Strengthening capacity of NSA for HIV testing and counselling of most at risk adolescent & young people

Strengthening capacity of NSA for HIV testing and counselling of most at risk adolescent & young people.

The overall objective of the call is to support capacity building among Non State Actors (NSAs) for an improved access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the ENPI-East region.

Actions must focus on minimum two of the following themes:

1) Strengthening the advocacy skills of NSA to lobby effectively for improved access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, especially for people living with HIV, adolescents and vulnerable groups such as women, prisoners, migrant workers, men having sex with men (MSM), sex workers and injecting drug users;

2) Actions enhancing the quality of services provided by NSA and public sector and the integration of prevention, treatment and care services;

3) Actions strengthening partnerships and coordination among NSA and, if relevant, with public bodies in a country or on a regional level, actions supporting development of regional ownership strategies and the exchange of lessons learned and good practice in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatments and care;

4) HIV prevention with a special emphasis on adolescent and key populations at most risk such as injecting drug users, migrant workers, men having sex with men (MSM), sex workers, women, prisoners and actions providing support, treatment and care to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).The activities can take the form of consolidating or establishing networks, regional support centres, information channels, learning tools and other support mechanisms to disseminate best practices, advocacy towards policy makers, share information and lessons learnt, develop and sustain NSA capacity to act on HIV/AIDS advocacy and support, promote rights, reduce stigma and discrimination, voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), care and support to PLWHA, harm reduction, treatment of opportunistic infections, information campaigns and other prevention methods etc.

Depending on the local setting and needs and the availability of existing networks or regional support centres, consolidation of existing networks and partnerships is encouraged instead of creating parallel systems.

The call for proposals is expected to help NSAs to form a stronger coalition and to become better equipped to actively engage in dialogue with their governments and the authorities on HIV/AIDS policies, improve exchange of best practices and access to and quality of HIV prevention, treatments and care services.