Grantee Impact Stories

The global coalition of trans-led networks working to advance the human rights, health, and well-being of trans and gender diverse people.

Advocacy achievement, which highlights how sustained funding can fuel community-led advocacy, driving real change in global health and human rights.

Interview with McLean Kabwe, member of RCF Program Advisory Panel member

Interview with Mildred Mushunje, Co-Chair of the RCF Program Advisory Panel

Five community-led networks launched "Rise & Decriminalize" Movement to jointly advocate for decriminalization of the ISPs in the EECA region.

The Vibrant Young Voices Consortium aims to empower children, adolescents, and healthcare providers to deliver and access high-quality HIV care.

"As a young woman leader, I need to be sitting at the decision-making tables. So I owned the space and became a member of the RCF International Steering Committee."

In 2022 the Robert Carr Fund is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. The RCF team recently spoke to Vincent Leclercq, Director of Coalition PLUS, one the RCF's grantees, about the history and the main activities of Coalition PLUS. Read on to find out about how these achievements were made possible thanks to the core funding provided by the RCF.

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of transgender people (RedLacTrans) is the first regional transgender network in Latin America and the Caribbean, and was founded in 2004.

Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility – Asia (CARAM) is a dynamic regional Asia network of 42 civil society and migrant support organizations working with source and destination countries for migrant workers. It was established in 1997 in Malaysia, and began working with the Robert Carr Fund in 2014.

The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (CVC) Coalition is a regional coalition of over 40 community leaders and non-governmental agencies working with populations especially vulnerable to HIV and AIDS, or often forgotten in access to treatment and health care programmes.

Eurasian Key Population Health Network (EKHN) is a membership based regional network aimed at universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for the most at risk and inadequately served populations in Eastern European and Central Asian, with a keen focus on women and girls.

The Eurasian Regional Consortium is a consortium that cuts across multiple ISPs in the geographic region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The Harm Reduction Consortium advocates on behalf of people who use drugs for greater access to harm reduction, specifically HIV-related harm reduction services, with the ultimate goals of creating inclusive social and legal environments, decreasing human rights violations, and increasing civil society capacity.

The HIV Justice Global Consortium was formed in 2015 to combine the efforts of multiple networks addressing HIV criminalisation. The Consortium represents and serves people living with HIV who have direct experience of criminal prosecution, some of whom have been imprisoned.

The Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM) Transformation Network was formally established in 2013 with funds from RCN, and is a loose association of legally registered NGO’s in nine countries.

MENA Rosa, launched in 2010, was the first regional association dedicated to women living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa. Currently working in 13 countries in three different languages, MENA Rosa has created a vast network of women working together to provide support to other women living with HIV, while raising awareness and working to reduce stigma.

The International Network of Religious Leaders Living with and Affected by HIV and AIDS (INERELA+) began in 2002 as the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV or AIDS (ANERELA+). In 2008, the network changed its name to INERELA+ because of the geographical scope of its membership in other continents.

The International Network of People who use Drugs (INPUD), was created in 2006, following the Vancouver Declaration, which established global and regional drug user rights networks.

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) is a global network of people living with HIV and community activists, which has been supported by the Robert Carr Fund since 2013. For the last 15 years, ITPC has focused on expanding access to HIV treatments and other life-saving medicines, making them a model of excellence in direct treatment education, informed and vocal advocacy, and national community monitoring of health care access.

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) is a membership organisation with the purpose of upholding the voice of sex workers globally and connecting regional networks advocating for the rights of female, male, and transgender sex workers. Its members are local, national or regional sex worker-led organisations and networks across five regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America and the Caribbean.

Peers2Zero (P2Z) was an official partnership that began in 2016 between the African Young Positive Network (AY+) and Paediatric-Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA).

The Positive Networks Consortium (PNC+) was established in June 2013, to link global and regional PLHIV Network, in order to improve the quality of life of PLHIV in each region. PNC+ is comprised of four networks: the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), the Asia-Pacific Network Of People Living With HIV (APN+), the Caribbean Network Of People Living With HIV (CRN+), and the East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living With HIV (ECUO). PNC+ is dedicated to improving health outcomes and access to treatment for all PLHIV.

The Youth-CONSORTIUM is a collaboration between two international youth-led networks – Youth-LEAD and Y-PEER. These networks serve the young key populations affected by HIV, including young sex workers, people who use drugs, MSM, transgender and people living with HIV.