CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSO) can now benefit from grants worth $10 000 to $20 000 as the National HIV/AIDS Commission moves forward with its plans to encourage greater intervention in the Barbados population.
During a Press briefing yesterday at the commission’s headquarters in the Warrens Office Complex, deputy director of the commission, Lynn Armstrong, in giving an overview of the CSO grant system, revealed that the commission had also extended the olive branch to any interested organizations that had records of achievement in the community plus a track record of integrity, and might want to undertake HIV programming.
But don’t expect to bilk the grant fund. Stringent stipulations are in place, and applicants must apply three months in advance, must be a registered programme/business, must list the members of the executive, the organization’s mission statement, the organization’s achievements, programmes, target groups and more, which will all be monitored by the HIV/AIDS Commission if approved for funding.
Funded under the second Government of Barbados/World Bank HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project, the grant will see $150 000 being allocated over a 12-month period.
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