L’Initiative Call for Proposals: Strengthening the role of key and vulnerable populations in relation to HIV, tuberculosis and / or malaria to improve their health and well-being

L’Initiative launches the call for proposals “Next Phase Projects” – Key and Vulnerable Populations, designed to support next phase projects that build on previous Initiative funding, aiming to strengthen the role of key and vulnerable populations who often face exclusion from health systems.

The next Phase Projects is dedicated for projects previously funded by L’Initiative to continue and expand previous successes and/or scale up their interventions. 

This call is focused exclusively on the series of projects aimed at strengthening the role of key and vulnerable populations. L’Initiative intends to continue its support to interventions and approaches that have demonstrated effectiveness and for which a next phase grant would enable the results achieved to be deepened or scaled up. Supported projects may fall into one or more of these categories. Next phase projects are those that are supported for a second phase or more, that focus on:

• Integration by national policies (strategic plan, health program, integration into the health system); and/ or by funding from the Global Fund or other donors.
• Activities being replicated and adapted for other beneficiaries and/or expansion to other regions/districts/cities.
• Going more in depth with the approach developed.
• Transferring to a local lead implementer.
• Continuation project. Replicating a project or approach in a new country, if it does not include the country / countries from the previous phase, is considered to be a new project.

Eligible criteria:

• Project duration must be between 36 and 48 months.
• The total requested grant amount must cover at least 50% of the project budget and be between €650,000 and €3,500,000.
• It must be submitted submitted by a lead applicant, in collaboration with “implementing partners” or “associate stakeholders.
• Co-financing is required for a minimum of 10% of the total intervention budget if the lead applicant’s annual expenditure is more than 5 million Euros.

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Application deadline, 21st of January 2024 at 12:00 noon (UCT+1).