Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013 2014

Details for Mechanism ID: 13296
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2012
Main Partner: Associazione Volontari Per il Servizio Internazionale
Main Partner Program: Italy
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $2,116,000

The projects goal is to increase Ivoirian capacity for sustainable high-quality care and support for OVC at national, community, and family levels by strengthening the capacities of social welfare centers, OVC coordination platforms, and local NGOs and providing high-quality direct services for OVC and families.Cost-efficiency strategies include individual intervention plans for OVC and their families based on essential needs and family/community resources, tight geographic focus for subpartners, cooperation agreements with public institutions, use of community resources, and engagement of family networks. Strategies to transition activities to national/local structures include capacity building through joint activities, training, daily coaching, progressive empowerment of subpartners leading to subgrants and eventual graduation, physical presence of AVSI offices at social centers, experience sharing, and agreements with local private companies for OVC advocacy.Strategies to ensure high-quality M&E include periodic evaluation of social centers and subpartners, a dedicated OVC data management system supplemented by qualitative monitoring, participative M&E systems with social centers and subpartners, training, use of national and AVSI data collection tools, quarterly meetings with local partners, use of database for continuous planning as well as reporting, and external evaluation of psychosocial support and economic strengthening programs.Vehicles:Through COP11: 0 (using 2 vehicles from a previous mechanism)New requests in COP12: 1 ($30,000, all cost-share funds) to provide subpartner TA and monitoring.Total planned vehicles for life of mechanism: 1

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $2,116,000

The projects goal is to increase Ivoirian capacity for sustainable care and support for OVC by building capacities of social welfare centers, OVC coordination platforms, and local NGOs and providing high-quality direct services for OVC and families. Successes since its 2008 launch include rapid expansion (supporting 12,818 OVC, 19 subpartners, 5 social centers as of Sept 2011); effective educational support building on OVC family resources; urban horticulture to improve family nutritional and economic status; and exceptional support to families during Cote dIvoires 2011 crisis.With FY2012 funds, AVSI will provide technical and material support to 9 social centers and 23 local NGOs and care and support for 19,537 OVC (at least 50% girls) in 6,512 families in five sites in Abidjan and Bouake and four new sites. Coverage will reach 5% of OVC nationwide and, by focusing subpartners on their home zones, close to 100% of OVC in supported zones.Key strategies and activities are based on national policy, PEPFAR guidance, and available evidence, including AVSIs experience in other African countries. They include:- Support the national OVC program by building capacities of social centers, OVC platforms, and local NGOs through technical assistance, financial and material support, joint activities,, and training/coaching.- Support quality education for OVC through payment of school costs, integration of OVC in school-based feeding centers, after-school programs, support to schools, and skills training and job placement.- Improve the health of OVC and families through assured access to health care (including HIV care), immunizations, and anti-parasite care; hygiene kits; and IEC on health and post-trauma topics.- Improve psychosocial well-being through regular visits at home and school, training of caregivers, and family counseling and coaching.- Improve care and shelter through minor house repairs, supplies, and IEC on water purification.- Strengthen economic capacity through income-generation activities (IGAs) building on family/community resources.- Strengthen OVC protection through legal assistance for birth certificates, IEC on child protection, training on identifying and responding to child abuse, and support or referral for victims of child abuse.- Improve nutritional status through training and inputs for horticulture, gardening in conjunction with school feeding centers, training to identify and refer malnourished children, food supplements (including replacement milk) in urgent cases, and IEC on food hygiene.Programming and monitoring are based on measured dimensions of change, such as beneficiary participation, subpartner and community capacity, policy improvements, and well-being of OVC and families. In addition to using the Child Status Index to monitor well-being, AVSI annually evaluates OVC educational outcomes and will evaluate the impact of its IGAs and psychosocial support.Links with MCH services are strengthened through MOUs with health facilities ensuring access for OVC and their families, as well as IEC and training to promote awareness and referral.Strategies for improving performance and quality include mentorship, leadership by example, internships for subpartner staff, use of a satellite strategy for reaching additional social centers and subpartners, collaboration agreements with national structures (e.g. training institute for girls), and training and support for horticulture / IGAs.

Subpartners Total: $0
AMEPOUH: NA
Association Ivoirienne pour la Promotion de la Santé, du Social et du Développement: NA
Association Jeunesse et Enfance de Cote d Ivoire: NA
Bayewa: NA
Caritas Internationalis: NA
Centre de Santé la Providence: NA
Chigata: NA
Club des Amis: NA
Fangou'an: NA
Laikagnon: NA
Nouv de Vie: NA
Organisation Grace Divine Eternelle: NA
Tends Moi la Main: NA
Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $606,380
enumerations.Construction/Renovation $71,000
Economic Strengthening $100,000
Education $310,000
Food and Nutrition: Commodities $27,000
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery $35,000
Gender: Reducing Violence and Coercion $3,100
Human Resources for Health $55,800
Water $4,480
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Addressing male norms and behaviors
Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services
Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
Increasing women's legal rights and protection
enumerations.Malaria (PMI)
Child Survival Activities
Safe Motherhood
Family Planning