Note: HWW OVC activities are also supported by Track 1 funds (see separate entry).

ANCHOR is a five-year, six-country project, implemented as a partnership by Hope Worldwide, Rotary

International's HIV/AIDS Fellowship (RFFA), the Emory Schools of Public Health and Nursing, the

International AIDS Trust, and Coca Cola. In Cote d'Ivoire, its focus is on strengthening OVC care activities

in the highly affected greater Abidjan area and extending OVC care and support to new sites. ANCHOR

activities support OVC with home- and community-based counseling, psychosocial support, and health and

nutritional services.

Hope Worldwide Cote d'Ivoire (HWW) places a strong emphasis on technical assistance to local

organizations

• to strengthen their capacity to provide better services for OVC (through program materials, technical

training, and supportive network affiliation through social center OVC platforms),

• to ensure better-quality data on OVC needs and services (through M&E training, standardized forms for

assessing progress, and database access), and

• to achieve a more sustainable civil society response to OVC needs (through improved financial and

programmatic management processes for small and medium-size organizations).

HWW participates in the national OVC technical working group (CEROS-EV) to help coordinate efforts with

the National OVC Program (PNOEV) and other PEPFAR and non-PEPFAR partners.

In FY06 and FY07, HWW developed and implemented a program approach that helped identify and provide

technical and organizational capacity-building assistance to 36 local organizations involved in the care and

support of OVC in the greater Abidjan area. HWW provided direct care and facilitated care and support to

more than 5,500 OVC and trained 128 caregivers in provision of psychosocial support and other care to

OVC.

In FY07, HWW expanded its program to four new municipalities (Yamoussoukro, Daloa, Bondoukou, and

Bouaké) reaching a significant number of 8,000 OVC and training 140 caregivers in providing psychosocial

support and other care services. HWW collaborated with the Ministry of Education (MEN) to select 25

teachers and social workers to be trained in implementing OVC care and support activities in schools.

In 2008, HWW strengthened programs in its 14 sites: nine districts in Abidjan and the cities of Grand-

Bassam, Yamoussoukro, Daloa, Bondoukou, and Bouake. HWW gave technical, material, and financial

assistance to 48 organizations and supported five coordination platforms based in the urban centers of

Abobo, Yopougon, Yamoussoukro, Daloa, and Bondoukou. HWW furnished sub grants and technical

assistance to three partners in order to help them to obtain their objectives. OVC support in the school

system through Kidz Clubs was implemented in three schools and180 caregivers were trained in the care

and support of OVC. HWW identified an additional 2,000 OVC and provided direct and facilitated care and

support to 10,000 OVC

With FY09 funding, HWW will extend its activities to the city of Tiassalé and periphery of Abidjan continuing

to train, mentor, give financial support, and supervise local organizations to build their organizational and

service-delivery capacities according to most recent national standard of care for OVC. This will include five

new organizations.

HWW will require new sub-partners to participate in social center OVC coordination platforms to facilitate

networking and strengthen referral systems, contributing to the community's long-term capacity to assess

and meet the needs of its OVC. Strategies will emphasize access to comprehensive support for OVC, and

access to medical and psychological care adapted to HIV-positive OVC.

In collaboration with the PNOEV and FHI, the project will work to strengthen the organizational capacities of

the social center OVC platforms as resource centers and referral hubs for small C/F/NGOs serving

vulnerable children.

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, HWW will extend OVC care and support into schools in

project sites where involvement of school teachers, social workers, and youth leaders will contribute to

ensuring sustainability HWW also will facilitate creation of an OVC peer-educators' organisation.

With FY09 funds, HWW will provide technical, programmatic, administrative, and financial assistance to 15

sites, representing 60 NGO/CBO/FBOs, enabling identification and care of 12,000 OVC. The processes for

technical and financial assistance developed by HWW have been based on the strategy of the

decentralized coaching. HWW is currently working with 48 organizations and three sub-partners situated in

14 sites. Extension of the project to the new site of Tiassalé, and identifying an average of five partner

organizations per site in Abidjan and Grand Bassam will make it possible to achieve these objectives.

Organizations in the same site will be linked and each of the "mini-networks" established will be coached by

a site coordinator responsible for:

• giving technical assistance to the organization

• strengthening their capacity to identify new OVC,

• collecting and managing data;

• supervising volunteers trained in the delivery of services to OVC;

• organizing assessment meetings with the site organizations for sharing experiences and best practices;

• organizing synthesis meetings of parents/caregivers of OVC in order to improve the quality of care given to

the children in their families; and

• following up on the use of the funds granted to the site organizations.

Administrative assistance provided by ANCHOR is based on the evaluation and capacities reinforcement

tools developed by ROSI (Regional OVC-Organization Support Initiative), a supporting partner to the

project. Site coordinators will carry out the initial and mid-term evaluations of each sub-partner organization,

Activity Narrative: from which strategic plans and capacity reinforcement plans will be developed. HWW staff will conduct site

visits to provide supportive supervision. Sub-partners will be selected, in collaboration with the PNOEV and

other OVC care and support partners in the country, in order to avoid duplication of effort and double-

counting of OVC served.

The five sub-grants recipients will be the organizations best structured in the organizational plan and those

delivering high quality services after evaluation by the ROSI matrices. In addition to formalized financial

support, a plan for reinforcing their organizational capacities and their skills in the areas of management,

programming and finances will be worked out and implemented with them by the site coordinators.

Through CEROS-EV and in support of the PNOEV, HWW will contribute to the development of national

policies, plans, training and other materials, including definition of targeted OVC care packages to support

OVC within the community, as well as to ongoing coordination at the national level. HWW will help

implement nationwide use of the Child Status Index (CSI) by participating in the CEROS-EV adaptation

process and by training local organizations and HWW staff in using the adapted and translated tool.

In collaboration with FHI, HWW will assist the PNOEV to strengthen the capacity of social center-based

OVC collaborative platforms, which serve to coordinate local organizations involved in the care and support

of OVC. HWW will provide technical assistance through training and mentoring platform members, organize

an evaluation plan for them after one year, and provide a report to the PNOEV.

HWW will also use FY09 funding to:

• Assist local partners whose capacity is increasing to prepare strategies and proposals in support of their

goals.

• Train and mentor 200 caregivers from CBO/NGO/FBOs and other community stakeholders in OVC

identification, needs, and care, as well as provision of basic community- and home-based palliative care

and referral to health facilities. This includes training in community-mobilization strategies, psychosocial

support, counseling, nutritional support, succession planning, and play skills. Training sessions will be

conducted in conjunction with the PNOEV and relevant partners such as Alliance, ANADER, and CARE

International.

• Strengthen the capacity of CBO/NGO/FBOs by providing IEC materials for OVC Kidz Clubs and connect

them with AB prevention and other psychosocial-support activities. HWW will reinforce the synergy between

its 3 programs: AB, OVC and Care and Support to PLWA, in order to ensure greater access to holistic care

and support for a larger number of children. In addition, through Kids Clubs and other care opportunities,

older OVC will have a forum for applying life skills and leadership skills to benefit younger children in need

of support.

• Assure greater quality assurance for services provided to OVC. This includes better monitoring and

evaluation of sub-partners' organizational capacities and activities on the ground. Supervision of mentored

organizations' trained caregivers and peer educators will include monthly site visits. HWW will organize an

evaluation plan with them after one year and participate in PNOEV-led efforts to share and evaluate the

effectiveness of organizational assessment tools used by PEPFAR implementing partners and others in

Cote d'Ivoire.

• Accentuate training and economic support activities targeting parents (mothers in particular) in order to

reinforce the capacity of families to care for their children, HWW will. The training will be developed in

collaboration with the PN-OEV and in synergy with HOPE's ABY program, and will improve care and

support at the family level. This will also give parents/caregivers competencies for better communicating

with their children in particular with regard to disclosing their serology to their children and with them

planning for their future.

• Finance small IGAs based on lessons learned by country programs from CARE, UNFPA and other

partners to enhance greater autonomy for families and allow them to provide for the basic needs of their

children. The creation of exchange groups among parents/caregivers and children will be encouraged.

• In collaboration with the MEN, initiate OVC activities at nine more schools and continue to facilitate

afterschool programs to provide multilevel support for children through support groups for OVC. This

includes counseling, play therapy, nutritional support, referrals, and educational support. Child participation

and interaction will be promoted.

• Support OVC-focused home-based care activities for children with special needs, including assessment of

living conditions and family needs and concerns with the goal of providing holistic care to OVC and their

families.

• Develop and facilitate a referral system within the network of mentored NGOs and with other PEPFAR

funded partners, as well as with other funding organizations, to contribute to ongoing platform efforts. This

includes links with other organizations (local and international) that provide different services, as well as

with other programs (HIV prevention, PTMCT, health care, etc.).

• Sub-contract for an independent evaluation of HWW's OVC and related community-mobilization activities

to assist documentation of its best practices and identify areas for improvement and program gaps. The

evaluation will cover HWW's monitoring and evaluation plan as well as service provision and internal

organizational capacity.

• Collaborate with other PEPFAR partners (such as Alliance, CARE, ACONDA, and FHI) as well as with

other donors (Global Fund, UNICEF) to avoid duplication of services and reach the most vulnerable

children.

Olive Leaf South Africa will continue to provide technical assistance to the program, both in terms of

programmatic support and organizational capacity development. Olive Leaf will share key documents and

manuals, conduct site visits, and conduct a regional ANCHOR conference in South Africa.

HWW will continue to mobilize additional material and financial resources and develop a plan to promote

local ownership and long-term sustainability of quality services for OVC. Local "Fighting AIDS" committees

will be established within those organizations (especially religious organizations) in order to initiate and

encourage activities around resource mobilization and care and support for OVC. To ensure greater

sustainability, monthly review meetings will be held with these organizations to assess their activities and

help them identify other long-term funding resources within the community.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 15123

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

15123 4593.08 U.S. Agency for Hope Worldwide 7051 5318.08 Country top-up $1,100,000

International OVC Hope

Development Worldwide

#GPO-A-11-05-

00014-00

10061 4593.07 U.S. Agency for Hope Worldwide 5318 5318.07 Country top-up $700,000

International OVC Hope

Development Worldwide

#GPO-A-11-05-

00014-00

4593 4593.06 U.S. Agency for Hope Worldwide 3533 3533.06 ANCHOR OVC $200,000

International CoAg: Hope

Development Worldwide No

GPO-A-11-05-

00014-00

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Economic Strengthening

Education

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education

Water

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