Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 1338
Country/Region: Caribbean Region
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Palladium Group (formerly Futures Group)
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $22,729

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $22,729

Results: existing FBO/CBO/NGOs orphan support programs strengthened and expanded; strengthened

capacity of families and communities for the provision of care to children orphaned by AIDS.

Ambassador's HIV/AIDS Initiative

The Ambassador's Initiative directly funds FBOs, CBOs and NGOs working with children affected by AIDS.

The fund has facilitated training on community mobilization, and kids' club formation, advocacy and

provision of grants to ten organizations working in five villages and two towns. The project is implemented

under the technical guidance of Policy Project, which is a contractor of USAID/RHAP. The fund also

provides support to the Society of Students against AIDS (SAHA), which is a youth project at the University

of Botswana that does awareness raising and behavior change activities for the student community, and

Nurses Association of Botswana (NAB), which has developed a manual on Caring for Caregivers.

Inputs: The USG will provide funds and technical support through the USAID/RHAP office to Regional

Psychosocial Initiative (REPSSI) to implement OVC activities, as well as support SAHA and NAB.

Activities/Outputs: Policy Project will provide technical support for monitoring and evaluation, training and

material development. Policy Project will partner with REPSSI to develop a mentoring program between the

currently supported ten organizations as well as new organizations in the districts of Ghanzi, Tsabong,

Okavango, North East, North West and Hukuntsi. The program will include training on life skills, kids' clubs,

memory books development, child counseling, volunteer training, community mobilization and advocacy.

Policy Project and REPSSI will also link with MLG, MOE and MOH in training of trainers for OVC. Funds

will also support SAHA and NAB. NAB will be supported in implementing four regional training workshops

on caring for caregivers for nurses; SAHA will be supported to carry out peer education programs, develop

mobilization materials for university students, and implement a secondary school outreach project. Funds

will additionally support other local initiatives conducted by FBOs/CBOs/NGOs that strive to eliminate

stigma and discrimination in the response to HIV/AIDS in the country.

Outcome: Capacity for program and effective services delivery among FBO/CBO/NGOs working with

children affected by AIDS will be enhanced; the skill-base for nurses to provide care will be strengthened;

and, a pool of young leaders active in the response to HIV/AIDS will be created.