08.P0208 AED - Capacity Building Support to Makgbaneng

Through the Capable Partners Program mechanism, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) will

support the organizational and programmatic development of Makgabaneng. Like the organizations

supported under the New Partners Initiative (NPI) in Botswana (YOHO and the Light and Courage Centre),

Makgabaneng is a new local organization that has a direct funding agreement with the US government. As

a new organization, Makgabaneng needs additional support in the areas of program monitoring, board

relations, financial tracking, fund raising, sub granting, and staff and program management. Also, the

Makgabaneng staff has significant skills in behavior change, but with new staff and additional program

models planned, they also requested limited technical assistance for further program development. Under

this program, Makgabaneng will not receive funding for program implementation but will benefit from similar

assistance provided by Capable Partners to Botswana's NPI grantees.

The funding for this activity is from both the AB program area (66%) and the C/OP program area (33%).

Makgabaneng also receives proportionate funding from both program areas for its broad-based prevention

program, so this organizational development support will also.

08.P0209: Workplace HIV Prevention

The Botswana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (BBCA) has been engaged in a number of interventions to

build capacity for the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS in the private sector. They have

mobilized and coordinated the business sector response to HIV/AIDS; conducted information dissemination,

advocacy, and policy lobbying; and supported networking activities. BBCA also supported the training of

peer educators/counselors for workplaces with such programs and adaptation of those training materials.

According to a 2007 assessment of the peer education training program, 40% of companies who sent staff

to this training reported developing workplace HIV polices, 42% appointed HIV/AIDS Coordinators/Focal

Point Persons, and 59% had allocated financial resources for HIV/AIDS interventions, after the training.

BBCA will continue with this program, targeting 200 workplace-based peer educators/counselors nationwide

with the 5-day training program and follow up support to those trained. This year a special emphasis of this

program will be involving PLWHAs in the program as peer educators/counselors.

In the past, the companies that benefited most from BBCA's initiatives were the large ones, though the

majority of employers in Botswana are small and medium sized companies (estimated 70% of registered

companies). For 2008, BBCA will focus more on the Small Medium Enterprises (SME) to aid in the up-

scaling of prevention, treatment, care and support initiatives, as they are unlikely to have resources to

design and sustain in-house comprehensive workplace interventions. One approach that BBCA will use is

BizAIDS, which is a program developed by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC) as part of its

Southern African initiative and which specifically targets SME. BBCA has agreed to work with BizAIDS to

expand to Botswana and pilot their intervention package with 100 small companies. The intervention is

tailored to SMEs and involves approximately 20-30 hours of training focused on small business

development skills, legal assistance, and basic HIV/AIDS information and program development.

In 2007, BBCA initiated an effort to promote linkages between large companies (e.g. BCL mine and

Standard Chartered Bank) and the small medium companies that supply them, through a Supplies Chain

Management program. The Model encourages the larger businesses to extend their HIV/AIDS programs to

smaller ones, through, for example, sharing of workplace policies for adaptation to the smaller businesses,

invitations to participate in HIV testing days and related events, and joint training and limited assistance

from the larger companies to those with fewer resources and less experience in such activities. This activity

will continue in 2008, and hopefully involve an additional 2-4 major companies.

In 2008, BBCA also will target 200 companies for HIV/AIDS workplace policy development and general

advocacy for the development of workplace programs. The primary means are 1) sensitization and

awareness building seminars for managers and Board members, to help increase commitment on HIV/AIDS

initiatives in the workplace, 2) dissemination of best practices and other information to the private sector

through newsletters, the internet, and mass media (especially print), and 3) the annual Red Ribbon

campaign. Red Ribbon is a campaign based on the uptake of the Minimum Internal Package articulated for

workplaces in the National Strategic Framework (NSF) and awards efforts made by workplaces to

operationalize that. It culminates in a ceremonial event with national press coverage.

With this support, BBCA will also pay for 2 staff persons, as well as some assistance for its organizational

development, for example to help train staff in accounting and management skills.

Supporting all of these efforts are funds from the AB ($50,000), C/OP ($50,000), and Policy and System

Strengthening ($300,000) program areas. Many of the activities supported by BBCA are cross-cutting in

nature and focused on promoting overall engagement of the private sector, and therefore are fundamentally

about system strengthening of that sector. The peer education and counseling programs supported for

workplace by BBCA are crosscutting but focus significantly on HIV prevention. Therefore, funding from AB

and C/OP will also support this program.

This entry relates to the AB contribution to this workplace-focused initiative. This funding reflects the focus

within the peer education/counseling program supported in this activity that promote abstinence and fidelity

among employers and managers who chose that and educate and motivate clients on the need to avoid

multiple, and particularly concurrent, sexual partnerships.

08.P0509 BBCA - Workplace HIV Prevention

The Botswana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (BBCA) has been engaged in a number of interventions to

build capacity for the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS in the private sector. They have

mobilized and coordinated the business sector response to HIV/AIDS; conducted information dissemination,

advocacy, and policy lobbying; and supported networking activities. BBCA also supported the training of

peer educators/counselors for workplaces with such programs and adaptation of those training materials.

According to a 2007 assessment of the peer education training program, 40% of companies who sent staff

to this training reported developing workplace HIV polices, 42% appointed HIV/AIDS Coordinators/Focal

Point Persons, and 59% had allocated financial resources for HIV/AIDS interventions, after the training.

BBCA will continue with this program, targeting 200 workplace-based peer educators/counselors nationwide

with the 5-day training program and follow up support to those trained. This year a special emphasis of this

program will be involving PLWHAsin the program as peer educators/counselors.

In the past, the companies that benefited most from BBCA's initiatives were the large ones, though the

majority of employers in Botswana are small and medium sized companies (estimated 70% of registered

companies). For 2008, the BBCA will focus more on the Small Medium Enterprises (SME) to aid in the up-

scaling of prevention, treatment, care and support initiatives, as they are unlikely to have resources to

design and sustain in-house comprehensive workplace interventions. One approach that BBCA will use is

BizAIDS, which is a program developed by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC) as part of its

Southern African initiative and which specifically targets SME. BBCA has agreed to work with BizAIDS to

expand to Botswana and pilot their intervention package with 100 small companies. The intervention is

tailored to SMEs and involves approximately 20-30 hours of training focused on small business

development skills, legal assistance, and basic HIV/AIDS information and program development.

In 2007, BBCA initiated an effort to promote linkages between large companies (e.g. BCL mine and

Standard Chartered Bank) and the small medium companies that supply them, through a Supplies Chain

Management program. The Model encourages the larger businesses to extend their HIV/AIDS programs to

smaller ones, through, for example, sharing of workplace policies for adaptation to the smaller businesses,

invitations to participate in HIV testing days and related events, and joint training and limited assistance

from the larger companies to those with fewer resources and less experience in such activities. This activity

will continue in 2008, and hopefully involve an additional 2-4 major companies.

In 2008, BBCA also will target 200 companies for HIV/AIDS workplace policy development and general

advocacy for the development of workplace programs. The primary means are 1) sensitization and

awareness building seminars for managers and Board members, to help increase commitment on HIV/AIDS

initiatives in the workplace, 2) dissemination of best practices and other information to the private sector

through newsletters, the internet, and mass media (especially print), and 3) the annual Red Ribbon

campaign. Red Ribbon is a campaign based on the uptake of the Minimum Internal Package articulated for

workplaces in the National Strategic Framework (NSF) and awards efforts made by workplaces to

operationalize that. It culminates in a ceremonial event with national press coverage.

With this support, BBCA will also pay for 2 staff persons, as well as some assistance for its organizational

development, for example to help train staff in accounting and management skills.

Supporting all of these efforts are funds from the AB ($50,000) C/OP ($50,000), and Policy and System

Strengthening ($300,000) program areas. Many of the activities supported by BBCA are cross-cutting in

nature and focused on promoting overall engagement of the private sector, and therefore are fundamentally

about system strengthening of that sector. The peer education and counseling programs supported for

workplace by BBCA are crosscutting but focus significantly on HIV prevention. Therefore, funding from AB

and C/OP will also support this program.

This entry relates to the C/OP contribution to this workplace-focused initiative. This funding reflects the

focus within the peer education/counseling program supported in this activity that actively promote correct

and consistent condom use and condom distribution and address linkages between alcohol and HIV/AIDS.

Condoms will not be purchased with these funds.

08.P0508 AED - Capacity building support to Makgabaneng

Through the Capable Partners award, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) will support the

organizational and programmatic development of Makgabaneng. Like the organizations supported under

the New Partners Initiative (NPI) in Botswana (YOHO and the Light and Courage Centre), Makgabaneng is

a new local organization that has a direct funding agreement with the US government. As a new

organization, Makgabaneng needs additional support in the areas of program monitoring, board relations,

financial tracking, fund raising, sub granting, and staff and program management. Also, the Makgabaneng

staff has significant skills in behavior change, but with new staff and additional program models planned,

they also requested limited technical assistance for further program development. Under this program,

Makgabaneng will not receive funding for program implementation.

The funding for this activity is from both the AB program area (66%) and the C/OPprogram area (33%).

Makgabaneng also receives proportionate funding from both program areas for its broad-based prevention

program, so this organizational development support will also.

08.C0711: Private-Public Partnership in TB/HIV

Effective collaborative treatment, care and support of patients with dual TB and HIV disease remains a

challenge at all levels of the health system. The very high rate of HIV infection among TB patients (60 -

86%) implies that may TB patients do not receive adequate support with respect to HIV. The majority of

TB/HIV patients are within the economically active age groups. Businesses face losses due to absenteeism,

lost productivity, lost skills and personnel, and increased medical and indirect costs. TB/HIV patients face

loss of income or even employment when on anti-TB treatment. The BBCA receives PEPFAR support to

conduct some HIV-related activities, but the focus is strongly on HIV/AIDS with little or no attention to

address TB/HIV co-infection.

2008 Plans

It is intended to pilot the provision of workplace TB/HIV activities in Gaborone City, in collaboration with

BBCA. FY2008 funds will support the training of personnel from selected private companies on TB/HIV

issues, focusing on TB case detection, HIV testing of TB patients, TB screening in HIV infected clients, and

treatment support for patients on HIV or TB treatment, and the referral of patients between private sector

settings and TB and HIV public sector services. These activities will support Botswana's Round 5 TB grant

from the GFATM which seeks to scale up community TB care, improve treatment success rate, strengthen

TB/HIV collaborative activities and strengthen supervision, monitoring and evaluation.

08-X1409: Workplace Interventions

The Botswana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (BBCA) has been engaged in a number of interventions to

build capacity for the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS in the private sector. They have

mobilized and coordinated the business sector response to HIV/AIDS through among others; conducted

information dissemination, advocacy, policy lobbying; and supporting networking activities. BBCA also

supported the training of Peer Educators/Counselors for workplaces with such programs and adaptation of

those training materials.

According to a 2007 assessment of this program, 40% of companies who sent staff to this training reported

developing workplace HIV polices, 42% appointed HIV/AIDS Coordinator / Focal Point Persons, and 59%

had allocated financial resources for HIV/AIDS interventions, after the training. BBCA will continue with this

program, targeting 200 workplace-based peer educators/counselors nationwide with the 5-day training

program and follow up support to those trained. This year a special emphasis of this program will be

involving PLWHAs in the program as peer educators/counselors.

In the past, the companies that benefited most from BBCA's initiatives were the large ones, though the

majority of employers in Botswana are small and medium sized companies (estimated 70% of registered

companies). For COP08, BBCA will focus more on the Small Medium Enterprises (SME) to aid in the up-

scaling of prevention, treatment, care and support initiatives, as they are unlikely to have resources to

design and sustain in-house comprehensive workplace interventions. One approach that BBCA will use is

BizAIDS, which is a program developed by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC) as part of its

Southern African initiative and which specifically targets SME. BBCA has agreed to work with BizAIDS to

expand to Botswana and pilot their intervention package with 100 small companies. The intervention is

tailored to SMEs and involves approximately 20-30 hours of training focused on small business

development skills, legal assistance, and basic HIV/AIDS information and program development.

In 2007, BBCA initiated an effort to promote linkages between large companies (e.g. BCL mine and

Standard Chartered Bank) and the small medium companies that supply them, through a Supplies Chain

Management program. The Model encourages the larger businesses to extend their HIV/AIDS programs to

smaller ones, through, for example, sharing of workplace policies for adaptation to the smaller businesses,

invitations to participate in HIV testing days and related events, and joint training and limited assistance

from the larger companies to those with fewer resources and less experience in such activities. This activity

will continue in 2008, and hopefully involve an additional 2-4 major companies.

In 2008, BBCA also will target 200 companies for HIV/AIDS workplace policy development and general

advocacy for the development of workplace programs. The primary means are 1) sensitization and

awareness building seminars for managers and Board members, to help increase commitment on HIV/AIDS

initiatives in the workplace, 2) dissemination of best practices and other information to the private sector

through newsletters, the internet, and mass media (especially print), and 3) the annual Red Ribbon

campaign. Red Ribbon is a campaign based on the uptake of the Minimum Internal Package articulated for

workplaces in the National Strategic Framework and awards efforts made by workplaces to operationalize

that. It culminates in a ceremonial event with national press coverage.

With this support, BBCA will also pay for 2 staff persons, as well as some assistance for its organizational

development, for example to help train staff in accounting and management skills.

Many of the activities supported by BBCA are cross-cutting in nature and focused on promoting overall

engagement of the private sector, and therefore are fundamentally about system strengthening of that

sector. The peer education and counseling programs supported for workplace by BBCA are crosscutting

but focus significantly on HIV prevention. Therefore, funding from Abstinence/Be Faithful and Condoms and

Other Prevention will also support this program.

08-X1421: USAID - Small Grants Program Peace Corps Volunteers

Botswana has not had an SPA grants program in place since Peace Corps re-opened in 2003. This past

year, however, a USAID-funded implementing agency working closely with Peace Corps administered a

small grants program that disbursed $100,000 of FY06 PEPFAR money. Interested Peace Corps

Volunteers and community counterparts participated in a workshop to learn how to apply for and fund small

projects that addressed felt community needs.

For FY08, Peace Corps Botswana (PC/B) proposes using $200,000 of PEPFAR funds for a small grants

program that would build on the previous experience. Approximately $20,000 would be used to hire a

Motswana staff person to assist with the administration of the small grants activity. The staff person would

work closely with a USAID implementing agency to ensure that appropriate training is conducted,

monitoring mechanisms are in place, and follow-up assistance is provided to the communities requesting

funds and to communities who receive funds. PC/B will follow the Guidance for Volunteer Activities Support

& Training (VAST) Program Using the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

Botswana PCVs all work in HIV/AIDS programs, including in district AIDS coordinator offices, PMTCT

programs, home-based care, NGOs serving orphans and vulnerable children, and in implementation of a

new life skills curriculum. They are uniquely situated to work within their communities to identify gaps and

pressing needs to help reach the national goals of "A generation free of infections by 2009" and "No new

infections by 2016".

Funds will be made available to PCVs who apply with their communities and counterparts for small grants to

support community-based initiatives on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and capacity building. Successful

awardees will follow VAST guidelines for eligibility, including demonstrating plans for implementation,

counterpart/community funding.