Innovative Regional Advocacy Seed Grant
| Purpose of RFP | Innovative Regional Advocacy Seed Grant support under TRANScend |
| Project Owner | The Humsafar Trust, Mumbai |
| Starting date for Submission | 10th May 2025 |
| Last Date of Submission | 20th June 2025 |
About the organization:
The Humsafar Trust (HST) is a community-based organisation (CBO) working on the health & well-being of the LGBTQ+ communities since 1994. We currently work in the health, advocacy, research and capacity building of LGBTQ+ communities across India. While our Health vertical focuses on reaching out to 10,000+ community individuals every year with our health, prevention and testing services through offline and online outreach; our Advocacy & Inclusion vertical focuses on socioeconomic inclusion and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community in the society through projects themed around sensitisation, education, employment, livelihood and crisis management; and lastly our Strategic Information and Research vertical focuses identifying changing trends and needs of the community on health and well-being level and present formal data to guide fieldwork, services and support offered to the community. Additionally, significant efforts are taken to build capacities of younger CBOs across India on delivery of healthcare and support services to the community.
Purpose:
Create and continue Transgender needs-based conversations in the form of direct or soft advocacy with an intention to create socio-economic inclusion of Transgender persons in India.
The TRANScend Project: TRANScend is an initiative by The Humsafar Trust which aims to enhance socio-economic inclusion of transgender persons in India. TRANScend, as an initiative, is committed to encouraging greater community ownership, facilitating partnerships between the community and various stakeholders like corporates, educational institutes, judiciary, bureaucrats and providing a platform for addressing the ever- evolving needs of the transgender community through ongoing research and intervention. This project focuses on enhancing economic resilience of transgender persons in India
Priority Areas:
There should be a focus on one or more of these following areas that would benefit the Transgender community entirely or focused activities for Transgender community. Advocacy activities focusing on Transgender acceptance and experiences with stakeholders on below topics:
a) Equal access to Housing, Education, Public facilities and employment opportunities.
b) With welfare department to access transgender identity card for transgender persons.
c) Anti-discrimination laws and policies protecting the Transgender Persons.
d) Parental & Social acceptance.
e) Educational or Medical institutions.
f) State & Central Government institutions.
g) Livelihood support.
h) Financial Literacy.
i) Visibility events focused on socio-economic inclusion.
j) Visual arts focused awareness programs.
k) Creation of IEC material (Print, Audio-Visual) focused on Health and Human rights of Transgender Community.
l) Any other awareness, capacity-building, upskilling effort focused on Transgender Community.
Deliverables:
· The activities should be implemented within the period of 1st July 2025 to 31st August 2025.
· 50% will be paid as advance and 50% will be paid on submission of the programmatic reports and statement of expenditures along with original bills. Any activity and expenses will not be allowed after the mentioned period.
Activity Amount: INR 15,000 (Fifteen Thousand Rupees Only)
Eligibility to apply:
This one-time grant will be open for registered CBOs, informal community initiatives/ groups or leaders. The applicant must submit a one-page proposal mentioning the background and need for the project, proposed activities, budget for the activity and means to measure success/ outcome. Innovative activities/ideas that aim towards addressing the most pressing needs of the transgender and help towards sustainability of community-led organizations will be given preference.
The soft copy of the proposal forms & budget should be submitted to nilofer@humsafar.org before 10th June by 7:30 PM.
In case of any query, you can write to: [email protected] or call at 9076060069