Project/Programme Name | Building Sustainable Livelihoods for AIDS Orphans and Carers of AIDS Orphans in Uganda and Ethiopia |
Lead Organization | Canada Africa Partnership on AIDS |
Timespan | 2009 > 2012 |
Funding / Financement
themes / thèmes
- Community Systems Strengthening / Renforcement des systèmes communautaires
- Maternal & Child Health / Santé maternelle et infantile
Objectives / Objectifs
- To provide 4 African HIV&AIDS Community-based Organizations (CBOs) with the capacity to provide effective leadership to community responses to the socio-economic needs of AIDS-orphaned youth and orphan caregivers;
- To provide at least 370 AIDS-orphaned youth and the caregivers of AIDS-orphaned children with valuable and suatainable livelihoods, reducing their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS;
- To provide at least 1 200 youth with the capacity to resist, survive and overcome HIV/AIDS, and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination;
- To enable policy-makers and other practitioners to incorporate learnings from this Project into broader HIV/AIDS work; and
- To enable Canadians to laern about and mobilize their support for the HIV/AIDS response in Africa.
Annual Budget / Budget annuel
$300,000 to $500,000