Grants Mechanism

Why fund
the grassroots?

We believe that grassroots organisations have the local connections, insight, and influence to tackle the social norms that underpin Female Genital Mutilation/Cut (FGM/C). However, these organisations are often too small to be eligible for grants from a majority of donors. The Girl Generation: Support to Africa-led Movement to End FGM/C created the End FGM/C grassroots grants to respond to these challenges.

We have created a flexible and adaptive small grant mechanisms providing bespoke funding and capacity-building support to each grantee partner.

The vision of the
small grants

The vision of the small grants mechanism is to strengthen the Africa-led movement to end FGM/C by resourcing and supporting those most affected by FGM/C and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls at the grassroots to lead change within their communities, countries, and globally.

The fund is accessible to civil society, grassroots, and women- and youth-led organisations with a clear girl-led/focussed approach in selected areas in the programme countries which are Kenya, Senegal, Somaliland, and Ethiopia.

The Anticipated Results of the TGG Grants Mechanism in the five-year period include

Enhanced capacity

CBOs, women’s rights networks, and young people individually and collectively, have greater capacity and are better resourced, to implement approaches toward ending FGM/C

Positive social change

Positive social change: grantees apply innovative, girl-centered approaches to social norms change, accountability and communications to end FMG/C

Enhanced sustainability

Community-based organizations will be equipped through capacity building etc., to secure funding beyond the programme to resource their approaches to ending FGM/C

In Kenya, the first cohorts of grantee partners are in Isiolo and Narok Counties, which are focal counties for the programme’s broader community- and county-level interventions.