Rapid Response Fund to tackle HIV-Related Human Rights Challenges

Rapid Response Fund 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.

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.

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.

Established in 2016, the Rapid Response Fund has so far granted $4.3 million USD through more than 500 grants directly to community-led organisations working across 45 countries. This emergency support has helped tens of thousands of people who are marginalised and affected by HIV.

To find out more about the impact we’ve had through the Rapid Response Fund, read our stories and watch our video.

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

Eligible 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

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Rapid Response Fund to tackle HIV-Related Human Rights Challenges

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