Deadline: 25-Feb-22
The AIDS Foundation South Africa (AFSA) is inviting interested non-profit organisations, organisations, and government departments, experienced in the modules listed under “Provision of Sub-Recipient (SR) Services to Implement Prevention Programmes for Adolescent & Young People (AYP), Global Fund Grant: Apr 2022 – Mar 2025”.
The Global Fund AYP Programme offers a comprehensive package of services that aims to improve the health, psychosocial and socio-economic wellbeing of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) and Adolescent Boyd and Young Men (ABYM) collectively known as Adolescents and Young People (AYP). The programme targets AYP, in and out of school, age 15-24 years, with the aim to effect risk reduction, behaviour change and empowerment
Objectives
Objectives of the AYP programme aim to;
- Decrease HIV incidence
- Decrease teenage pregnancy
- Increase retention in school
- Increase economic opportunities
- Reduce gender-based violence (GBV)
Aims
The programme is aimed at:
- Adolescents and young people aged 10 – 24 years, all sexes, but with an emphasis on supporting young women.
- Men, with an emphasis on age group: 25 – 34 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- The minimum requirements to serve as an SR include:
- Sound governance frameworks, demonstrated by, inter alia, by a diversified board and management team, and at least one year audited financial statements.
- Appropriate staffing in key areas (programme and financial management, human resources, programme implementation and management, monitoring and evaluation and procurement management).
- Experience of managing grants and SSRs, where applicable.
- A track record of effective and efficient implementation of similar activities, preferably in the target district.
- A sound system of management and financial controls.
- A sound monitoring and evaluation system, tools and procedures amongst other requirements.
- A potential SR must have proven ability to manage programmes in the specific modules in the RFP and must also be capable of performing the functions of an SR which includes the following:
- Effective leadership and governance structures
- Legal status such as voluntary association, trust, non-profit company (NPC) etc. to enter into contracts.
- If submitting as a consortium, then documents corresponding to the consortium must be submitted (including joint B-BBEE certificate). If submitting as a partnership that is not legally constituted, then one organisation must submit as the applicant (SR) and then specify the other partner/s as its sub-sub-recipients (SSRs). In this case, AFSA will contract and liaise with the SR and the SR will contract and liaise with its SSRs.
- Have a properly constituted board that provides oversight over organisational matters.
- Effective organizational leadership using transparent decision-making processes.
- Adequate skilled and experienced staff to manage implementation of the modules, including procurement, monitoring and evaluation, and finance.
- Knowledge about and ability to communicate and network with relevant district stakeholders and structures such as government departments, local and district AIDS Councils.
- Appropriate internal control systems, including policies and procedures, to prevent and detect fraud or misuse of resources.
- Financial management system
- Accounting system that can correctly record all transactions and balances by source of funds with clear references to budgets and work plans.
- Ability to monitor actual spending in comparison to budgets and work plans.
- Ability to manage disbursement of funds to SSRs and suppliers in a timely, transparent and accountable manner.
- Ability to produce timely and accurate financial reports.
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system for routine monitoring of activities/interventions.
- Mechanisms and tools to collect and analyse data, and report on programme performance.
- Ability to produce timely and accurate programmatic reports.
- Effective leadership and governance structures
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