NOFO: HIV-Quick Impact to local Communities in Mozambique

Deadline: 18-Sep-23

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Coordination Office (PCO) announces an open competition for community-based organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to promote HIV prevention, testing, and treatment among one or more vulnerable populations.

Applicants must show experience in implementing HIV/AIDS programs and must have a representation in the community where the activities will take place.

Objectives

U.S. Embassy Mozambique will partner with community-based organizations to complete small scale projects that contribute to the HIV epidemic control objectives defined under Mozambique´s National HIV Strategic Plan (PEN V) and the PEPFAR Mozambique´s Country Operational Plan 2023. Successful applicants will show a strong connection to the local community and a history of successful work.

Services

Organizations funded through the PEPFAR Community Grants Program must be providing one or more of the following services:
- HIV prevention that includes targeted evidence-based prevention programs. Evidence based means that the program uses a specific curriculum, implementation is monitored and can be measured, and the program has been proven to yield positive results. Prevention programs may focus on one or more of the following categories:
  - HIV prevention and sexual violence
  - Norms and behavior change
  - Key and Priority Populations
  - Gender based violence (GBV) and post-GBV care services.
  - Examples of projects:
    - Reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination and promote adherence to ART services through implementation of innovative communication approaches to disseminate U=U and Viral Load messages.
    - Engage with established networks, clubs, and/or support groups of PLHIV and KP to distribute quality messaging on prevention, testing, and care.
    - Create demand for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), condoms, and other forms of HIV prevention.
- Targeted HIV Case Finding Services with the aim of identifying and newly testing, newly linking or re-linking individuals to anti-retroviral treatment (ART). These will include identification, linkage, retention in care, with a focus on reaching key and priority populations, children and Adolescents and Young People (AYP).
  - Examples of projects:
    - Promote life skills, sexual reproductive health, and HIV education for inschool and out of school youth.
    - Create demand for HIV testing through promotion of self-testing and other testing modalities.
- Community-based Care and Support – Service delivery specifically for people living with HIV (PLHIV), including children and Adolescents and Young People affected by and living with HIV as well as key and priority populations.
  - Examples of projects:
    - Case management adherence clubs, psychological support services, tracking and tracing people who experience treatment interruption or are not virologically suppressed.
    - Engage local leaders on changing community and social norms that increase risk of HIV infections among vulnerable populations.
    - Address stigma, discrimination, violence based on gender, and marginalization toward members of vulnerable groups and people living with HIV/AIDS.
The PEPFAR Coordination Office will fund programmatic costs associated with these categories. These include supplies/materials, transport, training related to program implementation, and/or administration.

Funding Information

Funding Flow: Lowest value: $15,000
Funding Ceiling Heights: Highest value: $20,000
Expected Number of Awards: Up to 12
Period of Performance: Up to 12 months

Target Beneficiaries

Proposals should target beneficiaries belonging to one or more of the following groups:
- People living with HIV (PLHIV).
- Key Population which includes men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, people who inject drugs, people in prisons and other enclosed settings.
- Pregnant and breast-feeding women.
- Children (Boys and girls).
- Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AYP).

Priority Region

Maputo Province, Gaza Province, Inhambane Province, Manica Province, Sofala Province, Nampula Province.

Eligibility Criteria

The following independent and local/community civil society organizations are eligible to apply:
- Registered Non-profit Mozambican Community Based organizations (CBOs) including Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs), Key Populations, group of persons living with HIV/AIDS or Affected by HIV and networks of Key Populations + people with disabilities.
- Been in operation for at least two years.
- Who serve HIV-affected, infected and/or high-risk populations.

Ineligibility Criteria

The following are not eligible to apply in response to this NOFO:
- Individuals.
- For-profit and commercial firms.
- Government institutions or multilateral bodies.
- Civil Society Organizations, which are not Community Based or are not representative of a community or significant segments of a community. For example: trade unions, professional associations, internationally affiliated organizations with branches in many different countries.
- PEPFAR Implementing Partners (including those that may be civil society organizations themselves) currently working on service delivery at the site level. This includes organizations that are receiving other direct funding from the U.S. Government as a prime partner, a sub-recipient or an organization in consortium with another CBO currently receiving PEPFAR funds.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.