Overview

The HIV and AIDS Response Fund, hereafter referred to as the Fund, is a five-year, CAD $12 million, locally managed responsive funding mechanism for civil society organizations (CSO's) in South Africa. It provides opportunities for a broad multi-sectoral approach to tackling HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support, and promotes gender equality and respect for human rights in HIV and AIDS programming.

Its goal is to contribute to the reduction of HIV and AIDS incidence and prevalence, and its impact on women, boys and girls in South Africa through a human rights-based approach and supporting gender equality.

The purpose of the Fund is to provide targeted support to South African initiatives to address HIV and AIDS in a gender responsive manner and contribute to the implementation of the HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007-2011.

The impact is to improve health and quality of life of individuals, families and communities infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in South Africa through enhanced capacity of CSO's to effectively respond to the epidemic in South Africa.

The expected outcomes of the Fund are:

Strengthened institutional capacity of supported SA organizations to provide preventive, care and support services for individuals, families and communities affected and infected by HIV and AIDS;
 

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 Increased number of women, boys and girls having equitable access to HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support services;
• Improved and effective collaboration and coordination between CIDA funded CSO's and government entities and between CSO's themselves and;
• Improved capacity of supported SA organizations to address gender equality issues in their initiatives to implement the national HIV & AIDS and STIs Strategic Plan.
The Fund focuses on HIV and AIDS interventions that are implemented in six of the nine provinces of South Africa, namely: Limpopo, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West. However, an implementing organization can be based anywhere in South Africa.

Whilst recognizing that all South Africans are affected by HIV and AIDS, in pursuit of its strategic goal, the Fund aims to reach particularly vulnerable groups including orphans and vulnerable children, youth and women.

The Request for Proposals for civil society organizations were announced in the local newspapers. The next Request for proposal will be announced on this website, as well as the local newspapers.