Rationale: In recent years, transgender advocates and their allies have had success in increasing funding for trans work. However, in early 2014, The Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) and American Jewish World Service (AJWS) published a study of 340 trans and intersex organizations that revealed that not enough funding is reaching these organizations to provide much needed services to the trans communities. The Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFHTM) new funding model has not met the needs of trans organization, making it an up hill battle to access resources. It is therefore important for the IRGT to focus its work on assuring equitable access to and distribution of resources for trans organizations to be able to carry their advocacy, human rights, and HIV work.
Main Activities
• Monitor access to and distribution of resources
• Develop a global funding priorities brief for trans women on health and HIV
• Build strategic and sustainable alliances with key donors on trans women’s issues
• Map trans women’s resources needs on health, access to health, and HIV
• Assess capacity of trans women’s organizations to access funding and resources
• Participate as a trans member of the Community Rights and Advisory Group at Global Fund
Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation for Objective 3
• Access to and distribution of resources to trans organizations will be monitored and documented
• A donor mapping document will be developed and distributed to trans organizations, partners and allies
• Global funding priorities will be documented and disseminated to stakeholders, funders and allies
• Trans women’s resources needs on health, access to health, and HIV will be documented
• Trans women will have participated and influenced the Community Rights and Advisory Group at the Global Fund