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Community engagement – Global Fund Grant Cycle 7

Meaningful community engagement is essential for people who use drugs to influence funding request – Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Guide The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its front and centre. To achieve this, it promotes investments in community-led responses including community-led monitoring. It also highlights the need to increase funding for community-led organisations, particularly those led… Read More »Community engagement – Global Fund Grant Cycle 7

The Global Fund Grant Cycle 7

How people who use drugs can influence funding requests The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) has produced Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 guide to support the engagement of people who use drugs within the Global Fund processes for Grant Cycle 7 2023 -2025 (formerly known as NFM4). The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its… Read More »The Global Fund Grant Cycle 7

Media and Social Media Advocacy Tip Sheet

2 August, 2022 Media and social media are powerful tools for strengthening advocacy efforts among drug user-led organisations. Effective media advocacy can sway public opinion and influence decision makers, while social media can help with communications, building communities and inspiring action. However, due to an often hostile environment for people who use drugs, conducting media and social media advocacy can… Read More »Media and Social Media Advocacy Tip Sheet

Digital High-Level Advocacy Tip Sheet

2 August, 2022 Conducting advocacy in online environments is more important than ever. While this shift has brought certain advantages, it can also bring problems and limitations, especially for drug user organisations operating within spaces which are hostile to our community. With this in mind, INPUD has developed this tip sheet on conducting digital high-level advocacy as people who use… Read More »Digital High-Level Advocacy Tip Sheet

Women who Use Drugs in Kyrgyzstan: Experience of Writing and Working on a CEDAW Shadow Report

6th June, 2022 Русский Over the last several years the Kyrgyzstan organisation Asteria, led by women who use drugs, has been engaging in the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with the support of INPUD. Asteria partnered with a coalition of NGOs to develop and submit a shadow report documenting and visibilising rights violations against women from… Read More »Women who Use Drugs in Kyrgyzstan: Experience of Writing and Working on a CEDAW Shadow Report

Understanding the ‘Pandemic Treaty’ and it’s relevance for people who use drugs

In December 2021 the World Health Assembly (WHA) held a Special Session, the second-ever since WHO’s founding, and agreed to develop a ‘WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness’ – the so-called ‘Pandemic Treaty’. The decision establishes an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) to draft and negotiate the instrument. The INB held its first sessions in February and… Read More »Understanding the ‘Pandemic Treaty’ and it’s relevance for people who use drugs

Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?

29 April, 2022 As a part of the Global Fund’s CRG Strategic Initiative, INPUD organized a Peer Technical Support Hub in April 2022 on the topic of the Global Fund Complaints Mechanism and how it works for communities. The webinar familiarises networks and communities of people who use drugs with the concept of the GF Complaints Mechanism and Office of… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?

Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism Evolution (CCM)

12 April, 2022 Pусский | Español | Français Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) play a crucial role within the Global Fund model and have a potential to be transformative in ending AIDS, TB, and malaria. However, too often Global Fund programmes implemented at the national level and overseen by CCMs do not perform as well as expected and do not meet the needs of key… Read More »Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism Evolution (CCM)

Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender (CRG)- Strategic Initiative: Short-Term Technical Assistance

12 April, 2022 Pусский | Español | Français The Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender Strategic Initiative (CRG SI) offers short-term peer-to-peer technical assistance to communities and civil society, including key population-led organisations and networks, to ensure that barriers related to community engagement, human rights, and gender equity are addressed. The CRG SI consists of three components: 1. Short-term technical assistance; 2. Long-term technical… Read More »Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender (CRG)- Strategic Initiative: Short-Term Technical Assistance