Official name: Building the Capacity of Local South Africa Organizations through Umbrella Grants Management
Dates: June 2007 – Sept. 2009
Area served: South Africa, nationwide with an emphasis on the nation's poorest provinces – Limpopo, Eastern Cape, and Kwazulu Natale
Funded by: USAID
Main objectives:
- Prevent new HIV infections of 1.75 million people
- Treat at least 500,000 HIV-infected people
- Care for 2.5 million HIV-affected individuals and children orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS
FHI's role: To increase access to and use of sustainable, high quality prevention, care, and support services in South Africa. We do this by providing subgrants to non-governmental, community-based and faith-based organizations working in prevention, treatment, palliative care and care of orphans and vulnerable children, and by building the capacity of subgrantees to do this work.
FHI strategies:
- Increase financial resources accessed by local organizations
- Improve the managerial, financial, and organizational abilities as well as the technical capacity of participating local organizations
- Strengthen the capacity of health facilities and communities to coordinate and manage referral networks
- Strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems and skills
Local implementing partners (subgrantees):
- GOLD Peer Education Development Agency
- Hands at Work
- Heartbeat
- Humana People to People
- LifeLine
- Medical Care Development International
- Mpilonhle
- Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity
- Project Support Association of Southern Africa
- Starfish Greathearts Foundation
Achievements to date:
- FHI/South Africa has managed 39 subgrants directly over the life of the current projects, with an additional 19 second tier subgrants.
- Increased number of subgrantees able to meet subgrant requirements
- Increased number of subgrantees able to achieve targets
- More linkages and partnerships between local organizations
- Increased number of subgrantees that can develop monitoring and evaluation plans
