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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