PACF Small & Large Grants for NGOs Worldwide (Special Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa)

Deadline: 10 March 2015

The Positive Action for Children Fund (PACF) invites Concept Notes on large and small grants from non-governmental and community-based organizations that can deliver change at a community level. The Fund aims to support global efforts towards Countdown to Zero: The Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive. It also aims to alleviate the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and children’s health by supporting interventions that engage affected communities, developing their capacity to participate and lead.

80% of the total funding under this call will go to projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Organizations in other developing countries will be funded with the rest 20% grants.

Funding Level

Large Grants – £60,000 to £300,000 over three years
Small Grants – £6,000 to £40,000 over two years
Technical Assistance (TA) is provided to eligible organizations across three priority areas for the PACF: developing organizational capacity, improving PMTCT and HIV knowledge and understanding and supporting development of partnership skills.

Priority Areas

Community interventions addressing loss to follow-up in PMTCT: working with communities to address and overcome causes of loss to follow-up of HIV, ANC, PMTCT and pediatric services.
Community advocacy for gender equity in education and health, including but not limited to, for positive mothers and their affected families
Preventing unintended pregnancies: improving women’s knowledge of and access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services and enabling women living with HIV to exercise their right to comprehensive SRH services.
Community intervention to keep adolescent and young women HIV negative: targeted primary prevention in community, home and schools to ensure young girls, adolescents and young women who are HIV negative stay negative; with special emphasis through all phases of adolescence.
Early infant diagnosis: using community developed interventions and testing to promote continuing care of infants and young children of HIV+ parents.
Eligibility Criteria

Proposed project must be new, innovative work, not the simple continuation of previously funded activity.
Proposals from the following priority countries are highly encouraged – Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Burundi, Chad, Tanzania, Kenya and India.
Smaller Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can apply on behalf of consortia. Larger NGOs are encouraged to name smaller CBO implementing partners.
The application must demonstrate the need in the local community the applicant is proposing to work in.
Proposed projects must be targeted at adolescents up to the age of 19.Those services or projects may reach older age groups, but their primary focus should be 19 and younger.
Project must have an objective that is achievable and measurable within the period of funding requested.
Project must be identifiable as a discrete program of work alongside or within any larger program the organization runs. It should have a name that can be used by the implementer and the funder to describe the project.
Grant request can be made for at most 25% of an organization’s income for the grant request year.
Projects must begin after the decision made in September 2015 and before the end of the year 2015.
Note: Applications must be made via online application system. Applicants will need to register their organization on the system before they are able to submit the application.  Organizations that registered previous year can use the same login details to access the online system and submit application in this round.

For more information, please visit PACF Call for Proposal.