Strengthening Community Care and Support Systems and Services (SCCSSS) in Namibia

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Namibia program on behalf of the US Government (USG) will develop a new program activity to implement its HIV Care and Support (C&S) program. The overall goal of this new activity is to sustainably reduce the impact, transmission and spread of HIV through a comprehensive, sustainable, integrated community response that will result in improved access and utilization of C&S services across the continuum of care for children, adolescents and adults, targeting vulnerable, key and hard-to-reach populations. This will be achieved by establishing sustainable, efficient and effective delivery systems for integrated community-based C&S service through:• local private voluntary organizations (PVOs);• civil society organizations (CSOs), including non-governmental organizations (NGOs); and/or community-based organizations (CBOs)The new program will contribute to the USG Foreign Assistance Strategic Goal of “Investing in People (IIP)”, the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) global objective of providing care to 12 million individuals, and the Government of the Republic of Namibia’s (GRN) National Strategic Framework (NSF), 2010/11 -2015/16 and the “smart integration” approach and other goals and objectives articulated in both the USG Namibia Global Health Initiative (GHI) and the Partnership Framework (PF). The local partner will implement the activities over three years at a total estimated cost of approximately US$ 9,000,000 (nine million dollars) for three years from on/about May 1, 2013 to April 30, 2016 subject to the availability of funds.