NON-FCRA PROJECT: INDIA YOUTH FUND 2015-16
Deadline: 15.04.2015
The India
Youth Fund is a window of UN-Habitat's Global Youth Fund. It is a grant awarded
to youth-led groups based in urban areas. It is is aimed at helping them
conceive, implement and execute community-based interventions in focus areas
such as livelihoods, health, gender equality and empowerment, and urban
planning among others.
The
grants are extremely competitive, and applicant organisations must submit to an
extremely rigorous screening process. Each year, a number of grantees are
chosen on the basis of their innovative solutions to urban conditions, the
sustainability of their ideas and the scope for their engagement with youth.
Since 2013, twelve young groups have received the India Youth Fund Grant, in
locations as diverse as Downtown Mumbai and Dimapur, Nagaland, and for themes
as varied as gender empowerment, wildlife conflict resolution, solid waste
management and primary healthcare provision.
