Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 10824
Country/Region: Mozambique
Year: 2009
Main Partner: To Be Determined
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $0

This is a new activity under COP09.

This activity will allow for a TBD HQ partner to provide Policy Technical Assistance to local institutions and

organization to establish and/or ensure enforcement of policies addressing 1) Sexual abuse and coercion in

school settings, including the sex for grades phenomenon, and 2) women's legal rights.

50% of direct implementation funds will complement the Seconded position of TA to the Ministry of

Education and Culture (MINEC) activity to establish and/or ensure MINEC policies to promote safer

schools, denounce and apprehend sexual abuse in school settings, and challenging norms of transactional

sex/sex for grades.

50% of direct implementation funds will provide sub-grants and organizational capacity strengthening to one

or two CBOs focused on legal rights for Mozambican women and families affected by HIV/AIDS. Areas to

be addressed include stigma and discrimination, legal and inheritance rights.

This activity is linked to the Policy TBD activity under HKID, activity ID#26080.09, which is funded in the

amount of $295,941.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources

* Increasing women's legal rights

* Reducing violence and coercion

Workplace Programs

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education

Water

Table 3.3.02:

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

THIS IS A NEW ACTIVITY IN COP 09.

This is a central mechanism/task order that is currently being re-competed.

The TBD Partner (Partner) selected for this activity will focus on creating a legislative and policy

environment that is more supportive and remove barriers to greater protection and care for orphans and

vulnerable children.

Under this activity, the Partner will:

1. Work with the Parliament, Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Ministry of Women and Social Action (MMAS)

to ensure a more streamlined and efficient "poverty certification" process that would allow highly vulnerable

children and orphans to access government social services (cash transfers, food support, free schooling,

etc.)

2. Work with the Parliament and MOJ to streamline, update inheritance legislation and procedures which

protect the rights of child, elderly and female headed households

3. Work with MMAS to Develop Social Welfare Provisions to subsidize foster care for double orphans

4. Work with the Ministry of Finance, INAS, MMAS and the CBOs to ensure that the cost of OVC and home

based care services for HIV+ and affected children are costed and included in national budget.

Mozambique currently has several civil society groups and networks focusing on policy, advocacy and

legislation as it relates to protection of OVC and PLWHA and access to services and support. The AED

Capable Partners program, Save the Children, HACI, Habitat for Humanity, Foundation for Community

Development are some of the PEPFAR-funded partners which work directly with community organizations

to reduce HIV-related stigma within their communities and protect rights of OVC.

The Partner will work with local, national organizations already working in the area of trafficking in persons,

human rights, family and child, inheritance protection, to build capacity to effectively mobilize service

providers to advocate national government for legislation and policy that 1) protect rights of OVC and

PLWHA 2) ensure improved access to health and HIV services, including counseling and testing and

pediatric treatment. 3) ensure more equitable and easier access to government social support more the

most vulnerable children. As the Government of Mozambique will hold national elections at the end of

2009, this activity will help to put issues related to OVC and PLHWA on the national agenda.

There are approximately, 100,000 children under 15 living with HIV and AIDS in Mozambique and 400,000

orphaned due to HIV, all of these children and their caregivers will benefit from a more positive policy

environment through this activity. This activity will complement U.S. Embassy efforts in the area of

trafficking in persons.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources

* Increasing women's legal rights

* Reducing violence and coercion

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools

and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Economic Strengthening

Education

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education

Water

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Water

Table 3.3.13: