Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 12426
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2010
Main Partner: Not Available
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

This new mechanism is intended for a follow-on award for Save the Children UK (Mechanism #9642), which provides direct OVC care and support services as well as technical and organizational capacity building for local NGOs in western Cote d'Ivoire. Geographic expansion is a possibility, depending in part on Save the Children UK's merger with Save the Children Sweden, planned for 2010, but no significant change in scope in planned. As in previous years, funding is being requested in the HKID budget code. Save's activities are expected to provide care and supported for at least 9,500 OVC by September 2011.

Save the Children contributes to the key issue of child survival through synergies with its health and child protection programs, as well as health-care, vaccination, and protection activities that are part of its PEPFAR-funded program. Save contributes to the key issues of gender equity, addressing male norms, and increasing women's legal rights and protection through an emphasis on addressing girls' vulnerabilities, girls' and women's legal rights, protection against gender-based violence, and gender-sensitive approaches to HIV prevention and life skills.

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $0

This new mechanism is for a follow-on award for Save the Children UK (Mechanism #9642), which provides direct OVC care and support services as well as technical and organizational capacity building for local NGOs in western Cote d'Ivoire. Geographic expansion is a possibility, depending in part on Save the Children UK's merger with Save the Children Sweden, planned for 2010, but no significant change in scope in planned. As in previous years, funding is being requested in the HKID budget code. Save's activities are expected to provide care and supported for at least 9,500 OVC by September 2011.

Save the Children contributes to the key issue of child survival through synergies with its health and child protection programs, as well as health-care, vaccination, and protection activities that are part of its PEPFAR-funded program. Save contributes to the key issues of gender equity, addressing male norms, and increasing women's legal rights and protection through an emphasis on addressing girls' vulnerabilities, girls' and women's legal rights, protection against gender-based violence, and gender-sensitive approaches to HIV prevention and life skills.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $0
Economic Strengthening $0
Education $0
Human Resources for Health $0
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Addressing male norms and behaviors
Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services
Increasing women's legal rights and protection
Child Survival Activities