Deadline: 31-Jul-23
U.S. Embassy, Kampala PEPFAR Uganda Small Grants Office is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Community Grants to Combat HIV/AIDS Program.
PEPFAR Uganda invites proposals for projects that do one or more of the following:
- Promote HIV/AIDS prevention
- Address stigma, discrimination and/or gender-based violence (GBV)
- Promote capacity building
- Strengthen democracy and governance related to the national HIV response
- Demand creation for VMMC services
- Promote care and treatment, and adherence to treatment to the beneficiaries as outlined.
Types of Projects that will be Prioritized
- Adolescent-friendly sexual education and prevention activities, campaigns and workshops outside of the school day; ensure linkage to treatment, support disclosure, adherence and viral load suppression among children and adolescents living with HIV through family counseling and peer groups; youth camps that promote prevention.
- Providing job skills training for women and girls living with HIV.
- Religious leader training programs focused on HIV/AIDS and those that counter false claims made by faith healers and build inter-faith networks to support people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Enrolling and retaining HIV positive KP members in HIV care and treatment and other health services towards the PEPFAR 95-95-95 goal; providing targeted HIV testing and counseling (HTC) that are accessible to KPs (i.e. mobile counseling and testing, drop-in centers, “hotspots,” and households); promoting an inclusive community in view of the legal environment around KP programming; helping KPs know their legal rights and enabling them to advocate for basic human rights; or building capacity within civil society organizations to combat stigma and discrimination.
- Developing education and cultural programs for HIV prevention and awareness, including for key populations (PLHIV, MSM, people who inject drugs (PWID), and prisoners).
- Projects targeting males which may include health education, targeted HIV testing and counseling, couples counseling, safer sexual practices, risk reduction counseling, family planning and linking HIV negative male partners to the VMMC programs, education programs to reduce incidence of GBV.
- Evidence-based programs in positive parenting, positive gender norms training, and adherence support groups; provide education support to ensure school retention, transition and completion targeting highly vulnerable adolescent girls (both HIV infected and affected) at-risk of dropping out of school; provide targeted assistance to children and caregivers that have been victims of GBV including identification and notification of GBV cases, linkage to health and psychosocial services, and follow-up through the legal redress process; counselling and sensitization to disclosing HIV status.
- Developing networks of PLHIV to increase retention in care and offering access to mental health or psychosocial support services to reduce the risk of developing mood, anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns.
- Approaches to improve PWD awareness, access and use of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services; inclusion in policy dialogue and decision making.
- Use of technology and social media(WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to target youth; HIV/AIDS education, providers’ map of facilities for testing and treatment; creating internet hubs to attract beneficiaries.
- Training for local press to effectively cover HIV/AIDS.
- Projects outside of Kampala and Wakiso are particularly encouraged to apply.
Funding Information
- Award Amounts: Grant Agreements can be between $7,000 and $15,000 USD (Budget should be submitted in Ugandan shillings. When creating the budget, applicants should use a 3600UGX/$1 exchange rate.)
- Project Performance Period: Project should be completed in 12 months.
Beneficiaries
- Targeted beneficiaries of the PEPFAR Uganda Community Grants to Combat HIV/AIDS for this proposal include the following:
- Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW): Adolescent Girls and Young Woman (AGYW) are defined as females between ages 10-24. They account for 67% of new HIV infections in Eastern and Southern Africa. Young women and girls in Uganda are twice as likely to be living with HIV as boys and men of the same age and account for one in four new infections. Applications focused on AGYW should address one or more of the following issues: gender equality, education, financial empowerment, family planning, income-generating activities and trainings, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, including remaining HIV negative and support to ones with positive status, sexual assault prevention and counselling, targeting male partners of HIV+ women.
- Faith-Based Communities: Applications geared towards faith-based communities should focus onbuilding interfaith connections, combatting misinformation by religious communities, faith and traditional healers, addressing issues of gender equality, education, financial empowerment, family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, including remaining HIV negativeand support to ones with positive status, stigma reduction, sexual assault prevention and counselling.
- Key Populations: A key and priority population (KP/PP) is a group of people who are affected by punitive laws, regulations, and policies, severely stigmatized and marginalized, and are disproportionately affected by HIV. This includes female sex workers, fisher folk, prison inmates and their families, and other marginalized communities.
- Men and Young Males: Ugandan men are a priority population for PEPFAR Uganda Community Grants as recent statistics indicate that there are persistent case identification gaps among men, and men engaging in sexual activity with non-marital or cohabitating partners are less likely to use condoms as they age. Grants addressing these beneficiaries could focus on sexual violence prevention; on HIV/AIDS prevention; referrals for HIV testing for uniformed men in the police or military, prisoners and transitory populations such as truck drivers, bodaboda drivers or fisher folk.
- Orphans and Vulnerable Children: OVCs, under the PEPFAR program, are defined as children 0-17 years of age who have one or more of the following characteristics: have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS; who are otherwise directly affected by HIV; or who live in areas of high HIV prevalence and may be vulnerable to HIV or its socioeconomic effects. OVC applications should emphasize family-centered activities that lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and adolescents, including meeting their most basic needs of health, safety, stability, and schooling, preventing HIV/AIDS and the reduction of gender-based violence.
- People Living With HIV (PLHIV): Programs focused on people living with HIV could focus on linkage to treatment, referrals to testing, counselling, access and availability of mental health services or psychosocial support for PLHIV and families, developing networks to increase retention in care and income-generating activities. Counseling on disclosing of one’s status to their partner and family, providing mental services to PLHIV to reduce the prevalence of anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns, and reducing stigma are additional key activities.
- People with Disabilities: Programs focused on people living with disabilities could focus on linkage to treatment, referrals to testing, counselling and income-generating activities. Counselling and reducing stigma are additional key activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The PEPFAR Small Grants Office welcomes applications from registered non-profit Ugandan organizations such as Community Based Organizations (CBO), Faith Based Organizations (FBO), or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO).
- Organizations selected for funding are required to have a direct impact in their local community and have community support in the form of funding, labor and/or other services. Selected organizations must be able to establish clear performance goals, indicators and timely project deliverables that can be externally verified. Funded organizations are also required to monitor, measure and report results achieved in accordance with PEPFAR’s reporting requirements. Once the grant is over, the organization must be sustainable on its own or with other funding from the community and/or other donors.
- For-profit, commercial or unregistered entities are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.