Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 3733
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2009
Main Partner: ChildFund International
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $363,323

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $363,323

ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM COP 2008

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in Counseling and Testing (#8976) and Palliative Care: Basic Care and

Support (#8936).

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

Christian Children's Fund (CCF)'s Weaving the Safety Net project aims to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS

on orphans and other vulnerable children and adolescents in Thika and Kiambu Districts in Kenya. The

project responds to the current gap in psychosocial programming while strengthening community structures

to care and support OVC and youth. To meet this goal, CCF supports the provision of sustainable, high-

quality essential services through: strengthening the capacity of families to cope with their problems;

mobilizing and strengthening community-based responses; increasing the capacity of children and young

people to meet their own needs; raising awareness within societies to create an environment that enables

support for children affected by HIV/AIDS; and developing, evaluating, disseminating, and applying best

practices and state-of-the-art knowledge in the area of quality OVC programming. In order to reach many

OVC with quality interventions and to facilitate sustainability of program impact, CCF's main implementation

approach is partnership. Program activities will cover a broad range of services. In the area of psychosocial

support (PSS) and Journey of Life (JOL), the Trainer of Trainers (TOTs) on Psychosocial Programming and

JOL will continue to facilitate training for the OVC and Community's Own Resource Persons who will

include their caregivers (teachers, guardians, CBO/FBO and other community leaders). Monitoring of the

PSS will be intensified to ensure that the children receive the service and enhance their resilience. In child

protection, the program will continue to scale up paralegal activities through the TOTs trained and

strengthen linkages with service providers. The participants will include: OVC parents/guardians, religious

leaders, chiefs, HBC supervisors, teachers, and representatives from the Children's Department, probation

and other relevant departments. Working together with the local implementing partners (LIPs), the

paralegals will be assisted to form community paralegal clinics in order to make their services more easily

accessible to the community. The paralegals will also be involved in all community fora organized by LIPs,

HBC teams, religious leaders and other CORPs as a way of raising awareness on child protection issues.

The program will support formation/strengthening of the Child Right's club's activities (ROC) in the various

schools, where the teachers and the children were trained on (ROC) in the second year. Children and youth

will be facilitated to air their views on issues affecting them through radio features that will be supported by

the program. The program will support in development of various IEC materials with messages pertaining to

the plight of OVCs and youth. Youth tournaments will be supported at various levels at the community for

awareness creation in addition to increasing youth participation as well as planning and monitoring of the

program. CCF will also work in the area of economic strengthening, by providing support to schools' income

generating activities. The program will continue to improve household income through support to micro

credit services to vulnerable households in partnership with a leading micro finance institution (K-Rep

Development Agency). The educational support component of CCF's program will include identification of

the OVC for vocational training, and other areas of interest that can be supported by the program. All the

adolescents benefiting from vocational training will also be linked to basic business management,

counseling support, training in life skills, mentoring and recreational facilities to ensure a holistic approach to

their development. The guardians of these OVC will be targeted for home-based care services as well as

other safety net services such as income generating activities and psychosocial support through support

groups. In shelter and nutrition, CCF will continue to forge stronger partnership with the local implementing

partners to provide a meal a day to the OVC at early childhood development centers through the provision

of unimix whereas in shelter, clothing and bedding will be the focus

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

The program will reach 20,000 OVC and train 2,000 caregivers in various areas/services described above.

This will be done with the local implementing partners to ensure continuity and ownership of the

interventions.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

This activity is linked to home based care services and counseling and testing.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

The target population is primarily the young OVC (0-18 year - HIV infected and affected children), their

caregivers, HIV affected and/or infected families, children who are head of households, abused and

neglected children.

6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED

Issues to be addressed include wrap-around activities of food, microfinance/microcredit, secondary school

fees for OVC, stigma and discrimination.

7. EMPHASIS AREAS

Major emphasis area is community involvement/ownership, development and strengthening

linkages/referral system and minor emphasis is monitoring and evaluation, IEC and quality programming.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 14755

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

14755 5486.08 U.S. Agency for Christian 6938 3733.08 Weaving the $500,000

International Children's Fund, Safety Net

Development Inc

6865 5486.07 U.S. Agency for Christian 4218 3733.07 Weaving the $0

International Children's Fund, Safety Net

Development Inc

5486 5486.06 U.S. Agency for Christian 3733 3733.06 Weaving the $1,000,000

International Children's Fund, Safety Net

Development Inc

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Commodities $4,980

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.13:

Subpartners Total: $0
Kenya Rural Enterprise Program: NA
Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $4,980
Food and Nutrition: Commodities $4,980