GAYA Small Grants Program

The GAYA Small Grants Program aims to address key issues within the collection, analysis, and use of data on gender and youth within BHA’s development and emergency food security, resilience, and emergency response activities.

Who can Apply

  • We accept applications from US or non-US nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), for-profit organizations, research institutions, or higher education institutions (HEIs). Applicants can be from anywhere across the globe, but applications must be implemented in countries where USAID/BHA works or has funded activities in the past three years.
  • Organizations must have successfully received and managed USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance funding within the past three years (2020, 2021, 2022). This includes receiving funds as the Prime awardee, or any level of sub-awardee.
  • Applications from local or regional organizations led by youth up to the age of 29 years are encouraged.
  • Applications from local or regional organizations led by or focused on women are encouraged.
  • We encourage applications from organizations led by or serving all persons and identities regardless of age, gender, or disability.
  • This RFA is geared towards both development and emergency food security, resilience, and emergency response activities.
  • Organizations that are sub-recipients or sub-contractors to Save the Children or Mercy Corps in any agreements are allowed to apply.
  • Local or regional organizations are particularly encouraged to apply.

Eligible Projects

  • Projects that strengthen innovative localized approaches to gender and/or youth, led by local partners.
  • Projects that help BHA implementing partners better collect, analyze, and use information on gender and/or youth issues or strategies.
  • Projects that transform negative gender norms, taboos, attitudes, and behaviors, and/or projects that incorporate positive youth development approaches.
  • Projects that consult and actively involve diverse perspectives and marginalized populations across the activity lifecycle. An example of this might be using a participatory design process with young people in the lead to design your proposed intervention. Or having a women’s community group involved in designing and leading a new data collection effort. Or involving LGBTQI+ people in conversations about how to ask questions about sexuality and gender in a data collection tool.

Funding Value

GAYA’s Program Improvement Awards include:

    • A grant of up to $240,000 USD over a two-year period
    • Ongoing support from a team specialized in gender, youth, and program management

For more information: https://www.fsnnetwork.org/gaya-small-grants-program

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