Robert Carr Fund

In 2023, up to 87% of Robert Carr Fund-supported networks reported having relied on RCF core funding to implement programmatic activities, most frequently by paying salaries of trained staff responsible for implementation. Networks reported that core funding from RCF has been crucial in maintaining operational stability and allowing for strategic growth and overall improved organizational health. The #MENA region faces severe challenges, from political instability to rising violence against ISPs, including women, youth, & migrants. In 2023, we have seen notable successes even within their restrictive environment. Through RCF's flexible, long-term funding, community-led organizations are pushing for change: -MENA Rosa hosted roundtable discussions in Jordan, Egypt and Morocco around enhancing emergency health care and HIV services for Women Living with #HIV. - The MENA Community organized a regional workshop on Universal Health Coverage (#UHC), drafting a declaration submitted to the High-Level Meeting. - MENAHRA developed a harm reduction cost effectiveness study in Lebanon that acts as an advocacy tool for the introduction and scaling up of harm reduction services. Read more about networks' activities in MENA and other regions as well as see RCF's 2023 Annual Report in detail here: https://bit.ly/3ZuGzVy #CommunitiesFirst

Providing core, flexible and long-term funding to community-led networks works! Data collected by Robert Carr Fund clearly demostrates progress in organizational strengthening, networks' influence and increased capacity to build movements. Chart below is a part of the 2023 Annual Report, showcasing remarkable progress in the global HIV response, demonstrating the power of community-led action. In 2023, RCF invested $11.4 million in community-led and civil society networks in #HIV response. In the current funding cycle we provide 25 grants awarded to 71 global and regional networks, our largest cohort to date. Our grantee partners implement programs in 130 countries across the globe. Find out more in our 2023 Annual Report: https://bit.ly/3ZuGzVy

Robert Carr Fund is proud to launch SAGE - Sustaining Action for Gender Equality project, funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Over the next 4 years, we will mainstream a gender transformative approach* across RCF so that gender justice is at the heart of our work and we can better support communities to create a world free of AIDS for all. “We trust that our grantees already know how to work in gender transformative way, because people don’t live single issue lives. We hope that by mainstreaming this approach across all of our programming, we will be able to better support communities to create just and equitable societies.” Srushti Mahamuni, SAGE Project Lead and Senior Gender Advisor, RCF Read more about project objectives: https://bit.ly/3XNo4Kz #SAGE 🌿 *Gender transformative approach addresses the broader power structures that underpin gender inequality through collective community-led action and by influencing the enabling environment. (с) picture by Arty Guava

📣 Positive Action Funding – the application window for submissions for the Humanitarian Funding opens today! This open call for proposals is focused on supporting people living with, affected by or at risk of acquiring HIV displaced by protracted crises, with a particular focus on women and girls. Grants of up to a maximum of £50,000 per applicant will be awarded for project implementation over a one-year period. If you are interested, please follow the link to our website and submit your application by 13th October 2024. Please make sure you are applying to deliver work in an eligible country. Click here to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eCngKA9d

Robert Carr Fund is seeking experienced facilitators to guide the online Collective Impact Reflection Workshop. The Collective Impact Reflection Workshop is meant to assess and share the achievements realized by our partner organizations in the current 3-year grant cycle, aligned with our core outcome areas as outlined in our Theory of Change and Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning (MEL) framework. The workshop will be followed by an intensive and collaborative analysis and resource development period. We are seeking two experienced facilitators to guide this process and collate workshop outputs into a comprehensive learning resource. Deadline for applications: 25 September 2024 (End of day, 11:59PM CET). Read more about key dates, list of deliverables and application process here: https://bit.ly/4gijY4v Please share among your professional networks! #Consultancy #Facilitation

Robert Carr Fund is excited to announce the $1mln contribution from the first-ever corporate donor! We are grateful to Gilead Sciences for leading by example and walking the talk of putting #CommunitiesFirst in the global fight to #EndAIDS! Deborah Telman: "As the first corporate sponsor, Gilead is proud to support the Robert Carr Fund. Our $1mln contribution builds on our longstanding commitment to support marginalized communities across the globe. We recognize there is an urgent need for funding to deliver HIV-services." Welcome to #RCFfamily!

Opportunity alert! To our grantees and partners in #MENA region. #CommunitiesFirst

Congratulations to all recipients of "Y-PEER Asia Pacific Innovative Grant 7.0 (2024)" #Innovativegrants7 #ICPD30 #YouthDaySpace #YPEERAP China Youth Network-China CYRC-Bhutan YPEER Vietnam-Vietnam Ypeer Sri Lanka-Srilanka Working Group on Disabilities and 2030 Agenda-Nepal and India The grant is financially and Technically supported by : UNFPA Asia and the Pacific YPEER AP (YPEER Asia Pacific Center Bangkok) Youth LEAD Robert Carr Fund More details: https://ypeerap.org/ig7/ 🎉

At the #internationalAIDSconference in Munich, I had the opportunity to speak on a panel about the role @robertcarrfund plays in ensuring our goal of ending AIDS is achieved. RCF supports a diverse pool of grantee partners that work with a wider group of communities impacted by HIV. We do this because we understand how the framing of KPs as it is being used today is limiting. While we focus on populations that are key to ending AIDS, we inadvertently leave behind, and inadequately serve other populations impacted by HIV and AIDS. RCF's collective impact workshop allows for peer learning and collaboration across these different movements, and improves collective action. The future of the AIDS movement requires us to intentionally work across racial justice, labor rights, climate justice, prison reform, migrant rights and other movements, by coming together to better understand how HIV impacts all of our work, and use our collective power across all of these movements to end AIDS once and for all. #aids2024 #endingaidsrequirescollectiveaction #robertcarrfund

The Robert Carr Award at #AIDS2024 this year goes to the RISE (Representation, Sustainability and Equity) study on community #engagement on The Global Fund Country Coordination Mechanisms from 11 countries. Read the study hightlights: https://lnkd.in/eQ9vgr3e ICASO