ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS FROM COP 2008:

+ Prime partner name changed from Samoei Community Response (SCR) Orphans and Vulnerable

Children to Samoei Community Development Program (SCDP.

+The activity will place an emphasis on the HIV counseling and testing of children with a focus on provider-

initiated home and community-based testing as an entry for care and support services to children. Using the

opt-out approach; the activity will test 90% of OVC enrolled; targeting approximately 1,890 with testing and

counseling. Of those tested, approximately 150 will be identified as HIV-exposed or infected and enrolled

into facility-based HIV care and treatment services to receive cotrimoxazole (CTX), evaluation for ART

eligibility and other basic HIV care services.

+ In 2009, the activity will support the development of OVC standards for Kenya and in supporting quality

improvement approaches for monitoring and improving the quality of OVC programs at the provincial level.

+ In FY09, the activity will also focus on integrating prevention activities. The activity will link with prevention

programs to support male circumcision and counseling and testing for OVC as well as prevention with

positives for adolescents.

+In 2009, this activity will also focus on establishing appropriate linkages with PMI and ensure that OVC

being supported are also able to benefit from mosquito nets procured by PMI.

SECONDARY CROSS-CUTTING BUDGET ATTRIBUTIONS

This activity will support key cross cutting attributions of the budget amounting to $ 4,800 towards Economic

Strengthening through the support of income generating activities to support increased household food

security. The activity will also attribute a portion of its budget to supporting educational activities targeting

OVC enrolled in the program in the amount of $ 8,000. A further $ 1,600 will be attributed to provision of

safe water guards for households looking after OVC.

COP 2008

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in Counseling and Testing (#6968), Antiretroviral Therapy program (#6973),

Abstinence and/or being faithful (#6981), Counseling and Testing (#6979) and Orphans and Vulnerable

Children (#7035).

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

Samoei Community Development Program is an organization that has been working with orphans and

vulnerable children (OVC) in the rural communities within Kericho District for the past four years and

became an Emergency Plan funded partner in FY 2005. SCDP has an established grass-root structure

comprising of young and old (both men and women) and those affected by HIV/AIDS. SCDP will continue to

directly care for and support 2100 OVC by ensuring that the core areas of essential services are ensured for

each child that is enrolled into their OVC program. SCDP will continue to work with the people of the

community as their primary partner in ensuring that the needs of each child are taken care of. They will also

expand their program to address the psychosocial needs of the child by decentralizing the programs

addressing this need to the community level by working with various schools and churches in the area. An

emphasis in FY 2009 will also be to address issues of stigma which tend to prevent children in this

community to access care. Education and support groups for the caregivers have been started in FY 2005

to teach them about how to offer support and identify psychosocial needs of OVC and this initiative will

continue by using caregiver mentors to provide ongoing support and supervision to other SCDP caregivers.

In FY 2009, training of 100 additional caregivers will be conducted to meet the substantial increase in OVC

and the individual needs of the caregivers. Furthermore in FY 2009 SCDP will continue to provide legal

protection to the OVC in case of death of guardian or loss of property by developing close partnerships with

the local magistrate's office where these issues are a concern. The psycho-social needs of the older OVC

will also be an area of expansion in FY 2009 by establishing support groups and Kids clubs that are

developed by OVC/youth that will be trained in peer counseling and support as well as HIV prevention and

issues of sexual reproductive health. All planned interventions are in full compliance with pertinent

Government of Kenya policies and guidelines which are based upon ongoing discussions with local

authorities and community leaders. In particular, the Kenya government's OVC guidelines will be followed

as well as all other pertinent guidelines issued by the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs and the

National AIDS Control Council. SCDP will also collaborate with other relevant entities such as the Ministry

of Health's Kericho District Hospital in provision of healthcare services to the OVC and the Ministry of

Education in the provision of free primary education and bursaries for secondary school students. Their

partnership with other local community/religious based organizations will also ensure comprehensive and

quality services are delivered to the OVC without removing the OVC from the community.

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

SCDP is a community based group that ensures that OVC will continue to gain care and support from their

original community. They work with the existing community services or government children agencies to

augment the level of community and family based support already available to the OVC. This approach is

supported by the Kenya Emergency Plan in which the needs of the OVC are identified at the community

level and subsequently cared for in by strengthening existing structures already in place to tend to the

needs of the OVC in Kericho.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

This activity is linked with HJFMRI south Rift Valley Antiretroviral Therapy (ARV) program (#6973), and

HJFMRI-South Rift Valley Counseling and Testing (CT) program (#6968). SCDP will refer OVC to the well

established pediatrics AIDS program at Kericho District Hospital that already have put over 750 children on

ART in an attempt for early diagnosis and subsequent treatment of OVC. In addition, HJFMRI's program of

the South Rift Valley will provide counseling and testing to the OVC in hopes of early identification of HIV

positive OVC. SCR will also work with Live with Hope Center (LWHC) Abstinence and Be Faithful Program

(#6981) to ensure that the OVC receive correct HIV prevention information that will reduce their vulnerability

for HIV infection. SCR will also link with LWHC OVC program in coordinating OVC programs for the wider

district.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

Activity Narrative: SCDP will target people affected by HIV/AIDS by focusing their training activities on caregivers to support

the OVC and providing monetary and psychosocial support to HIV- positive children and HIV/AIDS-affected

families which includes widows/widowers. Community leaders and teachers will also be targeted as SCDP

is a community-based organization that relies on the community members to fully support the program's

cause for OVC. SCDP will target leaders of the community as well as religious leaders to participate in their

steering committee that is comprised of community members that meets once a month to assess the needs

of OVC referred to them by schools around the area. In addition, volunteers will be targeted to add support

as the program continues to expand.

6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED

In accordance with the Emergency Plan FY 2008 approach to OVC care and support, SCDP will be an

integral part of a community wrap around service that will address the needs of the whole child. Every

orphan under the auspices of SCDP will be ensured that food, education, legal protection, and other

psychosocial support will be provided to the OVC either directly or indirectly through referral and linkages

with existing community or government based services.

7. EMPHASIS AREAS

A major emphasis area of focus for SCDP is community mobilization/ participation. SCDP will focus their

attention on increasing the involvement of community members in program planning and implementation of

the activities for OVC. A minor emphasis of SCDP's efforts will be establishing and strengthening linkages

of other sectors and initiatives. SCDP will be linked with schools to provide assessment of OVC and

subsequently providing partial school fees and uniforms to OVC. SCDP will also focus part of their efforts on

training of caregivers and volunteers to meet the diverse needs of OVC.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 15004

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

15004 4211.08 Department of Samoei 7003 393.08 $250,000

Defense Community

Development

Programme

7035 4211.07 Department of Samoei 4283 393.07 $250,000

Defense Community

Development

Programme

4211 4211.06 Department of Samoei 3244 393.06 $150,000

Defense Community

Development

Programme

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

* Reducing violence and coercion

Health-related Wraparound Programs

* Malaria (PMI)

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Economic Strengthening $4,800

Education

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education $8,000

Water

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Water $1,600

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