Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 4926
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Pathfinder International
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

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

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES This activity relates to other private public partnerships in OHPS (#9174) and HTXS (#8765).

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION As part of PEPFAR's increased focus on sustainable private public partnerships, this activity will support the African Wildlife Foundation and Starbucks Coffee Company in their joint Kenya Heartland Coffee Project (KHCP) to enhance HIV prevention, care and support to small holder coffee farmers in the Nyeri, Samburu and Isiolo districts, collectively referred to as the Samburu Heartland. The proposed activity will be managed by a TBD USAID implementing partner. Starbucks, a leading coffee retailer, has approved coffee samples from selected coffee cooperatives in KHCP and supports the purchase of their coffees. AWF is Starbucks' local implementing partner, leading the KHCP mission of conserving wildlife and the environment while increasing livelihoods through sustainable coffee production. Active engagement in HIV/AIDS activities is a key component of sustainable coffee production, as HIV continues to infect and affect a growing population of coffee farmers in these rural areas. The KHCP seeks to enrich existing conservation and livelihood objectives of small scale coffee farmers and coffee cooperatives through awareness creation and quality care to HIV/AIDS infected and affected farmers and their families.

This activity will target providing basic health care and support to approximately 2,000 coffee farmers. With PEPFAR funding, 100 individuals currently working in two targeted coffee cooperatives in Nyeri district will be trained in organizational capacity building, and supported in the development of referral networks to local health dispensaries for provision of cotrimoxazole and other medical components of the basic care package. This activity will also strengthen the delivery system of the basic care package through CBOs to coffee cooperative members and the surrounding community.

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA This activity addresses gaps in provision of community-based basic health care and support for small-scale agriculturalists. The activity also broadens PEPFAR's public private partnership initiatives in Kenya.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES This activity relates to other private public partnerships in OHPS (#9174) and HTXS (#8765) by providing basic health care and support to small-scale farmers and day laborers who represent the underpinning of Kenya's agricultural economy. In particular, this activity will be augmented by the Kenya HIV/AIDS Private Sector Business Council's work in the policy and system strengthening program area, which targets small and medium sized enterprises for HIV-related policy development and training peer educators and counselors to be agents of change in prevention, stigma and discrimination reduction.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED The activity targets the business community/private sector, community-based organizations, and rural communities.

6. EMPHASIS AREAS This activity has major emphases on local organization capacity building and minor emphasis on community mobilization/participation.