Deadline: 21 September 2018
ViiV Healthcare is seeking applications for its ‘Positive Actions for MSM & Transgender People’ small grants programme with an aim to improve sexual health & wellbeing and advance social and economic justice for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in resource-limited and hostile settings.
The flagship programme of Positive Action for MSM & Transgender People, committing a minimum of £1.25million each year to community-based initiatives focused either on men who have sex with men or transgender people.
- Focus is resource-limited settings/developing countries and those countries which are particularly hostile to MSM and transgender people.
- The program support projects that address HIV, sexual health and sexual wellbeing in combination with one other topic (mentioned below).
- In some instances, the program also supports applications that focus on just one of the topics below. For example, an organisation may apply to work on economic empowerment but only if:
- they already address HIV and sexual health comprehensively, and;
- their proposed project focuses only on people at risk of or living with HIV.
- The program encourages all applicants to ensure that safety & security, activities to strengthen and develop their organisation & reasonable core costs are adequately addressed in their proposed budget.
Grant Information
Grants of up to GBP £40,000 for two-year projects are available (with no more than £24,000 in any one year).
Topics
They support projects that address HIV, sexual health and sexual wellbeing in combination with one other topic:
- HIV, Sexual Health & Sexual Wellbeing
- Education & Economic Empowerment
- Social Justice & Human Rights
- Homelessness & Shelter
- Mental Health & Wellbeing
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries:
- Latin America & the Caribbean: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Gr., Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.
- Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, DRC, Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eq. Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe & Central Asia: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bosnia Hz., Bulgaria, Comoros, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Jordon, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Turkey, U.A.E, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen.
- Asia-Pacific: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, North Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam.
Positive Action for MSM & Transgender People is central to ViiV Healthcare’s commitment to communities affected by HIV and AIDS.
Each year, it supports and build new partnerships with community-based organisations (CBOs) around the world in settings that are either resource-limited or hostile to the LGBT community.
The small grants programme is the flagship component of Positive Action for MSM & Transgender People; our other activities are focused on supporting the efforts of CBOs to improve sexual health & wellbeing and advance social & economic justice for MSM and transgender people.
These activities include:
- The Strategic Grants which inform, strengthen and complement the work of CBOs by focusing on: (i) Evidence Generation; (ii) Capacity Building, and; (iii) Promoting an Inclusive Social & Economic Environment, supporting interventions that are either of a larger scale than our small grants or addressing alternative topics.
- Our Support Grants which support CBOs during periods of acute hostility to the LGBT community
Other grant making initiatives
- A diverse range of non-financial initiatives including:
- Novel conference activities
- Skills-building workshops
- Forums to engage with other CBOs
- Support for nascent LGBT-led organisations in particularly hostile environments
- The Associates programme (a dedicated programme of grant managers with a diverse skill set related to HIV from across ViiV Healthcare)
For more information to apply for this grant, visit: https://www.viivhealthcare.com/supporting-the-community/positive-action-programmes/positive-action-for-msm-transgender-people/grant-applications.aspx
