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.

Aids Fonds is the main Dutch NGO on HIV/AIDS, and was originally established in 1985 to support people in the Netherlands living with, or vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Since many years it also funds international activities. Advocacy and support are two of its most important tasks. Most of its resources come from fundraising activities and are spent on scientific research in The Netherlands and in developing countries, education and information, help and care, and vaccine development. The Aids Fonds has dedicated itself to access to treatment in developing countries.

STOP AIDS NOW! is an initiative of Aids Fonds and four major development agencies in the Netherlands (ICCO, Hivos, Novib/Oxfam 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 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.