Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Details for Mechanism ID: 11479
Country/Region: Uganda
Year: 2012
Main Partner: U.S. Department of State
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Other USG Agency
Funding Agency: enumerations.State/African Affairs
Total Funding: $401,000

The focus of the PEPFAR Small Grants Program of the DoS The Community Grants Program to combat HIV/AIDS is to provide care and support to OVC and Adult Care and Support. The best way to meet the needs of vulnerable children is to keep their parents alive. The Community Grants Program also provides care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS, enabling parents to resume their role as caretakers and thus allowing children to reclaim their childhood. The Community Grants Program recognizes the critical contribution played by grassroots organizations in providing care to these target populations, often in rural underserved areas. Many of these organizations do not qualify for the million-dollar grants awarded by USAID and CDC and are unable to access the services provided by USG Implementing Partners. Grants are awarded for a one-year period to groups working in direct service delivery in one of the nine priority intervention areas that are essential to the well being of OVC: socio-economic security, food security/nutrition, care/support, mitigation of the impact of conflict, education, psychosocial support, health, child protection and legal support. Comprehensive care given by strengthening household income generation is the preferred approach. Adult Care and Support funds are used to directly serve PHAs in ways that reduce their vulnerability to opportunistic infections, improve nutritional status, provide home based care support, including social/psychological mentoring. Projects that provide economic strengthening via training, animal husbandry, or garden projects are also useful in sustaining health status of PHAs and their families. Community education and mobilization to VCT resources are the gateway to identifying PHA within the communities.

Funding for Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC): $175,000

In 2012 PEPFAR community grants will support ten local organizations in eight districts to provide social support to PHA through income-generating activities, access to clean water and strengthening of staff quarters of a health centre. All community grants will also provide psychosocial and social support to promote adherence and retention in care and treatment programs. The PEPFAR Community Grants will be implemented in Buikwe, Jinja, Kyenjojo, Lira, Luwero, Mayunge, Ngora and Wakiso.

One of the small grants in 2012 focuses on provision of prevention services to a small group of MSM through risk reduction counseling. With this grant PEPFAR contributes towards the interagency effort to increase access to HIV/AIDS prevention among MARPs, aligned with CDC and USAID support to MARPs through MARPI and UHMG. Further cooperation among the Small grants and the mentioned partners will be will be promoted particularly around condom and prevention IEC material distribution.

The grants will increase the local community organizations capacity to reach out and support their community members, and implement innovative ideas to contribute towards achieving universal access of 80% in care by 2015.

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $226,000

The Community Grants Program OVC portfolio will fund several projects to be completed within a 12 month time line and with a budget of $25,000 or less. The majority of projects will focus on economic strengthening for OVC households. The goal is for OVC educational, nutritional, and health needs to be met through the increase of household income. Economic strengthening projects will focus on increasing the income generation of households through animal husbandry, vocational or skills training to increase employment opportunities, business training with start-up materials or through co-operative small business projects in which income is shared among contributing members who are OVC caretakers. A portion of OVC projects will focus on strengthening the local government to provide better protection services to children with a clear system for reporting abuse. Another portion of OVC projects will provide a means for OVC to access clean water at home and school through the provision of rain water collection tanks and Bio-sand water filters.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $176,000
enumerations.Construction/Renovation $19,000
Economic Strengthening $137,000
Water $20,000
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services
Child Survival Activities