Request For Proposal (RFP)-Sub-grants to generate and leverage CLM data to strengthen advocacy for near-term HIV prevention policy and financing allocations under the Community Monitoring & Engagement for Transformation (COMET) Project

Introduction

ITPC Global was founded in 2003 in Cape Town by 125 HIV activists from 65 countries, fighting for access to life-saving medicine. Evolving into a Global Activist Network,it championed community-driven advocacy beyond HIV and TB, challenging systemic health inequities.

Background

ITPC Global consists of three strategic pillars: Build Resilient Communities (BRC), Watch What Matters (WWM), Make Medicines Affordable (MMA). Build Resilient Communities aims to use treatment education to empower people living with HIV and their allies with information about HIV treatment and access issues. People living with HIV and their allies can use our resources to decide what to fight for, why to fight for it, and how to fight for it. By capacitating communities and treatment activists, they are able to work on issues that affect their health. The major goal of this strategy is to ensure recipients of care and communities remain at the center of all advocacy that is relevant to them. This strategy approach entailsequipping communities with the knowledge, skills, tools as well as resources to carry out national and regional-level advocacy. This can take the form of training-of-trainer educational workshops, demand generation campaigns, and disbursement of small grants to support advocacy.

About the RFP

The global HIV and TB responses are being severely disrupted following the abrupt 2025 U.S. foreign aid cuts and parallel reductions from other donors. This has led to major program terminations, reduced access to HIV prevention services (including PrEP and CAB-LA), weakened health systems, and shrinkingcivic space acrossSouthern Africa. Malawi,South Africa, and Zimbabwe are experiencing acute service disruptions, financing gaps, and instability in national HIV policy implementation.

ITPC’s Community Monitoring and Engagement for Transformation (COMET)project is a strategic response to this crisis. Component 2 of this program focuses on:

• Generating CLM evidenceand health budget monitoring data to informnational HIV Prevention

policyand financing shiftsspecifically for Long Acting HIV tools,

• Strengthening civil societyengagement in nationalHIV decision-making,
• Tracking budgets, prevention policies, and policy commitments,
• Using community data to influence domestic resourcemobilization and priority-setting at national and regional levels.

To support this work,ITPC seeks to engage threecivil society organizations (CSOs) or HIV-focused NGOs as sub-grantees to provide high-level technical, analytical, and facilitation support for implementation across Malawi, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

These organizations will play a critical role in generating community-led evidence to inform and influence policy and financing at both country and regional levels. Organisations can apply as individual organisations or partner with a maximum of two organisations if there clear skills and competency complementarities

Purpose of the Grant:

This RFP invites interested organizations to:

• Work in collaboration with ITPC technical, experts, and other country implementation partners to contribute to the development and contextual adaptation of a CLM health financing, budgeting and policy framework
• Contribute to the development of tailored indicator sets and tools to track HIV prevention financing — including domesticallocations, donor flows, and actual expenditures at sub-national levels
• Monitor public spending trends, identify inequities in sub-national allocation, and track what’s being spent,where, and by whom. This will includemonitoring financing for the most effective long-acting prevention technologies, ensuring that investments reflect current scientific and community priorities
• Implement the CLM tool across Malawi,South Africa, and Zimbabwe
• Track and analyze availabledata on KP-related HIV prevention allocations and expenditures at sub-national levels, using publicly accessible budget and programmatic data where feasible
• Generate, analyze,and strategically leverageCLM-derived financing and policy data
• Expand and adapt the CLM model to build the evidencebase to monitor shifts
• Use the generated data from CLM and budgetmonitoring to influence near term HIV prevention policy
• Use the generated data from CLM and budgetmonitoring to influence HIV prevention financing from domestic resources

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

• Be a legally registered HIV civil society or NGO operating in Malawi,South Africa, and Zimbabwe
• Demonstrate minimum3-5 years of experience in community engagement and CLM
• Experience workingwith health financing, budget monitoring and accountability , and policy
• Have minimum 3 yearsof experience in development of CLM data collection, analysis, and evidence-based advocacy
• Have a track record of workingon HIV, TB, emergency response,health emergencies and/or health system strengthening initiatives, and integration of services
• Experience with implementing advocacyplans based on data collected
• Experience workingwith key and vulnerable communities
• Experience working with Ministries of Health, and local, nationaland regional stakeholders

Grant Deliverables

1. Financing and Policy Landscape Assessment: Undertake an initial assessment of the HIV prevention financing and policy environment to identify prioritygaps, trends, and opportunities for advocacy engagement.

2. Co-Development and Adaptation of CLM Financing Tools: Contribute to the development or contextual adaptation of CLM tools and indicators to monitor HIV prevention financing, budgeting, and policy implementation within the country context.

3. Implementation of Financing-Focused CLM: Implement agreed CLM activities to monitor HIV prevention financing flows, allocations, and expenditure patternsat national and relevant sub-national levels.

4. Analysis and Production of Evidence: Analyze collected data and generate periodic evidence outputs that highlight trends, gaps, inequities, and priority issuesrelated to HIV prevention financing and policy commitments.

5. Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement: Leverage CLM-generated financingdata to inform and support advocacy efforts, policy dialogue, and engagement with relevant national and regional stakeholders.

6. Reporting and Learning: Document findings,advocacy engagement, challenges, and lessons learned to inform ongoing programmatic and policy efforts.

Grant Budget & Duration

• • Funding will be awarded based on the scope and scale of the proposedproject.
  • Grants will cover training, meetings, data collection, staffing costs and all travelcosts including the dissemination of findings to relevant stakeholders.
  • The grant period is expectedto last a maximum of 12 months(1 April 2026 – March 2027).

English