Global Fund calls for new round of proposals

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has issued a call for a new round of proposals for grant funding.

Country Innovation Day - HIV/AIDS: Turning Ideas Into Action

The Development Marketplace – a global competition held annually in Washington, DC for innovative ideas – aims at advancing the fight against poverty. The competition is open to NGOs, businesses, academia, foundations and government. The World Bank and its development partners award start-up funds to projects that bring people and institutions together and have the best promise of moving from concept to concrete results.

Stimulating Research on HIV/AIDS and Population Studies in Southern Africa

With support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the University of KwaZulu-Natal has extended and refined its grants programme to stimulate research in Population Studies and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa over the 2004-2005 periods.

HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Highly Vulnerable Youth: Targeting Research Gaps

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invite innovative applications to address critical gaps in research on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and related health issues among highly vulnerable youth. For the purpose of this request for applications (RFA), highly vulnerable youth are those children, adolescents, and young adults aged 10 to 24 years who are using or are at high-risk for using drugs (both injection and non-injection drug use) and who are at high risk for HIV and other infectious diseases (e.g., hepatitis B virus [HBV], hepatitis C virus [HCV]), living with HIV/AIDS, or affected by HIV/AIDS (e.g., youth with family living with HIV, especially youth from drug-using households; youth bereaved by HIV, including youth orphaned by HIV/AIDS).

Proposal Call - Rapid Appraisal of Good Practice within the CINDI Network

Interested researchers/journalists are invited to submit proposals for the above research project. It is envisaged that CINDI Members (over 50 organisations) will be given the opportunity to contribute details of creative and replicable projects to a Good Practice Document that will be included on the CINDI Website - to encourage the sharing of innovative and practical projects by national and international organisations working with children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Call for Proposals - 16 Days of Activism - No Violence Against Women and Children

As part of celebrating the decade of democracy, the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa in partnership with the Department of Justice and constitutional Development, invites civil society organizations to submit proposals in respect of programmes that deal which deal with violence against women and children and which supports the efforts of women to take charge of their lives. The funds of this programme were raised through the efforts of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development through the "16 Days of Activism" campaign against violence against women and children.

Southern Africa Development Marketplace awards nearly USD 400,000 to innovative HIV/AIDS proposals

The Parktonian Hotel in Johannesburg buzzed with excitement and anticipation June 1-3 as the World Bank hosted its first regional development marketplace in southern Africa. The theme HIV/AIDS: Turning Ideas into Action galvanized some 300 organizations from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland to submit proposals. An independent assessment panel comprised of civil society, academia, government and the private sector scrutinized the proposals in two separate rounds. A total of 38 proposals went into the final round and representatives of these organizations attended the event, along with others who participated in the Knowledge Exchange.

Positive Prevention, Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS - Funding Opportunity

Pact's Community REACH team is pleased to announce the release of its fifth Request for Applications (RFA). Under this RFA, Pact anticipates awarding a total of $1.2 million to between five (5) and seven (7) cooperative agreements supporting positive prevention, care and support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs).

Thusanang portal - funding debates and resources

SANGONeT's Thusanang portal is currently profiling fundraising research in an attempt to increase an awareness in the non-profit sector about trends in donor funding. Please visit the Thusanang portal at www.thusanang.org.za or www.funding.org.za for an interesting mix of research reports that cover a range of funding debates.

HIVAN Post-graduate Research Grants in Ethnographic Research: 2005

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) is offering a limited number of research grants to graduates in the Social and Behavioural Sciences in 2005. These positions have been made possible by a grant from the National Institutes for Health (NIH), USA.