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About Foundation |
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The Population Foundation of India (PFI)
is a non-governmental funding and promoting organisation.
It plays supportive and innovative roles to help in addressing
India’s
population related issues. Towards this objective, it attempts
to galvanise voluntary action to supplement governmental
efforts in developing and implementing integrated population
and development policies, plans and programmes.
The Foundation generally promotes and provides guidance
and financial assistance for specific projects which fulfil
the criteria and other conditions as described hereunder
in brief.
The Foundation receives requests for funds from various
organisations for a range of project ideas. However, the
Foundation being a private voluntary organisation has very
limited resources in relation to the increasing demands
for financial assistance. Before taking any final decision,
the Foundation determines the value of the proposed project
and it has, therefore, delineated its major areas of operation
and laid down priorities and objective criteria for processing
requests for financial and technical support for population
projects and programmes. For example, it is unlikely the
Foundation will consider a vague request for funds to undertake
motivational programme and information to out-of-school
youth or to establish an adolescent family planning clinic.
Similarly, it is not necessary to fund a purely theoretical
and abstract research endeavour on the relationships between
population stabilization, development and environment.
On the other hand, the Foundation will be more interested
in proposals that are empirically based preferably action-oriented
with a detailed description of the need for such a programme,
outline of the objectives, strategies, methodology, staffing
pattern, monitoring and evaluation and budget.
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| Criteria for Support |
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The major thematic areas of operations for
the Foundation’s support are as under: |
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Reproductive and Child Health |
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Integrated Reproductive Health – HIV/AIDS |
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Adolescent Health / Adolescent Reproductive Health |
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Gender and Reproductive Rights |
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The activities for the above mentioned
areas include: |
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Research: Integrated Population-Development-environment
linked Policy Research, Action-Demonstration Programmes through
innovative pilot initiatives, formative research, Bio-medical
research and socio-behavioral research on issues related to
Reproductive health, Demographic Surveys/Studies on special
topics of current interest. |
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Capacity Building: Strengthening and capacity
building of nongovernmental organizations on RCH and facilitating
effective networking, Empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions
and other Community Based Organizations on health related
issues. |
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Communication strategies and Advocacy: Promotion
of gender equity and equality including balanced sex ratio,
rights based approach to reproductive health, Quality of care,
women’s empowerment and promotion of male responsibility
in RH-HIV/AIDS. |
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Reproductive and Child health services and interventions:
Through life cycle approach covering aspects like child survival & safe
motherhood, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and RTI/STI/HIV/AIDS
prevention, care and support etc. |
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Others: Management, Marketing and Community Distribution
Techniques and involvement of Organised Sector on population
issues. Special sector programmes linking family planning and
reproductive health with agriculture, industry labour and employment,
education, social development and environment. |
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| PFI’s Selective Funding |
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The Foundation accords higher
priority to Operation Research / action-demonstration projects
designed for socially and economically backward target populations
in rural and tribal areas and particularly encourages projects,
which involve women as active participants in the action.
Project proposals which are: (a) development oriented;
(b) innovative; (c) replicative; (d) cost effective; and
(e) gap filling, have greater chances for securing financial
support from the Foundation. The Foundation does not provide
any financial assistance for institutional support nor does
it provide funds for purchase of office furniture / equipment,
and other infrastructure material.
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| Processing of Proposals |
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| The preliminary scrutiny of proposals
is carried out by the concerned staff members of the Foundation
keeping in view the perspective plans, priorities and objective
criteria laid down by the Foundation for funding project proposals.
Then an internal committee at the Foundation reviews and screens
the proposals. Thereafter, the selected proposals are reviewed
by two or more external experts and based on the feedback of
the committee and external reviewers the proposals are further
developed with the concerned institutions in a participatory
process. Proposals that are not considered for funding will
be intimated soon after the review.
Project proposals, initially standing this scrutiny are revised
wherever necessary and further processed and developed in consultation
with the Advisory Panels and the implementing agencies and
then put up to the Governing Board, which makes the final decision.
The processing of well-designed project proposals takes three
to four months. The client organisations are expected to submit
their project proposals for the consideration of the Foundation
well in advance as board meetings of the Foundation are normally
held at an interval of 3 months. |
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| How to Apply? |
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Applicant NGO must have a standing
of minimum five years and have the necessary infrastructure
and manpower resources to work at least in a Block, big slums
and in urban areas and has done more than Rs.20 lakhs worth
projects/programmes per annum in the preceding three years.
Before any well conceived full project proposal
is sent to the Foundation, the applicants are advised to
send in the first instance, a four to five page preliminary
note/concept note, which should inter alia cover
the following points in connection with the proposed project: |
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| Background of the Organisation: |
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| Brief history and details of the
institution concerned, its objectives, details of existing
infrastructural facilities, details of trained manpower resources
available and its activities along with major sources of funding
particularly during the last three-four years. |
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| Concept Note: |
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Title of the project
Scope and objectives of the project
Outstanding features justifying the need for the proposed project
and financial support
Methodology proposed and approaches to be adopted along with
the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders
Location, areas and population to be covered under the proposed
project
Total duration, time-schedule and LF Approaches for various phases
and the proposed data of commencement
Methods, indicators and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation
of the project Sustainability of the project with risks and assumptions
Sustainability of the project with risks and assumptions
The Proposed Budget indicating the contribution by the NGO concerned
and assistance sought from the Foundation. |
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Only after the receipt of a positive reply
from the Foundation the NGO concerned is expected to send
the following to the Foundation: (i) detailed project proposal;
(ii) audited statement of accounts for the last three financial
years along with the list of fixed assets; (iii) activities
undertaken by the NGO in the last three years; (iv) details
of trained manpower resources available on roll; (iv) copy
of registration certificate; (v) copies of Memorandum of
Association and Rules and Regulation; (vi) Income tax exemption
status, PAN number and copy of the latest notification; (vii)
FCRA registration status and if registered registration number;
(viii) any other detail which the Foundation desires to have.
The concept note should mainly focus on the Foundation’s
priority areas, thematically and geographically. Presently
the Foundation is primarily focusing its attention on 327
socio-demographically backward districts mostly located in
the 8 EAG states having an RCH Composite Index of less than
50. Other priority districts include 122 districts having
child sex ratio (0-6 years) of less than 900 and 49 districts
having high HIV prevalence (1% or more among the antenatal
women and more than 5% among the high risk groups). The list
of the above can be downloaded from PFI’s website.
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| Leveraging of funds : |
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PFI believes in ownership of the programme
by the implementing agency. In order to achieve this objective,
the Foundation expects the implementing agency to spell out
their contribution in the proposed budget (both physical
and financial) while submitting the project proposal for
consideration. |
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| Referees : |
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| The project proposal should contain the names
and address of organisation(s) who have provided funding assistance
for projects/programmes implemented by the agency during the
last three years. As a part of the process, the Foundation
may contact any or all the agencies for reference and seek
their views.
The proposals received for funding are considered keeping
the above in view.
Letters of enquiry/preliminary note/concept note be sent to
the Executive Director, Population Foundation of India, B-28
Qutab Institutional Area, Tara Crescent, New Delhi-110 016
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| Mail
to: popfound@sify.com |
Our Website: www.popfound.org |
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