devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Small Modular Reactor Regulations and Civil Nuclear Energy Standards Workshop, through The Webster Group USTDA funding is supporting a series of six (6) Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Regulations and Civil Nuclear Energy Standards Workshops to provide to support the U.S. SMR Public Private Partnership (PPP). The workshops will provide assistance to industry and government in developing effective regulatory frameworks, addressing challenges in the deployment of SMR technologies, and assisting U.S. companies to engage with opportunities in USTDA-eligible countries in Europe and Eurasia. This funding is being added to the Small Modular Reactor and Civil Nuclear Energy Regulations and Standards Workshop Series. Additional funding is being added to the Europe and Eurasia Regional Small Modular Reactor and Civil Nuclear Energy Regulations and Standards Workshop Series.
Small Modular Reactor Regulations and Civil Nuclear Energy Standards Workshop, through The Webster Group This funding is supporting a series of six (6) Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Regulations and Civil Nuclear Energy Standards Workshops to provide to support the U.S. SMR Public Private Partnership (PPP). The workshops will provide assistance to industry and government in developing effective regulatory frameworks, addressing challenges in the deployment of SMR technologies, and assisting U.S. companies to engage with opportunities in U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)-eligible countries in Europe and Eurasia. This funding is being added to the Small Modular Reactor and Civil Nuclear Energy Regulations and Standards Workshop Series. Additional funding is being added to the Europe and Eurasia Regional Small Modular Reactor and Civil Nuclear Energy Regulations and Standards Workshop Series.
Small Modular Reactor Regulations and Civil Nuclear Energy Standards Workshop, through The Webster Group USTDA funding is supporting a series of six Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Regulations and Civil Nuclear Energy Standards Workshops to provide to support the U.S. SMR Public Private Partnership. The workshops will provide assistance to industry and government in developing effective regulatory frameworks, addressing challenges in the deployment of SMR technologies, and assisting U.S. companies to engage with opportunities in USTDA-eligible countries in Europe and Eurasia. .
Reverse Trade Mission - Asia-Pacific Flight Standards Reverse Trade Mission, through Global Marketing & Communications, Inc. Asia-Pacific Flight Standards Reverse Trade Mission
Reverse Trade Mission - Romania and Bulgaria Smart Grid Technologies, through Energy Markets Group Reverse Trade Mission - Romania and Bulgaria Smart Grid Technologies, through Energy Markets Group
Reverse Trade Mission - Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Natural Gas Infrastructure, through National US Arab Chamber Of Commerce (Inc) LNG and Natural Gas Infrastructure Reverse Trade Mission
Reverse Trade Mission - Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Natural Gas Infrastructure, through National US Arab Chamber Of Commerce (Inc) This USTDA-funded reverse trade mission (RTM) will support U.S. private sector participation in the implementation of gas infrastructure in Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) region. The RTM supports USTDA's Liquefied Natural Gas Supply and Natural Gas Training Cooperation Program with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The RTM will share best practices for value-based natural gas infrastructure planning and technical capacity building and support opportunities for U.S. exports to emerging ASEAN markets. This funding in the amount of $49,118 is being added to the fixed cost budget within the contract award for the Bilateral Chamber.
Orientation Visit - Romania and Bulgaria Smart Grid RTM, through Energy Markets Group This $254,520 in funding is being used for a Smart Grid Reverse Trade Mission that introduces public and private sector Romanian and Bulgarian officials to smart grid technology in the United States.
Reverse Trade Mission - ASEAN Cybersecurity and Digital Solutions Reverse Trade Mission Series, through Business Council for International Understanding The ASEAN Cybersecurity and Digital Solutions Reverse Trade Mission Series consists of two separate and distinct RTMs designed to familiarize leaders from financial institutions and utility companies in the ASEAN region with state-of-the-art U.S. ICT technologies, services, and best practice for cybersecurity and digital solutions. The primary objective of the RTM series is to support the capacity of ASEAN banks and utility companies to mitigate risks to digital infrastructure and optimize operations by enhancing their cybersecurity and digital capabilities. This memorandum serves as a no-cost modification to the decision and project memoranda for the ASEAN Cybersecurity and Digital Solutions Reverse Trade Mission Series (USTDA Activity No. 2019-31018A). The change allows USTDA to invite Solomon Islands central bank representatives to participate in the Reverse Trade Mission as delegates.
Technical Assistance - EAST ASIA AND EURASIA REGION REGIONAL ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE CONTRACT, through U.S. Government - Trade and Development Agency Technical Assistance - EAST ASIA AND EURASIA REGION REGIONAL ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE CONTRACT, through U.S. Government - Trade and Development Agency
Technical Symposium - U.S.-ASEAN Energy Infrastructure Project, through The Webster Group U.S.-ASEAN Energy Infrastructure Symposium and Reverse Trade Mission Technical Symposium
Hands Off II Mozambique Brief overall description:
Nearly 70 percent of sex workers in Mozambique report having experienced violence, mainly perpetrated by clients. Aidsfonds, Tiyane Vavasate (sex worker-led group), Pathfinder (international NGO) and the National We Want Rights Platform (national sex worker-movement) work on reducing violence against sex workers in Mozambique. This is done by implementing activities that focus on strengthening the sex worker movement and by building strong relations with allies such as healthcare workers, politicians and law enforcement officers. Human rights violations against sex workers will be documented and used for lobbying and advocacy purposes.  With the support of sex worker focal points in the eleven provinces in Mozambique, activities are rolled out on a national scale.

Description of objectives:
Hands Off 2 partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. In Mozambique, outcomes include a functional and sustainable national sex worker movement and empowering sex workers to influence policies and laws relevant for them. Partners are also working to increased police protection for sex workers, by working closely with the Polícia da República da Moçambique.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. In Mozambique, activities also target healthcare workers, policy makers and police officials and officers.

Additional information (if available):
The most recent data on sex work shows an HIV prevalence of 28 percent among female sex workers. Around 29 percent of new HIV infections are among sex workers, their clients and men who have sex with men.
Hands Off Inerela+ Brief overall description:
Religious leaders are in a unique position to create a more supportive environment for sex work. Under Hands Off INERELA+ looks to empower its members (religious leaders of their interfaith network) to become agents of change who will help eliminate stigma and discrimination within their congregations and communities, and challenge stigma against sex workers. To this end INERELA+ will develop a training curriculum on sex work in collaboration and consultation with its members and in-country sex worker communities.

Description of objectives:
Hands Off II partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. Outcomes of INERELA+ mainly involves a more enabling and supportive environment for sex work.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. INERELA+ will work with its members, religious leaders, and will work with influential people from their congregation and community.

Additional information (if available):
Sex workers experience violence from members of their community, relatives or peers. Violence is often fuelled by a context of stigma and discrimination. Within this context, sex workers are looked down upon socially and denied access to many formal and informal societal structures. In most Southern Africa contexts religious leaders vocally oppose to sex work, stressing that it's harmful and morally repugnant, reinforcing stigma and violence.
Hands Off SASWA SASWA is a regional sex worker-led network,  aiming to raise the voice, visibility, leadership and agency of sex workers in Southern Africa at regional, pan-African and international levels.
Hands Off Police Collaboration Brief overall description:
By engaging with police and training them on human rights of sex workers and other key populations, police officers can play a key role in violence and HIV reduction amongst these groups. Aidsfonds will work with regional police institutions and national police institutions, such as South African Police Service (SAPS) and Mozambique Republic Police (PRM), to roll out the Dignity, Diversity and Policing training. This training was developed under Hands Off I under coordination of COC to educate police officers on rights of key populations. In the meanwhile, Hands Off partners and peer educators will seek and intensify relationships with police at community/ station level.

Description of objectives:
Hands Off II partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. With the police Aidsfonds mainly works on outcome 4: sex workers are protected and served by law enforcement.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. Other groups include People Using Drugs and LGBTIQ people. In this project Aidsfonds' main target group is police.

Additional information (if available):
Prejudice, gender normative beliefs, as well as the criminalisation of sex work, sodomy and drug use make sex workers, LGBTI people and people using drugs vulnerable to stigma, extortion, physical and sexual violence by police. Research has shown that violence is a root cause of HIV and that police behaviour can have an adverse impact on HIV risks among key populations. Prejudice, gender normative beliefs, and the criminalisation of sex work make sex workers vulnerable to stigma and violence by police. Research has shown that violence is a root cause of HIV and that police behaviour can have an adverse impact on HIV risks among sex workers.
Hands Off NSWP Brief overall description:
"The Global Network of Sex Work Project (NSWP) will support sex worker-led partners to engage in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) mechanism and ensure that sex workers’ voices are heard in the official response to government submissions. 

NSWP will provide technical support to Sisonke South Africa to prepare and submit a South Africa shadow report to the 77th CEDAW session in Geneva. The network will also provide technical support to Sisonke Botswana and Tiyane Vavasate, Mozambique to set up a concluding observations tracking system to monitor governments’ actions in response to their country’s concluding observations related to sex work from the 72th and 73th sessions."

Description of objectives:
Hands Off II partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. The outcome NSWP will mainly work on is a more supportive and enabling environment for sex work.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. NSWP will target CEDAW committee members and policymakers.

Additional information (if available):
While The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is one of the world’s main human rights treaties, the rights of women sex workers are not specifically addressed in CEDAW.
Hands Off South Africa Brief overall description:
Violence against sex workers in South Africa takes on extreme forms and 71 percent of sex workers have experienced violence. Within three years, 118 sex workers have died as a result of violence. To reduce violence against sex workers, Sisonke (national sex worker-led group), SWEAT (national NGO) and Aidsfonds focus on building an empowered and resilient sex worker movement. Activities include capacity building of Sisonke’s staff and resource mobilisation support. Both SWEAT and Sisonke will organise creative spaces; workshops in which topics such as sexual health and rights are discussed with sex workers. National and regional lobby will continue to address the bylaws that are now used to arrest sex workers and through engaging with police SWEAT and Sisonke will increase police protection of sex workers.

Description of objectives:
Hands Off 2 partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. Outcomes of partners in South Africa include an empowered and resilient national sex worker movement, increase access to justice, a more enabling environment for sex workers and sex workers protected by law enforcement.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. SWEAT and Sisonke also target high-level politicians, policy makers and the general public with their activities.

Additional information (if available):
Due to the illegal status of sex work, sex workers experience difficulties in accessing health, social services and in seeking justice and legal compensation. HIV prevalence amongst sex workers is disproportionally high (57.7 percent) and more than a third of HIV positive sex workers do not have regular access to treatment.
Grantmaking sub-regional and global The Love Alliance, a new five-year programme (2021-2025), is based on an unwavering commitment to protecting, promoting and fulfilling sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally, unifying people who use drugs, sex workers and LGBTIQ+ movements, and amplifying the diversity of voices in these communities.

Funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Love Alliance brings together national thought leaders GALZ, SANPUD and Sisonke, regional grantmakers UHAI EASHRI, AFE and ISDAO, with the global network of people living with HIV (GNP+) and the Netherlands-based administrative lead Aidsfonds. 

Together, we advocate for adequate levels of funding and for taking truly human rights-based programmes to scale. We take this opportunity to prioritise and invest in challenging the structural barriers of underfunding, criminalisation and exclusion of us in all our diversity.
Hands Off NSA Brief overall description:
North Star Alliance provides health services to sex workers at Road Wellness Clinics along the transport corridor. Under Hands Off North Star Alliance will continue to increase access to sex workers and build an inclusive, health-literate sex worker community. Peer educators will mobilise their peers to visit the clinic, and work with nurses to stimulate sex workers to make safe and healthy choices. Influential community member gathered in Crisis Response Teams will work to reduce stigma from the community and provide support to sex workers who experienced violence.

Description of objectives:
Hands Off II partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. Outcomes of North Star Alliance include increased access to and use of services for sex workers, as well as a more enabling environment for sex work.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. North Star Alliance also works with influential community leaders.

Additional information (if available):
Structural barriers such as stigma, discrimination and criminalisation hinder sex workers to access comprehensive rights based services. In many cases sex workers rely on public health services, however these are often inaccessible for sex workers located outside of the urban areas.
Hands Off Brief overall description:
Building on the success of the first phase of Hands Off, Hands Off 2 (2019-2024) works directly with sex worker-led groups, police and NGOs working on human rights and health services to reduce violence against sex workers. Based on sex workers’ own priorities and needs activities implemented under the programme include rights literacy training and capacity building of sex worker movements, strengthening emergency response systems and roll out of national, regional and global lobby for law and policy reform.

Description of objectives:
The Hands Off 2 programme works to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. Specific long-term outcomes include: 1) an empowered and resilient sex worker movement that demands its rights, 2) increased access to and use of inclusive services for sex workers, 3) a more enabling environment for sex work, and 4) sex workers protected and served by law enforcement.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. Hands Off is implemented in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Additional information:
Modelling estimates show that a reduction of almost 25 percent in HIV infections among sex workers can be achieved when physical or sexual violence is reduced. The first phase of the Hands Off programme has proven that a combination of engagement with police in the HIV response, setting up emergency response systems and movement building results in reduced violence against sex workers.
Hands Off Zimbabwe Brief overall description:
In Zimbabwe, around 63 percent of sex workers in Zimbabwe report having experienced physical, sexual, economic and emotional violence on a regular basis. More than third of sex workers in the experienced violence by police officers. To reduce violence against sex workers, Aidsfonds works together with Pow Wow (sex worker-led organisation from Bulawayo), ZIMSWA (national sex worker-led organisation) and the Sexual Rights Centre (national NGO. The sex worker leadership and mentorship academy will build the capacity of sex workers to advocate for their own rights. Paralegals will continue to support sex workers in accessing legal services and by establishing support groups sex workers will have increased access to psychosocial services.

Description of objectives:
Hands Off 2 partners work to reduce violence against sex workers at community, national and regional level. Outcomes of partners in Zimbabwe include a strong national sex worker movement, increased access to health and psychosocial services for sex workers, reduction of stigma and discrimination against sex workers and increased respectful behaviour between police and sex workers.

Description of target groups:
The programme’s primary target group is female, male and transgender sex workers, meaning those who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. In Zimbabwe, health care workers, community police officers and high level politicians are also part of the target group.

Additional information (if available):
The most recent data on sex work shows an HIV prevalence of 57.1 percent among female sex workers. It is officially not a crime to sell sex in Zimbabwe. Under the Criminal Codification and Reform Act it is however illegal to solicit clients, live on the earnings of sex work and to facilitate and procure sex work.
South Africa Grantmaking The Love Alliance, a new five-year programme (2021-2025), is based on an unwavering commitment to protecting, promoting and fulfilling sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally, unifying people who use drugs, sex workers and LGBTIQ+ movements, and amplifying the diversity of voices in these communities.

Funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Love Alliance brings together national thought leaders GALZ, SANPUD and Sisonke, regional grantmakers UHAI EASHRI, AFE and ISDAO, with the global network of people living with HIV (GNP+) and the Netherlands-based administrative lead Aidsfonds. 

Together, we advocate for adequate levels of funding and for taking truly human rights-based programmes to scale. We take this opportunity to prioritise and invest in challenging the structural barriers of underfunding, criminalisation and exclusion of us in all our diversity.
204 - RCF grant cycle 2022-2024 General description:
During the 2022 -2024 funding cycle, the Robert Carr Fund aims to further the aims and objectives of the Fund’s Strategic Plan 2020-2024 and to amplify the mission and vision of the Fund, while responding to the unique challenges and opportunities of this time.

Main outcomes:
"The Robert Carr Fund aims to focus on three strategic priorities in the 2022-2024 funding cycle, which will serve as trail markers for achievement of the Fund’s Theory of Change. These are:
 i. Strengthening movement leadership, supporting the continuity and succession of leadership in the HIV movement;
 ii. Building organizational financial health and resilience, as well as the sustainability of the HIV response;
 iii. Support for innovative and creative ideas which respond to the changing context."

Target group or reach:
"Inadequately served populations (ISPs) are groups or persons that face a higher HIV risk, mortality and/or morbidity compared to the general population, and, at the
 same time, facing systematic human rights violations and barriers to information and services. ISPs include people living with HIV, gay men, bisexuals and other men who
 have sex with men, people who use drugs, people in prisons or other closed settings, sex workers, and transgender persons. Depending on the dynamic of the HIV epidemic
 and the legal status of these populations, ISPs may also include women and girls, youth, migrants and people living in rural areas."

Background:
The Robert Carr Fund recognizes that programming to strengthen social enablers, human rights and gender equality, as well as responses led by communities of ISPs, are complex, and require longer-term investments. Therefore, the Fund intends, in this funding cycle, to support continuity, so that well-performing existing partners can build on their achievements. The Fund will continue to be supportive of the role of core, long-standing community-led networks and provide core funding to support these networks in their efforts to realize their full potential. At the same time, the Fund wishes to encourage applications from new, emerging networks, especially those which represent populations and regions which are currently under-served in the fund portfolio.