Technical Assistance and Capacity Building to Support Local and Indigenous Organizations Providing HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment (Tunaweza Project)

Overview

Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Tunaweza Project supported HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment activities of local organizations by providing organizational and systems strengthening through training and mentorship, expansion of technical capacity for evidenced-based HIV/AIDS programming, and performance-based contracting to deliver multiple prevention, care, and treatment services to target populations. Specifically, EGPAF implemented activities aimed at strengthening the management, technical, and leadership capacity of 32 local organizations to accelerate service delivery coverage at the community level, and to improve quality and comprehensiveness of the package prevention, care, and treatment services offered.

Additionally, the project provided capacity building assistance to the Government of Kenya and HIV Prevention partners at the national level on the design and implementation roll-out of Prevention with Positives (PwP) activities and evidence-informed bio-behavioral interventions for the prevention of HIV. Tunaweza’s programmatic areas of focus included:

• Abstinence and being faithful;
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT);
• Counseling and testing;
• Palliative care;
• Antiretroviral therapy and HIV care for adults and pediatrics, orphans, and vulnerable children;
• Tuberculosis and HIV;
• Prevention with Positives;
• Policy and health systems strengthening.