Strengthening Community Responses through the Building Local Capacity Project’s small grants program in Lesotho

1. Stronger health systems. Greater health impact.
Strengthening Community Responses through the Building Local Capacity
Project’s Small Grants Program Health
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Kathryn Reichert, Joe Kumadzulo, Naume Kupe
HIV Capacity Building Partners’ Summit
March 2013
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2. BLC in Lesotho
• BLC: August 2010 - August 2015
• In Lesotho goal by 2015:
o reach 25% (46,585) of the
estimated 182,000 OVC
o reach 15,972 caregivers
o deliver services in 5 districts
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• To date BLC has given small grants
to 12 CSOs: reached 53,000 OVC
and caregivers
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3. Community-based organizations have
low capacity & reach
• Majority of OVC are in hard to reach rural
communities
• BLC worked with local CSOs to improve
capacity and increase reach:
o Organizational & management capacity
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o M&E & reporting capacity
o resource mobilization
& funding
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4. BLC Grants & Capacity Building
Approach
• Flexible and adaptable
• Performance-based focus on results and
beneficiaries
• Capacity building at all levels
o workshops Management Sciences for Health
o data verification
o on-site support
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5. Capacity Building Support
Proposal writing
• BLC provides formal proposal-writing training to
potential sub-grantees
Grants management
• Pre-award assessment
• Tailored award and support based on ability
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Organizational capacity building
• Conduct organizational capacity assessment
• on-going needs-based capacity building through
trainings, mentoring, and coaching
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6. Evidence of Success and
Achievements
• 2011-2012: 53,194 OVC 60000
Cumulative OVC and Caregivers Reached
and caregivers reached vs. 53194
a target of 51,700 50000
• 23% (42,719) of OVC
OVC and Caregivers Reached
40000
38578
reached with a minimum 30000
of one care service
• 10,475 caregivers reached
20000
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16647
• after grant ended CSOs 10000
6826
still provided services 0 186
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7. Lessons Learned
• Flexibility is important
• tools in local languages
• manageable awards
• Programmatic, M&E, registration support
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• Mentored grants leads to stronger
organizations
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8. REGIONAL FOCUS:
HIV Prevention &
Capacity Building
HIV Prevention &
1 1 Closed
Support to GF PR 1 MOU 1 IQC
Contract award
1
2 Awards
Grant
in
progress
Quality 2 Sub-
agreements
improvement in
hospitals
1 PMTCT and M&E for
Grant HMIS
Quality
improvement in
hospitals
1
Grant
HIV Prevention
Curriculum
1 OVC service delivery
Grant
and M&E for HMIS
6 Closed/in
14 Grants process grants
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9. Conclusion
CSOs need capacity building support
together with performance-based grants to
more effectively reach communities in need
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10. Questions & Comments
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