Deadline: 25 April 2018
The U.S. Embassy in Yaounde-Cameroon, Political and Economic Section is seeking proposals for projects that address challenges in providing community based prevention, care, and treatment services to infants, children and adolescents infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
The objective is to support increase in the number of children testing for HIV, linking those diagnosed HIV-positive to treatment, and ensuring that they stay on treatment.
Project Categories
- Water Supply and Sanitation: Ensures broadly accessible, reliable and economically sustainable water and sanitation services to bolster healthy, secure, and prosperous communities.
- Safe Water Access: Water pumps and distribution systems, well drilling, bore holes, spring capping.
- Basic Sanitation: Toilets, sinks, etc. Innovative approaches to building demand for sanitation-related products and services are encouraged.
- Social Services
- Education and Training: Examples, construction and/or equipment of school rooms, vocational training workshops/centers.
- Health: Examples, construction and/or equipment of health facilities.
- Community Development: foot bridges, community centers, solar energy, etc.
- Income Generating Activities: food storage facilities, grinding mills, vocational training activities that produce employment and marketable skills.
- Environment/Agriculture: financial or technical support for reforestation, and soil conservation including post-conflict or post-disaster settings, waste management, biodiversity conservation, and community agricultural projects.
Award Information
- Award Ceiling: $20,000
- Award Floor: $15,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The Ambassador’s PEPFAR Small Grants Program is limited to Cameroonian local registered CBOs, associations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with at least 2 years of experience working in Cameroon.
- Applicants must prove experience working on HIV/AIDS addressing infant, children and adolescent issues. Recipients of current year’s POL/ECON’s Small Grants funds are not eligible for these funds.
- Also, organizations and entities with a prior history of non-performance of U.S. government grants are ineligible for funding.
How to Apply
Applicants must download the application form via given website.
For more information, please visit PEPFAR Small Grants Program.
