HIV/AIDS Small Grants Fund

Project Overview
CSIH is currently managing the third phase of the HIV/AIDS Small Grants Fund, a CIDA-funded grants program aimed at encouraging and strengthening partnerships between Canadian non-governmental organizations involved in international HIV/AIDS work and counterparts in developing countries.  Working with the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD), CSIH seeks to build the capacity of smaller Canadian NGOs to play a substantive role in international partnerships and specifically the gendered aspects of the epidemic. 

Gender roles and responsibilities leave women especially vulnerable to the pandemic. Systemic discrimination against women is widespread and this discrimination damages women's ability to educate themselves about HIV/AIDS, both to prevent their own infection and to manage the consequences of illness for themselves and their dependents. Understanding the role of gender in HIV/AIDS can help us better grasp the differing experiences of infected and affected women and men. And it can help us understand a whole series of risk and vulnerability factors that influence the spread and management of the disease.

The Small Grants Fund recognizes that addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic requires mainstreaming a gender perspective into broad-based, multi-sectoral responses. Taking gender into consideration in the design and implementation of projects will help to promote human rights, social justice, and will help to address the growing inequities faced by women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Click here to see the Call for Proposals.  Please note that the Small Grants competition is closed!

Click here to see a list of projects funded by the third phase of the Small Grants program.

Information for Steering Committee Members
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