Do you want to improve the economic and health conditions of women? Or want to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission? We have this sample project with the goal to restore hope to HIV and AIDS positive women with the project objectives like train and facilitate HIV/AIDS positive women in modern goat rearing and management. The project aim to increases incomes and provide nutritional supplements among HIV positive women and reduced discrimination and exclusionary policies and practices against HIV positive women. This project has a proper framework to get the expected outcome like improved food security, nutrition, entrepreneurial skills in goats rearing and income generation of among HIV positive Women.
Background of Implementing Agency
The project implementing agency ABC was established in year XXXX and registered in XXXX Government as a Community Based Organization (CBO) with Administrative offices are located in XXXXXX. ABC has been in existence for XX years now. Members include over XX women; Disabled, poor and HIV positives from over XX community groups. We work in partnership with Local governments and International NGOs.
Mission:
To provide capacity building services (including for income generation) to enable marginalized group (women) articulate their mutual concerns and demands and promote their productivity sustainably for better and equitable livelihoods and self-help.
ABC key activities include:
- Gender and human rights, to undertake a commitment to confront social and ideological barriers to women in decision making and development and take initiatives to improve their status,
- HIV/AIDS (PMTCT) and Reproductive Health, to improve quality and life of women with HIV, reduce stigma, discriminatory practices and policies for prolonged lives, and
- Economic empowerment for women and girl-child, to train HIV+ Women in Entrepreneurial and income generative activities in order to live a more productive life and relieve them from dire poverty, stigma and discrimination.
Governing and Administrative structure
ABC has a governing body of 5 Board of Directors and sits quarterly to draw annual plans and review progressive and end of project reports. Administratively; ABC has Chief Executive Officer, Program Coordinator, Accounts Assistant, Office secretary and two support staff responsible for the ultimate projects implementation, reporting and answerable to the Board. For financial administration, all funds are in custody of ABC Bank account. In-coming and outflow of the funds are recorded through; Receipt books, Funds Requisition Forms, Cash Payment Voucher, Cheques Vouchers, and Ledger postings.
Proposed Project Summary
Uganda government has made progress in achieving reduced prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) new HIV cases. For instance, Uganda has launched the UN World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Option B+’ to boost the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) and involves single-dose antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for the mother – if her CD4 count, a measure of immune strength, is over 350 – from the 14th week, as well as ARVs during labour, delivery and one week post-partum.
Launching the plan on 12 September in the capital, Kampala, patron of the Uganda Paediatric Association First Lady Janet Museveni said Option B+ would go a long way in reducing the estimated 20,000-25,000 mother-to-child HIV infections that occur in Uganda annually.
However, according to XXXXXX District Health report (2012/13), 65% of expectant mothers do not have access to PMTCT services. Most deliveries are carried by traditional birth attendants simply because these women lack transport and other related medical expenses leading to increased undisclosed HIV status and new infections. And according to the HIV/AIDS Epidemiological surveillance report of (2010), 130,000 new infections that occur every year, 25,000 of these are babies who acquire HIV from their parents during deliveries.
XXXXXXX is among others that are hardest hit by HIV epidemic and the community has suffered from social economic impact of HIV/AIDS and poverty. Those tested HIV+ especially women suffer from gender based inequality, stigma and discrimination. Whilst Uganda’s effort to curb the epidemic, access ARVS to infected, women of XXXX District have not been able to utilize such services. They also lack economic training opportunities and sustainable family income sources.
Therefore, to help these XXXX HIV positive women manage and overcome the impact of the epidemic, ABC proposed this project and request funds from individuals, families, workmates, companies, NGOs and Institutions of US$ XXXXXX for 12 months. The funds will fund commercially sustainable and replicable goats rearing and conduct entrepreneurial skill development for these XXXX HIV+ women.
The project plan is to purchase and supply local goats to XXXX HIV+ women families. This project will help XXXX HIV+ women in XXXX District improve their family incomes and meet competitive resource demands such as fortified foods for dietary food intake, clothing and health services like ARVs expenses. It is a one year project. Project main activities will include; women training procure and supply of local XXXX goats, monitoring and evaluation.
Project Goal
To restore hope to HIV/AIDS positive women in Pallisa district by end of December XXXX
Project Objectives
- To train XXXX HIV/AIDS positive women in XXXXXX District in modern goat rearing and management by December XXXX.
- To facilitate XXXX HIV/AIDS positive women with XXXX goats, drugs and improved feeds in XXXXX District by December XXXX
Expected Results
- Improved incomes and nutritional supplements among XXXX HIV+ women enabling them to medical related expenses for safer deliveries.
- Improved incomes will increase HIV+ women purchasing power to meet competitive resource demand like; fortified foods, ARVs expenses and look after additional family members
- Reduced discrimination and exclusionary policies and practices against HIV+ women.
- Trained XXXX HIV+ women will become Community Owned Resource Persons and disseminate trained skills and knowledge to the rest of community members for project replication
- Goats’ droppings and urine will work as manure and increased moisture retention for HIV+ women to practice vegetable kitchen gardens to triple their family incomes sources and nutritional supplements.
Desired outcomes
- Increased number of HIV+ women involved in collective production and commercialization of goats rearing and vegetable growing projects with improved incomes
- Reduced malnutrition and premature deaths among HIV+ Women hence increased productivity.
- Increased access to improved goats by the community members for project replication after funding cycle.
- Families with malnourished children (and HIV+) will have access to goats’ milk within their areas and surrounding towns like Mbale, Kumi and Pallisa Districts.
Project Sustainability
Trained HIV+ women will become community owned resource persons (CORPs). They will disseminate trained knowledge and skills to the family members and the entire community.
Collective marketing to potential buyer(s) will be exercised. This arrangement/collaboration will be maintained and strengthened such that beneficiaries rear goats when assured of the market even at individual level after funding.
Members of ABC will develop a business plan to guide them in poultry business and with the aid of this plan, they will lobby other resources from different development partners including the sub county and district local government for the expansion of the project.
Out of the total cost of sales per months, 45% will be owned by beneficiary to meet resource demands like food, school fees, 25% will used for management and expansion of the project,. Then 30% will saved with the existing village banks to enable them acquire soft loans and begin individual micro-enterprise for increased family income sources
At the end of the project, members will convene a closure meeting in which avenues for extension of the project will be developed and agreed based on the saving realized during project implementation yields.
Beneficiaries of the project
XXXX (Numbers) HIV/AIDS positive are to benefit from the project especially in the first stage. Over XXXX indirect beneficiaries are expected to benefit from the project. These include; potential goats meatand milk buyers, and adopt similar project for their family improved incomes sources.
Local community involvement in the development of the project
This is a community owned project of which the beneficiaries have been in project prioritization and design. Two meetings were convened one for beneficiaries’ identification and selection; two was for project selection and design of this project. Their views and opinions have been incorporated into this project. Sub county local government veterinary officer were also consulted about the project.
Monitoring and Evaluation
a) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework:
This project being a community driven initiative members, project staff, local leaders, sub local government officials will be involved in data collection, analysis and redesigning of strategies intended to achieve the due objectives of the project. This process will be led by the M&E who received adequate capacity in the previous projects.
The M&E Officer will be responsible for the monitoring and ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring that the project maintains its strategic vision and that its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost effective and timely manner. She will identify and formulates lessons learned and document best practices from evaluations to be integrated into project reports while identifying potential implementation problems and bottlenecks.
b) Data Collection:
The Program Coordinator shall be responsible in the collection of data. The primary data that we envisage to collect includes: cost of sales per month, Number of liters of milk sold per month, Number of goats sold for every six months, Amount of Uganda Shillings received per quarter, Number of members actively involved in the project works, Number of women living with HIV/AIDS increased their household incomes and are able to procure basic needs such as medical services, food and can pay fees for their children (Orphans), number of available Functional and Sustainable market of meat and milk and memorandum of understandings signed, number of general community members adopted and practicing knowledge and skills of rearing improved goats from ABC members. Tools to be developed include data summary sheets and reporting format. Data storage shall be both manual and soft copies.
c) Data Analysis, Reporting and Utilization:
Progress reports shall be made by the Program Coordinator basing on project monitoring tools that shall be administered by BoDs, staff, beneficiaries, local leaders and sub county local government officials. These reports shall be shared and analyzed by all stakeholders quarterly.
d) Monitoring Process:
Our M&E plan specifies the roles of each officer per activity. The report lines shall be based on the Organizational and project management structure with the chief executive officer as responsible officer. All activity reports shall be delivered to him. The chief executive officer shall approve reports for feedback to other stakeholders, Funder and beneficiaries. Tools for activity monitoring already exist as provided in the previous project.
e) Financial management and accountability:
The availability of Accounts Assistant will ensure proper financial monitoring through; requisitioning, disbursement, utilization and accounting of the entire project funds as stipulated in ABC Financial Accounts Manual and procedures and funders interests. In-coming and outflow of the funds will be recorded through; Receipt books, Funds Requisition Forms, Cash Payment Voucher, Cheques Vouchers, and Ledger postings.
