Deadline: 5 September 2023
Are you between the age of 18-29 years old and have a public engagement initiative you want to organize in your community to draw attention to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues that are important to you? Oxfam Canada wants to hear what initiatives you’re inspired to bring to life in order to make positive change.
As part of the Stand Up project, Oxfam Canada is pleased to announce support for several initiatives that will raise awareness in Canada about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), such as:
- Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
- Contraceptive care
- Access to youth-friendly Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services
- Access to safe abortion and other reproductive healthcare
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- 2SLGBTQ+ rights
- Destigmatizing sex positivity and the right to pleasure
- Ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
- Sex worker rights
- Other SRHR issues.
Oxfam Canada will be supporting public engagement initiatives based in Canada under 2 different streams: one for individual youth (age 18-29); and one for self-identified women’s rights organizations (WROs) or youth-led organizations (YLOs).
Focused Issues
- They welcome applications on a range of SRHR issues. Special consideration will be given to applications focused on:
- Abortion or abortion access
- SRHR initiatives led by and for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) communities
- SRHR initiatives led by and for trans and non-binary communities
- Sex worker rights led by sex workers.
Funding Information
- They will provide between $1,000-$5,000 to support eligible costs to youth in Canada so they can implement their creative public engagement SRHR initiatives in their Canadian-based community, excluding Québec. They expect selected initiatives to be completed within 6 months of signing the support agreement.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be between 18-29 years of age at the time this application is submitted to be eligible for selection.
- Individuals are only allowed one submission.
- These creative public engagement SRHR initiatives must take place in their Canadian-based community. Applicants living in Québec and Québec-based initiatives are not eligible.
- Their initiative’s eligible activities combined must be between $1,000-$5,000 CAD.
- All selected participants will be required to participate in a review and submit a brief final report on their initiative once it’s done. This will include all financial documentation as outlined in the support agreement. Selected participants may also be asked to participate in future selection committees.
- Selected initiatives must be completed within 6 months of signing the support agreement.
For more information, visit Oxfam Canada.
