Deadline: 24-Jul-2020
The U.S. Embassy Lilongwe is pleased to announce that funding is available through its U.S. Ambassador’s PEPFAR Small Grants Program (PSPG).
Purpose of Small Grants: The PSGP is funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PEPFAR is recognized widely for efficiently and effectively investing U.S. taxpayer dollars to save millions of lives and change the course of the HIV pandemic. Through implementation of the strategy and use of data, PEPFAR is constantly innovating to generate greater efficiencies, drive down costs, and increase their impact. PEPFAR is a key partner and investor in the Government of Malawi’s national response to combat HIV and AIDS.
As part of this national response, the PSGP seeks to support community-run projects throughout Malawi.
This year’s program continues to focus specifically on:
- Promoting heath seeking behaviors and encourage back to care efforts for defaulters;
- Disseminating HIV accurate an authentic public message;
- Providing solutions to stigma and discrimination;
- Addressing treatment literacy; and
- Enhancing HIV prevention, care and support or capacity building.
The U.S. Embassy is committed to ensuring that grantees receiving PEPFAR funds implement their programs in a way that supports transparency and accountability and respects, promotes, and protects people’s human rights.
Priority Program Areas
This year’s program will provide support to community organizations that work within the communities to implement projects to:
- Support accurate and authentic public messages on HIV to address mis-information and messages of hope (treatment literacy);
- Increase awareness and enhance community systems for the prevention of SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) and stigma discrimination;
- Eliminate cultural and legal barriers that result in environment that prevent equal access to health services;
- Promote prevention and encourage healthy living among recipients of care (HIV positive), prompt back to care efforts, adherence, and retention;
- Promote Household/Community led nutrition activities such as herbal gardens/nutritious crops;
- Build capacity of CSOs – proposal writing, monitoring and evaluation, record keeping, ethics, and confidentiality; and
- Support or train community press/radio to effectively disseminate HIV/AIDS messages.
Funding Information
- Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $5,000 to a maximum of $15,000
- Total available funding: $150,000
- Length of performance period: One year (1 year)
- Number of awards anticipated: 10-15 awards (dependent on grant amounts)
Eligibility Criteria
The Ambassador’s PEPFAR Small Grants Program will accept proposals only from:
- Established, registered and active grassroots community-based organizations (CBOs) and Faith Based Organizations (FBOs), Youth Networks registered with National Youth Council and District Social Welfare that are already working within the community and can demonstrate the project has originated from community needs assessments or calls to action.
- Non-profit organizations, including civil society/non-governmental organizations, with programming experience actively addressing the HIV pandemic in Malawi (and which are registered with Council for Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGOMA) and the NGO Board, and that work directly with communities.
For-profit, commercial entities and individuals are not eligible to apply.
The following types of projects are not eligible for funding:
- Projects relating to partisan political activity;
- Charitable or donation related activities;
- Construction projects;
- Projects that support specific religious activities;
- Fund-raising campaigns;
- Lobbying for specific legislation or projects
- Scientific research;
- Projects that duplicate existing efforts; and
- Projects intended primarily for growth or institutional development of the organization.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327442