Campaign Incubator 2024 : Haiyya
The deadline to fill out this application is 15th May 2024
Haiyya was founded in 2015, with a vision to rebuild and transform the social fabric of India, where young leaders and their organisations are building grassroots citizen power to strengthen democracy, governance and human rights. We equip social changemakers, organizations and citizen groups to learn, innovate and adapt to the needs of the changemaking landscape. Using cutting edge modern day campaigning and community engagement frameworks, we create a loud thumping voice of participatory, people-powered programs.
Inspired by the work of Professor Marshall Ganz from Harvard Kennedy School and the adaptation of his work in President Obama’s electoral campaign 2008 & 2012, we at Haiyya are applying and innovating ‘Community Organizing’ in India. We started our journey by running local level campaigns and training young people to become community organizers. Today, we have put ourselves on the global map with prestigious awards, recognitions, affiliations and partnerships. We have worked with many clients, partners and funders to design campaign strategy, implement programs and training curriculums engaging more than 5,000 change-makers in our network. In the past 3 years, we have been hired by reputed organizations, funded by trusted grant bodies and collaborated with renowned partners to advance leadership and participatory approaches that build sustainable change in India.
Haiyya is inviting applications from young changemakers and campaigners to join the fourth cohort of our flagship program – Campaign Incubator 2024
ABOUT CAMPAIGN INCUBATOR:
Campaign Incubator (CI) was first launched in 2019 with the goal of supporting campaigners to accelerate change. The program helps to seek answers to questions such as ‘How do we create a change in our lives?’, ‘How do I begin to imagine a campaign?’, ‘How do I inspire and encourage my community to join me in this journey?’,
‘Do my people and I have resources I have not explored yet?’, ‘How can I bring more resources, build and sustain meaningful and resourceful relationships that will help me achieve my goal?’
Campaign Incubator 2024 aims to strengthen the community of young, passionate campaigners to build youth feminist leadership that can influence the landscape of organizing and changemaking in the country. The program is inviting young changemakers/campaigners from diverse identities and marginalised communities to an online, immersive learning and practice space to run people-powered campaigns successfully.
The program will run in 2 cohorts in English and Hindi language.
HOW WILL WE ACHIEVE IT TOGETHER?
- We will welcome you into a diverse cohort of 40 youth campaigners and changemakers.
- We will build and amplify your leadership capacity as an organizer through the Community Organizing framework.
- We will work with you to co-create a campaign idea and plan to be launched and implemented in 2024 with your people.
- We will provide campaign coaching support to you to make the campaign go visible and public towards its goal.
- We will offer you on-going leadership skills, mentoring, relationships and network support to make your campaign successful and lead to victory.
- As a cohort member, you will get the opportunity to connect with other incubatees to share stories, challenges, lessons, and use this space to peer-learn and develop new connections.
- We will offer resource support to you to run your campaign.
CAMPAIGN INCUBATOR ‘24
Apply here:
WHO CAN APPLY?
- You are between the ages of 20-35 years and work with young people on issues that affect the vulnerable communities
- Priority will be given to youth from marginalized communities (women, LGBTQIA+, Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi, Muslim, People living with disability, Refugee communities)
- You are an organizer, campaigner, part of a youth collective, development professional or collective/group working on rapid response campaigns.
- You have a campaign idea with a clear goal (you do not need to have demonstrated experience in campaigning).
- You are someone that aspires for socio-political and systemic change through your work.
- You have access to your people/communities, understand their issues and have worked with them in the past.
- You are willing to commit to a 6 month long program.
- We encourage 2 people to apply together as a team for a particular campaign.
PROGRAM DETAILS:
- Timeline: 6 months, starting from May 30.
- Commitment: 8-10 hours every month.
- Platform: Zoom.
- Medium of program delivery: Separate sessions in English and Hindi.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
The program will offer a stipend of Rs 35,000 in total to each incubatee, given midway and at the end of the program (Please note, if there are 2 people joining from your organization/collective, the amount will still be the same, since you will be working as a
team for the same campaign). The stipend is offered to support your campaign work with your community.
HOW TO APPLY?
- Based on your language preference for the program (english or hindi), fill this application form by or before 15th May, 2024 by 11:55 PM.
- Applications will get shortlisted on a rolling basis. Since we have limited spots, please do not wait until the deadline to submit your application.
- Once you have applied and your application is shortlisted, we may contact you for more information and assessment via email and phone.
- If you are selected for this program, you will receive a final selection email from us latest by 21st May. The email will have more information on the schedule and details of the whole program.
CONTACT US
If you have any queries in regards to the program, please contact: Jaina M Haran – Program Manager, Campaign Incubator 2024 at jaina@haiyya.in
