Positive Action provides funding to community-led and community-based organisations that are committed to eliminating AIDS and supporting people living with HIV.
Open Funding Round
The 2024 Innovator Paediatrics funding round is now open. This is an open call focused on community-based and community-led innovative approaches to support the transition of HIV care and management from caregiver care to self-care for Adolescent Boys (AB) and Adolescent Girls (AG) aged 10-14.
Application window: 08 April 2024-26 April 2024
Applications accepted to support interventions in the following countries: Cote D’Ivoire, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda
Funding available: £100,000 over two years (£50,000 a year)
Proposals for innovator grants should focus on testing and piloting new approaches. These approaches must be new to the funding applicant but can have been delivered by another organisation in a different location or aimed at a different target population. The project should be a two-year pilot that aims to build evidence before scale-up.
Focus of the call: Positive Action seeks to support community-based and community-led innovations that support the transition of the management of HIV care from the adult caregiver to the Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV). We are looking to fund interventions that focus on ensuring ALHIV are retained on HIV care as they start to become independent and responsible for their own health.
Applications should cover the following key Work Areas:
- Retaining ALHIV in care
- Building the resilience of ALHIV
- Supporting caregivers to support ALHIV
- Creating a supportive and enabling environment for ALHIV through community sensitisation
Click here to download a detailed guidance note in English and here for the guidance note in French. Please note, applications must be submitted in English.
Positive Action will be hosting two Webinars to respond to questions that applicants may have. Join the first Webinar at 9am BST Friday 12 April 2024 or the second Webinar at 1pm BST Thursday 18 April 2024.
Completing Your Application
Use this link to create your profile and to complete your application through the CyberGrants Portal.
Please do not email applications to ViiV Healthcare or Positive Action staff members/Positive Action mailboxes. We will only accept applications via the online application system.
If you have any question or problems accessing the online system, please contact the Positive Action mailbox: pa.generalenquiries@viivhealthcare.com
2024 Funding Opportunities
A Momentum funding round providing grants of up to £300,000 over three years will be launched in quarter one 2024. The focus of this funding round will be to increase access to harm reduction services for people who use drugs. (closed)
An Innovator funding round providing grants of up to £100,000 over two years will be launched in quarter two 2024. The focus of this funding round will be to work towards ending Paediatric AIDS.
An Innovator funding round providing grants of up to £100,000 over two years will be launched in quarter two. The focus of this funding round will be to eliminate HIV stigma.
Pease note, the Positive Action funding round plan is subject to change.
Introduction To Positive Action Funding
Through its Community Strategic Initiatives, Positive Action provides funding to community-led and community-based organisations that are committed to eliminating AIDS and supporting people living with HIV. We currently offer funding under two funding streams, Innovator Funding, that aims to test and pilot new ways of working, and Momentum Funding, that aims to scale-up proven ways of working.
Innovator Funding
Up to £100,000 over two years (£50,000 per year)
- Investments into the testing and piloting of new approaches
- The proposed approach(es) must be new to the funding applicant but can have been delivered by another organisation in a different location or aimed at a different target population.
A two 2- year pilot that aims to build evidence before scale-up
Momentum Funding
- Up to £300,000 over three years (£ 100,000 per year)
- Advancing existing, evidence-based projects to enable sustainable scale-up
- The funding applicant must have delivered the approach(es) previously and have evidence that the approach(es) work
- Funding can be used to build on previous investments made by Positive Action or other donors
A three-year scale-up aimed at advancing previous projects with a focus on sustaining interventions beyond the three-year Positive Action investment
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