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Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Winrock International (Winrock) applied under the USAID APS Civil Society Organizations/Faith Based Organizations Network to Provide HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Services. Winrock's proposed Capacity Building for AIDS Impact Mitigation (AIM) project was accepted under the APS; Winrock has been awarded with COP06 funds and will commence activities in October 2006. This submission is for continuation of activities in year 2.
The AIM AB activity will prevent cross-generational and transactional sex through three interventions. First, AIM will strengthen CBO/FBO capacity to facilitate behavior change among vulnerable girls and young women and to support an enabling environment for the promotion of abstinence and fidelity and the prevention of cross-generational and transactional sex. Second, AIM will support income generating activities to promote alternatives to transactional sex. Job skills training and in-kind grants to implement income-generating activities will be coupled with HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention training with AB messages. Finally, AIM will establish a peer education and mentoring program for recipients of the income generating training and grants activity.
This activity also includes support to the following sub-recipients for activities integral to the program. Sub-recipients are based on AIM's three levels of partnerships: core partners, collaborating partners and implementing agents (IAs). AIM's core partners are Winrock and the Redeemed Christian Church of God (Redeemed) and the Muslim Sisters Organization (MSO). AIM's collaborating partners are the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). ICAN will support the development of the IAs' financial management and accounting systems and NIM will support the development of the IAs' project management capacity. AIM is in the process of selecting its IAs for this AB activity. All selected IAs will be local Nigerian CBOs/FBOs that will provide direct services to project beneficiaries.
AIM will potentially implement its AB activity in 15 states. AIM will collaborate with USG Nigeria and the GON to make the final state and site selection to ensure the greatest synergy among PEPFAR partners and the greatest impact on PEPFAR beneficiaries.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA Targets will be determined during the workplanning process. The AB component of AIM will specifically address the June 2006 Prevention Technical Assessment's recommendation to develop new activities that are explicitly designed to prevent cross-generational and transactional sex, a key component of a successful and comprehensive prevention portfolio.
LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES AIM will be supported through the FY07 COP in HVAB, HBHC, and HKID. AIM will link its activities with other PEPFAR USG partners' activities to ensure strong referrals to comprehensive prevention, care and treatment services. In addition, AIM will collaborate with USAID public-private partnerships to provide job-training graduates with linkages in the business community.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED Women, girls and commercial sex workers are all populations being targeted. The activity promotes alternatives for women already engaged in commercial sex work while also addressing women and girls who are vulnerable to cross-generational and transactional sex in an attempt to prevent their engagement in these high-risk activities.
KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED The key legislative issue addressed is gender, with an emphasis on the subcategory of increasing women's access to income and productive resources through income generating activities and vocational training.
EMPHASIS AREAS The major emphasis area is local organization capacity building through the strengthening of CBO/FBO capacity to promote abstinence and fidelity and the prevention of cross-generational and transactional sex. The minor emphasis area is community
mobilization/participation peer education and mentoring for the recipients of the income generating training and grants activity.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION Winrock International (Winrock) applied under the USAID APS Civil Society Organizations/Faith Based Organizations Network to Provide HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Services. Winrock's proposed Capacity Building for AIDS Impact Mitigation (AIM) project was accepted under the APS; Winrock has been awarded with COP06 funds and will commence activities in October 2006. This submission is for continuation of activities in year 2.
AIM prevention activities will focus on prevention HIV transmission through cross-generational and transactional sex through three interventions. First, AIM will strengthen CBO/FBO capacity to facilitate behavior change among vulnerable girls and young women and to support an enabling environment for the promotion of abstinence and fidelity and the prevention of cross-generational and transactional sex. Second, AIM will support income generating activities to promote alternatives to transactional sex. Job skills training and in-kind grants to implement income-generating activities will be coupled with HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention training with AB messages. Finally, AIM will provide medically correct information about correct and consistent condom use and will provide condoms and demonstrate their use in situations where women are reducing, but not eliminating their risk. While the AB part of the program is the focus, and will be provided for in the AB program area, the ability to provide for individual client needs for condoms or other types of prevention will be provided for under this program area.
AIM will potentially implement its prevention activities in 15 states. AIM will collaborate with USG Nigeria and the GON to make the final state and site selection to ensure the greatest synergy among PEPFAR partners and the greatest impact on PEPFAR beneficiaries.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA The prevention component of AIM will specifically address the June 2006 Prevention Technical Assessment's recommendation to develop new activities that are explicitly designed to prevent cross-generational and transactional sex, a key component of a successful and comprehensive prevention portfolio. Well-rounded ABC education will be provided, and IGA to support CSW's desire to withdraw from sex-work will be offered and supported.
Over the 3 year period of the new award, AIM will support prevention activities with IGA for 750 CSW's, with 200 reached with both individual prevention messages and IGA opportunities in the first year.
LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES AIM will be supported through the FY07 COP in HVAB, HBHC, and HKID. AIM will link its activities with other PEPFAR USG partners' activities to ensure strong referrals to comprehensive prevention, care and treatment services. In addition, AIM will collaborate with USAID public-private partnerships to provide job-training graduates with linkages in the business community. AIM will utilize condoms provided by SFH which have been leveraged from DfID resources.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED Women, girls and commercial sex workers are all populations being targeted. The activity promotes alternatives for women already engaged in commercial sex work while also addressing women and girls who are vulnerable to cross-generational and transactional sex in an attempt to prevent their engagement in these high-risk activities. It provided
accurate and factual information about transmission and offers prevention support either through transition from CSW or consistent condom use with every sex act.
EMPHASIS AREAS The major emphasis area is local organization capacity building through the strengthening of CBO/FBO capacity to promote ABC and the prevention of cross-generational and transactional sex. The minor emphasis area is community mobilization/participation peer education and mentoring for the recipients of the income generating training and grants activity.
In an effort to improve the quality of life of HIV infected individuals and their families, the AIM project will refine and use previously tested and successful approaches to initiate and implement income generating activities to improve the economic and nutrition status of individuals, households and communities affected by AIDS. The types of income generating activities will vary depending on community-identified needs and rural or urban location. In addition, PLWAs and PABAs will be linked to referral sites for prevention awareness, care and treatment services. The AIM team will ensure that one of the criteria for project site selection is close proximity to services provided by national, USG or other donor supported activities for prevention, care and treatment. AIM income-generating activities and provision of life skills and education through community learning centers for OVCs will complement ongoing prevention and care programs. They will address critical economic needs of HIV infected individuals and their families to ensure income and food security.
The AIM project will employ a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of life of at least 700 women and their families, and award at least $100,000 in micro and small loans. Single parents, especially widows, will be targeted, along with their entire communities for economic empowerment programs through both income-generating activities, and small business loans.
AIM will establish a training and in-kind grants program to allow targeted beneficiaries to conduct income-generating and agro-enterprise development projects. Skilled experts will be recruited to deliver training to a) women's associations and individual widows and single mothers who meet selection criteria to receive grants and b) communities and individuals interested and able to establish CBOs. Participants will be trained in business plan development as well as how to live positively with AIDS. Those who successfully complete the training and meet grant eligibility criteria will receive in-kind grants of $50-$150 to implement income-generating activities. Depending on community identified needs, income generating activities could include agricultural projects such as rice and cowpea processing, poultry farming, snaileries, fisheries, manual food processing, vegetable and communal farms where growing immune-boosting nutritional foods is encouraged and surplus is sold for cash. Other activities could include craft making (e.g. church hat making or bead work), neighborhood grocery kiosks, tailoring, catering, tie-dyeing and others. Winrock experience indicates that these enterprises could lead to an estimated income of US $16-75 per week, per enterprise.
Most PABAs and PLWAs report that Banks and other lending institutions, including local cooperatives with credit facilities, are consistently reluctant to give them credit because they are considered high investment risks. However, PABAs and PLWAs can live relatively normal and productive lives for many years, particularly with the provision of anti-retroviral treatment (ART). Data also suggest that the lack of economic resources can lead to despair, reinforce stigma and discrimination, reduce quality of life and lead to early death. To help overcome the difficulties PABAs and PLWAs face in accessing credit, the AIM project has forged an innovative partnership with Oceanic Bank International, PLC. Oceanic will establish a loan fund of up to $100,000 to provide micro and small loans (of $100, $500 or $1,000) to AIM project beneficiaries who exhibit entrepreneurial promise for establishing or expanding micro enterprises. Oceanic does not ordinarily process loans this small for entrepreneurs who lack collateral, however it is willing to pilot a micro-credit product line in this case because AIM will deliver quality training to potential recipients in basic business skills, business plan development, bookkeeping, marketing, loan application development, and repayment obligations. Loan officers of the bank will participate in the training sessions and review the draft business plans, giving participants an opportunity to further strengthen plans before submitting them officially to the bank. A community-based Loan Advisory Board (LAB), made up of
local business and civil society leaders, representatives from PABA and PLWA care and support organizations, and Oceanic Bank representatives, will select PABAs and PLWAs to benefit from this opportunity and will monitor their progress. Using an approach that overcomes the perceived risks of loans for PABAs and PLWAs, Oceanic Bank will tap into a new pool of potential customers and demonstrate a successful business model that other banks in Nigeria will want to follow to remain competitive.
AIM's core partners are Winrock and the Redeemed Christian Church of God (Redeemed) and the Muslim Sisters Organization (MSO). AIM's collaborating partners are the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). ICAN will support the development of the IAs' financial management and accounting systems and NIM will support the development of the IAs' project management capacity. AIM is in the process of selecting its IAs for this AB activity. All selected IAs will be local Nigerian CBOs/FBOs that will provide direct services to project beneficiaries.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA AIM will target this effort for at least 700 widows and single mothers directly and collaborate with PABA and PLWA support groups and communities of PABA, especially those already being sponsored by Emergency Plan Nigeria. Some of these women are expected to gain enough experience and to produce enough surplus to expand their income generating activities into micro enterprise businesses. Winrock will bring to bear its experience working with the Nigerian Agriculture Development Program under USAID's Farmer-to-Farmer program which will be beneficial for program synergy and lessons learned.
LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES AIM will be supported through the FY07 COP in HVAB, HVOP, and HKID. AIM will link its activities with other PEPFAR USG partners' activities to ensure strong referrals to comprehensive prevention, care and treatment services. In addition, AIM will collaborate with USAID public-private partnerships to provide job-training graduates with linkages in the business community.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED Widows, single mothers, PLWAs will be targets and they along with PABAs, their families and communities will benefit from this comprehensive and integrated intervention.
KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED Stigma and Discrimination, Gender--especially increasing women's access to income and productive resources—and Wrap Arounds - including food, microfinance/micro credit and education will be addressed in this program, by creating linkages and leveraging community resources as mentioned above.
EMPHASIS AREAS The major emphasis area is local organization capacity building through the strengthening of CBO/FBO capacity to promote ABC and service provision for OVC's and their carers. The minor emphasis area is community mobilization/participation peer education and mentoring for the recipients of the income generating training and grants activity.
AIM OVC activities focus on The Nigerian OVC National Plan of Action which describes the current response to the needs of OVCs as inadequate and poorly coordinated. The result is that most of the country's nearly 2 million OVCs are left without sufficient support in communities largely unaware of their dire circumstances. AIM's objective is to reach at least 2100 OVCs over 3 years with care and support activities, by establishing 35 community-based learning centers which provide education, mentoring, community engagement and opportunities for OVCs to express themselves to their communities.
Education enables children to access and share information and enhances social development. Most important for OVCs, it facilitates access to AIDS awareness and protects them from exploitation, breaking the cycle of vulnerability to AIDS. Some OVCs operate child-headed households, caring for sick parents and their siblings. The 2 lcoal consortium partners, Redeemed and MSO, will award five small grants of US $250-$1,000 to CBOs to carry-out the above mentioned activities in the seven target states, a total of thirty five (35) grants in all. These Acada centers will conduct evening classes at community donated or designated venues for the most vulnerable out-of-school children. These children are out of school for many reasons that may include lack of resources for school fees and supplies, working or studying a trade, age, or providing care to sick family members. The Acada centers will prepare these vulnerable children with the basic skills to help them succeed in the future. The curriculum will include English, literacy and numeracy, and life skills. AIDS education awareness programs will be integrated into the program.
AIM will promote the Greater Involvement of People Living with AIDS (GIPA) principle by encouraging IPs to select community educators who are HIV+. Such educators help dispel discrimination by acting as role models for living positively with AIDS. This program will prepare HIV/AIDS affected orphans for transition into the formal education system and will provide basic education and life skills to older children who have never been to school and are unlikely to attend school. The Acada centers will conduct three academic sessions of nine months each in each community, thus reaching at least 2,100 students. AIM will develop a kit of basic instructional materials for community educators and will ensure gender equity. In addition to the direct results of increasing educational opportunities for OVCs, implementing partners will broaden their organizational capacity by moving from being grant recipients to becoming small grant providers.
AIM will work with implementing agents that receive grants to establish a mentoring program. Together with the IPs, AIM staff will assess the mentoring skills and materials of agents, drawing from Winrock's Mentoring Manual and lessons learned from experience implementing the USAID-funded Education for Development and Democracy Initiative (EDDI) and African Education Initiative (AEI) Ambassador Girls' Scholarship Programs. The Mentoring Manual provides basic information to mentors to facilitate discussions on topics such as HIV/AIDS, sexual maturation, reproductive health, careers, leadership, and the importance of education. Using this tool, AIM implementing partners will have a strong foundation for building capacity to provide mentoring support in their communities. The grant recipients are expected to carry out mentoring activities, guidance and counseling sessions, life skills training, and role modeling for AIDS orphans. Mentors will also organize group events, such as debates, football matches, and traditional musical drama performances to mobilize communal support for children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Music, dance and theater are important elements of social education in Nigeria. Implementing partners and agents will work with Acada learning centers to develop musical dramas, cultural dance and theater to educate vulnerable groups on the challenges of HIV/AIDS. OVCs and youth will be encouraged to develop and enter their drama or musical piece into state competitions. Winning pieces will be used to educate peers to assist in dispelling the stigma and discrimination associated with AIDS. The best
performance from each state will be selected and invited to perform at the national level, and presented an award. The state and national events can be synchronized with important dates associated with AIDS, such as World AIDS Day, of the African Child.
AIM's core partners are Winrock, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (Redeemed) and the Muslim Sisters Organization (MSO). AIM's collaborating partners are the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). ICAN will support the development of the IAs' financial management and accounting systems and NIM will support the development of the IAs' project management capacity. AIM is in the process of selecting its IAs for this AB activity. All selected IAs will be local Nigerian CBOs/FBOs that will provide direct services to project beneficiaries.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA The Nigerian OVC National Plan of Action states that "there is a generally low level of consciousness of the situation of OVC in all parts of the country... consequently there is a need for OVC awareness-creation campaigns." Community barber shops and hair salons are well patronized and central focal points and regular meeting places for men and women. They are a point of entry for recurring events and can be used to target men and women with innovative OVC awareness campaign activities. Barbers and hair stylists will be trained in delivering prevention, living positively, and OVC awareness messages to their clients. AIM will access information, education and communications materials from USG partners for display and distribution in barber shops and hair salons. AIM will encourage participant shop owners to become effective agents of awareness within their communities.
Over the 3 year period of the new award, AIM will support OVC activities directly benefiting 2100 OCV s, with 500 reached in the first year.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED AIDS affected orphans, vulnerable children and their families and communities will be targeted in this comprehensive and integrated intervention.
