Deadline: 25/06/24
The U.S. Embassy Nigeria through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Coordination Office of the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State announces an open competitive opportunity for organizations to apply for funding to implement community-led monitoring or a virtual spaces intervention among priority populations for HIV prevention and treatment, including Key Populations (KP) and Adolescent and Young People (AYP).
For HIV to no longer be a public health threat by 2030 in Nigeria, the populations at highest risk must know their HIV status, receive lifesaving HIV prevention and treatment, and reach viral suppression if they are HIV-positive. Data show that HIV prevention and treatment efforts should be focused on AYP and KPs. Key Populations include men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, sex workers, people who inject drugs (PWID), and people in prisons and other closed settings.
Under this opportunity, the PEPFAR Coordination Office seeks to address pillar 1 of the 5×3 strategy, health equity for priority populations. Youth make up a significant proportion of the more than 32.9 million Nigerians reported to be active users of social media. AYP-led CSOs in the country have identified a gap with the lack of structured sexual health and HIV messaging and interventions on these platforms.
This program seeks to increase access to quality, concise and accurate HIV and health related messaging, facilitate active referrals and linkages to spaces and locations which can provided access to strategic HIV and other health services for prevention, treatment and care interventions targeted at AYP and KPs by leveraging on virtual spaces utilized by adolescents and young persons. The program will support community-led monitoring efforts among AYP and KP-led groups using platforms such as “iMonitor +” to ensure that HIV positive individuals among these priority populations are receiving high quality care and treatment services, identify any challenges, barriers, and/or gaps to care, and to report findings to PEPFAR to inform service delivery.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: $300,000
- Maximum for Each Award: Up to $25,000
- Length of performance period: 12 months
- Number of awards anticipated: 12 awards (dependent on amounts)
- Anticipated programs start date: August 1, 2024
Priority Project Locations and Beneficiaries
- PEPFAR supports comprehensive HIV treatment services in more than 1,450 health facilities across the 32 States of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory. For Virtual Spaces Intervention for Adolescents and Young People, PEPFAR Nigeria will target the age group of 15-24 years. This activity will seek to bridge access gaps amongst AYP and KPs for HIV services by supporting KP and AYP-led organizations to develop and deliver targeted messages and referral portals to local (physical) clinics, One Stop Shops (OSS), or youth responses locations where HIV services, products and commodities can be accessed for use. Community-led monitoring support under this program will be provided for the implementation among HIV positive AYP and KP at both the facility and community level.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations.
- Public and private educational institutions.
- Youth and Key Population-led organizations that are not-for-profit organizations,
- Eligible organizations must demonstrate capability to develop and manage virtual online programs to implement and monitor HIV and other health related interventions; mainly focusing on adolescent and youth audiences across diversities in the country.
- Eligible organizations most have innovative projects that ensure continued access to high-quality, equitable, person-centered HIV services, mainly focusing on youth and adolescents.
- Eligible organizations must have the capability to collaborate on the national or sub-national levels with PEPFAR and stakeholders at neighborhood levels with clients receiving HIV services.
- Eligible organizations must have the capability to implement a monitoring and advocacy program to promote cooperation in addressing HIV, encourage their constituency to share their experiences, and facilitate joint actions that make a difference in the HIV response.
- Eligible organizations must have established offices or designed spaces where they operate from, at least 12 months prior to application submission.
- Eligible organizations must have a commitment to equal opportunity employment practices and to non-discrimination practices regarding beneficiaries, without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or political affiliation.
- PEPFAR implementing partners currently engaged in service delivery at the site or facility level are not eligible to apply.
- For-profit, commercial entities or individuals are not eligible to apply.
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