Deadline: 22-Sep-23
The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities is offering micro-grants to expand the implementation of essential community-based differentiated services in line with national guidelines.
Target
- Support for Differentiated service delivery (DSD) intervention models being implemented by CSO/CBO partners.
- The DSD model of care is defined as a person-centred approach to HIV service delivery with services tailored to the needs of patients (taking into consideration sub-population, context and environment). Examples of DSD interventions are as follows:
- Adherence clubs
- Community outreach efforts to trace defaulters or provide treatment education or adherence support
- Extended clinic hours
- Family models
- Fast track services
- Multi-month dispensing
- Nonstable patient models
- Key population models
- Youth models
Categories
- DSD service delivery models can be grouped into the following four categories:
- Facility-based individual models, where clients are seen individually within health care facilities;
- Out-of-facility individual models, where clients are seen individually outside of health care facilities;
- Health care worker-managed group models, where clients are seen in a group managed by a health care worker, either a professional or law health care provider, within and/or outside of health care facilities; and
- Client-managed group models, where clients meet in a group, generally outside of health care facilities.
Funding Information
- US$10,000 over two (2) years (US$5000 per year)
- Implementation Period: Two (2) year grant commencing Sept 2023 (contingent upon a satisfactory progress evaluation after the first quarter of the grant has been completed).
- Number of Grants Per Country: One
Deliverables
- This grant is an activity-based contract; therefore funding is contingent upon the achievement of certain deliverables.
Activities
- Increased coverage of essential and differentiated services for KP and PLHIV through:
- Training of healthcare providers in DSD
- Contribute to access to DSD for KP
Eligibility Criteria
- Civil society and community-based organizations working with key population groups in Suriname and Guyana.
- The organization must be legally constituted or have an experienced fiscal sponsor through which to receive money.
Requirements
- The organization must submit a proposal and work plan for the expansion of DSD services
- The organization must include in its indicators the following (among other indicators to be determined by the organization in its proposal):
- number of persons reached (disaggregated by age, KP community) with DSD services
- number of person linked to care/referred for healthcare services
For more information, visit Caribbean Vulnerable Communities.
