strategies including research, program implementation, documentation
and advocacy to address the needs of young people through a small
grants-program. The program intends to support projects that focus on-
· Building
egalitarian gender roles;
· Enhancing the
ability of young people to exercise informed choice;
· Improving access
to and quality of health services around adolescent sexual reproductive health;
· Addressing child
marriage;
· Serving the needs
of married adolescents;
· Addressing
gender-based violence;
· Engaging
stakeholder (parents, teachers, health care providers and community elders) to
support young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights;
· Addressing links
between livelihood and education and young people’s SRHR.
Application
Guidelines: Concept notes for the YIF may be submitted by organisations
registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and the other
statutory registrations. Concept notes (not more than 5 pages) will be accepted
with the following details.
1. A brief detail
of the organisation: whether the organisation has worked on issues of gender,
sexuality and reproductive health rights of young people in the past and the
work that has been done otherwise by the organisation. Please provide web-links
(if any) to understand your work further.
2. Context &
Rationale: state the contextual reality (geographical, social, economic and
political) of the young persons in the area where the proposed work will be
carried out by the organisation.
Please explain the
rationale for the proposed intervention.
3. Objectives:
state three major objectives of the proposed interventions towards the change
that is envisaged in reference to the current situation. One or Two specific,
measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound (SMART) indicators for each
objective should be stated as well.
4. Innovations
proposed: please state clearly how the proposed activities are innovative and
that your organisation has the required capacity and competency to achieve the
change that has been proposed through innovation.
5. Activity and
Methodology: please state the activities clearly and outline the methodology to
understand how the activities would be implemented. (In case of concept notes
for research please include details of the methodology).
6. Duration: please
state the duration of the proposed intervention. State clearly whether the
proposal seeks support to implement a new project or one that is ongoing.
7. Reference group:
describe which particular group of young people your organisation would
specifically work with. Please be specific regarding the age group,
cultural,social, political identity and geographic location.
8. Expected
outcomes: state the outcomes of the intervention that you envisage after the
proposed time period.
9. Estimated grant
amount required: please give a very brief summary of costs.
Please fill the Annexure attached at the end and
send along with the Concept Note
Selection Process:
The concept notes will be screened in-house at NFI. A Project Advisory Group
specially formed for YIF will guide the selection process. Once the concept
notes are shortlisted, detailed proposals will be invited from the selected
organisations. The short-listed organisations will be contacted.
Grant Size would be
average USD 25000 annually.
Duration: One year
to three years.
Learning:
Monitoring and Evaluation would be inbuilt into the grant proposals by
partners. NFI will link the partner organization to mentors who will assist the
organization in implementing their
proposed project,
bring in innovations and robustness to the programme and promote youth
leadership. The lessons and ideas drawn from this pool of organizations will be
collated and analyzed by NFI and efforts will be made to enable grantees to
disseminate/share lessons and conclusions in the public domain. This process
will help in learning and drawing a larger strategic intervention for community
level interventions to engage with adolescents and young people for a variety
of stakeholders.
The applications
must reach NFI no later than September 30, 2013 to the address provided
below either by
email or by post
Write to:
Project Director-
Youth Innovation Fund
National Foundation
for India
Zone IV A (UGF),
India Habitat Centre,
Lodhi Road, New
Delhi- 110003 (India)
