Calls For Proposals on Sustainability and Legacy Grants
For Immediate Release
Accra, 15th June 2022
Ghana Somubi Dwumadie (Ghana Participation Programme) is excited to announce a call for proposals for our Sustainability and Legacy Fund grants. The overall objective of the grants is to strengthen the capacity of small and grassroots organisations to bring about sustainable change in the lives of people with disabilities, including people with mental health conditions, and particularly women with disabilities or mental health conditions.
Speaking to launch the call, the programme’s Team Leader Lyla Adwan-Kamara said, “We expect the Sustainability and Legacy Fund to go a long way to boost grassroots organisations, and especially those that empower women with disabilities.”
“I encourage disabled people’s organisations and women’s rights groups, to apply for this opportunity”, she added.
The grants’ specific objectives are:
1. To strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of small and grassroots Self-Help Groups (SHGs), Women Rights Organisations (WROs) and Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) to enable them to play a greater role in user-led approaches to claiming the rights of people with disabilities, including people with mental health conditions, and particularly women with disabilities and mental health conditions.
2. To improve the wellbeing of, and empower people with disabilities, and especially women with disabilities and mental health conditions, through interventions implemented by small and grassroots SHGs, WROs and DPOs.
We kindly encourage eligible SHGs, DPOs, WROs and other civil society organisations working on disability and mental health to apply.
How to apply
Ghana Somubi Dwumadie will be accepting applications from 14 June 2022 to 13 July 2022. Applications received after 5pm on 13 July will not be accepted.
To apply, please download the application pack from our website here: https://www.ghanasomubi.com/new-legacy-grants
Please, complete the application pack and submit by email to grants@ghanasomubi.com
The Sustainability and Legacy Fund Grant is Ghana Somubi Dwumadie’s third call for proposals after two successful previous rounds. The first call for proposal was the COVID-19 Psychosocial Resilience Grant, which enabled people with disabilities, including people with mental health conditions, as well as healthcare workers, to access psychosocial support and build their resilience to the impact of COVID-19.
The programme’s second call, Evidence and Effectiveness Grants, supported civil society organisations including DPOs and WROs to tackle stigma and discrimination against people with disabilities, including people with mental health conditions, and to advocate for their rights.
A key learning from these calls indicates that there is value and power in approaches which uphold the principle that people with lived experience are best placed to bring about changes in attitudes around disability and mental health, and this learning informs our Sustainability and Legacy Fund.
About Ghana Somubi Dwumadie
Ghana Somubi Dwumadie (Ghana Participation Programme) is a four-year disability programme in Ghana, with a specific focus on mental health. This programme is funded with UK aid from the UK government. The programme is run by an Options-led consortium, which also consists of BasicNeeds-Ghana, Kings College London, Sightsavers International and Tropical Health, and focuses on four key areas:
1. Promoting stronger policies and systems that respect the rights of people with disabilities, including people with mental health disabilities
2. Scaling up high quality and accessible mental health services
3. Reducing stigma and discrimination against people with disabilities, including mental health disabilities
4. Generating evidence to inform policy and practice on the effectiveness of disability and mental health programmes and interventions
Contact information
For further information, please contact:
Lyla Adwan-Kamara, Team Leader: 0543443755; l.adwan-kamara@ghanasomubi.com
Matthias Aneinini, Grants Advisor: grants@ghanasomubi.com