Deadline: 25-May-22
Positive Action invites applications who focus on HIV prevention needs of cisgender adolescents and young people, young people who sell sex, those who inject or use drugs and LGBTQ adolescents and young people.
Goals
- Biomedical interventions including clinical and biomedical prevention: including condom availability, ARV based prevention options, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), STI treatment as a risk reduction approach, harm reduction programmes including Needle Syringe Programmes etc.
- Behavioural interventions: interventions that respond to the context of Adolescents and Young People in their diversity including counselling for risk reduction, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), peer led education programmes, social marketing and digital campaigns, demand creation for prevention options etc.
- Structural interventions: influencing efforts that promote the inclusion of Adolescents and Young People in all their diversity for the uptake of quality HIV prevention services, addressing gender inequality and violence, provision of comprehensive sexuality education, economic empowerment, addressing laws that reduce access to services for adolescents’ girls and young women in their diversity.
Focus Areas
The TRC scoring looks at the following areas:
- Clear overview of the context regarding the thematic area of focus: the TRC looks for explicit evidence and data on the state of play in the HIV response as it pertains to the relevant thematic area.
- Addressing gaps: the TRC look for focused interventions that will address the stated gaps in the thematic area of focus that will contribute to the HIV response.
- Community engagement: Positive Action believes that engaging affected and local communities is critical to addressing the drivers of health and life inequalities. The TRC places higher weighting on how the applicant has engaged and/or will engaged the communities of focus in the design, implementation and monitoring of the project, including remuneration of peer educators/supporters.
- Realistic goal, objectives and activities: the TRC look for detail in the activities to ensure that they will respond to the stated objectives and subsequently meet the goal of the proposed project.
- Innovation and sustainability: the TRC look for new approaches that are being piloted and a focus on how the approaches will be sustained after the life of the project.
- Cost effectiveness and value for money: the TRC places high weighting on the budget, looking at feasibility of implementation and cost-effectiveness.
Funding Information
Grants of up to £50,000 per year over two years, i.e. up to £100,000 over a two-year period will be awarded.
Geographical Focus
- Positive Action would like to invite proposals from the following seven countries that have low coverage of HIV prevention programmes coupled with significant structural barriers that make it almost impossible for key populations to access HIV services.
- Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia and Jamaica
Eligibility Criteria
Non-governmental and community-based organisations that can deliver change at a community level through their links with or representation of the communities affected especially adolescents and young people in all their diversity. They encourage key population led and youth led groups to apply.
For more information, visit https://viivhealthcare.com/hiv-community-engagement/positive-action/strategy-funding/community-strategic-initiatives/