Networks funded in 2020 (Strategic Opportunity Funding)
Networks funded in 2022-2024
Networks funded in 2019-2021
Networks funded in 2016-2018
Networks funded in 2014-2015
Networks funded in 2013
In 2019 the Robert Carr Fund issued a request for proposals offering Strategic Opportunity Funding (SOF) grants to previous or current RCF grantees to be implemented from 1 July 2020 till 31 December 2021 (18 months).
The 2019 Strategic Opportunity Funding RfP aimed to provide networks and consortia with an opportunity to:
- Try new approaches that could maximize their work to improve the health, wellbeing and social inclusion of inadequately served populations;
- Exercise creativity and novel thinking to overcome strategic challenges arising from the increasingly difficult environments for civil society, ISPs and the HIV response.
Applications were invited with a focus on creative and cutting-edge approaches to:
- Movement leadership, to ensure a stronger, continuous community-led and rights-based response to HIV;
- Financial health and resilience of ISP programs, to ensure that ISPs are not overlooked or left behind in the funding landscape;
- Innovation, learning and partnerships, to ensure that the lessons networks learn can inform more effective approaches that are better adapted to the current environment.
Applicants were encouraged to devote careful consideration to building partnerships to drive new and more powerful results from this investment.
Eligible proposals went through the RCF’s rigorous review process led by the RCF Program Advisory Panel (PAP), that advises the ISC on funding. The PAP took into account each proposal’s creativity and novel thinking in one or more priority areas, the potential for achieving results and influencing change in line with the intention of the RCF’s Strategic Opportunity Funding, and the centrality of the prioritized communities.
Based on the Funding Advice developed by the PAP to the ISC, the ISC announced on 31 March the allocation of USD 2.5 million to five proposals of USD 500,000 each.
Results from the Strategic Opportunity Funding are presented in the SOF Report.
To read the details of the Strategic Opportunity Fund Report, please follow the link.
Strategic Opportunity Fund Report
Building Capacity for Sustainability through Innovative Resourcing Strategies among ISP Service Organizations in the Caribbean
Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) – Regional Single Network
Addressing the funding priorities:
- Financial Health and Resilience of ISP Programs
- Innovation, Learning and Partnerships
Last Mile First: PLHIV-let advocacy for Universal Health Coverage
Positive Universe – Consortium of Networks
- Lead: Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)
- Members: Network of African People Living with HIV West Africa (NAP+ WA), All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV, Jaringan Indonesia Positif (JIP)
Addressing the funding priorities of:
- Financial Health and Resilience of ISP Programs
- Innovation, Learning and Partnerships
Regional School Project
Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM) – Regional Single Network
Addressing the funding priorities:
- Innovation, Learning and Partnerships
The Global Drug Policy Index: A bold new approach to improve policies, harm reduction funding, and the lives of PWUD
The Harm Reduction Consortium – Consortium of networks
- Lead: International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
- Partners: Harm Reduction International (HRI); Youth RISE; Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN); Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENAHRA): European Network of People who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD); The Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University (GDPO); Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs (ENPUD); West Africa Drug Policy Network (WADPN)
Addressing the funding priorities:
- Financial Health and Resilience of ISP Programs
- Innovation, Learning and Partnerships
Promoting Human Rights, Quality Health and Well-Being for Youth Prison Populations in Southern Africa
Southern Africa Network of Prisons (SANOP) – Regional Single Network
Addressing the funding priority:
- Movement Leadership
| Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) | $500,000 |
| Positive Universe (lead organization: GNP+) | $500,000 |
| Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM) | $500,000 |
| The Harm Reduction Consortium (lead organization: IDPC) | $500,000 |
| Southern Africa Network of Prisons (SANOP) | $500,000 |