Deadline: 1-Dec-23
The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) is offering microgrants to expand the implementation of essential community-based differentiated services in line with national guidelines.
Categories
- Differentiated service delivery (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
- Maximum Amount: US$26,000 over eighteen months (US$13,000 per year)
- Number of Grants per Country: One
Implementation Period
- Eighteen (18) month grant commencing January 2024 (contingent upon a satisfactory progress evaluation after the first quarter of the grant has been completed)
Outputs/Means of Verification
- Report detailing:
- Deliverable 1: Training of healthcare providers in DSD
- Training Plan developed and implemented
- Training manual/curriculum developed
- Number of healthcare providers trained in DSD
- Deliverable 2: DSD programme for KP
- Progress report on implementation of DSD programme
- Detailing intervention model and associated protocols
- Number of KP and PLHIV reached (disaggregated by age, KP community) with DSD services
- Number of KP referred/linked to DSD services
- Deliverable 3: DSD programme for KP
- Progress report on implementation of DSD programme
- Detailing intervention model and associated protocols
- Number of KP and PLHIV reached (disaggregated by age, KP community) with DSD services
- Number of KP referred/linked to DSD services
- Deliverable 1: Training of healthcare providers in DSD
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
Target/ Rationale
- 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
Eligibility Criteria
- Civil society and community-based organizations working with key population groups in Suriname.
- The organization must be legally constituted or have an experienced fiscal sponsor through which to receive money.
For more information, visit Caribbean Vulnerable Communities.
