Gender Equality Fund: Small Grants for Adolescent Girls and Young Women-Led or Serving Organizations in Nigeria

About the Gender Equality Fund (GEF)

The Gender Equality Fund (GEF) is a three-year consortium initiative led by the Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global). It is funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, GSK, and ViiV Healthcare.

GEF works in collaboration with girls and women in all their variety and their organizations to design, ship, affect, and advocate for gender-transformative and gender-affirmative approaches to well being. The major goal is to scale back HIV and TB incidences amongst Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) and contribute to the worldwide goal of ending HIV and TB by 2030.

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GEF in Nigeria: Priority Areas and Approaches

GEF’s actions in Nigeria will deal with six precedence states: Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Lagos, Oyo, and Rivers. The initiative goals to implement built-in advocacy methods to ship improved well being outcomes for girls, women, and gender-diverse communities. Key approaches embrace:

1. Small Grants for Advocacy Work
   Providing small grants to AGYW-led and AGYW-serving organizations to strengthen gender-transformative advocacy work, integrating priorities corresponding to HIV, TB, SRHR, and GBV.
2. Supporting AGYW Advocacy Efforts
   Empowering AGYW throughout the six states to advocate successfully for gender-transformative insurance policies and programmes that improve well being, well-being, and rights in the areas of HIV, TB, and Malaria.
3. Leadership Capacity Building
   Enhancing the technical and management capability of AGYW by means of initiatives just like the TB Leadership Academy, with a deal with TB, Malaria, and gender points.

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Funding Priorities

GEF prioritizes functions from organizations that:

• Are led by or serve AGYW aged 15 to 29, together with these dwelling with HIV, with disabilities, or figuring out as LGBTIQ+.
• Work with AGYW in conflict-affected areas, rural areas, or teams engaged in intercourse work, utilizing/injecting medication, or those that are pregnant/younger moms.

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Who ought to apply?

• Are you an AGYW-led/AGYW-serving group working in any of Nigeria’s following states: Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Lagos, Oyo, or Rivers?
• Is your group registered in Nigeria? If not, are you affiliated with any group that may function a fiscal sponsor?
• Do you will have expertise in implementing HIV, TB, Malaria, and SRHR programmes focusing on AGYW in all their variety?
• Does your work heart the various wants, experiences, and management of AGYW in all their variety?
• We invite you to finish and submit an application if you happen to reply sure to those questions

Aspirations of the Fund

The fund focuses on three key aspirations decided by AGYW and stakeholders throughout Nigeria:

1. Scale Up Integrated Health Services
   • Strengthen youth-friendly well being providers in underserved communities.
   • Integrate HIV, TB, Malaria, and SRH providers.
   • Improve accessibility, privateness, and non-judgmental care supply.
2. Transform Leadership in AGYW Programming
   • Enable significant participation and management by AGYW in programme design, implementation, and analysis.
   • Address dangerous gender norms and construct sustainable platforms for AGYW voices.
3. Enhance Policy Implementation for AGYW Health and Rights
   • Advocate for legal guidelines and insurance policies that defend AGYW.
   • Strengthen enforcement of protecting legal guidelines and align subnational insurance policies with nationwide frameworks.
   • Support community-led initiatives and foster coordination between state and nationwide ranges.

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Grant Details

• Eligible Organizations: AGYW-led/AGYW-serving organizations.
• Grant Amount: Up to EUR 16,000 for a interval of 2 years (2025-2026).
• Organizations can choose a most of two aspirations to deal with.

How to apply?

To apply for a Gender Equality Fund grant for 2025-2026, please obtain and complete the application form and budget template.

Submit these paperwork to gef@yplusglobal.org by 15 January 2025. Note that each one sections of the template should be absolutely accomplished for your application to be thought of.

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