The Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF) is a response to the urgent need to provide technical and Financial support to youth-led organizations in Nigeria in order to sustain their work locally and facilitate opportunities for learning.
Benefits
Applications for the 1st cohort of the Young Leaders Development Fund is now open for the following categories of grants:
- Small Grant: $500- $1000 – Targeted at individuals
- Action Grant: $1000- $3000 -Grassroot & Community based organizations
- Development Grant: $3000-$6000 -Youth-led & Youth Focused Organizations
- Catalytic Grant: $ 40,000 -Civic and Innovation Hubs
Women and People Living with Disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
You are eligible to apply if you are a young change-maker (aged 15-35) with proven track record, working on a sustainable that directly addresses any of the following:
Grant Thematic Areas
- Employment and Education. The applicants should consider youth driven initiatives that focus on supporting the youth in their education and to spur up employment opportunities. Such initiatives should be inclusive and target result oriented activities among the youth.
- Media, sport, and Entertainment. Projects that promote and strengthen Youth activities in media, sport and entertainment. Identification and promotion of youth media platforms and creative talent should be prioritized.
- Health. The concepts should focus on health issues of the young people such as drug and substance abuse, sexual and reprodcutive health, mental health and others
- Peace building and Security. This prioritizes concepts that promote cultural integration, peaceful coexistence, armed forces and civilian relationship, and host of others.
- ICT and Entrepreneurship. ICT driven solutions that create values and have a sustainable business model.
- Climate change and Environment. Initiatives and ideas that address drought and desertification, land degradation, more frequent extreme weather events, affected fresh water, water resources and loss of biodiversity
- Civic participation. initiatives and ideas that help increase Youth engagement/participation in politics and leadership.
Eligibility Criteria for individual and Organization
Individual Level
- The beneficiary must be a Young Change Makers (aged 15- 35 years) with a proven track record, working on a sustainable solution that directly addresses any of the seven thematic areas.
- The beneficiary must demonstrate good understanding and experience of strategic planning, vision setting and project management.
- The beneficiary must demonstrate experience and knowledge of community or team building following principles of honesty and integrity
- The Beneficiary must demonstrate talent and passion for new ways of behaving, norms and actions,
The beneficiary must have genuine means of identification or attached to an institution. - The beneficiary must supply a police clearance report and provide 3 reputable referees.
Organization Level
- The organization must be a formally registered organization with the corporate affairs commission of Nigeria. Otherwise, an unregistered organization can form a cluster and apply through a registered organization.
- The organization must have a partnership capacity in all the states in their geo-political region.
- The organization must have police clearance, tax clearance and SCUML certificate
- The organization must have good antecedents and proper track records.
- Youth-driven transformation activities, civic and transformation hub depending on the grant category, working on sustainable solutions that directly addresses any of the agreed thematic areas.
- The organization must have a physical address, corporate account with good financial standing and records
Application Deadline: 8th June, 2022
Important Notice
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