Deadline: 24-Jan-22
L’Initiative is a funding mechanism implemented by Expertise France has launched at the end of 2011, which complements the work of the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It provides technical assistance and catalytic financial support to Global Fund recipient countries to improve the effectiveness of its grants and strengthen the health impact of funded programs.
L’Initiative is now a key Global Fund impact partner. L’Initiative places France and its stakeholders (research actors, civil society, public agencies, etc) in an unprecedented position in the response to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. L’Initiative’s 2020-2022 budget is over 38.88 million Euros per year and is funded from 9% of France’s contribution to the Global Fund. L’Initiative is managed by a steering committee, which includes three members from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), one of whom is the chair.
Strengthening the role of key and vulnerable populations to improve their health and well-being is a key challenge in the response to major pandemics. The incidence, mortality and resistance rates in relation to the major pandemics are higher among these populations groups than among the general population. Against this backdrop, civil society plays a major role in empowering key and vulnerable populations to be meaningful stakeholders. When populations are at the heart of interventions, they play a significant role in improving their own health and well-being and in creating a favorable environment in terms of human rights and access to healthcare. This can involve advocacy interventions and delivering health services.
Aims
This call for proposals will select projects that complement and / or support the Global Fund through strengthening the role of key and vulnerable populations in improving their health and their environment. L’Initiative encourages applications that focus on:
- Implementing adapted, gender-sensitive advocacy and empowerment approaches with a view to promoting human rights and improve access to health services.
- Improving the quality of health services and access to them by and for key and vulnerable populations, through adapted, gender-sensitive and community-integrated approaches. Projects must be catalytic – i.e. they should be capable of changing practices and / or policies.
Objectives
The new Global Fund 2023-2028 framework1 focuses on strengthening, supporting and ensuring effective participation of populations with a central aim of collaborating with people and communities and meeting their health needs through three complementary and mutually reinforcing objectives:
- Maximize people-centered integrated systems for health to deliver impact, resilience and sustainability.
- Maximize the engagement and leadership of most affected communities to leave no one behind.
- Maximize health equity, gender equality and human rights.
Funding Information
- The total grant amount from L’Initiative must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between €500,000 and €3,000,000.
- Projects must be between 24 and 48 months
Target Beneficiaries
- Key populations: key populations are those who are most at-risk or affected by at least one of the three diseases and who are stakeholders involved in the response. They generally have reduced access to services and may be criminalized and / or marginalized.
- The following groups are generally considered to be key populations:
- For HIV: people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, sex workers and their clients, transgender people, people who use drugs and their partners, people in prisons or detention centers, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
- For tuberculosis: people living with HIV, people who use drugs, people in prisons or detention centers, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
- For malaria: pregnant women and children under five, indigenous populations living in regions where malaria is endemic, refugees, migrants, displaced or mobile populations.
- Other vulnerable populations: populations that are more vulnerable in a particular context and that do not fall into the categories, including, children and adolescent girls, young girls and women and people living with disabilities.
Eligibility Criteria
There are three potential types of project involvement under this call for proposals:
- The “lead applicant” is the organization that submits the letter of intent and fills in the complete proposal if pre-selected. Lead applicants are the sole recipients of L’Initiative grants.
- “Implementing partners” are involved in the design and implementation of the project and the lead applicant delegates a part of the budget to them.
- “Associated stakeholders” are other organizations linked to the project but that do not receive a part of the budget (other donors, beneficiaries, national institutions, etc.).
For more information, visit https://www.initiative5pour100.fr/en/projet/2022-renforcement-du-role-des-populations-cles-et-vulnerables-vis-vis-du-vih-de-tuberculose-etou