Global Affairs Canada-Health and Rights for Women,Adolescent girls and Children.

Location: Your proposed project would take place in one or more official development assistance-eligible countries. Approximately 75% of funding will be allocated to projects that include activities taking place in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Type of project: Projects that improve the quality of, access to, and demand for integrated health services and information for women, adolescents and children at the community, health facility and health system levels. At least 50% of the funding will be allocated to projects that address sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) on identified critical gap areas: reproductive health services; comprehensive sexuality education; family planning and contraceptives; safe and legal abortion and post-abortion care; sexual and gender-based violence (including child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation and cutting); advocacy activities for SRHR. At least 60% of direct beneficiaries will be women and adolescent girls, taking into account the needs and rights of those most marginalized and most vulnerable. Your project will also work directly with men, boys and community leaders, recognizing their direct role in advancing gender equality.

The McLain Association for Children, Inc. (MAC)

Location: the Caucasus, Tanzania, and the British Virgin Islands

Eligibility: Non-profit organisations working in the above-mentioned countries.

Type of project: Improve access to high quality education and empower persons with disabilities and their families.

Expo Live's Innovation Impact Grant

Location: Worldwide

Eligibility: Legally registered social enterprises, start-ups and grassroots projects may apply.
Entrepreneurs, SMEs, non-profit organisations and government entities are encouraged to apply.

Type of project:
Novel and innovative solutions that have the potential to positively impact the environment and generate real social value. Successful applicants will demonstrate how new innovations beyond the ideation stage, or the application of existing solutions, could address global challenges and lead to impressive impact at community level. The three focus areas are: Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability.

The Laederal Foundation Saving Lives at Birth

Location: developing countries with specific focus on Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Type of project: practically oriented projects helping achieve the SDG 3 - reducing infant and child mortality and maternal deaths

Fondation Fonds Suez

Eligibility: Legally registered organisations established for at least 1 year may apply

Type of project: Access to essential services (water, sanitation and waste) for disadvantaged populations in developing countries, especially in urban and peri-urban areas. The Fondation looks favourably on participation of the populations concerned in financing the service provided, both in terms of cash contributions and labour, within their capabilities.

Better Together Challenge 2019 for young Change makers & Social Innovators (Fully Funded to South Korea)

Better Together Challenge 2019 is a 3-day global gathering that brings together social innovators, changemakers and idealists in action from around the world for an inspiring exchange of ideas and celebration of being #BetterTogether. ​

The Better Together Challenge Global Stage, the highlight of the event, provides an open and live stage where a vast array of projects and creative solutions for social issues are shared in a unique contest format.

Better Together Challenge 2019 is a 3-day global gathering that brings together social innovators, changemakers and idealists in action from around the world for an inspiring exchange of ideas and celebration of being #BetterTogether.

The Better Together Challenge Global Stage, the highlight of the event, provides an open and live stage where a vast array of projects and creative solutions for social issues are shared in a unique contest format.

Requirements

1. Do you have your own original project/activity/work to solve social problems and make changes and make the world a better place for all?
2. Have you developed a detailed idea to solve a social problem and make the world a better place for all?
3. Are you eager to meet, mingle and make friends with fellow practitioners from different parts of the world?
4. Are you open to new ideas and different opinions?
5. Are you able to travel to PyeongChang, Korea?
6. There are no age restrictions
7. All fields of work/project/expertise are eligible for participation

HOW DOES THE CHALLENGE WORK?
Challengers have 5 minutes to present their projects stories and case studies on the given themes. The presentations receiving the most votes from fellow changemakers and jury members win prizes ($5,000 first prize, with a total prize fund over $25,000). Winners will be awarded at the Awards Ceremony the following day.

For More Information
https://www.bettertogether.world/
Interested? Click https://www.bettertogether.world/apply to apply

POSITIVE ACTION FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN

The Positive Action for Girls and Women programme funds community-based organisations working to reduce girls’ vulnerability to HIV. Our focus is on tackling social and structural barriers to ensure that girls are empowered in their communities and are informed to make decisions that keep them healthy and safe.

Our community-based initiatives worldwide aim to tackle the following areas:

1. Sexual Violence: working to end sexual and gender-based violence towards adolescent girls and young women
2. Harmful Norms and Practices: tackling FGM and harmful initiation ceremonies, and changing attitudes around harmful norms that negatively impact girls
3. Child Marriage: ending child marriage in communities globally, and challenging attitudes towards early and forced marriage
4. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Vulnerable Girls: focusing on girls living with HIV, internally displaced populations, orphans, sex workers and teenage mothers

Click https://www.viivhealthcare.com/en-gb/supporting-the-community/positive-action-programmes/positive-action-for-girls-and-women/#tab-01175805323-2 to apply

Grants to Charities

BFSS would particularly welcome applications for projects designed to address the need for re-establishing and renewing education where the provision of education (including facilities, resources and teacher training) has suffered from conflict, natural disaster or neglect.

The British & Foreign School Society gives grants to charities for educational activities. Grants are given to organisations with UK charitable status and are for the purpose of advancing educational opportunity in the UK and developing countries. The Society no longer makes grants for individuals.

1. To see the criteria for grant giving please click here
2. To apply online for a grant please click here
3. To review our Grant Giving Policy and Management please click here

Applications from charitable organisations which meet the grant criteria are initially reviewed by the BFSS office, and may then be submitted to the Grants Committee, which normally meets three times a year.

The next Grants Committee meeting will be held in October 2019, and the closing date for applications is the end of Monday 19th August 2019.

BFSS supports organisations that reach out to children and young people in remote or impoverished areas to extend access to education and provide much-needed facilities. Examples of countries where they have funded projects are: Afghanistan, Burma, the DRC, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK and Zambia.

The Society also offers a small number of grants for organisations and individuals through its Subsidiary Trusts. Eligibility criteria depend on area of residence and/or particular field of educational activity.

find details at https://bfss.org.uk/grants/

UNDP-TEF African Youth Entrepreneurship Grants in Sahel Africa

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have launched a youth entrepreneurship programme for the Sahel region of Africa.

The TEF-UNDP Sahel Youth Entrepreneurship programme will train, mentor and financially support 100,000 young entrepreneurs in Africa in 10 years.

The goal is to contribute to the overall target to generate at least 10 million new jobs and $10 billion in new annual revenues across Africa.

African entrepreneurs will gain non-refundable seed capital, access to a 12-week business training and mentoring.
They will also receive visibility and numerous business networking opportunities.

Eligibility Criteria

1. Applicants must be an African entrepreneur residing in any of the listed countries:
2. Northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso
3. Applicants business must not be more than 3 years in existence.
4. Potential businesses at the idea stage are encouraged.

How to Apply
Applicants can apply via
Click https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/press-releases/the-tef-undp-sahel-youth-entrepreneurship-programme-faqs to apply

Grants to Support Women Working for Human Rights Worldwide

Nominations are now open for the Ginetta Sagan Award to recognize and assist women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread.

The purpose of the Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA is to support courageous women human rights defenders who are working in dangerous contexts to further the rights of women and children.

The creation of the Ginetta Sagan Fund emphasizes that more human rights work must be done by and for women. The $20,000 award recognizes individual accomplishment, but also serves as a beacon of hope to women everywhere who are fighting for human rights.

The Award is intended to help women throughout the world in their struggle to overcome oppression, to let them know that they are not alone.

The Award
Recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk.

1. Enhances the recipient's ability to live and work freely, and protects the recipient's capacity to continue her work, by bringing a new level of international attention to her accomplishments and the obstacles she faces.
2. Brings increased international scrutiny to the crisis, region, or issue for which the recipient works.

Award Information

1. The $20,000 award can be used by the awardee at her complete discretion. The money is awarded to the individual, not the organization.
2. With the $20,000 award to be used at the awardee's discretion, the Ginetta Sagan Award also seeks to support the awardee to receive training to assist in her ongoing work.

To this end, in addition to the $20,000 award, the awardee can receive up to $5,000 to further their professional development. This can include covering her expenses to participate in, and/or attend trainings.

Awardee Qualities

1. Founder and/or Executive Director of an organization.
2. Under threat for her activism.
3. Proven effective at addressing human rights issues.
4. Has brought about significant change in her country, region, or issue through her work.

A political party leader or government official / employee are not eligible for the Ginetta Sagan Fund award. Amnesty International is a strictly non-partisan organization.

Call for Projects in Eastern Africa

Are you looking for investment for a great climate or clean energy project in Eastern Africa? Submit an application to PFAN by 1 September 2019 for your project to be included in the evaluation round that month. Selected projects will receive free business coaching and investor matchmaking services.

Please note PFAN accepts applications from Eastern Africa on an ongoing basis. Projects received after the 1 September deadline will be evaluated in Q4 2019.

PFAN particularly encourages applications from women-led businesses.
Click https://pfan.net/submit-a-proposal to apply

Main Grant Programme to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged communities

Funding projects in the following sub-categories:

1. Clean water and sanitation
2. Basic health programmes
3. Self-sustainability through training in farming skills and income generation activities

Funding Priorities:

1. Projects that adopt a holistic approach throughout all project stages and have a well defined ‘exit strategy’
2. Projects being delivered at the grass-roots level through an established and proven delivery partner who is fully engaged with the local community
3. Projects that clearly demonstrate the local communities involvement and that necessary training and education is in place to sustain the project beyond the delivery partner’s departure
4. The applicant must be able to demonstrate that robust governance and monitoring procedures are in place

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is USAID’s open innovation program that tests and scales creative solutions to any global development challenge.
Open innovation inspires new solutions to the critical challenges affecting millions around the world. DIV supports groundbreaking ideas to transform lives and maximize USAID’s impact per dollar. DIV turns bright ideas into real results.

Eligibility
Innovative solutions come in many forms - whether a product, technology, service, or application of a creative business and delivery model. DIV is an open door to USAID - anyone, anywhere can apply at any time.
DIV provides flexible, tiered grant funding to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions. They look for solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale and sustainability.

Grant size
Proposals are accepted year-round across three stages, from any type of organization, in any country in which USAID operates.

1. Stage 1: Proof of Concept (Up to $200,000 - up to 3 years)
2. Stage 2: Testing and Positioning for Scale ($200,000 to $1,500,000 - up to 3 years)
3. Stage 3: Scaling ($1,500,000 to $5,000,000 - up to 3 years)

Call for Proposals: Now accepting Concept Notes for evaluation projects in Tanzania and Uganda

The Evaluation Fund is launching a Call for Proposals in collaboration with the Global & African Partnerships to End Violence Against Children to identify particularly promising programs and to evaluate their effectiveness.
The total funding available is $720,000 USD for both Tanzania and Uganda (though this may not be equally split).

Fund for UK Small & Grassroots Organisations to Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries

Grants are generally single payments between £500 and maximum £3,000. The Trust may consider repeat funding for projects that show encouraging progress.
The Peartree Development Fund is currently inviting applications to provide grants to community based organisations and small non-government organisations with a common aim: working to alleviate poverty in developing countries.

Focus Areas
The projects they fund always aim to benefit the target community in one or more of the following ways:

1. raised standards in education
2. raised standards in health and sanitation
3. increased self-reliance
4. improved standard of living

Priority Countries
The trust is currently prioritising their funding in favour of the following countries:

1. India
2. Malawi
3. Uganda

They are currently unable to consider projects that operate outside of these countries.

Eligibility Criteria

1. As well as project-based grants, the Trust will consider applications for funding for both capital and running costs.
2. They welcome applications from new organisations who have yet to secure funding from a donor.
3. They prefer not to support charities or organisations that have an annual income over £100,000. Their partners usually have an annual income of less than £50,000 and often less than £20,000.
4. Regrettably, they no longer accept applications from UK charities on behalf of their overseas partners.

They do not fund:

1. general appeals
2. political parties/agendas
3. individuals/expeditions
4. promotion of religion

How to Apply
Applicants can download the application form via given website.
For more information, please visit http://www.peartreedevelopmentfund.org/apply-for-funding

GRANT: EMPOWERMENT GRANT-V-1912-UG-SO

TARGET GROUPS:

1. Age-discriminated vulnerable groups, notably the young and the elderly
2. People living with disabilities
3. Women facing exploitation, abuse and/violence

CLOSING DATE: 31/07/2019

RECLAIMING SPACES: UGANDA SUDDEN OPPORTUNITY GRANT

GRANT: SUDDEN OPPORTUNITY GRANT

TARGET GROUPS: please refer to those of the Empowerment grant

CLOSING DATE: 31/12/2019

Global Fund For Children

Type of Projects: Innovative, locally-led projects where all children and young people enjoy equal resources and opportunities inn society and can live to their full potential.

Eligibility: Legally registered Local organisations in Uganda with youth or child-focused programmes

African Women Development Fund (AWDF) Leading from the South-Round 4

Eligibility: Registered women-led and Women's Rights groups and organisations

Cisco Foundation Global Impact Cash Grants

Type of projects: Innovative approaches to critical social challenges
Programmes must focus on at least one of the following:

• access to education
• economic empowerment
• critical human needs