ICW Donors
ICW currently receives corporate, government and NGO funding from the donors listed below. We are extremely grateful to all our donors, past and present – including to our individual donors (for individual donations please click on Donate now).
This year (05-06), ICW is really pleased and proud to count on the support of our following new or loyal donors:
Above £100,000
Danida - the Danish government confirmed their support towards ICW's strategic work on Access to Care, Treatment and Support in Southern Africa. This funding will start in 2005 for 3 years.
Ford Foundation USA - The Ford Foundation USA has confirmed their strategic support for 2 years starting in 2005 to ICW international advocacy work with a focus on sexual and reproductive rights.
ICRW - This 3-year project which started early 2005, coordinated by ICRW, aims at strengthening the Leadership of parliamentarians for Women’s Health in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia.
Novib - Novib has become a strategic donor of ICW in 2004. Novib has renewed their support for the next 3 years starting in 2005 until 2008.
OSISA – OSISA is supporting the establishment of ICW Southern Africa in the region at regional, national and local levels, and ICW advocacy strategic goals. This funding will support the mobilisation and the capacity building of HIV positive women in advocacy over 3 years.
UNAIDS – UNAIDS renewed their support to ICW to strengthen the advocacy and participation of positive women in national and international policy and programming for HIV/AIDS.
Between £60000 and up to £100000
Tides Collaborative Fund - ICW is involved in the Tides Collaborative Fund's African women's treatment literacy fund. The Tides Collaborative Fund is supporting a regional networking meeting with 60 positive women treatment activists in East Africa. The objective of this meeting is to plan and establish community review panels to review overall HIV treatment preparedness for women, children and family in Africa.
Policy Project - For this project in Swaziland and South Africa, ICW is involved in the mapping advocacy and policy and training for positive women on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and access to care, treatment and support (ACTS).
Between £20000 and up to £60000
DFID – DFID supports ICW strategic and network structural development, with this grant that will enable ICW to do a mid-term review of our International Strategic Plan for 2003-2007, including our global advocacy strategy and discussions around our future strategic orientations.
WHO - WHO will support ICW to increase the capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) and positive women's groups in providing treatment, care and support to women living with HIV. This project will focus on mapping positive women's experiences of access to care and treatment through CSOs. WHO has also requested the support of ICW in the development of a paper on HIV testing and treatment.
Between £5000 and up to £20000
Aids Fonds – Aids Fonds is supporting ICW for the re-prints of our advocacy position papers in English and Spanish for which we need constant funding for. ICW members mainly use the vision papers as a tool for their on-going work of influencing policy-makers and decision-makers in looking at the realities of women living with HIV/AIDS.
Community Reach/PACT – Community Reach supports the need assessment and mobilisation needed to prepare and set up two young women’s dialogue programmes, one in Zambia and one in Namibia.
Engender Health - Engender Health supports the work ICW members on e-forums and their discussions around Sexual and reproductive rights.
Engender Health requested the support of ICW for another piece of work: the development of a training curriculum for health managers and providers on sexual and reproductive health and rights of HIV positive women.
Joffe Charitable Trust – The trust joins ICW current donors who support us for our strategic goals.
OSI – OSI will give support to ICW East Africa and women living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in advocating for improved access to care, treatment and support in the context of TB and HIV.
UNDP – UNDP supports ICW Southern Africa in the development and follow up on our previous project with SIPAA. This time, the project will concentrate in workshops in 4 different regions of Swaziland to mobilise and mentor ICW membership, around the use of the monitoring tool, Positive Women monitoring Positive Change.
University of Lancashire - The centre for Ethnicity of the University of Lancashire is supporting a ICW project in London, Silent Voices around the issues that positive women using injecting drugs would like to prioritise.
ICW today is also the result of several years of support from the following donors too. ICW is grateful to all of them:
Above £100,000
Comic Relief - Comic Relief is a strong supporter of ICW. Comic Relief supported ICW with the Voices and Choices project in West Africa. Comic Relief saved ICW from a financial crisis with a large grant covering the running costs of ICW not covered by any grants as they related to project work.
Between £60000 and up to £100000
DFID - DFID Department supported ICW with the production and re-prints of survival kits in French, Spanish, Thai, Urdu and Portuguese. DFID also supported ICW Structural Development Workshop.
The Big Lottery -The Big Lottery, at the time Community Fund supported the birth and growth of ICW Latina. Read about the project and its results in ICW News nr 25.
UNAIDS - UNAIDS first started to support ICW a few years ago with the project Voices and Choices finishing in 2002-2003. Since then UNAIDS has always supported ICW. ICW became the convening agency in 2004 of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS for the Access to Care, Treatment and Support arm. UNAIDS also supported ICW with the development production of the 5 Vision Papers, and Visibility, Voices and Visions in English, French and Spanish, as well as supporting 4 positive women to attend the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in 2004. UNAIDS currently contributes to the review of ICW Strategic goals.
Between £20000 and up to £60000
Core Initiative - Core Initiative supported ICW in 04-05 to start the set up of its first regional coordination in Southern Africa for the first 6 months, as well as support to the development of a national chapter in South Africa. Core Initiative also supported the first regional Young Women's Dialogue in Durban last year gathering young women from Southern and East Africa. Core Initiative also contributed to the production of ICW survival kit in portuguese for ICW members in Angola and Mozambique.
Positive Action - Positive Action has been a strong supporter of ICW, first supporting the re-prints of survival kits, then supporting our membership and communication development until last year supporting ICW's presence at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. In 2005, GSK funding to ICW has stopped.
IAS - ICW received funding for the preparation of the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in 2004 which ensured the participation, with other funding contribution, of 40 positive women.
SIPAA/ActionAid - SIPAA supported ICW to work in Lesotho and Swaziland and organised workshops in less than 6 months around Monitoring Political Commitment in those two countries. The reports have just been released as well as a Monitoring tool for positive women to use and measure political commitment in their countries.
Between £5000 and up to £20000
Action Aid Kenya - AAK supported an ICW Africa Regional Meeting at the ICASA conference in September 2003
Christian Aid - Christian Aid is currently funding the translation and production of Visibility, voices and visions in Portuguese.
Community Reach - Community Reach started to support ICW in 04-05 mainly with ICW News, the ICW website, and the development of our communications with members. The year before ICW News had to stop due to lack of funding.
GTZ - GTZ supported two ICW members and CCM members from Latin America, to attend the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in 2004.
NCA - NCA supports the YWCA/ICW Intern post as part of the development of the partnership between ICW and YWCA around young positive women. Their funding which started last year has been renewed this year.
UNIFEM/UNDP - Unifem supported the Southern Africa Regional coordinator with the first national Young Women's Dialogue in October 2004 in Swaziland.
Up to £5000
CAFOD - Cafod supported ICW in 03-04 with funding for translation much needed as ICW has a multilingual board of trustees and publishes publications in English, French and Spanish at least. Last year Cafod supported ICW sponsoring one positive women to go to the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.
Abbott - Abbott contributed to ICW News 28 with a column of PMTCT.
Christian Aid - Christian Aid sponsored two Chinese positive women to go to the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in 2004. Read about their experience in ICW News 27.
Ford Foundation Asia - Ford Foundation Asia supported ICW with Voices and Choices in Thailand over several years finishing in 2002-2003. The most recent grant received from the Foundation in Asia was to support 4 positive women from Vietnam and Thailand to go to the Internatonal AIDS Conference in Bangkok in 2005.
Oxfam - Oxfam supported ICW in 03-04 with translation costs.
UNFPA - UNFPA contributed to East and Southern Region Young Women's Dialogue in Durban in 2004.
WCC - WCC sponsored one ICW member to go to the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in 2004.
WHO - WHO contributed to support the Young Women's Dialogue Treatment Day, in Durban in 2004.