Advocacy Flexi-Fund: grants from IPPF for SRHR campaigns 

The Advocacy Flexi Fund (AFF) provides small grants to support civil society organizations to advocate for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people.

There are few resources available at country-level for advocacy. But sometimes a small amount of money can make a large difference. This fund aims to support civil society organizations working with young people to advocate to improve their sexual and reproductive health and rights in their country and region. Together these different advocacy campaigns will galvanize political and financial commitment for sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people globally. They will help to ensure international commitments to universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights are achieved. That is why AFF is prioritizing organizations from low income countries (75 per cent of all Flexi Fund grants will be awarded to organizations in countries on the DAC List of ODA Recipients).

Key principles of the Advocacy Flexi Fund

· To support national civil society organizations, particularly youth organizations

· To support national initiatives to increase political and financial support for young people's access to sexual and reproductive health

· To promote youth partnership and involvement in advocacy

Applications must demonstrate:

· relevance to country-led advocacy for increasing political and financial commitment to SRHR for young people.

· how young people are involved in all stages of the advocacy activities

· a clear expected advocacy outcome; including (1) a message and request for change; (2) the political actor(s) and decision maker(s) you are targeting

· specific national, regional and/or international events at which you plan to take action (see Annex Two in Application Guidelines)

AFF supports advocacy activities in the three thematic areas:

· promote the sexual and reproductive health needs of young people in international, regional and/or national meetings and documents

· increase financial resources for young people's sexual and reproductive health at national and regional level

· promote and coordinate civil society action in national policy, programmes and budgets.

The Advocacy Flexi Fund provides grants from $3,000 to $10,000 to cover 90% of the cost of an advocacy activity with a 10% contribution from the grantee. For example if an activity costs $5,000 you can apply for $4,500 and we would expect your organization to contribute $500. The grant will cover activities from one to six months. The grant will not cover capital costs such as salaries, computers etc. A maximum of five percent of the grant covers indirect and direct overhead costs.

Applications can be submitted in English, Spanish or French. The deadline for applications is 7 August 2009. Two more calls will be posted over the next 18 months.

Download the application guidelines and form at www.15andcounting.org or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .