4TH September, 2023
The Healthy Food Policy Advocacy Fund provides critical support to help advance promising legislative or regulatory efforts on healthy food policy. The purpose of the Advocacy Fund is to support the adoption of evidence-informed healthy food policies by investing in timebound and strategic campaigns, and in doing so, grow both the food policy evidence base and a global network of advocates. Advocacy Fund grants are intended to support urgent, short-term campaigns in response to needs and opportunities related to healthy food policies.
Areas include
- Taxes on sweetened beverages and/or ultra-processed food
- Front-of-package warning labeling (FOPL)
- Restrictions on marketing of unhealthy food and beverages
- Healthy food environments and food procurement and service policies in the public sector, including schools
Eligibility
- The Advocacy Fund provides grants to legally registered not-for-profit entities based in low- and middle-income countries.
- Advocacy Fund grants are available for fast-breaking policy opportunities and/or campaigns to improve healthy food policy. Applicants should meet the following criteria:
- Applicant must be working on a specific policy objective that is concrete and ideally achievable within approximately 12-18 months.
- Policy objective may be national or subnational and could have broader regional or global influence.
- Applicants must demonstrate that the grant will help address an opportunity and that there are clear benefits or reasons for the need to secure funding.
- Applicants should preferably focus on a specific policy campaign rather than working across multiple policy priorities.
- Applicants with experience in carrying out advocacy campaigns for policy change is a plus.
Application Process
- All applicants should fill out the concept note form on the online platform located HERE. Please ensure all fields are complete and submit no later than September 4, 2023, 5pm EST.
- Please find a Word version of the Concept Note HERE so that you can draft your responses before submitting them to the online platform.
- For general questions regarding the Advocacy Fund, including the application process, please contact [email protected]
For more information.