Robert Carr Fund Strategic Opportunity Request For Proposals Anglophone Africa Informational Webinar

The Robert Carr Fund for civil society networks (RCF) is pleased to be collaborating with the Regional Platforms for Communication and Coordination under the Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) strategic initiative of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria with a series of regional informational webinars to provide information related to the recently launched Strategic Opportunity Request For Proposals (RFP).
Strategic Opportunity RFP 2020-2021
The Robert Carr Fund is issuing this Strategic Opportunity RFP to give networks and consortia a chance to:

Try new approaches that could maximize their work to improve the health, wellbeing and social inclusion of inadequately served populations (ISPs);
Exercise creativity and novel thinking to overcome strategic challenges arising from the increasingly difficult environments for civil society, ISPs and the HIV response.

Only regional and global networks and their consortia that have been or are being funded by RCF and who meet the RCF eligibility criteria as outlined in section 4 Eligibility of the RFP, are invited to apply. Organizations and networks that have never received RCF funding are welcome to be part of a collaborative application but are not eligible to be lead applicants.

Applications should focus on creative and cutting-edge approaches to:

Movement leadership, to ensure a stronger, continuous community-led and rights-based response to HIV;
Financial health and resilience of ISP programs, to ensure that ISPs are not overlooked or left behind in the funding landscape;
Innovation, learning and partnerships, to ensure that the lessons networks learn can inform more effective approaches that are better adapted to the current environment.

Applicants are encouraged to devote careful consideration to the formation of partnerships that will drive new and more powerful results from this investment.
This is a competitive funding round. The RCF anticipates a maximum of 7 grants of US$500,000 each to be implemented during an 18-month period between the middle of 2020 and the end of 2021.
The deadline for submission of an application is September 30, 2019 at 06:00 AM CEST.

Webinars
The webinar for Anglophone Africa will be held on Thursday September 5th 2019 at 4 pm EAT and will be conducted in English. The webinar will offer an opportunity to find out more about the request for proposals and process for submission. Questions will be solicited in advance to be addressed during the webinar – please submit your questions to grants@robertcarrfund.org. The webinar is open to both prospective and current grantees.

You can join the webinar here https://zoom.us/j/398801605 or dial in by your location

Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aegfZE8gS8
Meeting ID: 398 801 605

Webinar agenda
45 min: Presentation of the Request for Proposals
45 min: Questions and answers

Speaker(s):

Yvonne Catherine Kahimbura - Moderator
Marvelous Munchenje-Marisa - Main speaker
Maria Phelan - RCF Policy Officer
Nathaniel Miller - RCF Program Officer