The Advocacy Fund provides critical support to help advance promising legislative or regulatory efforts on healthy food policy. These policy priority areas include: taxes on sugary beverages and/or ultra-processed food, front-of-package nutrition labeling, restrictions on marketing of unhealthy food and beverages, and healthy public sector food environments, including schools. The Advocacy Fund may also be used to block harmful policies that would set negative precedents and undermine a healthy food policy environment.
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Drawing on decades of experience working with global civil society organizations across public health issues and political systems, the Global Health Advocacy Incubator provides strategic support to advocates working to enact and implement laws that save lives.
Their history is rooted in one of the most successful public health campaigns — tobacco control. Building on the successes and lessons learned in the global fight against tobacco deaths, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids launched the Global Health Advocacy Incubator in 2014 to strengthen advocacy capacity to improve public health around the globe. Their experience designing successful campaigns and passing policies to save lives gave them an innovative and proven model for advocacy – one that is locally led and adaptable to culture, political context and issue area. Their expert multidisciplinary team has a broad range of experience planning, executing and evaluating high-impact policy advocacy campaigns. They provide capacity building and technical assistance across all components of effective policy advocacy, including political mapping, legal analysis and strategic planning to media advocacy, coalition building and grassroots mobilization. They’ve stood up against powerful industries and overwhelming political opposition. And despite the odds, we’ve won. Their values are drawn from this history, their commitment to public health and their unwavering belief in the power of policy change.
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s Healthy Food Policy Advocacy Fund is currently accepting new applications through June 30th.
Benefits
- The Advocacy Fund provides critical support to help advance promising legislative or regulatory efforts on healthy food policy.
Eligibilities
- The Advocacy Fund provides grants to not-for-profit entities, with strong preference given to civil society organizations in low and middle-income countries.
- GHAI encourages joint applications from up to three groups working collaboratively toward a healthy food policy win.
- The applicant or co-applicants must be working on a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, timebound) policy objective. Ideally, the objective will be achievable within a 12-24 month time frame. The policy may be national or subnational and should ideally have a broader regional or global impact.
Application Process
- All applicants should fill out the concept note form. Please ensure all fields are complete.
- For interested parties based in the Food Policy Program’s focus countries (Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, and South Africa), please contact [email protected] with “Potential Focus Country Partnership” in the subject line.
- For general questions regarding the Advocacy Fund, including the application process, please contact [email protected].
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Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
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