PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009
Under the direction of the Uganda AIDS Commission, the Civil Society Fund Steering Committee manages
multiple donor resources supporting the civil society response to HIV/AIDS, OVC, TB, and Malaria. The
CSF is receiving donor support from USAID, DfID, DANIDA, Irish AID, and the Uganda Global Fund for
AIDS, TB and Malaria. The fund is managed by the Civil Society Fund Steering Committee, which held its
inaugural meeting March 2007. Grants to CSF grant recipients will be managed through Deloitte Touche, a
USAID contractor, as the CSF Financial Management Agent, which will also provide financial management
technical assistance to CSF implementing partners. The Technical Management Agent will be Care
International through the CORE Initiative, and the monitoring and evaluation of CSF supported grants, and
strengthening grantee monitoring and evaluation capacity, will be supported through the CSF's Monitoring
and Evaluation Agent. It is important to note that the grants mechanism originally developed under the
Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) with support from the CORE Initiative is now
integrated into this mechanism.
USG/PEPFAR prevention resources previously channeled through the MGLSD will now be channeled
through this mechanism. Through open and competitive solicitations, grants will be provided to local NGOs
to support the National Strategic Plan. AB resources in particular will be used to ensure that Uganda's
youth have access to age and risk appropriate abstinence, faithfulness and behaviour change information
and services. AB resources will also assist the national response in appropriately addressing the shifting
nature of the epidemic, and expand attention to faithfulness and partner reduction initiatives among newly
married young couples. In addition, resources will specifically address the vulnerability factors of specific
categories of youth such as young people involved in transactional or cross-generational sexual
relationships, young people living with HIV, and addressing the underlying causes of the vulnerabilities
faced by Uganda's youth that increase their risk of exposure to HIV. Cultural norms and practices, sexual
coercion, poverty and economic security vulnerabilities, and gender discrimination issues that make youth,
and in particular young girls at increased risk of exposure will be highlighted.
National level indigenous organization previously supported through UPHOLD, including Straight Talk, AIC
and TASO, will now be supported through the Civil Society Fund, with earmarked funding, in support of
overall coordination and harmonization of donor support to civil society. These resources will complement
comprehensive prevention activities supported through the CSF with contributing donor resources. Routine
monitoring and evaluation activities of grantees will also be supported with these resources.
Technical service organizations, building on what has already been established for OVC activities (see Core
Initiative write-up for OVC), will be contracted through the Financial Management Agent to provide technical
support to HIV grant recipients. Technical support will include organizational as well as content specific
needs such as prevention. The FMA will provide the financial capacity building.
to support the National Strategic Plan. OP resources in particular will be used to ensure that Uganda's
older and at risk youth have access to age and risk appropriate abstinence, faithfulness, behaviour change
and condom information and services. OP resources will also assist the national response in appropriately
addressing the shifting nature of the epidemic, and expand attention to faithfulness and partner reduction
initiatives among discordant and married couples. In addition, the vulnerability factors of specific categories
of youth such as young people involved in transactional or cross-generational sexual relationships, young
people living with HIV, and addressing the underlying causes of the vulnerabilities faced by Uganda's youth
that increase their risk of exposure to HIV will be addressed. In particular cultural norms and practices,
sexual coercion, poverty and economic security vulnerabilities, and gender discrimination issues that make
youth, and in particular young girls at increased risk of exposure will be highlighted. Cultural norms and
practices, sexual coercion, poverty and economic security vulnerabilities, and gender discrimination issues
that make youth, and in particular young girls at increased risk of exposure will be highlighted.
integrated into this mechanism. National level indigenous organization previously supported through
UPHOLD, including Straight Talk, AIC and TASO, will now be supported through the Civil Society Fund,
with earmarked funding, in support of overall coordination and harmonization of donor support to civil
society. AIC and TASO are supported by several development partners, including USAID, through this
mechanism. All partners will be supporting one comprehensive work plan and budget to avoid duplication
and gaps in funding. Routine monitoring and evaluation activities of grantees will also be supported with
these resources.
In FY07, AIC trained 186 individuals in providing HIV-related palliative care services reaching 43,474 clients
through its 8 stand alone branches. As a continuation of the FY08 activities, AIC will continue to offer the
following services through its medical staff and counselors: medical treatment of opportunistic infections
(OIs) and minor ailments; STD diagnosis and management; septrin prophylaxis; psychosocial support; and
on-going counseling to all its clients. Approximately over 30,000 clients will be treated for OIs, and other
minor ailments; 20,000 clients will be initiated on septrin prophylaxis thereby reaching approximately 50,000
clients with HIV-related services. This will contribute towards national efforts of implementing government
policy on scaling septrin prophylaxis and national guidelines on management of OIs among people with HIV
(PHAs).
In all AIC service points including outreach sites and mobile VCT, AIC will complement HCT services with
AB, OP and palliative care activities funded in-house or by other USG and/or other donors. Individuals will
be able to know their sero-status, encouraged to adopt prevention options of their choice and receive a
minimum palliative care package and referred where necessary. In the outreach sites and mobile VCT,
AIC will operate mobile clinics/pharmacies that will provide the client with a first doze of septrin for one
month and additional referral information for further on-going prophylaxis. Treatment of Opportunistic
Infections will also be carried out at these sites. 16,500 individuals will be reached through AIC.
Integrated services will be provided in collaboration with other partners such as Population Services
International (PSI) to reach an estimated 1,000 HIV positive clients with comprehensive HIV basic care
packages which include mosquito nets, water vessel guards, information, education and communication
(IEC) materials on positive living and septrin prophylaxis all of which aim at improving quality of life of
PHAs. The HIV+ client will be encouraged to mobilize other family members and community to access CT
so as to identify infected clients that require ART and other care and support services beyond what they can
offer to other agencies such as Joint Clinical research Center (JCRC), TASO, Mild May and Regional public
health facilities. AIC will provider refresher workshops to 250 medical counselors on current issues in AIDS
care and support, owing to the changing dynamics of HIV/AIDS as well as legislative issues such as
prevention of gender based violence.
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) is an indigenous organization operating in Uganda since 1987.
TASO operates 11 service centers and 39 outreach clinics spread across Uganda. TASO provides a full
continuum of comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services for 80,000 active clients - People
with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) 65% of whom are female. TASO core activities include counseling, clinical care,
treatment, capacity-building, HIV prevention, community mobilization and sensitization, social support and
advocacy for the rights and welfare of PHA. TASO collaborates with Ministry of Health and other line
government ministries, the Uganda AIDS Commission, local governments, community structures, cultural
institutions and several other HIV/AIDS and development stakeholders.
By end of March 2007, TASO had provided Palliative care/Basic Health care and support (excluding
TB/HIV) to about 76,000 people in FY O7. This support included provision of counseling and provision
medical care to clients both at the centers, at home and at outreach clinics. Over 65% of those clients
provided with the above services were women. In addition, 427 service providers were trained to provide
palliative care to clients.
In FY 2008, TASO intends to establish increased partnership with the health units at various communities
country wise especially in Northern Uganda.
Basic health care and support will be provided to an estimated 80,000 clients and 20,000 family members
served through all 11 TASO centers and their outreach clinics. Services include clinical care services,
psychosocial support, social care and support and linkages to referral networks. Under clinical care services
TASO will provide ongoing post-test counseling, Management Opportunistic Infections, STI diagnosis and
treatment, Family Planning, PMTCT support services (through counseling and referral for services),
nutritional counseling and education, pain relief, ongoing assessment for ARV readiness and support
services to ART adherence. Under psychosocial support, TASO through counselors and community support
groups at the centers and outreach clinics will provide support for disclosure of HIV serostatus to partners,
will-making and bereavement. Approximately 360 service providers will receive refresher training in
emerging issues like in HIV/AIDS palliative care. 80,000 individuals will be reached through TASO.
Under social care and support, TASO will provide psycho- social support to HIV-infected individuals and
their families and promote maintenance of linkages to and use of healthcare services and the reduction of
stigma due to HIV/AIDS. TASO will maintain strategic linkages with partners engaged in nutritional support,
sustainable livelihoods programming and economic empowerment of PHA. TASO will maintain collaboration
with WFP (WFP) and ACDI/VOCA to support nutritional supplementation for its food insecure clients. It is
estimated that 25,000 primary clients will benefit from this intervention, with the inclusion of their family
members; there will be an estimated 100,000 beneficiaries from the support from World Food Program and
ACDI/VOCA. This support will be given to clients in the food insecure regions of Northern and Eastern
Activity Narrative: Uganda.
inaugural meeting March 2007. Grants to CSF grant receipients will be managed through Deloitte Touche,
a USAID contractor, as the CSF Financial Management Agent, which will also provide financial
management technical assistance to CSF implementing partners. The Technical Management Agent will
be Care International through the CORE Initiative, and the monitoring and evaluation of CSF supported
grants, and strengthening grantee monitoring and evaluation capacity, will be supported through the CSF's
Monitoring and Evaluation Agent. It is important to note that the grants mechanism originally developed
under the Ministry of Gender, labour and Social Development (MGLSD) with support from the CORE
Initiative is now integrated into this mechanism.
USG/PEPFAR OVC resources previously channeled through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social
Development (MGLSD) will now be channeled through this mechanism. Through open and competitive
solicitations, grants will be provided to local districts and civil society organizations to support the National
Orphans Policy and National Strategic Plan of Implementation. OVC resources in particular will be used to
support comprehensive district grants including funding to local government community-based service
departments as well as district based civil society organizations in an attempt to provide a more
comprehensive response to identified children. This represents a significant change in the way OVC
services have been financially and technically supported by the USG and other partners and is being
initiated with FY07 funding. The CSF is working closely with the CORE Initiative and the MGLSD to
facilitate this transition. See the CORE Initiative OVC activity write-up for more information on technical
support to this initiative. Funding will also continue for the expansion and improvement of integrated
pediatric HIV and "traditional" OVC services. This grant is also just beginning under the CSF. The
solicitation and awarding of this grant was delayed so as to avoid substantial overlap in granting activities
between the MGLSD/CORE Initiative and the CSF mechanisms. Technical Service Organizations currently
funded and supported under the MGLSD/CORE Initiative will be transitioned to the CSF early next year.
The CORE Initiative as the TMA to the CSF as well as the technical support agent for the MGLSD will
continue to provide substantial technical support to the roll-out of the OVC response in partnership with the
FMA.
Routine monitoring and evaluation activities of grantees will also be supported with these resources.
Please see CORE Initiative OVC write-up for more detailed information related to support to the national
response and technical service organizations.
overall coordination and harmonization of donor support to civil society. AIC is supported by several
development partners, including USAID, through this mechanism. All partners will be supporting one
comprehensive workplan and budget to avoid duplication and gaps in funding. Routine monitoring and
evaluation activities of grantees will also be supported with these resources.
AIC is a Non-Governmental Organization established in 1990 to provide Voluntary Counseling and Testing
(VCT) services on the premise that knowledge of ones own sero-status is an important determinant in
controlling the spread of HIV. AIC also uses HIV/counseling and testing (HCT) as an entry point for the
provision of and referral to HIV/AIDS service-provider initiated services including prevention of HIV
transmission, treatment of opportunistic infections, PMTCT and ART services as well as other care and
support services. In FY 08 AIC will continue contributing towards the national goal of reducing the new
infections particularly among the youth and adults.
The Uganda Behavioral sero-survey 2005 indicates that 79% of Ugandans who would want to know their
HIV status are unable to access HCT and yet the knowledge of one's sero status is an entry point for
effective prevention, treatment, care and support. In Uganda the prevalence of HIV has been stable over
the past five years at 6.4% - 6.7%, a decline from 18% recorded in the 1990s. However there is evidence
that the rate of new infections estimated at 132,000 Ugandans annually, will lead to an escalating
prevalence if not checked. Sexual transmission remains the main form of transmission of HIV in Uganda.
HIV is also higher among the women whose prevalence is 9.5% as compared to the males whose
prevalence is 5.5%. Women continue to be more exposed due to their biological nature and also because
they can not negotiate for sex and in most cases lack economic and social independence. The epidemic is
higher in the urban as compared to the rural areas. In terms of age, the epidemic is concentrated in the age
groups 25-49 years which is also the productive age. Some of the drivers of the epidemic include; early
initiation of sex, casual sex, multiple sex partners, extra marital sex, ulcerative Sexually Transmitted
Infections, Herpes Simplex Virus, domestic violence, transactional sex and intergenerational sex, alcohol
and alcohol abuse. Among the individuals who are likely to spiral the epidemic are commercial sex
workers, fishing communities, the military & other uniformed services, truck drivers, orphans and vulnerable
children.
In FY07, AIC trained 902 individuals in counseling and testing to reach 329,155 clients with HCT services.
As a continuation of the FY07 activities, AIC will continue to increase access and utilization of HCT services
using FY08 resources through a variety of approaches:
•AIC will provide VCT services through 8 stand alone AIC branches to reach 100,000 clients.
•Routine counseling and testing at health centre III level will target 150,000 clients in 56 health centers.
•Outreaches targeting the Most at Risk Populations (MARPS) will reach 150,000 individuals.
Over the years, AIC has learned that the provision of HCT needs to be complemented with integrated
services to increase HCT uptake. Service integration creates a positive impact that improves the quality of
life of the HIV positive clients while at the same time reinforcing prevention messages to the HIV negative
clients. In all AIC service points including outreach sites and mobile VCT, AIC will complement HCT with
AB, OP and palliative care activities funded by other USG and/or other donors. Individuals will be able to
know their sero-status, encouraged to adopt prevention options of their choice and receive a minimum
palliative care package and referred where necessary. In the outreach sites and mobile VCT, AIC will
operate mobile clinics/pharmacies that will provide the client with a first doze of septrin for one month and
additional referral information for further on-going prophylaxis. Treatment of Opportunistic Infections will
also be carried out at these sites.
AIC's outreach activities will include those held in schools, fishing landing sites, military/police
establishments, mobile populations including internally displaced persons (IDPs), truck drivers' stopping
points such as Katuna, Mbiko and Naluwerere, institutions of higher learning, as well as corporate
employers. AIC will use the peers trained for AB and OP to mobilize for HCT among their peer populations.
Mobile (home to home) VCT will be implemented in selected areas covering a total of 10,000 clients. In the
MVCT approach, AIC will use the finger stick method of testing.
In line with PMTCT and HIV prevention AB and OP, AIC will make a deliberate effort to target pregnant
women to come for HIV testing with their partners. AIC will promote and offer free HIV testing for pregnant
women and their partners at the AIC branches. This will support AIC's efforts in PMTCT as more clients will
be identified for PMTCT. Those found to be eligible for ART will be referred to the AIC facility that will soon
start to offer the service, while those in upcountry locations will be referred to the nearest facilities offering
ART. It is estimated that AIC will extend HCT to 5,000 pregnant women during FY08. The pregnant women
will be part of the 100,000 clients served at the main branches.
The HIV incidence escalation among the married/cohabiting couples will ensure that AIC offers free HIV
testing and counseling for couples on specific days and strengthen couple club activities in all the branches.
Activities supported for the couple clubs will include providing training in key communication skills,
prevention of gender-based violence among couples and promotion of disclosure. These couple clubs will
also be a vessel in mobilization and promotion of HCT uptake by their fellow couples. AIC will support
couple clubs meetings and use these avenues to promote faithfulness. It is estimated that 5,000 couples
(10,000 individuals) will benefit from free couple HCT.
Activity Narrative:
As a continuation of the activities implemented in FY07, AIC will increase its target for youth to access HCT
services. With fully functional youth wings at all the branches by the end of FY 07, AIC will continue to
attract youth for HCT through provision of free and confidential youth-friendly services. Abstinence
messages will be given to the youth coming for HCT at the youth corners. Treatment of OIs and STIs will
also be available while those found in need of other services such as ART, will be referred to the AIC facility
that is soon starting the service. Youth accessing HCT services from AIC upcountry branches will be
referred to the nearest ART facilities. It is estimated that through the youth wings, AIC will provide HCT to
30,000 youth both in and out of school.
Through all the above approaches, AIC will reach 450,000 individuals (an estimated 112,500 clients per
quarter) who will be counseled, tested and receive results through the 64 static sites and 112 outreach
sites. It is estimated that 2,000 out reaches will be conducted. Overall 176 service outlets will be supported
for HCT service delivery.
AIC will also support the training of partners' service providers, counselors and laboratory technicians, and
supervisors. AIC staff will receive refresher training in the new approaches for HCT service delivery. AIC will
continue to receive requests from partners to assist in training of service providers in HCT. Personnel to be
trained will include 600 counselors, 200 lab technicians, 200 HCT Supervisors (includes 50 lab technicians
100 counselors and 50 HCT Supervisors). An additional 500 HCT service providers will be trained from
organizations that provide HCT services and request for technical assistance from AIC. To ensure the
provision of quality HCT services, quarterly monitoring and support supervision visits will be conducted in
the 200 service outlets. An estimated overall total 1,700 service providers for AIC and partners will receive
training and appropriate support supervision to meet the increasing demand for counseling and testing
services
overall coordination and harmonization of donor support to civil society. All partners will be supporting one
continuum of comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services for 80,000 active clients (65% of
these PHA are female). The high poverty among most TASO clients and their remote location in rural areas
combine to limit regular access to HIV/AIDS services. This is why most TASO services include home- and
community-based delivery of services. TASO programming recognizes PHA and their families as key
partners together with other strategic partners including government, donors, civil society and others NGOs.
PHA and affected communities contribute to strategic decisions that influence TASO operations. TASO core
activities include counseling, clinical care, treatment, capacity-building, HIV prevention, community
mobilization and sensitization, social support and advocacy for the rights and welfare of PHA. TASO
collaborates with Ministry of Health and other line government ministries, the Uganda AIDS Commission,
local governments, community structures, cultural institutions and several other HIV/AIDS and development
stakeholders. TASO programs are designed to contribute to achieving the national health and HIV/AIDS
strategies. To access services to the neediest PHA TASO runs a vigorous community-arm through field
staff, community volunteers, community-based HIV/AIDS leadership structures and PHA networks.
To ensure sustainability of the provision of the services TASO offers to clients, TASO has adopted a
strategy that helps to build capacity of other service providers to provide the same quality of services that
TASO offers wherever a TASO center is located. The service providers trained include those from
Government Hospitals and health centers, Community based organizations and other NGOs involved in the
provision of care and support for PHAs. The capacity building effort is being enhance to include aspects of
laboratory knowledge for the service providers in partner organizations. TASO does the above capacity
building with hope that in future, the MOH would take up this responsibility and recruit all necessary cadres
of staff to provide adequate care and support to all PHAs.
In order to provide good quality basic health care services, healthcare workers need a well functioning
laboratory to help in the diagnosis of opportunistic infections. Therefore, strengthening laboratory
infrastructure and capacity is a key component of palliative care. Each of the 11 TASO centers has a
laboratory that is able to carry out the minimum set of tests required to support an HIV/AIDS clinic. The tests
are mainly diagnostic and intended to enable clinicians provide better care to the clients. The tests done
include those for; Malaria, TB, Typhoid, Syphilis, Blood Sugar, urinalysis, confirmatory tests for HIV, basic
chemistry, and others.
TASO laboratories at the centers of Soroti, Rukungiri, Masindi and Gulu will continue to be wholly supported
to deliver of basic healthcare and prophylaxis for opportunistic infections and ART. The support will cover
the provision of HCT at the center, at the outreaches, and in clients' homes.
TASO plans to further strengthen and support laboratory services through procurement of necessary
reagents and equipments in addition to refresher training of its laboratory staff. TASO has learnt that the
computerization of laboratory MIS make data storage, retrieval, analysis and utilization much easier and will
therefore support the support laboratory human resource and also ensure that the human resource receives
adequate training to support the laboratory MIS. TASO shall also maintain and strengthen the collaboration
with other partners that provide specialized laboratory services that TASO is unable to provide, or those that
would be too costly for TASO to provide.
TASO shall ensure that all test results are handed to the client by a service provider that is competent to
provide the necessary counseling to prevent transmission or recurrence of the condition. All sexually active
clients will be counseled to disclose their test results for HIV and other STIs to their sexual partners and to
bring the partners to TASO for HIV testing and for couple counseling to promote faithfulness and use of
condoms, those couples that may wish to have children will be given information about family planning and
PMTCT; the younger clients will be encouraged to abstain; clients with positive TB tests shall be sensitized
on how to prevent transmission of the TB to their fellow patients and household members; and those with
malaria will be encouraged to sleep under an insecticide treated mosquito net and also to take all the
precautions to prevent recurrence of malaria.
TASO shall endeavor to scale up laboratory services through HBHCT in order to identify the discordant
couples and the children especially those children under five years who may have acquired HIV vertically
and refer them to TASO for appropriate counseling and care including scholastic and nutrition support
through the TASO OVC program.
Therefore, laboratory services will be used an entry point to many of the services provided at TASO-Medical
care including ART, PMTCT information, OVC support and educational support-for both the HIV positive
clients and their household members.
inaugural meeting March 2007. Grants to CSF grant recipients will be managed through Deloitte and
Touche, a USAID contractor, as the CSF Financial Management Agent. Deloitte and Touche also provides
financial management technical assistance to CSF implementing partners. The Technical Management
Agent is Care International through the CORE Initiative.
The monitoring and evaluation component of the CSF will function similar to the MEEPP project for the USG
PEPFAR program in Uganda. The TOR are currently being finalized. The contract is expected to be in
place by the end of October. The participating development partners, UNAIDS and the Uganda AIDS
Commission are currently mapping out the best way to manage and support this M&E function under the
new national M&E Plan. It is important to note that the CSF is a partnership between development
partners, GOU and civil society. USAID as a contributing donor and one of two development partners
members of the Steering Committee, holds the agreements with the technical management agent and the
financial management agent. In doing so, USAID provides in-kind cost sharing to the CSF for the
management costs of these two agents. At the same time, some development partners such as DANIDA
are not able to pay for M&E costs. Therefore, in addition to some of the M&E costs covered within key USG
supported program areas including AB, OP and OVC, these resources will be used to cover some of the
M&E costs not able to be supported by some of the development partners who are directly supporting
grants. It is expected that as the CSF strengthens and grows, other development partners will put funds
into the CSF. The long term financial needs of the M&E component will continue to be assessed on a
regular basis.
Agent is Care International through the CORE Initiative. The monitoring and evaluation component of the
CSF will function similar to the MEEPP project for the USG PEPFAR program in Uganda. The TOR are
currently being finalized. The contract is expected to be in place by the end of October.
It is important to note that the CSF is a partnership between development partners, GOU and civil society.
USAID as a contributing donor and one of two development partners members of the Steering Committee,
holds the agreements with the technical management agent and the financial management agent. In doing
so, USAID provides in-kind cost sharing to the CSF for the management costs of these two agents. One of
the reasons the fund was established from a donor perspective is because many donor agencies do not
have the capacity to manage grants and contracts. This mechanism is one way to streamline their support
to civil society and at the same time alleviate their management burden. The USG and in particular USAID
is well positioned to support such activities and mechanisms as seen through the Uganda OVC grants
program and the RFE in Tanzania.
These resources will be used to support the total direct cost plus fee of the financial management contract.
Global Fund will cover the management costs of GF resources channeled through the CSF. The financial
management agent is responsible for funds management, grants management and financial capacity
building of CSF grantees. They also work in close partnership with the technical management agent, the
M&E contractor and provide technical support to the steering committee. The use of the CORE Initiative as
the technical management agent did not result in increased costs because the CORE Initiative's original
SOW included a similar activity for the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD). The
activities initiated under the MGLSD have been integrated with the CSF.
