Rapid Response Fund to tackle HIV-related Human Rights Challenges

Frontline AIDS has launched the applications for the Rapid Response Fund to support marginalised communities to tackle HIV-related human rights challenges. The Rapid Response Fund helps organisations and individuals to tackle HIV-related human rights challenges, including stigma, discrimination and threats of violence.

The fund helps in three ways:

• Providing emergency financial grants to organisations
• Supporting organisations to strengthen their capacity for emergency human rights response work
• Documenting and sharing best practice, to help influence decisions by governments and donors.

Funding Information

Emergency response grants of up to $15,000 USD are available to organisations across 24 countries, led by or working closely with marginalised groups affected by HIV: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBT+) people; sex workers; and people who use drugs.

Eligibility Criteria

Please check the eligibility criteria before you submit an application using the online form. Your proposal is triggered by a new and unforeseen situation. The situation either:

• Threatens to significantly disrupt your organisation’s existing human rights work or;
• Your organisation identifies a specific moment or opportunity to advance HIV-related human rights
• You have a realistic plan for meaningful change within 1-6 months
• Your organisation is based in an eligible country
• Your organisation is led by, or working very closely with, one or more marginalised communities affected by HIV: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBT+) people; sex workers; and people who use drugs.
• Your organisation has an annual income of less than $1 million USD.
• Your organisation has implemented HIV-related human rights projects focused on marginalised communities in the last 12 months.

The following situations and activities are not eligible for funding through an emergency response grant:

• Humanitarian relief or direct aid for individuals such as housing, food or medication
• Income-generation activities
• HIV testing and treatment services
• Foreseeable funding gaps
• Activities that have already happened
• Starting strategic litigation
• Fees for conference or event attendance
• Activities relating to women and girls, where there is no intersection with LGBT+ people, sex workers, or people who use drugs

Eligibility Countries 

• Caribbean: Haiti; Jamaica; Dominican Republic; Guyana; St Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago
• East Africa: Ethiopia; Rwanda; South Sudan; Tanzania South
• East Asia: Cambodia; Vietnam
• Southern Africa: Angola
• West and Central Africa: Benin; Cameroon; Chad; Côte d’Ivoire; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Mali; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo