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Call For Concept Note     National Foundation for India

 Youth Innovation Fund

Support and Facilitate Innovations on Reproductive and Sexual health intervention amongst young people in India

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 24 years) 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Expected outcomes: state the outcomes of the intervention that you envisage after the proposed time period.
• Estimated grant amount required: please give a very brief summary of costs.

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 $ 25000 annually.

 Duration: 1 to 3 years.

The applications must reach NFI no later than September 30, 2013.