Introduction
Please do not email applications to the Positive Action for Children Fund Mailbox. As of 2012 applications will only be accepted via the online application system. If you have any problems accessing the online system, please review FAQs and/or contact the Positive Action for Children Fund mailbox.
You will need to register your organisation on the system before you are able to submit your application.
The online registration and application system is now available and can be accessed here:
http://pacf.smartsimple.ie
How 2012 proposals should be targeted
This call for proposals for larger grants from the Positive Action for Children Fund is focused on non-governmental and community-based organisations that can deliver change at the community level thanks to their links with or representation of the communities affected.
The work should focus on one or more of the areas of PMTCT that we have prioritised for this call for proposals. Please make sure your proposal is relevant to at least one of the following five themes:
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Community interventions addressing loss to follow-up in PMTCT
Working with communities to address and overcome causes of loss to follow-up of PMTCT services; objectives should demonstrate how community interventions can improve loss to follow-up of women, children and partners to the local PMTCT services
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Community advocacy for gender equity in education and health
Projects by and for the community should promote women’s and girls’ access to education and/or health services; objectives must demonstrate how improvements in access to education and/or health can deliver educational or health outcomes for women and girls
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Preventing unintended pregnancies
Improving women’s knowledge of and access to SRH services, projects should enable women living with HIV to exercise their right to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services
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Community intervention to keep HIV negative women negative
Targeted primary prevention at a community to level to ensure women who are HIV negative stay negative; with special emphasis on women planning to have families, pregnant women and new mothers
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Early infant diagnosis
By using community developed interventions and testing to promote continuing care of infants and young children of HIV+ parents, projects should reduce the numbers of infants who go undiagnosed or who diagnose too late for successful care and treatment interventions
Your project should consist of new work that has not been previously funded; it can include projects transferred to a new location(s) and/or include the expansion of a recently tested model or pilot. You must make a compelling case for your project: successful concept notes will also address the criteria below, which sum up the focus of the Positive Action for Children Fund.
To access the full guidance notes please click here
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