Up to $214,000 Adolescent Health Grant

Organization: Action Against Hunger

Type: Grant

Location: Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Deadline: October 21, 2026

Funding: Fully Funded

Action Against Hunger, working with The Youth Cafe and the Emergency Nutrition Network as the ALIGN consortium, is funding one partnership of a local civil society organisation and a youth-led organisation in each of 12 African countries. The money helps them expand a community-led adolescent health or nutrition approach they have already shown works, and get it built into national health systems. It is the second pillar of the GFF x CIVIC Platform, funded by the Global Financing Facility and the World Bank Group's CIVIC alliance. **What you get:** - A grant of up to US$214,000 per country partnership for up to 18 months, including overhead of no more than 7 percent - Tailored technical assistance and mentoring, based on a capacity assessment of your organisations - A place in the ALIGN Community of Practice, with peer learning across the 12 countries and a forum for presenting evidence to government, GFF and World Bank stakeholders - Support with evidence generation, costing studies and policy engagement aimed at government adoption of your approach **What you'll do:** - Scale up, adapt or institutionalise a proven adolescent health or nutrition innovation in one of five priority areas: adolescent pregnancy prevention, respectful maternal care for adolescents, adolescent nutrition and food systems, mental health and psychosocial support, or youth-led health system accountability - Involve adolescents, especially girls and marginalised young people, in co-design, delivery, monitoring and governance of the work - Work with government health authorities on a pathway to integrate the approach into national policies, budgets and services - Document results, costs and lessons, and take part in routine reporting and joint learning **Key dates:** - Call released October 6, 2026 - Guidance webinars held October 7 and 8, 2026 (recording available on the ALIGN page) - Answers to clarification questions posted on the ALIGN page October 10, 2026 - Expressions of interest due October 21, 2026 at 5:00 pm EDT - Shortlist announced November 2, 2026 - Full proposals from shortlisted partnerships due November 16, 2026 - Selected sub-grantees announced November 30, 2026 **More information:** - Call for proposals, FAQ and the Expression of Interest template (Word) are on the ALIGN page, which also has a French version - Submit through the upload form on the ALIGN page, or email alignacf@actionagainsthunger.org if the upload fails - Two stages: a five-page expression of interest, then a full proposal of up to 15 pages if shortlisted. The top three per country are shortlisted - Only one partnership will be funded per country

Action Against HungerGrant

Up to $214,000 Adolescent Health Grant

Oct 21, 2026 17:00:00 ET

Opportunity type

Grant

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Oct 21, 2026 17:00:00 ET

About this opportunity

What you get:

A grant of up to US$214,000 per country partnership for up to 18 months, including overhead of no more than 7 percent
Tailored technical assistance and mentoring, based on a capacity assessment of your organisations
A place in the ALIGN Community of Practice, with peer learning across the 12 countries and a forum for presenting evidence to government, GFF and World Bank stakeholders
Support with evidence generation, costing studies and policy engagement aimed at government adoption of your approach

What you'll do:

Scale up, adapt or institutionalise a proven adolescent health or nutrition innovation in one of five priority areas: adolescent pregnancy prevention, respectful maternal care for adolescents, adolescent nutrition and food systems, mental health and psychosocial support, or youth-led health system accountability
Involve adolescents, especially girls and marginalised young people, in co-design, delivery, monitoring and governance of the work
Work with government health authorities on a pathway to integrate the approach into national policies, budgets and services
Document results, costs and lessons, and take part in routine reporting and joint learning

Key dates:

Call released October 6, 2026
Guidance webinars held October 7 and 8, 2026 (recording available on the ALIGN page)
Answers to clarification questions posted on the ALIGN page October 10, 2026
Expressions of interest due October 21, 2026 at 5:00 pm EDT
Shortlist announced November 2, 2026
Full proposals from shortlisted partnerships due November 16, 2026
Selected sub-grantees announced November 30, 2026

More information:

Call for proposals, FAQ and the Expression of Interest template (Word) are on the ALIGN page, which also has a French version
Submit through the upload form on the ALIGN page, or email alignacf@actionagainsthunger.org if the upload fails
Two stages: a five-page expression of interest, then a full proposal of up to 15 pages if shortlisted. The top three per country are shortlisted
Only one partnership will be funded per country

Who can apply

Apply as a country-level consortium of a local civil society organisation (CSO) and a youth-led organisation (YLO), with one named lead organisation
Both partners must be legally registered and operating in the same eligible country: Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia or Zimbabwe
International organisations, and local branches or affiliates controlled by one, are not eligible. Private companies cannot join as partners
The CSO must have operated in the country for at least two years; the YLO must have been active for at least one year
A youth-led organisation is one where young people, typically aged 15 to 35, hold leadership and decision-making roles
You must show you have already implemented the innovation you propose to scale, with credible evidence of results
The lead organisation needs basic financial management and internal controls, a dedicated institutional bank account, and the ability to receive funds from a foreign entity
The amount requested cannot exceed the largest project budget the lead organisation has managed in the past five years, and the EOI template asks the lead to confirm an average annual operating budget of at least US$214,000 over the past two years
Required at EOI stage: proof of legal registration, proof of a dedicated bank account, confirmation you can receive foreign funds, and a non-debarment or integrity self-declaration
Must have, or commit to adopting, safeguarding and PSEA standards
An organisation may join only one ALIGN application per country. Organisations funded under GFF x CIVIC VOICES (Pillar 1) cannot also be funded under ALIGN
Applications in English or French

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+Issued by Action Against Hunger USA, funded by the Global Financing Facility and the World Bank Group's CIVIC alliance
+Clear per-grant ceiling, dates, eligibility and weighted scoring criteria published in the call and FAQ
+Every partnership must include a youth-led organisation, and adolescents must be involved in design and governance
+Free to apply; two-stage process starts with a five-page expression of interest, in English or French
+Audited financial statements are not required

Worth checking yourself

!Only one partnership funded per country, 12 awards in total
!The lead organisation's request cannot exceed the largest project budget it has managed in the last five years, and the EOI template asks for an average annual operating budget of at least US$214,000 over two years, so small or new groups should join as the partner rather than lead
!Action Against Hunger's FAQ and its later call document give different dates and rules. Follow the call document: a nonprofit plus youth-led organisation partnership, shortlisting on 2 November and full proposals due 16 November
!Eight countries are eligible for both this call and GFF x CIVIC VOICES (Pillar 1); no organisation can be funded under both
!Deadline is 5:00 pm EDT on October 21, which is 21:00 UTC and midnight in East Africa
!Interventions must already be proven; ALIGN funds scale-up, not testing new ideas

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