RFP - Funding Bold Ideas for Youth Mental Health in 12 countries

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About the Organization

9 out of 10 young people globally live in low- and middle-income countries. Being was created to address their ongoing mental health challenges.

Being envisions a world where young people feel well and thrive.

We work with young people to improve their mental health and wellbeing through research, innovation and ecosystem building, with a focus on prevention and promotion in 12 priority countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam.

Young people are at the core of our work. We aim to engage with them as partners in a collaborative, rights-based, participatory, and inclusive way and centre their voices and needs in everything we do.

About the Proposal

We’re funding bold ideas for youth mental health and wellbeing in 12 countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam by supporting research, innovation, and ecosystem building, focused on prevention and promotion and the early drivers of their mental health challenges.

The goal: To improve young people’s mental health and influence lasting change in programming, research and policies related to their wellbeing.

Being’s funding is guided by specific country priorities determined through locally driven country analyses and consultations with youth, policymakers, local organizations, and mental health experts in our 12 priority countries. We strongly encourage applications from, and will give preference to, youth-led organizations based in the 12 countries.  

Available Funding Opportunities:

• Proof-of-Concept (POC) Funding: POC funding up to $250,000 CAD will be awarded over 15, 18 or 24 months to early-stage projects that can implement, test and refine solutions to country-specific personal, social, and/or environmental factors impacting young people’s mental health and wellbeing in one of the 12 countries. 
• Transition-to-Scale (TTS) Funding: TTS funding between $300,000 CAD and $1,500,000 CAD over 12-48 months will be awarded to support organizations that align with country-specific priorities along their scaling journey to help catalyze their sustainability and impact.
• Ecosystem Catalyst (EC) Funding : EC funding between $200,000 CAD and $300,000 CAD over 24 months will be awarded to organizations that can address priority barriers to scale, such as legislation, evidence, coordination, and mobilize demand for the scale-up of effective solutions in one of the 12 countries.  

Eligibility

All legally incorporated (or the equivalent) organizations based in any country can apply for funding through this RFP. Please note: Only organizations implementing their project in the 12 priority countries, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam, will be considered. 

Preference will be given to eligible organizations based on the following order of criteria: 

• Youth-led organizations (50% or more of staff in key leadership roles are youth aged 35 and under) based in one of 12 priority countries. 
• Organizations based in one of Being’s 12 priority countries.  
• Organizations based in any low- and middle-income country partnering with a local organization based in at least one of the 12 priority countries.
• Other eligible organizations.

How to Apply

All applications will involve a two-stage application process:  

• Completing a screening questionnaire and submitting a project summary (stage one); and  
• Submitting a full project application (stage two). Only those applications that pass screening (stage one) will be invited to submit a full application (stage two).

Please note: Applications will only be accepted through our online application form only accessible via Grand Challenges Canada’s Fluxx Portal https://gcc.fluxx.io. New users must register for an account on Fluxx at least 7 days before an intake deadline.  

Our current intake period is active from June 26-September 25, 2024.

Deadline to register for Fluxx to submit applications for current intake: September 18, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EDT (3:59 a.m. GMT).

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