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Patricia Mechael, Project Manager USAID, Child
Survival and Health Grants Program September 14,
2004
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Overview

• Introduction to the CORE Initiative
• Achievements to Date - Highlights
• Current Activities by Region
• Associate Award update
• The Way Forward

Mozambique Large Grantee community volunteers
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Mission

• The CORE Initiative is dedicated to supporting
  an inspired, effective and inclusive response to
  the causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS by
  strengthening the capacity of community and
  faith-based groups worldwide.

Lesotho Small Grants Project Design Workshop,
December 2003
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The Consortium

• Five-year global program funded by the United
  States Agency for International Development
  (USAID) under the Leader with Associate (LWA)
  Mechanism.
• CARE International is the lead organization
• Partners World Council of Churches (WCC),
  International Center for Research on Women
  (ICRW), International HIV/AIDS Alliance, and the
  Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of
  Public Health, Center for Communication Programs
  (CCP)

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The Consortium

• Presence in over 90 countries and partners with
  community-based and faith-based organizations
  including religious affiliates representing the
  Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, and
  traditional faiths
• Decentralized Structures 6 Regional Management
  Offices based in regions (CORE Initiative staff
  in East/Central Africa, Southern Africa, Asia)
• Multi-sectoral approaches

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What do we do?

• Capacity-building and strengthening of community
  and faith-based organizations and intermediaries
  (technical and organizational)
• Develop community responsive grant-making
  mechanisms
• Build bridges, share information and strengthen
  networks

Uganda Small Grants Project Design Workshop, June
2004
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Supporting Sustainable Southern Reponses

• Intermediary organizations, such as networks or
  technical support organizations (TSOs) are
  supported to serve as resource centers, grant
  makers and capacity builders
• Promotes southern leadership and better enables
  effective, efficient expansion of the program

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Small and Large Grants

• Country-level Small Grant Programs provide grants
  of up to 5000 for community and faith-based
  organizations
• Large Grants Program provides funds for
  replication projects implemented by national,
  regional, or international organizations

Communities in Sierra Leone discuss HIV/AIDS
stigma and discrimination through the Church
World Service Large Grant
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Achievements-to-Date

• 74 Small Grants awarded Angola, Mozambique,
  Lesotho, Rwanda, Uganda, Thailand, Cambodia, Viet
  Nam, Indonesia
• 6 Small Grant recipient capacity building Project
  Design Workshops completed
• 23 Large Grants awarded Africa, Asia, Regional,
  Country and Global-level projects 8 Large Grants
  projects completed
• Development of a Five-Year Strategic Plan
• Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Manual
  and field testing
• Virtual networking Website, Electronic
  resources, and E-forum

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Asia Small Grants

• Cambodia Small Grants Program through Khmer
  HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA) multi-sectoral
  care and support for PLHA
• Thailand Small Grants Program through the Thai
  National AIDS Foundation
• 10 Viet Nam Small Grants for projects on care and
  support for PLHA
• Indonesia Small Grants Program roll-out in FY05

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Asia (other activities)

• Ponleur Komar Large Grant care and support for
  orphans and vulnerable children
• Asian Interfaith Resource Center in cooperation
  with Christian Council of Asia
• Catholic Medical Mission Board Large Grant VCT
  in India and training for nurses in China
• Viet Nam PEPFAR Track 1.5 for Large Grants and
  IDUs
• Asia Regional Bureau Mapping in the Mekong Delta

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East Africa

• Leader Resource Activities
• 15 Uganda Small Grants VCT
• access for youth
• 10 Rwanda Small Grants reducing
• HIV stigma and discrimination
• American Jewish World Service Large Grant
  (Kenya) community-based multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS
  responses
• Loma Linda University Large Grant (Rwanda)
  capacity building for HIV/AIDS clinical services

Uganda Small Grant Project Design Workshop
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East Africa (continued)

• REDSO Activities
• Lutheran World Relief Large Grant (East and
  Central Africa) document regional best practices
  study tour
• Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa Large
  Grant strengthen Nairobi Secretariats capacity
  to support church HIV/AIDS activities
• Organization of African Instituted Churches Large
  Grant support African Independent Churches to
  develop HIV/AIDS response capacity in Kenya and
  Uganda

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East Africa (continued)

• Displaced Children and Orphans Fund Right To
  Play Associate Award
• Promote healthy behaviours, including HIV
  prevention, through sport and play activities in
  three countries (Rwanda, Mozambique, Sierra
  Leone)
• Rwanda
• SportHealth and Teacher Training in Kigali and
  countrywide

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East Africa - PEPFAR

• Rwanda Track 1.5
• Community-Based Response to AIDS OVC and PLHA
  volunteers trained in life skills
• Rwanda Track 2.0
• Scaling-up existing CARE Rwanda multi-sectoral
  responses with child-headed households
• Uganda Track 1.5
• Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social
  Development capacity assessment
• 24 small grantees through Hope for African
  Children (HACI) Small Grant Program OVC care and
  support

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Southern and West Africa

• Leader Resource Activities
• 10 Angola Small Grants stigma and discrimination
• 14 Lesotho Small Grants stigma and
  discrimination
• 15 Mozambique Small Grants stigma and
  discrimination

Mozambique Small Grant Program beneficiaries
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Southern and West Africa

• Samaritan's Purse Large Grant (Mozambique)
  church community HIV mobilization
• International Community of Women Living with
  HIV/AIDS Large Grant capacity building for ICW
  in Southern Africa and young HIV-positive women
  support workshop
• YMCA Large Grant in Sierra Leone and Angola
  youth as agents of change through Peer Education
  and Life Skills
• Positive Muslims Large Grant (South Africa)
  Islamic Theology of Compassion and community
  sensitization

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Southern and West Africa

• REDSO Activities
• Malawi and Mozambique integration of TB
  diagnosis, treatment and care into
  community-based HIV programs
• DCOF Right To Play
• Sierra Leone SportHealth, SportWorks, and
  Teacher Training in Makeni and Freetown
• Mozambique - SportHealth Strategy Development
• Africa Bureau
• Anglican Church of the Province of Southern
  Africa Large Grant Wellness Management project

Participants at the Sierra Leone CORE
Initiative-Right To Play Design Workshop, July
2004
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

• Assist community and faith-based organizations
  monitor and evaluate HIV/AIDS projects
• Field testing in Uganda hosted by the
  Inter-Religious Council of Uganda and the Islamic
  Supreme Council
• Field version of the manual to be launched in
  September 2004

Uganda Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
workshop, June 2004
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Networks of People Living with HIV/AIDS

• International Community of Women Living with
  HIV/AIDS (ICW)
• Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS
  (GNP)
• Asia Pacific Network of People Living with
  HIV/AIDS (APN)
• African Network of Religious Leaders Living with
  or Personally Affected by AIDS (ANERELA)

ANERELA workshop in Kenya, January 2004
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Virtual Networking, Advocacy, and Exchange

• CORE Initiative Website
• www.coreinitiaitve.org
• E-Forum
• More than 750 subscribers
• Lively discussions and south-to-south exchange
• Access to Resources
• Selected tools list gt300 electronic resources
• Media/Materials Clearinghouse gt 500 new
  materials added each year

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The Way Forward

• CORE Initiative facilitates working relationships
  in communities and around the world
• CARE and partners work alongside grantees,
  Associate Award donors and intermediaries to
  provide TA and guidance in multi-sectoral
  HIV/AIDS programming
• Upcoming grants programs in Indonesia and Malawi
• Re-granting roll out in Southern Africa
• Eastern Europe Initiative

CORE Initiative Large Grantee Positive Muslims
in Cape Town, South Africa
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as well as HIV/AIDS-related information resources
contact and visit email info_at_coreinitiative.or
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