Large Grants - Capacity BuildingGrantee Name: American Jewish World Service
Organization Web Site: http://www.ajws.org/
Project Name: AJWS Funding and Capacity-Building Program for Kenyan NGOs
Region: Africa
Location: Kenya
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention; Capacity Building; Networking
Project Description: American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is implementing a capacity building program for local Kenyan community-based organizations. Five innovative and effective Kenyan CBOs working to address the impact and spread of HIV/AIDS at the community level will receive support from this grant. Activities include home-based care training, peer education, food security, and nutritional support for communities affected by HIV/AIDS. In addition, seven Kenyan CBOs will participate in a series of south-to-south peer exchange workshops to identify best practices, share successful strategies, and work collectively to address challenges in grassroots communities affected by HIV/AIDS.
Grantee Name: Bright Futures Group
Project Name: Comprehensive self support systems for PLHAs
Region: Asia
Location: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention; Capacity Building
Project Description: Major activities include: 1) Designing and distributing IEC materials to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and high risk population via different channels like health facilities, drivers, guest houses, motels, etc.; 2) Developing the existing group in Hanoi and new ones in Van Don and Quan Lan islands in Quang Ninh, and helping to provide capacity building and assistance for the new groups; 3) Training on self-care and home care for PLWHA and their family members; 4) Organizing voluntary home visits for care; 5) Assisting PLWHA's access to health care services; 6) Trainings on small business development for PLWHA to create their opportunity for employment.
Grantee Name: CARE Angola
Project Name: CARE Angola Large Grant Scale-Up
Region: Africa
Location: Angola
Areas of Focus: Capacity Building
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to build the capacity of five local organizations to reduce stigma related to HIV and AIDS in the peri-urban areas of Luanda. In addition, the grant is designed to strengthen networks of local NGOs, FBOs, international humanitarian organizations, and government ministries at the provincial level. The grant also includes a networking component to encourage effective knowledge management and information dissemination.
Grantee Name: CARE Malawi
Project Name: CARE Malawi
Region: Africa
Location: Malawi
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Capacity Building; HIV Prevention; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objectives of this project are to: 1) strengthen economic coping mechanisms and social safety nets within HIV/AIDS-affected and vulnerable households; 2) improve the programmatic capacity of CBOs to provide care and support for people living with AIDS and orphans and vulnerable children at the community and household levels; 3) increase the capacity of CBOs to reduce stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS at the community level; and 4) increase HIV prevention by encouraging voluntary counseling and testing through strategic communication for behavior change.
Grantee Name: Christian Conference of Asia (CCA)
Organization Web Site: http://www.cca.org.hk/
Project Name: Asian Interfaith Network on HIV/AIDS (AINA)
Region: Asia
Location: Asia
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention; Capacity Building
Project Description: The grant supports a 7-day HIV/AIDS seminar/ retreat to build the capacity of the religious leaders and workers. The first section of the seminar aims to build the capacity of the religious community to understand the impact of HIV/AIDS on their communities. It will examine epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS in Asia, best practice program responses across the continuum of prevention, care and support plus the barriers and challenges to the faith response. The second section of the workshop will focus on increasing understanding and ownership of the network as a means to help the religious communities in Asia deal with HIV/AIDS. The content will focus on the goal and purpose of the proposed network, confirmation of a three-year plan, roles and responsibilities, structure and governance of the network followed by resource needs and mobilization.
Grantee Name: Dong Cam (Sympathy) Club
Project Name: Strengthen care and support and livelihood options for PLHA
Region: Asia
Location: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention; Capacity Building; Networking
Project Description: Major activities include: 1) Capacity building for 8 new clubs; 2) Training 240 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) on HIV/AIDS, home-based care, policy and regulations; 3) Exchange meetings to share experience and entertainment activities; 4) Training 60 key promoters of 20 clubs; 5) Training 30 mothers and wives of PLWHA on care and support; 6) IEC, counseling and health service referral for 700 PLWHA and their families; 7) Providing financial aids for 50 HIV women feeding a baby under 18 months old, and 50 orphans and HIV+ children; 8) Training 20 HIV+ women on embroidering; 9) Increasing their access to employment.
Grantee Name: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Organization Web Site:
Project Name: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Regional Workshop
Region: Asia
Location: Asia
Areas of Focus: Capacity Building
Project Description: Regional workshop in Bangkok for recipient countries from East Asia and the Pacific: The workshop is expected to increase understanding of the roles and responsibilities of CCMs; performance-based funding; and GF M&E requirements, policies, and procedures.
Grantee Name: International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
Organization Web Site: http://www.icw.org/
Project Name: Realities and Rights: Strengthening participation of HIV positive women in Southern and East Africa
Region: Africa
Location: South Africa
Areas of Focus: Stigma/Discrimination Reduction; Capacity Building
Project Description: The International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS (ICW) has been awarded a grant to strengthen the capacity and voices of young women living with HIV/AIDS in Southern and East Africa. This objective is accomplished by building their leadership capacity and ensuring that they have the confidence, tools, and support to get their issues on the local, national, regional, and international agenda. The CORE Initiative supported an ICW Young Women's Dialogue meeting that contributed to the development of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) Vision Paper 1. This grant also funded the translation of the Positive Women’s Survival Kit into Portuguese for use in Angola and Mozambique.
Project Documents: ICW Vision Paper 1: HIV Positive Young Women
Grantee Name: Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC)
Organization Web Site: http://www.ccih.org/resources/compendium/Organization%20of%20African%20Instituted%20Churches.htm
Project Name: Strengthening communications processes in AIC responses to HIV/AIDS in Kenya and Uganda
Region: Africa
Location: Kenya; Uganda
Areas of Focus: Stigma/Discrimination Reduction; HIV Prevention; Capacity Building; Networking
Project Description: The Organization of African Instituted Churches provides a forum for the African Independent Churches (AICs) to network and develop their capacity to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. OAIC has assisted in the mobilization of church leadership and in generating effective community-level initiatives that can offer HIV/AIDS prevention and care and support services at the grassroots level. Through support from the CORE Initiative, OAIC will increase the capacity of member churches and local CBOs to network and share examples of HIV/AIDS prevention programming that have been effective on the ground. Community-level leaders and mobilizers will be trained to bring together local experiences and share them among the multiple AICs in Kenya and Uganda, and church leaders will carry out advocacy and stigma reduction efforts within the churches.
Grantee Name: União Biblica de Angola
Project Name: União Biblía de Angola Large Grant
Region: Africa
Location: Angola
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Capacity Building
Project Description: This NGO will keep working on the building of capacities of eight religious leaders trained in the last phase. At least four seminars will be conducted to refresh the memories and consolidate the activities previously planned. Participants will then elaborate a work-plan to disseminate knowledge acquired in 15 religious communities.
UBA along with Acção Humana will provide support, counseling and referring to health units with ART and treatment of opportunistic infections for PLWA.
Grantee Name: World Alliance of YMCAs/World YWCAs
Organization Web Site: http://www.ymca.int/index.php?id=544
Project Name: Youth as agents of change addressing HIV and AIDS through South-South Youth Networks, Peer Education and Life Skills
Region: Africa
Location: Angola; Sierra Leone
Areas of Focus: HIV Prevention; Capacity Building; Networking
Project Description: Through support from the CORE Initiative, the World Alliance of YMCAs and their partner, World YWCA, will implement a two-year peer education and life skills program in Sierra Leone and Angola targeting youth, parents, and religious leaders. The project adapts and implements a peer education curriculum that has been successfully implemented by YWCA and the YMCAs in other countries. South-to-south exchange and capacity building will support the peer education to help share lessons learned, shape best practices, and scale up the peer education program.
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