Request for Applications for Lesotho Grants Program

Partnering with key service providers i.e. governmental, non-governmental and private sector to
provide comprehensive services to caregivers and children affected by HIV/AIDS in the families
being served;
Creating and/or maintaining referral networks and linkages that already exist and include community
support groups or volunteers, other health and social workers who can monitor the capacity and
needs of families or OVC affected by HIV/AIDS;
Providing innovative interventions that aim at strengthening the economic and livelihood status of
adult OVC and caregivers;
Regular monitoring of (children) OVC at an outcome level according to specific domain areas to
assess whether they are thriving;
Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation system for regular collection of high quality data,
data analysis, and reporting to measure progress towards intended goals;
Regular and timely updating of OVC and caregivers database; and,
Strengthening community based care and support systems for sustainable care and support for
children and their caregivers.
The expectation is not for each partner to implement all the essential services, but to ensure that beneficiaries
have access to all the services through the undertaking of holistic programming that ensures that appropriate
linkages through referrals are made for those services that the applicant cannot provide or undertake.
Further, the applicants should articulate how their proposed projects will be sustained beyond the funding by
proposing specific sustainability strategies.
Proposed interventions must be age and gender appropriate; the proposal should explain specifics of how
this will be accomplished in the project. Proposals should describe which activities will specifically target
boys/girls and various age groups. Projects working with children are especially sensitive and applicants will
need to show how their interventions will be guided by the principal of „do no harm.‟ For instance, projects
taking place in schools will need to ensure that the activities are conducted in a non-stigmatizing manner that
could potentially further damage the child psychologically. Projects involving girl children should be
implemented in a cautious manner that ensures that in no way does it encourage abuse, exploitations,
trafficking or prostitution.
1.2.2 Goals/Targets
As discussed above (Section 1.2) the respective projects are supposed to reach beneficiaries that have already
been reached previously by precedent organizations. The following are targets of beneficiaries to be reached:
1. Mohale‟s Hoek in the following council: Siloe 2,500 OVC and caregivers, estimated since the project
is ongoing till April 2013. The target may slightly increase; and the successful applicant will have to
validate the ultimate reach with the BLC project.
2. Qacha‟s Nek in the following councils: Ntsupe and Tsoelikana (3,511 OVC and caregivers in both
councils).
If there is an urgent and justified need to provide support to a child or group of children and their caregivers
that were not part of the previous intervention, the project can be allowed to provide them with the needed
care and support services. In the event where such cases, that is, whereby new children and caregivers are
reached, they will need to be documented as new beneficiaries. Further, applicants should demonstrate in
their proposals how beneficiaries will receive „repeat services‟ throughout the life span of the proposed
project, instead of beneficiaries getting services once.
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