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Global Youth Connect Project Calls for Small Grants Applications
Introduction:
Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) under funding from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) on the Global Youth Connect project announces the call for applications of project proposals through the small grant scheme.
About the Global Youth Connect Project:
Global Youth Connect is a digital platform established by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and hosted by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU). It is centered on empowering diverse young people with vast, accurate, and age-appropriate information on sexual and reproductive health hence improving their well-being. The platform, whose major strategy is meaningful and inclusive youth engagement/ participation takes on the form of an online information portal that features a website with vast interactive features and linkages with other IPPF youth communication channels.
The global youth connect platform performs explicitly three core functions:
- Collation, sharing, and debating youth participation practice (tools, standards, policies, ideas)
- Connecting and amplifying IPPF youth communications channels
- Scanning for and sharing opportunities to advance the IPPF youth agenda i.e. training, grants, advocacy forums, etc.
What does the small grants scheme seek to achieve?
The scheme seeks to support youth-driven initiatives and innovations that advance adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health across the federation. We believe that young people have the ability to develop and implement solutions geared towards improving their own sexual and reproductive health and being provided with a financial stimulus, their capability would be accelerated.
Who should apply? The scheme targets:
Young people (10-24years) within or attached to the IPPF Member associations are interested in designing and implementing interventions aimed at improving the SRHR of fellow young people.
Themes under which the application should be based: Note: Your application can be directed in any of the themes listed below.
- Creative Artistic Art or videos to promote SRHR for adolescents and young people
- Strategies to increase SRHR for vulnerable populations, especially Persons with disabilities (PWDs), Young people LGBTQI+, Young people living with HIV, Young people living in poverty, young people using drugs, etc
- Strategies/ideas to increase access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education for adolescents and young people
- Using digital media to amplify youth networks and empower young people with SRHR information across the federation
Please note:
- Your proposal should be in pdf format
- Your submission should be shared in English
- Your proposal should include all the details included in the project proposal summary
- There should be no administration costs as per budget.
- Young people can apply either as individuals or groups. Only young people affiliated with IPPF associations are eligible.
Duration: 6 Months (December 2022 –May 2023)
Grant amount: $5,000
Deadline: 20th November 2022
Download the PDF's below
Call- English, French, Spanish
All proposals should be sent to info@youthsconnect.org. Please also keep in copy rhu@rhu.or.ug
Bwaise Drop in Centre receives IPPFAR donations from RHU
The International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Regional office (IPPFAR) has donated equipment worth 20 million shillings to the Bwaise Drop in Centre (DIC).
The equipment was provided in the presence of locals, their leadership, and the Empowered at Dusk Women Association (EADWA) administration and members by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), an affiliated member of IPPFAR.
RHU Executive Director Jackson Chekweko thanks IPPFAR’s leadership, led by Marie-Evelyne Petrus-Barry, for fulfilling her pledge during her visit to Uganda in November 2021.
He says the equipment will be used to improve women’s rights, empower the vulnerable, and create a safe environment for them to thrive.
“The equipment will not only provide women with the dignity and surroundings they deserve when they visit the center, but it will also encourage many of them to seek integrated sexual reproductive health and rights services in Bwaise RHU clinic, located 100 metres away in Bwaise, Kampala city,” said Chekweko.
The refurbished facility, according to Barbara Nanfuka, a coordinator and DIC beneficiary, will go a long way in helping disadvantaged women gain traction at accessing health services in a more conducive environment.
Richard Mboizi, Manager of the EADWA-run DIC, says he needs more help to respond to the growing number of 50 vulnerable people who come to the DIC every day for rest, comfort, and medication refills.
“The grants from the IPPFARO will be a huge help in our efforts to manage vulnerable persons and provide better services to our clients,” Mboizi added.
Ruth Nankya, a Bwaise II councilor for the Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA), praises IPPFAR’s assistance while requesting for more when support it comes to obtaining medical services, expertise, and administrative resources to protect Ugandans’ lives.
EADWA was created in 2008 by female sex workers who had been sexually and physically abused in the slums of Bwaise III parish in Kawempe division, Kampala district. They were also subjected to stigma and discrimination, notably in health care facilities.
A fifty-seater tent, a 40″ smart Hisense television screen, 21 seating chairs, two file cabins, six (6) CCTV cameras, three resting beds, and mattresses were among the items donated by Reproductive Health Uganda to EADWA from IPPFAR.
Aldon Walukamba G, the author, is the RHU Media Advocacy and Documentation Coordinator.