Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 12154
Country/Region: Mozambique
Year: 2010
Main Partner: Not Available
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

The overall goal of this activity is to support the Mozambique USG Care and Treatment and Technical Working Group in cost analysis and projections of community based care and support services for PLHIV and OVC. Given the current rate of scale-up for care, treatment and prevention programs, there is a potential for funding constraints within the current economic crisis. A key aspect of the Partnership Framework is sustainability and coordination of GOM, USG, and other donor resources. Building on experiences of the FY 2009 antiretroviral treatment (ART) and pre-ART costing exercise, the Mozambique team seeks technical support to conduct a costing exercise of community based care for PLHIV and OVC to project HIV services costs and to inform the allocation of resources in light of scale up.

A rapid costing exercise conducted earlier this year, highlighted the need for a more comprehensive, systematic approach to capturing accurate costing data. Costing community based care services is particularly challenging due to the wide variety of services provided to OVC and PLHIV.

This costing exercise will collect information on the costs incurred by USG and non-USG implementing partners to deliver HIV community based care and support services and allow the USG to gain a better understanding of the costs incurred for services provided.

In order to ensure that quality data is available for analysis, a consultant will work with implementing partners and USG to ensure that tools and systems are in place to collect costing data.

Costing information is key to supporting the Mozambican Government and Civil Society in budget planning and projections which will ensure that resources are available over the long-term to mitigate the response to HIV/AIDS.

Funding for Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC): $0

In FY 2010, USG will conduct a costing exercise for HIV community-based care services for people living with HIV. With adequate systems in place to work with partners on cost data collection, USG Mozambique expects to have unit cost calculations and cost projections under different scenarios.

Activities for the costing exercise include but are not limited to: 6) Providing assistance to and technical oversight during collection of information on clinical services costs, coverage, and activity description from PEPFAR-funded implementing partners in Mozambique; 7) Design cost survey forms, in collaboration with partners and USG, to be completed and submitted by USG implementing partners; 8) Estimate unit costs of HIV clinical and community care services, according to implementing partner and health system level; 9) Use unit costs data, in collaboration with local USG program managers, in making cost projections and to estimate future resource needs under a range of scenarios 10) Refine survey tools and processes to inform future costing activities. With adequate systems in place to work with partners on cost data collection, the USG expects to have unit cost calculations and cost projections for HIV community-based care services under different scenarios.

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

In FY 2010, USG will conduct a costing exercise for HIV community-based care services for orphans and

vulnerable children. With adequate systems in place to work with partners on cost data collection, USG Mozambique expects to have unit cost calculations and cost projections under different scenarios.

Activities for the costing exercise include but are not limited to: 1) Providing assistance to and technical oversight during collection of information on clinical services costs, coverage, and activity description from PEPFAR-funded implementing partners in Mozambique; 2) Design cost survey forms, in collaboration with partners and USG, to be completed and submitted by USG implementing partners; 3) Estimate unit costs of HIV clinical and community care services, according to implementing partner and health system level; 4) Use unit costs data, in collaboration with local USG program managers, in making cost projections and to estimate future resource needs under a range of scenarios 5) Refine survey tools and processes to inform future costing activities. With adequate systems in place to work with partners on cost data collection, the USG expects to have unit cost calculations and cost projections for HIV community-based care services under different scenarios.