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National Grants: Advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Key Populations

Deadline: 10-Nov-23

The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) is inviting organisations led by sex workers, people who use drugs (PWUD), and LGBTIQ+ people, including people living with HIV to apply for National Grants.

The Love Alliance is a strategic partnership between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Aidsfonds, UHAI EASHRI, ISDAO, GALZ, Sisonke, SANPUD, GNP+ and ARASA as a grant-making partner for Southern Africa. The Love Alliance runs from 2021-2025 with a focus on advocacy on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights for sex workers, people who use drugs (PWUD), and LGBTIQ+ people, including people living with HIV. Starting in 2023, ARASA is responsible for the participatory grant-making in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe and at sub-regional level.

This call for proposals is specifically for organisations based in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, that advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights for key populations. Love Alliance is inviting organisations led by sex workers, people who use drugs (PWUD), and LGBTIQ+ people, including people living with HIV to apply through the ARASA Good grants online platform recognising the current demographic status of the region.

Priorities
  • For Mozambique:
    • Priority 1: Decriminalisation of sex work through law reform
    • Priority 2: Implementation of strategic plans, including: National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB and STIs, National Sex Work HIV, TB and STI Plan, National Strategic Plan on Femicide and Gender-based Violence
    • Priority 3: Access to health care, addressing stigma and discrimination (community, media)
  • For South Africa:
    • Priority 1: Revise the law regulating drugs including penalties for consuming drugs
    • Priority 2: Revise the Sexual and Reproductive Health strategy to include KPs among its priorities and focus
    • Priority 3: Promote the use of the key population guidelines for police officers (in a summarized leaflet)
  • For Zimbabwe:
    • Priority 1: Functional National KP Framework in Health and Development sectors which aims:
      • to review the current frameworks, policies and guidelines that relate to KP in Zimbabwe
      • to develop (for adoption) a National KP Framework with guiding programmes, policies and practices
    • Priority 2: Meaningful representation of LBQ Women in the National KP Forum in order:
      • to generate evidence justifying the need to include LBQ Women as Key Populations in Zimbabwe by December 2023
      • to present the evidence of LBQ Women vulnerability to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health
Funding Information
  • Each application can consist of a minimum of €10,000 to a maximum amount of €100,000 per year.
  • The project duration must not exceed 21 months. Specifically, activities under the project must take place between 1st January 2024 till 30th September 2025.
What work can be done under this call?
  • Key population community-led movement building and advocacy The Love Alliance aims to strengthen community-led organisations and increase their role to influence the legal and policy environment and service provision affecting key populations in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Community members can influence policy development, policy implementation, legal processes and provisions and hold government and other bodies accountable for their commitments to the community.
  • While this call is fully focussed on advocacy for SRHR for key populations, applications may include certain service delivery activities, if those services generate evidence or models to inform advocacy outcomes. The call does not include large-scale service delivery programmes and available funding for service delivery activities is limited.
  • Love Alliance goal: Capable, inclusive, influential, and mutual! supportive key population movements in an unrestricted civic space.
    • Example Activities:
      • Empowerment of community organisations (and civil society) to work together towards a common advocacy goal or shared ideas i.e., campaigns, associations, coalitions, partnerships, etc.
      • Organisational capacity strengthening (financial, governance, leadership, programme management, monitoring and evaluation, fundraising, communications, registration etc).
  • Love Alliance goal: An end to sexual and gender-based violence stigma and discrimination against key populations.
    • Example Activities:
      • Communities provide input/co-write guidelines towards a policy change including policy development, blocking legislation, adoption of policies, change criminalizing laws and policies. Or contribute to the implementation of existing laws and policies.
      • Communities influence attitude of government actors and decision makers and voice their concerns in networks and/or towards donors.
  • Love Alliance goal: Equal access to inclusive, people-centred, accountable, integrated HIV and comprehensive sexual rights and health services
    • Example Activities:
      • Representation of communities in technical working groups, coordinating bodies, national CSO, HIV or Key Population e.g. Global Fund’s Country Coordinating Mechanism, government roundtables, expert groups, policy reviews, law enforcement bodies, UHC working groups etc.
      • Organisations develop new or improved health policies, systems, models, products and technologies, and services and delivery methods that improve people’s health, with a special focus on the needs of vulnerable populations. i.e., community responses to HIV, prevention, treatment- and care options.
  • Advancing Gender equality
    • The Love Alliance works towards sustainable development goal (SDG) 5 Gender Equality. The Love Alliance takes an intersectional approach to gender beyond the binary; addressing and transforming power relations. PWUD, LGBTIQ+ community and sex workers, including people living with HIV often face multiple and intersecting forms of oppression and discrimination – such as those based on income, race, age, ethnicity, disability, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender and sex.
  • Empowering young key populations
    • Young people (up to 24 years), especially young LGBTIQ+ people, young sex workers and young people who use drugs, including people living with HIV, continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV. The Love Alliance aims to strengthen the leadership of young people within key population movements e.g., by partnering with youth-led networks; fostering meaningful participation and youth leadership; and advocating for tailor-made interventions for young people within PWUD, LGBTIQ+ and sex workers communities.
  • Capacity Strengthening
    • The Love Alliance facilitates capacity strengthening based on the needs of community advocacy organisations. E.g., in the area of leadership, movement building, lobby and advocacy, planning, monitoring and evaluation, governance, psychosocial needs and financial and reporting skills.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Your organisation is eligible for this grant if it meets the following criteria:
    • Your organisation is Community-led meaning led by: LGBTIQ+ people, sex workers, and people who use drugs, including people living with HIV and young key populations.
    • Organisations which are not community-led are (only) considered when:
      • they are hosting community-led organisations
      • are part of a consortium with community-led organisations
      • they are a network of community-led organisations
      • they channel the voice and ensure the meaningful engagement of people who use drugs, LGBTIQ+ people, sex workers, people living with HIV, and/or young key populations in situations where no community-led organisations are present.
    • Your organisation is a not-for-profit organisation engaged in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocacy in Mozambique, South Africa or Zimbabwe for at least two years already.
    • Your organisations can operate at a local, provincial, national level or sub-regional level.
    • Your organisation is registered with the relevant government department. If your organisation is not registered, you can find a fiscal hosting organisation to support you with the grant. For example, the national network of people living with HIV, harm reduction organisations, or other network organisations.
    • You may also apply as a group of community-led organisations together in a consortium. This can include harm reduction organisations, service providers, educational institutions and other community-based organisations. In this case, you apply with one registered lead organisation and at least one community-led organisation in the consortium.
Ineligible
  • Organisations that are not community-led. Considering the exceptions mentioned under the eligibility criteria.
  • Organisations from outside the Southern African region.
  • Organisations already receiving a Love Alliance Grant in 2024.
  • Proposals by individuals, private/profitable organisations, companies, and political or government institutions will not be taken into consideration.

For more information, visit ARASA.