Positive Action Funding Opportunity: The 2024 Innovator Stigma Funding Round is Now Open!

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 Stigma funding round is now open. This is an open call focused on community-based and community-led innovative approaches to address the multiple layers of stigma that impact People Living with HIV (PLHIV).
Application window: 10 June 2024-30 June 2024
Applications accepted to support interventions in the following regions: Open to countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
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 projects that reduce or stop the drivers of stigma and facilitate social and legal environments that prevent stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV who also belong to a key population group.
For this funding round we want applicants to focus on one or more of the following key populations:
- People living with Disabilities and HIV
- Sex workers living with HIV
- Migrants living with HIV
- Displaced people living with HIV
- The LGBTQ+ community and MSM living with HIV
We are looking for interventions that will tackle the stigma these groups face due to their identity AND due to living with HIV. We are particularly looking to support projects focused on addressing stigma in healthcare settings and interventions that address stigmatising laws and policies.
It is important that the relevant key populations are involved in the design of the programme and are given the opportunity to advocate for themselves.
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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. Click here to join the first webinar at 9am BST Wednesday 12 June 2024 or here to join the second Webinar at 1pm BST Thursday 20 June 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: [email protected]
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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