Reaching & Educating At-risk Children


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Capacity Building Grant: Choosing Sub-Grantees

REACH India will promote the development and strengthening of small NGOs through capacity building and sub-grants (channeled through NGOs that receive Capacity Building Support grants). The aim is to promote greater access to and quality in educational activities for vulnerable children.

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Programs funded under REACH lndia must support NGOs working to improve the access, enrollment and retention of vulnerable children in formal schools or preparing at-risk children through alternative programmes for entry into the formal education system.

REACH India provides two types of grants:

1. Direct Service Delivery Grants: REACH India will provide funds and technical assistance to established NGOs with a proven track record for increasing and strengthening their capacity in delivering educational services to vulnerable children in formal and alternative educational programs
2. Capacity Building Grants: REACH India will provide funds to enable established NGOs to mentor and support smaller, grassroots NGOs in providing basic education services to vulnerable children in formal and alternative educational programmes. Organizations receiving Capacity Building Grants will help selected grassroots NGOs in a variety of ways:

a. strengthen the organizational and programmatic capabilities of the smaller, grassroots NGOs they choose to work with;
b. build networks of local and regional NGOs and through those networks build the capacity of local educational systems; and
c. provide sub-grants to the NGOs they are mentoring to support direct implementation of educational services for vulnerable children.

Examples of capacity building include programme and financial management, planning, community development, report writing, proposal writing, performance monitoring and educational services.

Each of the above strands of work has the same goal: building the capacity of the NGO community to provide educational services to
out-of-school children and ultimately, facilitate their entrance into and retention in formal schools.