Funding Opportunity: Elton AIDS Foundation, UK

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum Members,

The Elton AIDS Foundation UK has published the India Grant Strategy for the funding cycle 2007 – 2010 in its website www.ejaf.com .

The announcement as follows:

During the next strategic cycle (2007-2010), EJAF seeks to support the following grant programmes in India for which multi-year funding (up to 3 years) is available:

Organisations/Networks of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)

We are seeking organisations and networks which empower PLWHA, enabling them to play a key role in the state and national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to develop evidence based advocacy around the needs of PLWHA, to challenge stigma and discrimination, champion PLWHA rights and develop pilot models of care and support either singly or with partners. Programmes should show clear measurement of impact at an individual, household, organisational and/or policy level as appropriate and anticipate how the programme will be sustained over the longer term.

Addressing the Needs of Injecting Drug Users (IDUs)

Particularly in states officially deemed low or medium HIV prevalence. We are seeking programmes that aim to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on HIV positive IDUs, their partners and families through a range of interventions, including provision of information, harm reduction and drug rehabilitation programmes, access to antiretroviral treatment, psychosocial support and prevention information/products. Programmes must demonstrate clear measurement of impact, effective and appropriate entry levels for services, and a cost effective process of adding beneficiaries to the programme.

Programmes for Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)

We are seeking programmes that, either singly or with partners, are providing access to treatment, psychosocial support, prevention information/products, and legal advice to MSM so they can make informed choices regarding HIV/AIDS, access appropriate treatment and exercise their human rights. Programmes must demonstrate clear measurement of impact, effective and appropriate entry levels for services, and a cost effective process of adding beneficiaries to the programme. They should address ways in which MSM act as a bridge to the general population.

Addressing the Needs of Women

We are seeking programmes that aim to decrease the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS of women and girls in rural areas, particularly in states officially deemed low or medium HIV prevalence, and to mitigate the impact of the disease on them and their families. Such programmes, either singly or with partners, should include access to information, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, food security, social and economic empowerment. Programmes must demonstrate impact at an individual and household level where appropriate, effective and appropriate entry levels for services, and a cost effective process of adding beneficiaries to the programme.

Small Grants Programme

EJAF also operates a Small Grants Programme aimed at Community Based Organisations which, in India, is administered via the HIV Collaborative Fund's South Asia Regional Small Grants Fund.

Please see their website for more details and how to apply: www.hivcollaborativefund.org

Or email their Regional Coordinator, Loon Gangte: loon_gangte@...

NB All programmes will need to ensure that beneficiaries are central to the design and implementation of the programme and be able to demonstrate their impact on the beneficiary group.

APPLYING FOR A GRANT

To be eligible to apply to us for a grant in India your project must fit within the strategy outlined here and you must be applying on behalf of a registered non-profit or charitable organisation.

If this is the case, please provide us with the following information via email to grants@...:

1. Name of Organisation and Registration Number

2. Title of Project

3. Country and region/area the project will be working in

4. Organisation’s address (postal and physical)

5. Telephone number, fax number and email address

6. Contact Name and Position within the Organisation

7. Amount and length of grant requested (please provide a line item budget in Pounds

Sterling)

8. Date of submission

9. A brief description (1-2 pages) of the project for which you are applying including:

a) What problem it seeks to address?

How it will address this – what activities etc?

c) Number and type of beneficiaries expected?

d) Definition of “success” for the programme?

There are no set deadlines for submission of this information.

Please note, EJAF will not fund:

Capital costs

Conferences or educational courses

Research programmes

Grants to individuals

Repatriation costs

Retrospective funding

I request the eligible organizations to utilize this opportunity.

Dr.S.V.Raja, Ph.D.,

EJAF, UK’s India Consultant

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum members,

 

Please refer the message dated July23, 2008 in the subject Funding Opportunity:

Elton AIDS Foundation, UK

 

On the interest of the organizations in India, I just posted the publication of

the Funding Opportunity in the Elton AIDS Foundation's website.

But many organizations misunderstood and send their enquiries directly to me.

Please note that all enquiries regarding the proposals should be sent to the

EJAF directly and not to me. Please note that I am not authorized by the Elton

AIDS Foundation, UK to accept proposals or answer any queries regarding the

Funding Opportunities in the Foundation.

The Foundation has a unique system of apprising and answering all proposals

enquiries sent by the NGOs and CBOs. Hence I request all the organizations who

are willing to apply for the grant to send their mails to the Foundation. I

tender my apologies for this confusion.

 

Dr.S.V.Raja, Ph.D.

e-mail: <mailtosvraja@...>