Eurasian Harm Reduction Association announced opportunity for grants to address gender-based and intimate partner violence among women who use drugs.
Grants are provided by the EHRA Secretariat within the project “Access to comprehensive care for women who use drugs in case of violence” funded through the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, received in addition to the multicountry project “Sustainability of Services for Key Populations in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region” (aka # SoS_project), implemented by the Alliance for Public Health and partners in 14 countries of the Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia (CEECA) region: Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Activities of the project:
Develop recommendations on referring women who use drugs experiencing violence and human rights violations, for getting legal and psychosocial (including psychiatric) support and temporary shelter.
Carry out a two-day on-line training for harm reduction service organizations on building systems of referral to provide psychosocial (including psychiatric) support, shelter and legal support to women who use drugs experiencing violence and human rights violations.
Provide 5 small grants to NGOs in 5 countries on building systems of referring women who use drugs experiencing violence and human rights violations to shelters, legal and psychosocial (including psychiatric) support within harm reduction projects.
Share experience regionally on best practices.
THEMATIC PRIORITIES
The grants will focus on the following priorities:
- Improving access to services for women who use drugs in case of violence – places of temporary stay (shelters), psychosocial (including psychiatric) services, legal (including paralegals, social workers, lawyers) support;
- Improvement of services to women experiencing gender-based or intimate partner violence provided of existing institutions in a city/ country so that such support is available to women who use drugs;
- Improvement of the system to support women experiencing violence, including in connection to the limitations and needs caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.
The total budget for one grant is US $ 8,400. 5 organizations will be selected for funding, each for a period of 5 months: January 1 – May 31, 2021. Only one organization from a country can receive a grant, so that 5 grantees come from 5 countries.
Application deadline – December 6, 2020.
More about the call HERE.
