Latin America Map of Grantees (Larger Picture)
The Latin America 2006 Grantmaking Cycle is now closed and no longer accepting applications. Please see below for a list of the 2006 grantees and a synopsis of the grantmaking history.
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regional workshop was held in Lima, Perú from September 27th to the 30th 2004. More than twenty community leaders and treatment advocates met to discuss the following issues affecting the region:
- Access to treatment
- Advocacy and lobby
- Global market trade, intellectual property and patents
- Global Fund
- World Health Organization (WHO) 3x5 initiative, the role of the ONUSIDA and results regarding regional negotiations for drugs discounts or lowering prices.
- HIV Collaborative Fund and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition
At this meeting the participants elected a regional group of Latin America treatment activists that will represent the region and will report back in all activists related to the ITPC. This group will take the role of providing leadership and representation. There will be two committees: the international and the regional. The elected members were:
International:
From South America: Rodrigo Pascal
From Central America: Jaime Argueda
Regional
From South America: Oswaldo Rada, Germán Rincón, Estela Carrizo
From Central America: José Méndez, Berta Chete
General Objective:
Determine consensus and a regional political incidence agenda that strengthens the participation of networks of PLWA and activists in the process to scale-up treatment access.
Specific Objectives:
- Diagnostic of the regional situation on the above-mentioned issues.
- Consensually establish follow-up mechanisms that permit the future sustainability of the process.
- Develop a regional plan and determine the regional integration of ITPC.
Priority Issues:
- Treatment access and comprehensive care
- Global Fund
- 3 x 5 Initiative
- FTA, Intellectual Property and Patents
- Monitoring and Advocacy
This meeting was used to define the work plan, focusing on advocacy on treatment access, via a careful review of the priority issues for Latin American mentioned above, that directly and indirectly may affect access to quality medicines, integrity and the fulfillment of commitments and agreements made by our countries on human rights for HIV/AIDS, and the meeting was not used as a training or capacity-building workshop.
The meeting did not seek to add more unpaid workload for activists and civil society working on treatment access advocacy. On the contrary, via the creation and structuring of the International Coalition for Treatment Preparedness (ITPS-ITPC), the support of the TIDES Foundation and the creation of the Collaborative Fund and the grant-making strategy, priority was given to the following:
- Creation of regional committee
- Via the regional committee facilitate the identification of:
- Problems that prevent treatment accesso Local advocacy strategies and action plans
- Mechanisms for fund disbursement
- Facilitate the development of empowering treatment activists by funding community-based initiatives
Three priority topics were defined for the region:
- Treatment access and comprehensive care
- Global Fund
- 3 x 5 Initiative
Creation of Committees
Two representatives for the international committee and five for the regional committee were selected, per the Governance Code. Below please find the nominations and number of votes received:
International Committee
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For Central America: Jaime Argueta (13), Sergio Navas (1), Jose Castillero (1)
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For South America: Walter Trejo (1), Violeta Ross (2), Javier Varón (6), Rodrigo Pascal (7)
Regional Committee
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Central America: José Castellano (2), Berta Chete (10), José Méndez (11), Sergio Navas (7), Blanco (2)
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South America: Void (3), Pablo Anamaría (4), Oswaldo Rada (12), Julio César (4), Estela Carrizo (8), Germán Rincón (9), Guiselle y Flores (2), Patricia Pérez (5).
It was determined that during the next ITPC regional meeting, the Technical Review Committee will be defined, as well as the organization receiving the funds and the coordinator of the initiative.
The
second Latin America regional ITPC meeting took place in Cali, Colombia on February 26 through the 27 of 2005. The general objective was to provide continuity to the processes initiated in Lima regarding the implementation of ITPC initiative. The specific objectives were:
- Define the regional priorities
- Define the coordination of the initiative
- Define the training needs of the Latin American regional and determine a work plan.
The second Community Review Panel (CRP) for the Latin America region took place in Bogotá, Colombia on April 29th and April 30. In their previous meeting the CRP voted to establish a technical committee whith the mandate of developing the grant making process and tools for the distribution of grants in the region. The reason for the existence of the technical committee was to ensure total transparency in the process.
The technical committee is composed of community members with a great deal of expertise in the area of grant development, request for proposal development, monitoring and evaluation. None of the members of the technical committee belong to the Community Review Panel. This new body will also evaluate proposals submitted and will recommend, base on a scoring system, the best proposals to the CRP. The CRP will meet again during the month of July to finalize the grant making process and select those proposals to be approved for funding.
Documents developed were:
- A call for proposals or RFP
- Announcement
- Proposal formulary with a guide
- Terms of references
Before these documents went out to the general public and communities in the region, they were revised and approved by the CRP or regional committee. In this round of proposal Cuba and Brazil will be excluded but Belize will participate.
In this meeting the technical committee with representatives from the CRP decided that those that participated in the first meeting, the workshop in Lima, Perú and Cali must execute “talleres” (small workshops) following the methodologies created by the technical committee. Through this process it will be easier to evaluate a true inclusion of the community based groups, as well as, have a clear view of the commitment of those responsible to bring back the information to their constituents.
Priority Issues were identified:
Priority Area 1: Quality Treatment Education
- Human rights and obligations
- Treatments, opportunistic diseases and adherence
- Community pharmacovigilance
Priority Area 2: Citizen Participation and Monitoring
Priority Area 3: Advocacy and Political Incidence
- Training and action on treatment access
Those eligible to submit proposals were:
- Community-based Organizations (CBO)
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
- Self-Help and Support Groups
- HIV/AIDS network groups
- Organizations of people living with HIV HIV/AIDS Organizations:
- Community-based Organizations (CBO)
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
- Self-Help and Support Groupsq HIV/AIDS network groups
- Organizations of people living with HIV Those that include one or more of CIAT’s priority areas and fundamental principles.
- Projects that implemented jointly by two or more organizations.
- Projects currently being implemented that require additional funding.
- Projects that meet the technical requirements and availability of funds per the regional budget.
- Latin America countries, including Brazil and Belize (excluding the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba).
More than one proposal can be submitted by an organization.
The total grant program budget for Latin American is US$ 200,000.
The grants cover a maximum period of six months for the implementation of the approved projects.
The minimum grant amount is US$5,000 and the maximum is US$30,000 for a maximum of six months implementation.
2005 Grant Distribution
Please click here to view the brief grants list for Year One - 2005 Latin America.
Please click here for the grant summaries for each grant. All the organizations were selected by the “Coalición Internacional de Activistas en Tratamientos” (CIAT) which is the Spanish name for the ITPC group of advocates and HIV patients in Central and South America.
2006 Grant Distribution
The call for proposals was made on May 1
st. Questions about the applications were addressed until May 30th. The call was closed on May 31. The technical committee evaluated projects until July 17. On August 18, in Cartagena, Colombia, the ITPC Regional Council, with advice from the assessment technical committee, determined the projects to be financed in 2006. Please
click here for the notes from the Cartagena Meeting.
Under the terms of reference, ITPC sought to finance projects in the following three priorities:
- Education and Training on treatment quality
- Citizen participation and supervisorship in health related topics
- Advocacy and political impact.
ITPC does not consider financing or primary prevention programs; it only seeks to improve access to drugs and to integrated health care of PLWHA in Latin America through financing of the three lines.
The call focused on Support and/or Mutual Help Groups formed by PLWHA (GAP), Local or national networks of PLWHA, Community based organizations working on the lines to be financed (CBO), Non-governmental organizations working on the lines to be financed (NGO) and/or Partnerships by groups mentioned above. Projects submitted by regional networks, governmental offices, international agencies, organizations from the Caribbean (they are included in the Caribbean call), pharmaceutical companies and/or private businesses were not eligible for the proposal evaluation process.
The total budget allocated for Latin America was US$ 200.000
. A total of 121 projects from 15 countries were submitted (see Table 1), of which 18 were chosen for financing. The proposals were first reviewed by the Technical Review Group, which selected 32 proposals to the CRP for final decisions. All 32 of these proposals came from organizations that attended last year’s technical assistance workshop for applicants denied funding in 2005. Summaries describing each selected project are available on the Collaborative Fund website along with a report from the CRP meeting. For further information, contact Regional Coordinator Rafael Burbano Quiroga, at
rafel80@hotmail.com Please click here for the 2006 Latin America Grants List.
2006 Interim Tasks and Timeline
Recently, the Latin America Regional Coordinator, Javier Leonardo Varon, has tendered his resignation to the CIAT. In preparation for his leave and the remaining 2006 activities, the CIAT has mapped a plan to allocate tasks for the remaining obligations of the 2006 grant cycle.
Please click here for the full interim plan.
All requests for information about ITPS (CIAT) should be addressed through the Regional Committee or to the general list of advocacy
advocacy_vihsida@gruposyahoo.com.
The Latin America CIAT has recently elected a new regional coordinator: Rafael Burbano Quiroga at
coordinacion.ciat@gmail.com. We welcome Rafael!
Please contact Rafael Burbano Quiroga at
coordinacion.ciat@gmail.com for more information about grant-making in this region and for any questions about the grant application.
Latin America Documents
2006 Latin America Grant Summaries
2006 Latin America Interim CIAT Plan (English)
2006 Latin America Interim CIAT Plan (Spanish)
2006 Latin America Grants List (English)
2006 Relatoria Reunion de Cartagena CIAT (2006 CIAT Cartagena Meeting)
2006 Comunicado de Prensa CIAT (2006 Press Release)
2006 Terminos de Referencia CIAT (2006 Terms of Reference)
2006 Formulario de Aplicacion CIAT (2006 Grant Application)
2006 Evaluacion Propuestas (2006 Evaluation)
Latin America 2005 Technical Assistance Workshop Report
Latin America 2005 Grant Summaries
Latin America 2005 Grants
Latin America 2005 CRP Meeting II
Latin America 2005 CRP Meeting
Latin America 2005 Regional Workshop
Latin America Map of Grantees
