Stop TB Partnership, with the support of USAID and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria launched the call for proposals for the eighth round of the Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS), community-based and non-governmental organizations working at national or sub-national levels. Round 8 will award grants of up to US$ 40,000 to civil society community-based and non-governmental organizations working at a national and sub-national level.
The overall aim of CFCS Round 8 is to contribute to expanding access to quality TB prevention and care services to community- and hard-to-reach settings. Stop TB Partnership’s CFCS is a unique small grants mechanism that, since 2007, supports innovative community responses to fight tuberculosis (TB). The theme for this latest round of funding is “Communities for Impact”.
To end TB, there is an urgent need to recognize that community and civil society organizations can strengthen and expand access to quality TB prevention and care services beyond health facilities to settings that cannot be easily reached by public TB programs.
To end this epidemic, the Stop TB Partnership working with partners, is driving efforts to find the missing millions of people affected by TB. To facilitate a coordinated and effective response at global, national and subnational levels, the Stop TB Partnership will align CFCS Round 8 with the Global Fund’s Strategic Initiatives on Community, Rights and Gender and Finding the Missing People with TB.