This is a continuing activity.

The Grants, Solicitation, and Management (GSM) project run by World Learning (WL) will assist PEPFAR

Ethiopia in the solicitation, review, award, and management of grants to local Ethiopian partners. The GSM

recipients will conduct a wide range of technical and administrative tasks to support the involvement of local

NGO in HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities. The program began in August 2007 with a total FY06 and

FY07 funding level of $2,100,000 ($600,000 for OVC, $200,000 for AB, and $1,300,000 in Other

Prevention). Applicants were required to meet a 15% cost-share, either in monetary contributions or through

services, volunteers, property, equipment, and supplies. With FY08 funding, GSM will maintain support to

partners selected in 2007 and add new partners with a total budget of $2,060,000 in funding ($720,000 for

OVC, $240,000 in AB Prevention, $900,000 in Other Prevention, and $200,000 for HBHC).

In August 2007, World Learning released a solicitation for concept papers to support HIV prevention and

care activities in urban areas of Amhara, Oromiya, and SNNPR. The solicitation emphasized reaching the

following target populations: formal sex workers, their clients, and women and men engaged in informal

transactional sex, with a special emphasis on vulnerable girls and women ages 15-35. GSM received over

50 concept papers of which six to eight will be funded in 2007. There are a number of different types of

activities that will be supported under the GSM mechanism and most projects will include both prevention

and care activities for a more integrated family-centered approach. Prevention programs supported under

GSM will be addressing higher risk, older adolescents and adults and thus will provide ABC comprehensive

HIV education. This will include messages about abstinence, monogamy, and partner reduction. OVC

supported under GSM will receive life skills and HIV-prevention information that addresses coercive sex,

violence, rape, transactional and cross generational sex.

New partners selected under the GSM program will receive technical assistance from WL and other

PEPFAR partners to ensure quality program design, implementation and monitoring. Recipients will have

access to the existing curriculum-based tools and forms developed by Johns Hopkins University/ Health

Communications Partnership (JHU/HCP) for providing structured behavior-change communication (BCC)

interventions. Recipients under GSM will be educated on the Youth Action Kit curriculum, as well as the

Adult Prevention modules developed by HCP in order for them to adopt these materials into their existing

prevention programs. New partners will also have access to technical assistance through EngenderHealth

to incorporate gender issues into prevention programming. PEPFAR-supported programs should address

how gender-based violence (GBV), sexual abuse, cross generational sex, and alcohol use impact HIV

transmission and recommend strategies to address these issues. GSM recipients will partner with PEPFAR-

supported clinical partners to ensure linkages to counselling and testing services, as well as other health

and HIV services.

GSM will continue to support the activities funded in 2007 and will release a new solicitation with FY08

funding to select additional local partners, for an estimated total of 12 local partners. Prevention activities

under the GSM program will reach an estimated 100,000 individuals with HIV-prevention programming and

will train 400 individuals to provide HIV-prevention education. The targets for this activity are found under

the HVOP section. New partners will be required to develop sustainable community-based programs with

exit strategies in place. Recipients will also be monitored to ensure that prevention and care activities are

well-integrated and focused on serving high-risk vulnerable populations.

This is a continuing, Plus-Up activity from FY07.

The Grants, Solicitation, and Management (GSM) project run by World Learning for International

Development (WL), will assist PEPFAR Ethiopia in the solicitation, review, award, management, and close-

out of grants to local Ethiopian partners. The GSM recipients will conduct a wide range of technical and

administrative tasks to support the involvement of local nongovernmental organizations (NGO) in HIV/AIDS

prevention and care activities. The program began in August 2007 with a total FY06 and FY07 funding level

of $2,100,000 ($600,000 for OVC, $200,000 for abstinence, be faithful (AB), and $1,300,000 in Other

Prevention). Applicants were required to meet a 15% cost-share, either in monetary contributions or through

services, volunteers, property, equipment, and supplies. With FY08 funding, GSM will maintain support to

partners selected in 2007 and add new partners with a total budget of $2,060,000 in funding ($720,000 for

OVC, $240,000 in AB Prevention, $900,000 in Other Prevention, and $200,000 for HBHC).

In August 2007, World Learning released a solicitation for concept papers to support HIV prevention and

care activities in urban areas of Amhara, Oromiya, and Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region

(SNNPR). The solicitation emphasized reaching the following target populations: commercial sex workers,

their clients, and women and men engaged in informal transactional sex, with a special emphasis on

vulnerable girls and women ages 15-35. GSM received over 50 concept papers, of which 6-8 will be funded

in 2007. There are a number of different types of activities that will be supported under the GSM mechanism

and most projects will include both prevention and care activities for a more integrated family-centered

approach. Palliative care funding will be added in FY08 to ensure that HIV-affected families receive

comprehensive support. Prevention programs supported under GSM will be addressing higher risk, older

adolescents and adults and thus will provide ABC comprehensive HIV education. This will include

messages about abstinence, monogamy, partner reduction, and correct and consistent condom use. OVC

supported under GSM will receive life skills and HIV-prevention information that address coercive sex,

violence, rape, transactional, and cross-generational sex.

New partners selected under the GSM program will receive technical assistance from World Learning and

other PEPFAR partners to ensure quality program design, implementation, and monitoring. Recipients will

have access to the existing curriculum-based tools and forms developed by JHU/HCP for providing

structured behavior-change communication (BCC) interventions. Recipients under GSM will be educated on

the Youth Action Kit curriculum, as well as on the Adult Prevention modules developed by HCP in order for

them to adopt these materials into their existing prevention programs. New partners will also have access to

technical assistance through EngenderHealth to incorporate gender issues into prevention programming.

PEPFAR-supported programs should address how gender-based violence, sexual abuse, cross-

generational sex, and alcohol use impact HIV transmission and recommend strategies to address these

issues. GSM recipients will partner with PEPFAR-supported clinical partners to ensure linkages to

counseling and testing services, as well as other health and HIV services.

GSM will continue to support the activities funded in 2007 and will release a new solicitation with FY08

funding to select additional local partners. Prevention activities under the GSM program will reach an

estimated 100,000 individuals with HIV-prevention programming and will train 400 individuals to provide HIV

-prevention education. New partners will be required to develop sustainable, community-based programs

with exit strategies in place. Recipients will also be monitored to ensure that prevention and care activities

are well-integrated and focused on serving high-risk vulnerable populations.

Grants, Solicitation and Management

The Grants, Solicitation and Management (GSM) program is a continuing, plus-up activity from FY07 that is

linked to other GSM activities under HVAB (10406), HVOP (10407), and HKID. This activity will also link

with other palliative care programs, such as the World Food Program (WFP—10523), as well as all USG

PEPFAR clinical partners working in proximity to projects funded under this mechanism.

The GSM project is run by World Learning for International Development (WL). It will assist PEPFAR

Ethiopia in the solicitation, review, award, management, and close-out of grants to local Ethiopian partners.

The GSM recipients will conduct a wide range of technical and administrative tasks to support the

involvement of local nongovernmental organizations (NGO) in HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities. The

program began in August 2007 with a total FY06 and FY07 funding level of $2,100,000 ($600,000 for OVC,

$200,000 for AB, and $1,300,000 in Other Prevention). Applicants were required to meet a 15% cost-share,

either in monetary contributions or through services, volunteers, property, equipment and supplies. With

FY08 funding, GSM will maintain support to partners selected in 2007 and add new partners with a total

budget of $2,060,000 in funding ($720,000 for OVC, $240,000 in AB Prevention, $900,000 in Other

Prevention, and $200,000 for HBHC). The 15% cost-share will remain a requirement for future applicants.

In August 2007, World Learning released a solicitation for concept papers to support HIV prevention and

care activities in urban areas of Amhara, Oromiya, and SNNPR. The solicitation emphasized reaching the

following target populations: formal sex workers, their clients, and women and men engaged in informal

transactional sex, with a special emphasis on vulnerable girls and women ages 15-35. GSM received over

50 concept papers, of which four to six will be funded in 2007. There are a number of different types of

activities that will be supported under the GSM mechanism and most projects will include both prevention

and care activities for a more integrated family-centered approach.

Palliative care funding would be added in FY08 to ensure that HIV-affected families receive comprehensive

support. Local partners would provide community-based care to an estimated 1,000 PLWH and their

families and train 150 community volunteers and family members on how to provide care for bed-ridden

PLWH. Programs supported under GSM will provide a variety of services for PLWH, including support for

positive living, hygiene and nutrition information, linkages to food assistance, prevention education

(especially for discordant couples), information/referrals for family planning, PMTCT, and ART services, and

income-generating activities, such as livestock raising. For sick or bed-ridden PLWH, a trained family

member or community volunteer would make home visits to provide emotional support and monitor the

medical needs of the individual. Local partners will be encouraged to hire and engage PLWH in their

programs. Palliative care programs supported under GSM will provide family-centered support by

addressing PLWH as well as their children's needs.

New partners selected under the GSM program will receive technical assistance from World Learning and

other PEPFAR partners to ensure quality program design, implementation and monitoring. PEPFAR-

supported programs should address how gender-based violence (GBV), sexual abuse, cross generational

sex, and alcohol use impact HIV transmission and recommend strategies to address these issues. GSM

recipients will partner with PEPFAR-supported clinical partners to ensure linkages to counselling and testing

services, as well as other health and HIV services. New partners will be required to develop sustainable

community-based programs with exit strategies in place. Recipients will also be monitored to ensure that

prevention and care activities are well-integrated and focused on serving high-risk vulnerable populations.

The Grants, Solicitation, and Management (GSM) project run by World Learning (WL), will assist PEPFAR

Ethiopia in the solicitation, review, award, management and close-out of grants to local Ethiopian partners.

The GSM recipients will conduct a wide range of technical and administrative tasks to support the

involvement of local nongovernmental organization (NGO) in HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities. The

program began in August 2007 with a total FY06 and FY07 funding level of $2,100,000 ($600,000 for OVC,

$200,000 for AB, and $1,300,000 in Other Prevention). Applicants were required to meet a 15% cost-share,

either in monetary contributions or through services, volunteers, property, equipment and supplies. With

FY08 funding, GSM will maintain support to partners selected in 2007 and add new partners with a total

budget of $2,060,000 in funding ($720,000 for OVC, $240,000 in AB Prevention, $900,000 in Other

Prevention, and $200,000 for HBHC).

In August 2007, World Learning released a solicitation for concept papers to support HIV prevention and

care activities in urban areas of Amhara, Oromiya and SNNPR. The solicitation emphasized supporting

vulnerable, adolescent girls with alternative livelihoods, health services, and educational support. GSM

received over 50 concept papers of which six to eight will be funded in 2007. There are a number of

different types of activities that will be supported under the GSM mechanism and most projects will include

both prevention and care activities for a more integrated family-centered approach. In terms of OVC

activities, GSM will look to fund activities that address coercive sex, violence, rape, transactional and cross

generational sex. Programs that specifically target vulnerable girls will be prioritized. Activities should

provide or link OVC to a wide range of comprehensive services, including access to education, life skills,

nutrition, psychosocial support, economic strengthening, shelter, legal/protection, and referral to health

services (e.g., integrated management of child illness (IMCI) services, malaria treatment, immunization, HIV

counseling and testing, ART). Where possible, new programs funded under GSM will be linked to existing

Mothers Support Groups to ensure that vulnerable, HIV-affected children and families are receiving

community care.

New partners selected under the GSM program will receive technical assistance from World Learning to

ensure quality program design, implementation and monitoring. Recipients will have access to the existing

tools and forms developed under the PC3 Program as well as PEPFAR-funded HIV-prevention curricula for

youth to ensure age-appropriate messaging. New partners will use the Quality Assessment tool - Standards

of Services for OVC in Ethiopia and OGAC's OVC Programming Guidance, July 2006. New partners will

also have access to technical assistance through EngenderHealth to incorporate gender issues into OVC

programming. PEPFAR-supported programs should address how gender-based violence (GBV), sexual

abuse, cross generational sex, and rape impact HIV and OVC programming and recommend strategies to

address GBV. Communities caring for OVC will be encouraged to prevent and report cases of child abuse,

rape, and sexual assault to ensure that young victims receive protection and support. GSM recipients will

partner with PEPFAR-supported clinical partners to ensure linkages to health services, especially for HIV-

exposed or infected children and their families.

GSM will continue to support the activities funded in 2007 and will release a new solicitation with FY08

funding to select additional local partners. The FY08 funding includes palliative care funds in order to better

respond to the needs of families affected by HIV/AIDS. Activities under the GSM program will reach an

estimated 1,500 OVC. An estimated 300 caregivers and volunteers will be trained to provide OVC quality

services. New partners will be required to develop sustainable community-based programs with exit

strategies in place. Recipients will also be monitored to ensure that OVC and their families are actively

engaged in the programs.