What is the Grant Scheme?
The Youth Grant program was planned to provide financial support to young people between the ages of 18-30 to implement their projects and to contribute to the strengthening of their institutional/individual capacities.
Within the scope of the grant program, selected participants will undergo structured training on sexual health, reproductive health, gender-based violence, and Sustainable Development Goals, and then they will plan their projects in detail and implement them with the grant.
During the execution of the projects to be supported within the scope of the grant program, continuous supervision support will be provided to the project teams.
Among the projects that will apply to the grant program, applications made on themes suitable for sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, and social cohesion/coexistence and Sustainable Development Goals will be given priority.
You can see the details of the "Grant Program for Youth" call for young people to develop and implement their ideas below.
About Application:
You can apply to the grant program by filling out the application form by 23:59 on Monday, May 10 at the latest. For your questions, you can write to [email protected] .
You can download the detailed budget excel file for the Youth Grant Program applications below.
Application Criteria
- be between the ages of 18-30
- Applying as teams of at least 2 and a maximum of 4 people
- At least 1 of the team members is a youth migrant/refugee
- To undertake to fully participate in 1 opening, 1 closing meeting and 4 training programs to be held within the scope of the grant program. If necessary, full participation in additional training programs that may occur is required.
- Non-profit youth groups, initiatives, university groups, and clubs are eligible to apply.
Grant and Evaluation Criteria
- The project is feasible and innovative
- The project has been designed with a focus on social benefit, awareness or solidarity,
- The social impact of the project
- The fact that the project objectives contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Including activities to empower young people and raise awareness in the content of the project (Example: studies to develop a dialogue environment between refugees/immigrants and local communities, creating online awareness campaigns about early forced marriages and producing multilingual materials, etc.),
- The project is designed in the context of youth rights and is aimed at young people
- The content (activities, feasibility, impact, etc.) of the project will affect the evaluation process of the project applications by 70% and the budget (the realistic budget and the appropriateness of the activities) by 30%.
Grant Amount and Contextual Issues
Applications that meet the application and grant criteria will be evaluated by GMDP managers and service providers. Based on the evaluation criteria, the best 4 project applications selected from the provinces of Ankara, Diyarbakır, Hatay, and Izmir will be eligible for grants. An amount between 500-1000 USD will be provided to the teams for the realization of the projects, depending on the points they get according to the grant criteria and evaluation criteria.
- Technical expert support will be provided to all teams for the development of the project idea.
- It is expected that the projects will be scheduled to be implemented between 15 May and 30 June 2021.
Training on the following subjects will be given to the project members who will come to life.
- Project management
- Budget and Reporting
- Youth and Refugee Studies
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Sexual Health Reproductive Health and Gender-Based Violence
*** Projects to be conducted online within the scope of COVID-19 measures will also be supported.
About the Young Refugees Support Programme:
It is a service delivery and strengthening program carried out with the financial support of the Government of Japan, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Turkey Office, under the management of the Young Approaches in Health Association (Y-PEER Turkey).
The program aims to increase the access of Turkish and immigrant/refugee youth between the ages of 18-30 in Ankara, Diyarbakır, Hatay, and İzmir Youth Centers to sexual health, reproductive health, and gender-based violence services, and to strengthen them by raising their awareness on these issues. The Young Refugees Support Program also aims to support the social cohesion processes of young people through empowerment and social cohesion activities, thus creating a social impact based on youth and humanitarian aid activities in the civil field.
Since 2015, the Young Refugees Support Program enabled the implementation of many common platforms in the fields of health, protection, and empowerment to enable immigrant, refugee youth, and local youth to meet on the axis of youth, support each other and create solutions together to the problems they see around them. Within the scope of this open call, it aims to develop new approaches that will enable young people to both become stronger by taking responsibility and meet under the discourse of living together.