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Years of mechanism: 2008 2009
This is a new activity in FY08.
Through the New Partners Initiative, Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV) will build the capacity of faith-
based organizations (FBOs) in six provinces to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to address care needs
of PLWHA, OVC and AIDS patients by working through FBO networks. NAV has been working on
HIV/AIDS prevention and care in Vietnam since 1996, and was the first organization that brought together
Buddhists and Catholics in interfaith teams to provide care and support and to address the complex issues
related to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Stigma and Discrimination.
NAV will provide initial training for 250 members of communicator teams comprised of Buddhist monks,
nuns, Catholic priests and nuns, and lay volunteers in Behavior Change Communication (BCC) and stigma
& discrimination. NAV will support the establishment of a communicator team for each FBO and project site.
The prevention programs will encourage the voluntary participation of members of local self-help groups
(SHGs). The communicator team will reach 35,000 individuals with comprehensive ABC and stigma
reduction messages through peer outreach and other activities.
Through this initiative, NAV will build the local capacity of Buddhist and Catholic organizations to effectively
manage HIV/AIDS programs in a sustainable manner.
This is a new activity in FY08 with a new NPI partner, Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV).
NAV has been a sub-partner of Family Health International (FHI) for the past two years. Building on their
experiences of working with family members infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, NAV will partner directly
with local faith-based organizations (FBOs), enhancing their understanding of the issues surrounding HIV
and AIDS, providing them with technical skills and capacity to create innovative solutions that will lead to
increased awareness of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention, access to care and support services, and a
reduction of stigma and discrimination. Enabling local FBOs to build on existing relationships and trust with
their laity and general communities is key to the success of NAV's existing FBO program in Vietnam.
Existing NAV FBO programming also includes Saturday Caring for Our Friends - a cooperative effort
between local hospitals and FBOs - where a network of trained volunteers (both Buddhist and Catholic)
come to hospitals on weekends, when hospital staffing is at a low point, to provide spiritual, mental and
physical care, as well as food and clothing for ill and/or abandoned patients. The Buddhist community
provides traditional herbal remedies for OIs and is already training other pagoda teams in this ancient,
traditional practice. In addition, there are some pagodas in Hue that already have on-site traditional herbal
and western pharmacies under one roof, enabling clients to access complimentary eastern/western
medications in one location.
In FY08, NAV plans to scale up their existing FBO program through building a core team of Buddhist and
Catholic FBOs in eight site locations in provinces that fall into the high prevalence/high risk categories.
Opportunities exist to also include other local faiths present in some of the sites, such as Cao Dai, Hoa Hao,
Protestants and Muslims. In addition, NAV will partner with the central Fatherland Front (FF) which ensures
significant host-country government leadership, support and involvement.
During the first year of a three year project, NAV will initiative activities under the following broad goals and
set in place the basis for the remainder of their program.
1. Develop one site into Model Site of Excellence and a National Interfaith Support Center.
In collaboration with national partners, NAV will develop one of site (TBD) into a National Interfaith Support
Center, to be used as a model center of excellence and a national study tour site both during and after the
life of the funding period.
2. Enhance capacity of FBO volunteer teams to provide home-based care to PLWHA.
NAV will use FHI's existing Community Home Based Care training curriculum, support materials and Self
Care Handbook series, to train FBO teams to provide home based care for PLWHA.
3. Increase PLWHA participation in developing, monitoring and evaluation of FBO programs.
NAV and its partners will make every effort to recruit PLWHA to participate in the development of specific
program activities whenever possible, and to participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises so that the
programming staff gain clearer and more realistic insights into how the program services are perceived and
received by families and individuals affected and infected with HIV/AIDS.
4. Develop an income generation training program for needy families/individuals affected by HIV.
For PLWHA in need and who want to become self-reliant, NAV will develop income generation activities
which will provide needed income, as well as a sense of self worth and self-esteem. NAV will work to
support locally appropriate income generating alternatives and will bring in technical expertise to assist with
this important component.
5. Adapt UNICEF's Buddhist Leadership Initiative (BLI) orientation training manual and related handbook
"Buddhism In The Time Of AIDS", to orient the Buddhist community on HIV/AIDS issues.
To maintain consistency across faith-based programming as requested by the Fatherland Front, NAV will
adapt UNICEF's materials on Buddhist orientation training manual and handbook on HIV and AIDS, which
explains issues related to HIV/AIDS from a Buddhist perspective. NAV will reproduce this material and
make it available for all initial orientation trainings for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Interfaith program.
6. Adapt BLI Orientation training for Catholic/Christian clergy. NAV's Catholic partners will adapt the BLI
Orientation training and develop an
orientation training to HIV/AIDS issues from the Catholic/Christian perspective. This will be used as an initial
orientation for new church-based FBO teams.
7. Develop in-depth psychosocial counseling training to address the needs of PLWHA.
To address the need for specific faith-based materials on comprehensive psychosocial counseling training,
NAV will explore several options in developing counseling including using existing FHI-trained VCT
counseling trainings; contracting to an existing counseling consortium (based on an evaluation of their
capacity); and/or bringing in an international expert on HIV/AIDS counseling to adapt an existing counseling
for Vietnam.
8. Monitor and evaluate skills enhancement of main stakeholders and service delivery results.
NAV will develop a participatory M&E plan that will enable main stakeholders to evaluation their own skills
enhancement and service delivery capacity. PLWHA will also act as participatory M&E agents, providing a
real picture of how services are received and perceived by both PLWHAs and their communities.
NAV will monitor this first-year phase utilizing an approach combining informal community dialogue
meetings and individual interviews with quarterly reports and visits by NAV, FBO and the Advisory Board
teams. Additional monitoring techniques will include mystery client visits to pagodas and churches; and
monitoring teams made up of PLWHA and laity. As for specific methodology to be utilized for quality
assurance, NAV will hire a consultant to provide technical assistance to the program, bringing in
international level expertise in the area of quality assurance and participatory monitoring and evaluation,
ensuring international standards of excellence are upheld with all care and support services provided.
This is a new activity in FY08, with a new NPI partner, Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV).
their laity and general communities contributes to the success of NAV's existing FBO program in Vietnam.
In FY08, NAV plans to scale up their existing OVC program through building a core team of Buddhist and
physical care, as well as food and clothing for ill and/or abandoned patients, including OVC.
In close collaboration with its program activities in HBHC, NAV will also focus on services for OVC infected
and affected by HIV/AIDS including the following:
1. Develop and provide training on knowledge and skills for teams of caregivers responsible for home- and
community-based care and support for Orphaned & Vulnerable Children (OVC).
2. Develop and implement concepts for holistic care for OVC and their affected families with the aim to
improve their living conditions, physical and mental health and social integration. This will include the six
basic service package for OVC consisting of food and nutritional support, shelter and care, protection,
health care, psychosocial support, educational and vocational training and where possible, economic
strengthening to improve family self sufficiency. A key focus will be to foster self-reliance through mobilizing
contributions and involvement from the congregations of churches and pagodas as well as PLWHA who will
work in the OVC program.
3. Develop and implement concepts for care and support for OVC. Of key importance is the development of
activities that that will reduce the discrimination of OVC in schools and in the local community. Further, OVC
will be followed-up through home visitations from caregivers, regular contact with schools and counseling,
all in close understanding and cooperation with parents, relatives or other guardians of the children.
4. Build and foster strong and effective systems for referrals between the network of caregivers and the
governmental and private (charity) health services.
5. OVC will participate, by age-related involvement, in steps for planning, developing and implementing
programs as well as for the participatory monitoring & evaluation of such programs.
Major goals of NAV's comprehensive care and prevention program that pertain to OVC include the
following:
1. Develop one site into Model Site of Excellence and a National Interfaith Support Center
2. Increase OVC participation in developing, monitoring and evaluation of FBO programs.
NAV and its partners will make every effort to recruit OVC to participate in the development of specific
received by OVC , their families and other individuals affected and infected with HIV/AIDS.
3. Develop an income generation training program for needy families/individuals affected by HIV.
For families in need and those who want to become self-reliant, NAV will develop income generation
activities which will provide needed income, but also a sense of self worth and self-esteem. NAV will work to
4. Adapt UNICEF's Buddhist Leadership Initiative (BLI) orientation training manual and related handbook
"Buddhism In The Time Of AIDS", to orient the Buddhist, Catholic and Christian community on HIV/AIDS
issues.
To maintain consistency across faith-based programming, requested by the Fatherland Front, NAV will
explains issues related to HIV/AIDS from the perspective of Buddhist and/or Christian believer. NAV will
reproduce this material and make it available for all initial orientation trainings for the Interfaith program.
5. Develop in-depth psychosocial counseling training to address the needs of OVC.
NAV will explore several options in developing the counseling including using existing FHI-trained VCT
capacity); and/or bringing in an international expert on HIV/AIDS age-appropriate counseling for OVC, to
adapt existing counseling for Vietnam.
6. Monitor and evaluate skills enhancement of main stakeholders and service delivery results.
enhancement and service delivery capacity. OVC will also act as participatory M&E agents, according to
age-level understanding and involvement, providing a real picture of how services are received and
perceived by OVC, their families and kin-ship groups.
teams. As for specific methodology to be utilized for quality assurance, NAV will hire a consultant to provide
technical assistance to the program, bringing in international level expertise in the area of quality assurance
and participatory monitoring and evaluation, ensuring international standards of excellence are upheld with
all care and support services provided.
Activity Narrative: This is a new activity in FY08, with a new NPI partner, Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV).
Through the New Partners Initiative, PEPFAR will support Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV) to enable
the faith-based community to contribute towards reducing the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vietnam.
NAV began working in Vietnam on HIV/AIDS programming in 1996 and has been a sub-grantee under the
PEPFAR-supported Family Health International program.
The NAV program will develop the capacity of faith-based organizations (FBO) to address HIV/AIDS,
community welfare and child issues, and to improve their ability to effectively manage HIV/AIDS programs.
NAV will also promote the development of a supportive environment for HIV/AIDS interfaith initiatives by
building closer cooperation and exchange among FBOs of various faiths, and fostering national dialogue on
the role of FBOs in HIV/AIDS-related issues.
The first activity in FY08 will be to strengthen the coordination boards and implementation groups for each
partner with further training on governmental frameworks on HIV/AIDS (e.g., the law on HIV/AIDS
prevention and control and the national plan on HIV/AIDS) and ethical guidelines for working on HIV/AIDS
The second activity is to develop and provide training on project management, including planning, financial
management, administrative procedures, monitoring and evaluation, and resource mobilization.
The third activity will advocate through meetings, workshops, study trips, and conferences for a more
supportive environment for FBOs' involvement in HIV/AIDS issues.
The fourth activity will focus on developing networking and interfaith cooperation among FBOs in five project
sites. A key partner for developing this cooperation will be the FBOs in Hue, who already have a strong
interfaith network.
