Deadline: February 19, 2025
The Representation Grants are supporting initiatives led by underrepresented and marginalized youth in Africa. The overall goal is to enable young people to deliver the change they want in their communities. Restless Development Uganda, a non-profit global agency that supports the collective power of young leaders to create a better world, will manage these grants.
The aim is to:
- Strengthen the role of young people in designing and delivering the change they would like to see in their communities and beyond.
- Bring youth voices and solutions to policymakers at different levels, specifically the Africa Union and European Union.
Benefits
- Representation grants are 40 in number, and each will run for a maximum duration of 12 months. Grant sizes will be in three categories; that is, small size of €5,000 will be 10 in number, medium size of €10,000 will also be 10 in number and 20 large (€20,000).
Eligibility
To apply for a Representation Grant, your organisation must meet the following requirements:
- Youth led organisations or groups focusing on either underrepresented or targeting the marginalized youth.
- The organisation or group must have young people between 15 – 35 years as the decision makers, founders or at least co-founders must be under 35 years of age.
- At least 75% of the staff must be under the age of 35 years
- Must be registered youth-led group, CSO, networks, alliances, collectives.
- Your organisation or group must be based in one of the 12 African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- The organisation or group must be active at the grassroot, sub national, national, sub regional and regional.
Application
- Carefully read the funding manual. (English | French | Portuguese).
- Develop your proposal as individual organisation or in collaboration with other youth organisations.
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