We are now closed for applications. The deadline was Friday 14 May, 2021.
About us
We are an innovative partnership of nationally based, independent, civil society organisations united by our vision of a world without AIDS. We are committed to joint action, working with communities through local, national, regional and global action on HIV, health, and human rights.
The Frontline AIDS partnership has been on the frontline of the HIV response for over 25 years working with those who are most vulnerable to HIV. Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, people who use and inject drugs, female and male sex workers, transgender and gender non-conforming people, adolescent girls and young women, and people living with HIV are at the core of our work.
To drive our work, the Frontline AIDS Global Plan of Action sets out ten critical actions that by 2025 will make a significant contribution towards global efforts to end AIDS. The first of these, Action 1, aims to:
…engage with and influence governments and donors to improve access to comprehensive HIV prevention services, including comprehensive sexuality education and harm reduction, to stop marginalised people acquiring HIV.Frontline AIDS Global Plan of Action
Description and purpose of the grants
These HIV prevention advocacy grants aim to support HIV prevention advocacy activities led by civil society organisations in the global south. They should be related to the identified strategic areas listed below. These align with priorities set out in our prevention advocacy strategy.
We wish to focus on these marginalised groups:
- Adolescent girls and young women
- Men who have sex with men
- People who use drugs
- Sex workers
- Transgender people
Strategic areas
The non-exhaustive list below gives some examples of the different strategic areas that we are interested in supporting.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Ensuring CSE is included in health/education policies and guidelines,
- Reviewing/participating in CSE curriculum development,
- Developing CSE champions (including religious and cultural leaders),
- Building coalitions with other civil society organisation to counter opposition and misinformation campaigns,
- Strengthening youth-led activism on CSE and building the evidence base showing the positive impact of CSE.
New Prevention Technologies (NPT)
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Influencing NPTs adoption by international and/or national regulatory authorities,
- NPTs inclusion in national policies and guidelines,
- NPTs roll out and implementation strategies,
- Demand creation and other NPTs related advocacy initiatives.
Community-led prevention programming for key populations, and adolescent girls and young women
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Influencing governments to implement combination prevention programmes for key populations and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW),
- Influencing international donors on the need for more dedicated funding for these populations and more investment in structural interventions,
- Generating increased domestic or donor funding for harm reduction,
- Persuading governments to support social contracting and adopt the right mechanisms to fund community-led programming and document the process
Advocating against harmful/punitive laws and policies
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Demanding the removal of policies and laws that restrict key population and adolescent girls and young women’s access to HIV prevention and SRHR specific services. For example, laws that criminalise key populations or that impose age of consent restrictions that limit young people’s access to HIV and SRHR services.
Harm reduction
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Advocacy to increase commitment to and funding for harm reduction, especially for community-led approaches,
- Challenge criminalisation of people who use drugs and promote human rights,
- Advocacy on the rights and SRHR of women who use drugs,
- Cost effectiveness studies and other activities to close evidence gaps.
Monitoring and accountability for existing prevention commitments
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Shadow reports and other community-led monitoring efforts aimed at tracking progress on commitments such as the GAM, Global HIV Prevention Roadmap, National Strategic Plans and others,
- Work on budget tracking and on protecting and monitoring HIV prevention funding in the context of COVID-19.
Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)
Examples of priorities in this area, could include, among others:
- Influencing governments to integrate FGS prevention, screening and treatment in SRHR service packages for school-aged young girls (in and out of school), adolescents and young women in schistosomiasis/bilharzia endemic countries,
- Influencing governments in priority countries to integrate FGS in their national health strategies for HIV, SRHR, women’s health and youth development.
- Influencing government in priority countries to include FGS in medical training for doctors, nurses, midwives and community health workers,
- Influence government in priority countries to include FGS in comprehensive sexuality education curriculum,
- Community and/or health-worker sensitisation on the linkages between FGS and HIV
- Community-led studies on the impact on FGS in school-aged young girls
- Building evidence base on benefits of FGS treatment
- Strengthening youth-led activism on prevention of schistosomiasis/bilharzia as an HIV prevention approach
Strengthening community systems (structures and processes) to support better health outcomes
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Cost-effectiveness studies and other activities to close the evidence gaps on strengthening community systems for better health outcomes – (to advocating with donors and governments.),
- Advocacy to influence commitment to and funding for strengthening community systems,
- Communities are provided with tools and capacity to strengthen their advocacy on financing for community systems and to influencing governments.
Diversifying financing options for communities and civil society
Examples of priorities in this area could include, among others:
- Market analysis and advocacy to identify and target diversified financing sources other than public and donor financing. (Such as private sector, CSR, and other relevant areas),
- Fundraising campaigns, crowdfunding and other income generating activities to support services for health and livelihood services for marginalized communities.
Eligible countries
The grants are open to civil society organisations from any country, but we especially encourage applications from:
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Eswatini
- India
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
Applying for a grant
Key information
- Grant amount: up to 25,000 USD.
- Closing date: Friday 14 May, 2021.
How to apply for a grant
- Read the frequently asked questions – English | French | Portuguese
- Complete the grant application form – English | French | Portuguese
- Complete the budget template – English | French | Portuguese
- Email your application form and budget template to screspo@contractor.frontlineaids.org
© Frontline AIDS/Tony Kawimbe/Arete/2020
People from marginalised communities need access to HIV prevention services free from stigma and discrimination. © Frontline AIDS/Tony Kawimbe/Arete/2020