Purpose of Grant
The Ipas Africa Alliance seeks to foster strong movements for social change, focused on reproductive justice, including abortion rights. Ipas does this by providing financial and technical resources to local groups and organizations, through feminist grantmaking practices. Grants feature across the technical and programmatic components of Ipas’s work, including health systems, policy advocacy, and community engagement. For the safe abortion field, Ipas plays a unique role as a grantmaking program that is based in the Global South. Ipas plays a strategic role within the constellation of women’s funds and philanthropic actors that mobilize resources to distribute to dynamic women’s rights groups in the Global South. Ipas grants are intersectional, enabling grantees to work across the themes of abortion, sexual and reproductive health and rights, LGBTI rights, and the intersection of SRHR and climate change.
This grant seeks to Establish a regional network of young professionals to actively influence SRHR initiatives, providing a dedicated platform that facilitates engagement, and knowledge exchange with professionals and advocates: Young professionals are establishing their identity and professional niche. Simultaneously, the current older workforce is easing out of service, threatening continuity of RJ interventions. Yet, experience shows that training curricula in many institutions of higher learning exclude critical RJ topics e.g. abortion and contraceptive care, and nuance SRHR in ways that limit reproductive autonomy. Ipas AA proposes to establish a regional network of health care providers, lawyers, paramedical staff, journalists and social workers that will step into the critical generational gap of RJ advocates.
Ipas Africa Alliance therefore invites Usawa HF consortium- Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to apply for grant with innovative ideas and strategies to engage young professionals to actively influence SRHR initiatives, providing a dedicated platform that facilitates engagement, and knowledge exchange with professionals and advocates:
Grantee Criteria
- Youth led and young professional organization.
- Youth organizations with women’s Reproductive health and rights included in their strategic objectives.
- Youth-led organizations that work with various institutions of higher learning like universities and colleges.
- Youth led organization that has evidence of work done with young professionals.
- Youth-led organization that has existed for at least 3 years and are locally registered.
- Youth-led organization that has a vision for how abortion rights advance the rights of women, girls,
and others who need
- Youth-led organizations that can scale their work and contribute to donor learning.
- Youth-led organization with annual narrative and financial reports.
- Youth-led organization with a bank account that can accept foreign funds, and clear processes for financial management.
Attachments to RFA:
Attachment A – Application Form
Attachment C – Instructions to Grantees
All Grantees are responsible for carefully reviewing all information, including attachments, and following any instructions related to this RFA. If anything is unclear, the Grantee should submit questions and comments to the assigned Ipas contact by the date indicated above.