World AIDS Day 2016
Despite
important progress, the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to impact the lives of
women and girls, with African women still disproportionately infected and
continuing to carry the work of care and support at community and family level.
HIV
prevention remains a concern, as rates of new HIV infections are not declining
as hoped. Young African women aged 15-24 account for 25% of new infections in
sub-Saharan Africa[1] - a
statistic that shows a need to keep our focus on young women’s lives and
rights.
For
World AIDS Day 2016, AWDF is offering grants to support activities by African
women’s organisations focused on young
women’s bodily rights, HIV prevention, and intersections with violence against
women. We encourage approaches that address the underlying needs to support
young women to make positive choices around their bodies and health, and build
societies that support their right to live free from violence in the context of
HIV and AIDS.
We
particularly welcome applications from organisations of women living with HIV,
groups of women living with disabilities, and from young women’s groups. AWDF
encourages innovation- so do send in your creative ideas!
About the World AIDS Day
Grants
Every
year on 1 December we commemorate World AIDS Day, as an act of solidarity with
people living with HIV and AIDS, and an opportunity to remind duty bearers and
society at large to keep the focus and momentum on HIV prevention, treatment,
care and support.
AWDF
instituted the World AIDS Day (WAD) grants programme to support women’s rights
organisations to actively participate in the global campaign and keep African
women’s priorities around HIV and AIDS on the African and global agenda. The
programme seeks to support women’s organisations to raise their voices and
support the leadership of women living with HIV&AIDS
The
WAD programme provides a maximum grant of $1000 to women’s organisations. The
activities must promote women’s rights and involve women in planning and leadership
of activities.
How to apply
Please
follow the application guidelines below. Note that the maximum amount of grant
allowed is $1,000. If you are awarded a grant, you will be
expected to send in a report of your activities that contain concrete
outcome(s) of the activities implemented.
Please visit the AWDF website and follow the guidelines to apply for the 16 Days of activism against Gender Based Violence grant.
http://awdf.org/call-for-propo
