April09 Reprogramming: Reduced $329,415.

This is a continuing activity under COP09.

ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

The Ambassadors Girls Scholarship Program, currently implemented by WV/Rita's sub-partner ADPP,

provides tuition assistance and mentors 2,500 primary school-aged girl OVC supported by PEPFAR in

Sofala province.

The partnership with the Africa Education Initiative-Ambassadors Girls Scholarship Program (AEI-AGSP)

will be expanded in FY09 with an OVC implementing partner (IP) still TBD. The IP will target provinces

which register the lowest primary school retention rates in the country.

The AEI-AGSP not only supports education costs but more importantly provides mentorship and

psychosocial support to vulnerable girls at risk of not attending or dropping out of elementary school. The

OVC IP will provide caregiver training which includes sensitizing caregivers and the community in general of

the importance of girls' education. In order to identify HIV+ OVC, who may need additional support and

mentoring, the OVC IP will liaise closely with the HBC implementing partner and the clinical care partner in

the district.

The OVC IP will work closely with local committees, district level social welfare and education ministries to

identify community and government schools with girls who are most at risk and who are in need of financial

and moral support to stay in school.

Orphans and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS will be linked to HIV prevention education and care

programs. Children in school will automatically benefit from de-worming and vaccination campaigns,

including prevention messages shared school. Children in school will also be more easily identified for

referral to government social services that can reduce some of their household's vulnerability factors.

The objective of this activity is to help ensure that vulnerable girls, at risk of dropping out of elementary

school, in school as long as possible, improving their health outcomes, delaying sexual debut, and early

pregnancies and marriage. A Technical Advisor will be seconded to the Ministry of Education at central

level to ensure policy and legislation are in place and being enforced to ensure a safe school environment

for girls.

The OVC IP will providing care giver training and are well positioned to identify mentors or ‘aunties' from the

communities who have respect and standing and can effectively help sensitize the girls' families to the

importance of education. Advocacy efforts, engaging teachers, students and local leaders will help create a

more supportive, safe learning environment for girls and HIV infected and affected OVC (boys and girls)

This activity will benefit 6,000 girls with education and psychosocial support services. 600 care givers will be

trained in care for vulnerable children with this activity.

The AEI-AGSP implementing partner will also be engaged in the process of defining quality standards for

OVC and will be guided by this process in implementing this activity.

This is the COP08 activity narrative:

The Ambassadors Girls Scholarship Program, managed by WV/Rita's sub-partner ADPP, provides tuition

assistance and mentors 2,300 primary school-aged girl OVC supported by PEPFAR in Sofala province.

The narrative below from FY2007 has not been updated

This activity is related to: MTCT 9143; HBHC 9126; HTXS 9168 and HVCT 9157.

World Vision (WV) and sub-partner Aid for Development People to People (ADPP) will continue USG-

supported OVC programs in 13 targeted districts in the Province of Zambezia and 3 targeted districts in

Sofala Province, building on services started in 2004, expanded in 2005 and 2006. Based on this past

experience of providing assistance to over 38,621 OVC, WV will continue to identify and document

promising practices in OVC programming in Zambezia and Sofala Provinces. WV will continue to focus on

OVC affected by HIV/AIDS within the age brackets of 0-5, 6-12 and 13-18 years of age. As all WV projects,

clients will be chosen on the basis of need without regard to religion or ethnic grouping.

World Vision's "RITA" Project will continue to provide care and support to improve the lives of OVC through

the provision of a comprehensive package of six quality services. RITA will also continue to strengthen the

leadership role of communities through the Community Care Coalitions (CCCs) who will continue to be the

primary mechanism for providing care and support to OVC, PLWHA and vulnerable households, as well as

for referrals to essential services available in the community and clinical setting.

Through the CCCs and other local organizations, RITA (WV and ADPP), will ensure the provision of the six

essential services for OVC, as defined by the USG PEPFAR team in Mozambique and the Ministry of

Women and Social Action (MMAS). WV will continue to work closely with the Ministry of Health to provide

preventative and clinical care for infants and older children, especially HIV-infected children and with the

Ministry of Education to ensure that OVC are attending and advancing in school.

For the most vulnerable OVC and PLWHA and their families, emergency food support will be distributed to

ensure food security in the short term. At the same time, interventions will be implemented jointly with WV

agriculture/livestock projects and other available resources to move ahead to food self-sufficiency. RITA

will continue working to ensure that linkages with existing food-security and micro-finance projects are

Activity Narrative: enhanced. WV will coordinate and collaborate with other NGOs, such us Project Hope, so that CCCs,

networks and organizations whose institutional capacity WV will strengthen will have access to small grants

to better enable them to carry out and expand community-based activities. Additional training will be given

to community-based volunteers (Home Visitors - HV), and WV supervisors and volunteers will work closely

with the MOH personnel to ensure that adequate care is provided to infants and young children who are

part of this program. Also, an added emphasis will be placed on joining with new projects and organizations

to advocate for the needs of OVC and to further build their capacity. The training of all CCCs will be ongoing

and continuous, and designed to ensure that CCCs have the capacity needed to be effective as well as the

organizational maturity required to function over the long-term.

WV will continue to assess the quality of services provided to OVC. In FY06, they have developed

standards that fit with community normative levels. Their assessment tools will now measure if OVC under

care are receiving services up to the standard set by the community. They will continue to adopt tools and

methodology to determine how OVC benefit from services provided over the years.

One element in providing for OVC/PLWHA support is the sustainability of the community-based

organizations (CBOs) leading the effort. Key to RITA's sustainability strategy is ensuring that the

FBOs/CBOs/CCCs and their members have the capacity to carry out their important OVC/PLWHA care and

support activities in the long term. To this end, WV has developed an Organizational Capacity Building

(OCB) Guide focused on strengthening the general organizational capacities (as opposed to HIV/AIDS-

specific technical skills) of CBOs/CCCs. The iterative three stage OCB process begins with organizational

self-assessment, followed by selected training based on the results of the assessment, and supplemented

with additional follow-up support. In COP07, WV will apply this new strategy to strengthen 2 local

organizations and 40 CCCs.

A special emphasis in COP07 will be to coordinate and expand existing programs of non-governmental

organizations dealing with child protection and family support in close collaboration with the Child and

Family Initiative ($20,000).

COP07 targets include reaching 43,580 OVC with all 6 services and training 2,900 care providers to

oversee the OVC activities in the community and report results to their supervisors.

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

Health-related Wraparound Programs

* Child Survival Activities

* Family Planning

* Malaria (PMI)

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

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