Deadline: 16 October 2015
The Stop TB Partnership has launched the call for the seventh round of the Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS). The CFCS provides grants to technically sound and innovative interventions to support the engagement of communities in national tuberculosis (TB) responses.
The Stop TB Partnership’s goal is to strengthen community responses that are integrated and part of a comprehensive response to TB.
Eligible Countries: Countries in which applicants propose to work must be recipients of a Global Fund TB or TB/HIV grant and be a TB, MDR-TB, or TB/HIV high burden country.
Objectives
- Strengthen existing or new national level TB constituencies that engage, represent and are accountable to communities.
- Reinforce the capacities & responses of local communities who are part of the TB response.
- Tighten linkages, collaboration and coordination between local communities and government.
Grants Information
- Grants of up to US$60,000 will be awarded for a 12 -15 month period and grant implementation will be in two phases.
- In Phase I (3-5 months) grantees will conduct assessments at country level to strengthen or build a national TB constituency that engages, represents and is accountable to communities.
- In Phase II (9-12 months), following on from Phase I, the national TB constituency, under the mentorship of the grantee will work to strengthen community responses, especially the linkages, collaboration and coordination between community groups, public agencies, the Global Fund Country Coordination Mechanism and other actors.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant organization must:
- Have documentation to confirm that it is a registered organization.
- Demonstrate that the organization have been operating for at least one full year according to date exhibited on registration certificate.
- Have experience working on HIV or TB.
- Have experience or work on civil society and community related issues.
- Have a demonstrated understanding of Global Fund processes.
- Have a track record in strengthening community engagement.
- Be proposing to work in a country that has an active Global Fund TB or TB/HIV grant.
- Be a High Burden TB or MDR-TB or TB/HIV country
How to Apply
Interested applicants must complete the online application form given on the website.
For more information, please visit this link.
