Submissions open for SADC HIV and AIDS Special Fund

Deadline: 23-Jun-25

The Southern African Development Community is seeking applications for its SADC HIV and AIDS Special Fund to create additional resources at the regional level without disrupting or diminishing existing financial flows to individual Member States.

Priorities

• HIV Prevention, with particular focus on Youth (AGYW and ABYM);
• Innovation and use of new technologies in HIV Prevention and Management
• HIV and AIDS treatment particularly focusing on 95:95:95 and 10:10:10 targets and ending AIDS by 2030; (Targeted HIV Case Finding Services with the aim of identifying remaining HIV positive individuals who are not aware of their HIV diagnosis, linking the newly HIV diagnosed individuals to anti-retroviral treatment)
• Mainstreaming of HIV and AIDS and cross cutting issues; including (HIV prevention and sexual violence, Norms and behavior change, GBV and post-GBV care services.)
• Capacity Development for effective programming, planning and management of HIV and AIDS integrated responses;
• Community-led monitoring activities by providing service users with information on proper service provision or Service delivery specifically for PLHIV.
• Cross-border projects in selected Cross Border Points: a project to be implemented at Cross Border Points should demonstrate strong engagement from the Government to sustain operations after the project.
• Promotion of operational research;
• Support for pooled/joint procurement and local/joint production of medicines.
• Any other innovative priority aimed at contributing towards ending AIDS.

Beneficiaries

• People Living with HIV (PLHIV) or People at High Risk of acquiring HIV
• Key Populations (KP), which include men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, people who inject drugs, and people in prisons and other enclosed settings
• Pregnant and breast-feeding women
• Children, adolescent boys and young men (ABYM), and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW)
• Migrants, refugees, displaced and Mobile populations

Funding Information

• Each project/action will not exceed a total maximum amount of USD 600,000,00.
• The initial planned duration of an action may not be less than 18 months nor exceed 36 months.

Eligible Costs

• Unit costs: covering all or certain specific categories of eligible costs which are clearly identified in advance by reference to an amount per unit.
• Lump sums: covering in global terms all or certain specific categories of eligible costs which are clearly identified in advance.
• Flat-rate financing: covering specific categories of eligible costs which are clearly identified in advance by applying a percentage fixed ex ante.

Ineligible Costs

• Debts and debt service charges (interest);
• Provisions for losses or potential future liabilities;
• Costs declared by the beneficiary(ies) and financed by another action or work programme receiving a SADC Secretariat grant;
• Purchases of land or buildings, except where necessary for the direct implementation of the action, in which case ownership must be transferred in accordance with Article 7.5 of the General Conditions of the standard grant contract, at the latest at the end of the action;
• Currency exchange losses;
• Taxes, including VAT, unless the Beneficiary (or, where applicable, its partners) can show it cannot reclaim and the applicable regulations do not exclude coverage of taxes;
• Credit to third parties.

Eligible Projects

• Engage with established networks, clubs, and/or support groups of Positive Living and KP to distribute quality messaging on HIV prevention, care, and support.
• Facilitate community led monitoring activities by providing service users with information on proper service provision.
• Create demand for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Post Exposure Prophylaxis(PEP) condoms, and other forms of HIV prevention.
• Reduce stigma, discrimination, and GBV toward members of vulnerable groups and people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Create demand for HIV testing reaching boys and men.
• Build capacity and empower communities to sustainably reduce new infections in older women and the spread of HIV.
• Educate community members about their rights around HIV-related health services and how to ensure their rights are upheld.
• Educate target beneficiaries on democracy and governance related to the National HIV response.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant:
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • Be a legal person
    • Be non-profit-making
    • Be established in a one or more than one SADC Member State
    • Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action
    • Eligible applicants must be established in one or more SADC Member States must.
    • The co-applicant shall be responsible for the implementation of a minimum of 35% of the total eligible costs or a minimum of 20% of total eligible costs in the case of two or more co-applicants.
• Co-applicant(s):
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself/herself.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate of the grant application form. If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the lead applicant).
• Affiliated entities:
  • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
    • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
    • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control.
    • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant.
    • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
  • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate, or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Entities that have entered into a (procurement) contract or subcontract with an applicant, act as concessionaires or delegates for public services for an applicant,
• Entities that receive financial support from the applicant,
• Entities that cooperate on a regular basis with an applicant on the basis of a memorandum of understanding or share some assets,
• Entities that have signed a consortium agreement under the grant contract

For more information, visit SADC.