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Background
In contribution to the national response to HIV and AIDS,
the government of Lesotho through the Ministry of Health (MOH)
is implementing the HIV and AIDS Technical Assistance Project
(HTAP) with support from World Bank. It is a 5 year technical
assistance grant. The project was approved in August 2009 and
became effective from January 2010. It will phase out in January
2015. The project aims at building capacity of government and
civil society organizations at both national and local level to
address the identified key gaps in implementing the National HIV
and AIDS Strategic Plan in an effort to contain and reverse the
epidemic. The project has three components implemented by MOH,
Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship and Parliamentary
Affairs and Lesotho Council of NGOs. LCN implement Component 1
of the project which focuses on capacity building of civil society
organizations implementing HIV services.
Through project Component 1 implemented by LCN, the project
supported LCN during its time as a PR for Global Fund Round
8 Phase 1 in an effort to strengthen financial management
practices and grants management as well as monitoring and
evaluation. To achieve these capacity needs for its role as
PR of Global Fund Round 8 Phase 1, three consultancies were
earmarked:
- Long Term TA to provide technical assistance
to LCN in PR role for GFTAM Round 8
- Short Term Consultant for finance and grants
management during phase 1 of GFTAM Round 8
- Short Term Consultant for M&E during Phase
1 of Round 8 of GFTAM Round 8
In order to strengthen capacity of other civil society
organizations LCN Component 1 is further supported through
engagement of:
- Long term TA for capacity building of umbrella
organizations and other civil society organizations
implementing HIV services which will be done through
trainings.
The capacity building support will cover CSOs from six
districts (Maseru, Berea, Leribe, Thaba Tseka, Mohaleshoek
and Mafeteng. Target CSOs will 90 with participation of 2
people from each organization totalling to
360 participants.
LCN conducted mapping and capacity needs assessment
exercise with the aim to map the exiting CSOs implementing
HIV services and to identify their capacity needs. This assessment
is meant to inform the trainings. The consultancy firm will verify
the needs assessment to ensure that the trainings address the current
critical needs of the organizations. The trainings are meant to improve
institutional capacity of the organizations effective
HIV programming.
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