Small Grants for Campaigns to access safe and effective COVID 19 vaccines

• Eligibility criteria: Civil Society Organizations operating in Jamaica, Guyana, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the OECS.
  
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Countries: Caribbean countries
• Application Language: English

The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) is pleased to announce funding for small campaigns to address vaccine hesitancy and misinformation as well as to support policy advocacy for equitable access to safe and effective COVID 19 vaccines in the Caribbean.

CVC has received a grant from the Open Society Policy Center (“OSPC”) to support policy advocacy for equitability. This will be accomplished through supporting advocacy for equitable access to safe and effective vaccines, once they are licensed and approved as well as urgent, broad scale commitment and investment from participating countries.

Campaigns should support any of the following objectives:

1. To counter vaccine hesitancy through the creation of messages to counter anti-vaccine narratives while taking into account varying educational, cultural and language backgrounds.
2. Social media campaigns with messaging to address misinformation, support vaccine demand and uptake and gain public confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines.
3. Advocacy messaging to ensure that resource allocation towards the COVID-19 vaccine does not divert resources from other critical health needs such as HIV and NCDs.

For more information visit Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition