Soroptimist International South East Asia Pacific aims to create a world where women and girls have the opportunity to reach their full potential and live free from discrimination and violence.

Goal 2: The Soroptimist federations will be linked through their efforts to improve the lives of women and girls through education, empowerment and enabling opportunities.

Soroptimist International South East Asia Pacific achieves this through projects which address the 8 Objectives,, listed below, are examples of projects delivered under each of the objectives.

SISEAP Objectives

Education 

• Providing access to quality education for women and girls
• Address barriers preventing women and girls from achieving their full potential by supporting educational programs and scholarship
• Providing education materials such as laptops, stationery, books and other essential school items
• Promote and provide vocatonal and skills training enabling women and girls to gain employment

Projects address SDG 4 and most other SDGs in some way

Elimination of violence 

• Combating violence against women and girls,  by providing public education campaigns that actively raise awareness to the different forms of violence against women and girls
• Participation in the UN's "Orange the World" campaign
• Participation in the UN's "16 Days of Activism" campaign
• Leadership Development

Projects address SDGs 3,5,11,16

Economic empowerment

• Empowering women economically through skills training, microfinance, and business development.
• Develop Leadership skills in women and girls through training and development

Project address SDGs 1,2,7,8,,9

Food security

• Promoting initiatives and projects which support sustainable agriculture
• Empowering women in Agriculture, women play a vital role in food production
• Improving access to resources through assisting women to gain access to land, credit, markets and training

These projects address SDGs 1,2,3,15

Healthcare

• Promoting Womens Health through awareness campaigns such as breast cancer, cervical cancer HIV/AIDS and maternal health, family planning and reproductive health courses
• Provide women and girls with essential health care products
• Support and provide training for women in nursing, midwifery and community health
• Promote women in Health Leadership

 These Projects address: SDGs 2,3,10,11

Environmental sustainability/water and sanitation

• Funding of water and sanitation project, through construction and maintenance of wells, clearn water, sanitaiton facilities and building of toilets in schools
• Provide education and training to promote good hygiene practice and proper sanitation
• Education on reduction of waste especially plastic pollution
• Advocating for policy that protects water and land resources

These projects address SDGs 6,7,11,12,14,15

Conflict resolution/peace promotion

• Actively advocate for more women in the peace process and decision making.
• Promote Gender Equality through addressing issues such as poverty, literacy and discrimination
• Advocate for Human Rights
• Provide Humanitarian Aid to war torn areas, and assist migrant women fleeing from conflict.

These proejcts address SDGs 16,11

Disaster relief, mitigation and resilience

• Soroptimists clubs will mobilize quickly to provide short and medium term relief to communities
• Provide essential supplies such as food, water, clothing, hygiene products
• Provide medium to long term support after disasters which address emotional and psychological issues
• Provide education of disaster prepardness and evacuating plans. 

These projects address SDGs 5,13,16

Step 1

Review the criteria and guideline documents and supporting documents. 

Step 2

Collect the information and material you will need to apply, read the application questions  

Step 3

Go to the online application form and complete. 

Step 4

Submit your application.

The Brilliant Futures Fund Grant will provide a single grant of up to  AUD$10,000.  The project must have a strong educational focus.  The nominated project should address but is not inclusive to the following:

●     Vision and Mission of SISEAP

●     Increasing education opportunities for women 

●     Women’s sustainable economic independence

●     Women in leadership

●     Entrepreneurship project

 The Nominated project can be:

●     New Project

●     Or an Existing project 

  Requirements
A Club, collective of clubs or a country may only submit one application for each round of funding.   

 The Project must recognize and respect diversity of individuals, families or communities. SISEAP and the Brilliant Futures fund branding must be used on all publicity material. 

Length of Project 
The project should be delivered within 12 months of the signing of the grant agreement. 

New Projects  
The project will need to be started and completed within 12 months of signing of the grant agreement.

Existing Projects
The portion of work which was nominated for the grant, will have to be started and completed within 12 months of signing of the grant agreement.

Benefit Requirements
1.    Beneficiaries should be mostly women and girls

2.    The project must have a strong education foundation 

3.    The Education component could cover amongst others the following:

●     improvement in livelihood 

●     improved gender equality

●     employment opportunities 

●     address a gap in education.

●     literacy skills

●     vocational skills

●     training of women

●     train the trainer

 4.    It would be preferable that the project can be sustained after completion 

 The Project should also consider:

●     Increased education opportunities

●     Improvement in livelihoods or improved gender equality

●     What education gap does the project address for example; literacy, skills, vocational skills

●     Demonstrate how the project will be delivered and by whom.

●     Demonstrate clear evidence of the identified target group

  What won’t be funded in your application
●     Any project which does not have an educational element

●     Capital works

●     Monitor and travel costs must not exceed 10% of the grant

●     Major equipment purchases which exceed 30% of the grant.

●     Fundraising or the general administrative costs of the club/region/country.

●     Retrospective payments for a project which is continuing or has already started.

Who Can apply?
●     Club

●     Collective of Clubs

●     National President's on behalf of their country.

Supporting policies
The nominated project must nominate the Programme Objectives, SDGs and Target which the project will address, and how it will address these areas.  Please read the SISEAP:

●     Programme objectives 

●     SDG guidelines

Additional supporting documents which require reading before proceeding with the application.

☐   Brilliant Futures Fund Guidelines Document

☐   The Brilliant Futures Fund grant agreement form

☐  The Progress Narrative report

☐   The Final acquittal form.

☐  SISEAP Vulnerable persons policy

☐  SISEAP Anti Fraud and anti corruption policy

☐  SISEAP Conflict of interest policy and procedure

 The nominated project must also actively promote and address the SI tagline Educate, Empower and Enable and a “global voice for women”.

Funding
The successful applicant will be required to sign the Acceptance of Grant document which will include the amount of funding, timeline of start and end of project, reporting terms, and grant acquittal form to be returned at end of project.

●     If the project is not started within 4 months of receiving the grant, then the funding will be forfeited

●     Any funding not used at the end of the project will need to be returned to SISEAP. 

●     The applicant will need to provide the amount of financial, donations or in kind which will be contributed by the applicant. 

Reporting
The successful applicant will need to report to the SISEAP Federation Project Liaison who in turn will report to the Board. 

The Progress Narrative report will be submitted quarterly, which will include an expense sheet, and photographic evidence of progress. 

During the project, images will be used for promotional purposes, website and social media, permission will need to be obtained to use these images. 

During the project, the SISEAP communications team and the programme team will reach out to you to provide, good news stories which can be used throughout the project for publicity

 Within 3 months of the close of the project the applicant must submit a close out report which identifies among others:

●     Acquittal Details 

●     Project Details

●     Activity Summary

●     Key Learnings

●     Sustainability of Impacts

●     Financials with receipts

●     Any variations and why?

●     Proof of purchase for the expenditure, other receipts or bank statements

●     Confirmation that project took place i.e. photographs etc

●     Any public acknowledgement of the project e.g. links to social media, website, copies of press releases, e-newsletter or media coverage

●     Evidence SISEAP branding was used and recognised throughout the project. 

How to apply?
You will need to complete the application form, to complete the application form you will need to be logged onto your club, or national presidents SISEAP email account, reason is that you need to be able to upload supporting documentation.    The Programme Team will judge each of the applications for the current round. 

How will the application be assessed?
The applications will be judged on a weighted response to the questions in the application form. The Programme Team will review each application and mark accordingly. 

Members should read the following documents before proceeding with their application.   

Remember that the programme team members are ready to assist you with any enquiries or help with the application process. 

Note:  You will need to log onto the members area to download the documents. 

pdf (273 KB)

document (232 KB)

pdf SISEAP Policy for Working with Vulnerable Persons (186 KB)

document SISEAP Vulnerable persons incident reporting template (162 KB)

pdf Brilliant Futures guidelines Document (273 KB)

document SISEAP BFF Grant Agreement v1 (232 KB)

document Brilliant Futures Fund example of Application Form V3 (2.80 MB)

document Brilliant Futures Progress Narrative Report v3 October 2024 (164 KB)

document Brilliant Futures Fund Final Acquittal Form v3 October 2024 (154 KB)

pdf SISEAP Conflict of Interest Policy and Procedures for External Conduct V1 (222 KB)

pdf SISEAP Anti fraud and anti corruption policy v1 (175 KB)

pdf SISEAP Risk Assessment for Working with Vulnerable Persons (243 KB)

default Brilliant Futures fund link to online application form

Review the benefits delivered by previous winners of the fund.   Each project has delivered life changing benefits to the women and girls.

The Programme Committee, led by Dr. Donnell Davis, is composed of a diverse group of women from across the Federation. These dedicated volunteers contribute their time and expertise, to assist SISEAP members in all aspects of Programme work. To provide assistance to help implement projects and programs aimed at driving change. Their work reflects SISEAP’s commitment to the education, empowerment, and enabling of women and girls, reinforcing the organization's mission to foster positive transformation in society.

Programme Convenor

 Dr Donnell Davis 

The Programme Convenor is the Chair of the Programme Committee,

• A member of the SI Global Impact committee, working on Soroptimist International Global Policy.
• The SISEAP representative at ECOSOC AND ESCAP meetings in the South East Asia Pacific region. 
• Has a lead role in the Brilliant Futures Process
• Is on the panel to review and judge submission to the Brilliant Futures Fund

Assistant Programme Convenors

Asst Programme Convenor 1 - Rhonda McCormack

Asst Programme Convenor 2 -  Saradha Narayanan

The two assistant programme convenors assist the Programme Convenor in her role. 

• Contribute to policy and procedure.
• Congribute to the eSPAN
• Contribute to toolkits for SISEAP special days
• Review reports (Projects and Advocacy) submitted to the SISEAP Programme reporting database
• Assists the Programme Zone Coordinators with their review of reports and any other assistance to clubs where required. 
• Contribute to panel discussion on submissions to the Brilliant Futures Fund.

Programme Zone Coordinators

There are 4 Programme Zone Coordinators, each of the zone coordinators have been allocated clubs from the Federation, these are grouped into Zones. 

Zone 1 Programme Coordinator - Robyn Cain

Zone 2 Programme Coordinator - Nooraini Binti Mohd Yasin

Zone 3 Programme Coordinator - Pauline Glover

Zone 4 Programme Coordinator -Elizabeth Harrison

One of the primary tasks of the zone coordinators is to review the reports submitted by a club to the programme database which relate to scholarships, donations and activities.  

The zone coordinators are a clubs first link with the programme team.   The zone coordinators will assist their allocated club with any programme related issues and information.  

An important aspect of the review and approval process is to ensure consistency with the reports, ie, Objectives, SDG targets, language, donation amounts, goods in kind, and follow up with the clubs to advise them to submit either an Advocacy or Donation report, if this was an action from a Project or Activity. 

The Programme Zone coordinators contribute:

• to the running of the programme committee. 
• contribute to toolkits, SISEAP special days and UN days and campaigns.
• contribute to the eSPAN

Programme Communiations Officer

SISEAP Programme Communications - Cesarina Gigante

Assists the Programme team in all programme communication matters.

• Editor of the eSPAN
• Editor of programme webinars
• Assists with programme publications, toolkits and communications regarding SISEAP campaigns and UN days
• Member of the Federation Communications committee.

SISEAP Programme Reporting Database

SISEAP Programme Reporting database Support - Anne Allen

Administers the SISEAP Programme Reporting database.  

• Is a member of the Federation Programme Team 
• Escalates issues to the developers
• Investigates ways to improve the database
• Provides tip sheets and training on the use of the database

Each of the clubs in the Federation are allocated to a Zone Coordinator for programme support.  Please review this Programme Zone chart for your clubs zone coordinator.