ICSS receives its core funding from the Dutch Aids Fonds and STOP AIDS NOW! who have committed themselves for the period 2006-2010 in order to enable the ICSS-team to develop the Free Space Process and carry out its Global Fund activities and work for the Developed Country NGO delegation to the Global Fund Board.

The Aids Fonds has a mission: ‘working towards a world without AIDS’. This means that the Aids Fonds is active in both the Netherlands and abroad. We are there to help everyone living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
The work done by the Aids Fonds is based on hard facts. We use scientific research and innovative methods to optimise the support, education and information we provide. And we believe that empowering people so they can act in their own interests is the way to achieve the most success. The Aids Fonds is always looking for initiatives that it can help to develop.
The main aim of the Aids Fonds is to ensure that everyone has access to prevention, treatment, care and support. At the same time, our funding for scientific research contributes to advances in the understanding of AIDS. And the Aids Fonds always takes the lead when there are fresh insights that could be the start of new and better options.

STOP AIDS NOW! is an initiative of Aids Fonds and four major development agencies in the Netherlands (ICCO, Hivos, Oxfam Novib and Cordaid) and was founded in 2000. The objective of this partnership is to scale up the partners' response to HIV/AIDS and improve the quality of their work through linking and learning. Apart from mainstreaming HIV/AIDS within the existing development programs of the partners, the partnership itself initiates projects that focus on innovation of interventions and programs, especially on access to treatment (workplace policies), gender, prevention and orphans and vulnerable children. For the purpose of these shared projects the partners bring their counterparts together at country level, and in doing so create the appropriate scale for advocacy, linking and learning, innovation and piloting, and dissemination of best practices.