Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Frontline AIDS has launched the applications for the Rapid Response Fund to support marginalised communities to tackle HIV-related human rights challenges
The Rapid Response Fund helps organisations and individuals to tackle HIV-related human rights challenges, including stigma, discrimination and threats of violence.
The fund helps in three ways:
- Providing emergency financial grants to organisations
- Supporting organisations to strengthen their capacity for emergency human rights response work
- Documenting and sharing best practice, to help influence decisions by governments and donors.
Funding Information
- Emergency response grants of up to $15,000 USD are available to organisations across 24 countries, led by or working closely with marginalised groups affected by HIV: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBT+) people; sex workers; and people who use drugs.
Ineligible Funding
- Humanitarian relief or direct aid for individuals such as housing, food or medication
- Income-generation activities
- HIV testing and treatment services
- Foreseeable funding gaps
- Activities that have already happened
- Starting strategic litigation
- Fees for conference or event attendance
- Activities relating to women and girls, where there is no intersection with LGBT+ people, sex workers, or people who use drugs
Eligibility Criteria
- Your proposal is triggered by a new and unforeseen situation. The situation either:
- Threatens to significantly disrupt your organisation’s existing human rights work or;
- Your organisation identifies a specific moment or opportunity to advance HIV-related human rights
- You have a realistic plan for meaningful change within 1-6 months
- Your organisation is based in an eligible country
- Your organisation is led by, or working very closely with, one or more marginalised communities affected by HIV: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBT+) people; sex workers; and people who use drugs.
- Your organisation has an annual income of less than $1 million USD.
- Your organisation has implemented HIV-related human rights projects focused on marginalised communities in the last 12 months.
- Eligible Countries
- Caribbean: Haiti; Jamaica; Dominican Republic; Guyana; St Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago
- East Africa: Ethiopia; Rwanda; South Sudan; Tanzania South
- East Asia: Cambodia; Vietnam
- Southern Africa: Angola
- West and Central Africa: Benin; Cameroon; Chad; Côte d’Ivoire; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Mali; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
For more information, visit Frontline AIDS.