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| Project Name: | CORE Initiative Uganda |
| Project Description: |
USAID has provided an Associate Award of $15.6 million from PEPFAR resources to CARE Uganda and the CORE Intitiative to work in partnership with the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development (MGLSD) and the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC). CARE Uganda will be implementing this program in collaboration with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP). CARE Uganda will work closely with the CORE Initiative global office and partners in the coming months for establishing a project office in Uganda under the management of CARE Uganda.
The purpose of the program will be to expand targeted HIV/AIDS services for youth and critical services for orphans and vulnerable children by facilitating collaboration between the Government of Uganda (GOU) and civil society. Specifically, this includes: strengthening the capacity of the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development (MGLSD) to provide strategic direction, coordination, and monitoring of the overall multi-sectoral and rights-based responses to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), which includes strengthening links to Districts and civil society responses; establishing granting mechanisms to civil society organizations (CSOs) to improve coordination and extend services to OVC and youth prevention services; extending the effectiveness of the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) in coordinating efforts to reduce vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among youth; and providing capacity building and technical support to CBOs/FBOs/NGOs for improving program quality and scaling-up youth prevention and care and support activities for orphans and vulnerable children.
The program is designed to run from December 2005 to September 2008, and is also expected to establish strong strategic and operational linkages with other OVC programs in Uganda and beyond, such as the Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI). |
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