Robert Carr Fund Annual Report 2025
“When systems fail, communities forge ahead.”
2025 was Year 1 of RCF’s 2025–2027 grant cycle, a year of foundation-building: strengthening the organisational infrastructure, relationships, and capacities that enable global and regional networks to support ISP-led movements. It was also a year marked by huge cuts to global HIV funding, forcing an emergency restructuring of the portfolio.
Despite the shock, 72 partner networks kept working: documenting harm, defending rights, and holding governments and donors to account. This report captures where partners began, how they responded to challenges, and how core flexible funding helped set the stage for the rest of the grant cycle.
Below are some key metrics highlighting community-led change despite acute funding pressures:
- 320 activities delivered
- 72 partner networks
- 167 countries reached
- $7.8 million disbursed
- 19 verified outcomes achieved
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How Core Funding Drives Change Across Four Interconnected Outcomes
Every result in this report traces back to the importance of core, flexible funding. It gives community-led networks the stability and flexibility to build strong organisations, advance human rights, improve access to quality services, and strengthen accountability. These are not separate strands of work, but interconnected parts of a single system of change.
Core, flexible, long-term funding is not an administrative preference. It is the infrastructure that allows community-led networks to exist, adapt, and influence the decisions that shape the lives of their members.
Sushena Reza-Paul & Kate Thomson, Co-Chairs, International Steering Committee
Explore how RCF partners are turning flexible funding into lasting change Read the Full 2025 Annual Report
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RCF Annual Report 2023
RCF Annual Report 2022
RCF Annual Report 2021
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