Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 8262
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2008
Main Partner: U.S. Department of Defense
Main Partner Program: In-Support
Organizational Type: Other USG Agency
Funding Agency: USDOD
Total Funding: $300,000

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $100,000

Cote d'Ivoire is slowly emerging from a politico-military crisis and moving towards stability. In March 2007,

peace accords were signed amongst the various political parties. This peace accord has allowed the US

DOD to re-engage with the Ivorian armed forces. Therefore, the DoD will provide technical assistance to

the Ivorian Ministry of Defense (MOD) to revise and implement a comprehensive HIV management policy.

This activity will strengthen the partnership between the MOD and the USG to mobilize the MOD towards

policy development and aggressive management of HIV and AIDS. Up to 20 key MOD commanders and

staff members will be trained on HIV stigma reduction and two commanders conferences will be held to

explain the latest MOD HIV/AIDS policy and stigma reduction program. The DOD EP program cocordinator

will manage this program and administer funding through an experienced HIV/AIDS contractor that will be

selected through a competitive process.

Funding for Management and Operations (HVMS): $200,000

Cote d'Ivoire is slowly emerging from a prolonged politio-military crisis. With the signing of peace accords in

March 2007, DOD was given the permission to re-engage with the Ivorian armed forces. Therefore, the EP

will support a DOD Coordinator position in FY 2008. Responsibilities for the DOD Coordinator are broad

and include management, coordination, and support of all EP military activities in Cote d'Ivoire. In addition,

this funding supports costs for DOD technical assistance, which furthers development, monitoring and

evaluation of new and existing programs. Additionally, these funds for the coordinator will support travel,

training, workshops and equipment.

In addition, in FY 2008 through DOD the EP will support the training of military physicians. The objective of

the program is to train key foreign military clinical physicians, using a TOT approach, in state-of-the-art HIV

prevention, diagnosis, clinical management and treatment with the expectation that they will transfer

information into operational use in country. The program emphasizes treatment of opportunistic infections,

provision of anti-retroviral therapy, prevention and clinical management of HIV, epidemiologic surveillance

and clinical laboratory diagnosis. Given the scale-up of USG support to ARV services in the military, five

Ivorian physicians will attend this program in FY 2008. This activity supports the Cote d'Ivoire EP 5-year

strategy to develop human capacity and strengthen the capacity of the armed forces to treat the military

population, their families, and nearby communities.

To better support the new DOD coordinator and to rapidly implement DOD activities the EP will support

direct technical assistance from DOD headquarters in San Diego.