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Local Partners Initiative on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (LOPIN-OVC) The LOPIN 1 Project is a 5 years (August 2014 to August 2019) USAID funded project aimed at mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS and other forms of vulnerability on children and their households. LOPIN is an accelerated and sustainable approach to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and caregivers. It is designed to model inclusiveness in programming for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in selected states in the country in accordance with the National Priority Agenda. A critical component of the project is at the community level, where CBOs and CPCs have key roles in identifying and enrolling OVCs and vulnerable households and linking OVCs to services in health, education, nutrition and psychosocial support services. CBOs, with the support of the LGAs are also expected to guide the communities in Household economic empowering activities and to provide oversight for other activities in the communities, reporting accordingly to the LGA Social Welfare Officer, who in turn report to the State Desk officers in the State Ministries of Women Affairs. CBOs will be provided grants to conduct these critical interventions. Another innovation of the project is the secondment of ARFH LOPIN staff (State Programme Coordinators and State M&E Officers) to the State Ministry of Women Affairs to provide coaching, mentorship and hand holding in service provision as well as in the collection, validation of data. The project will also focus on strengthening stakeholders capacity to provide services as well as Public Private Partnership involvement.
Humanitarian Assistance - improve access to health care for the most-affected populations To improve access to health care for the most-affected populations
Lafiya – Health Resilience of North East Nigeria (HeRON) (Nigeria):  With FY 2022 funds this activity will:.Support at least 83 health facilities and seven nutrition stabilization centers across 23 LGAs (13 in Borno and 10 in Yobe). .Focus on integration of quality of care into the basic Primary Health Care package to ensure that basic package of services is available and accessible;.Procure essential medicines and supplies while coordinating and leveraging Government of Nigeria and existing donors' investments supporting Malaria, Family Planning, HIV/TB, and nutrition commodities; .Build on the existing pool of trainers established during the past two years, an integrated competency focused on-the-job mentoring and coaching approach will be adopted, with facility-based training in a low-dose high-frequency approach; and .Transition internally displaced persons in select IDP camps in Adamawa state from emergency humanitarian aid dependency to independent self-sustaining residents..Integrate WASH activities into health programming by promoting the adoption of essential WASH actions, food and environmental hygiene including handwashing, and safe disposal of medical waste at the health facility levels.The overall purpose of the Health Resilience in Northeast Nigeria (HeRON) activity (previously known as the Northeast Health Transition Program) is to save lives and reduce suffering for the poorest and most vulnerable in North-East Nigeria, through a stronger and more resilient health system. This activity contributes directly to USAID Nigeria CDCS Development Objective 2, the Embassy's ICS, and is closely aligned with Goal 3 of the 2022-2026 Joint Strategic Plan...
Nigeria WASH Assistance WASH, health, logistics, and protection assistance to IDPs and conflict affected persons in Northeast Nigeria
Parliamentary Support Program (Malawi):  USAID's Parliamentary Support Program contributes to Malawi's democratic governance by supporting the National Assembly (Parliament) to better fulfill its legislative, oversight, and representative functions. In doing so, the program advances USAID/Malawi's mission-wide goals of promoting economic and social development by utilizing health, education, agriculture, and natural resource management funding. The activity bolsters the effectiveness and independence of Parliament by providing technical support to selected committees in order to promote legislation that enables economic growth and improved delivery of services, and conduct oversight to ensure public funds are spent efficiently to maximize social impact and development.  To strengthen public trust, the activity will enhance coordination between Parliament and statutory oversight bodies such as the Anti-Corruption Bureau so they can take timely preventive and corrective action on public accountability issues, especially on waste and abuse in agriculture, natural resources, health, and education sectors. The Parliamentary Support Program will assist civil society organizations and influencers, along with the media, to use the access to information law and build a constructive relationship with Parliament that advances the public interest. The activity aligns with the Integrated Country Strategy's Goal 1: Democratic and Accountable Governance and the Mission's Country Development Cooperation Strategy, which seeks to improve public sector effectiveness and accountability at the national and decentralized level.
Behaviors Adopted/HIV/AIDS&ICH - Assistance for HIV/AIDS PEPFAR: Behaviors Adopted/HIV/AIDS&ICH - Assistance for HIV/AIDS
Printing, Binding, and Distribution of Standards one to four Chichewa and English Learners Books and Teachers Guides Activity The education initiative that aims to enhance the quality of primary education in Malawi. EGRA provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) in implementing teacher education support, literacy materials development and systems management. Building on the achievements of previous activities and in particular on the Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support Program, it also features a strong element of community mobilisation and of inclusive education for learners with special learning needs. EGRA targets teacher trainers, teachers, school administrators, parents, and other key community members in 11 districts, with a special focus on improving literacy skills at the lower primary level.
MERIT: The Malawi Early Grade Reading Improvement Activity (Malawi):  Malawian students score at the bottom on reading assessments in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Addressing the reading gap is a priority of the Mission and the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MoEST) and led to the creation of the National Reading Program (NRP) for standards 1-4 in 2015. The Malawi Early Grade Reading Improvement (MERIT) activity leads NRP implementation and provides technical and financial support to the MoEST to improve Chichewa and English reading and language skills of over 3,400,000 students in all 5,603 public primary schools nationwide. ..With FY18 funds, MERIT will provide training for teachers, sectional heads, administrators, education advisors, and communities on methods for improving reading instruction. MERIT will continue its mentoring component and introduce Teacher Learning Circles, a structured monthly collaborative dialogue on reading instruction among teachers and education leaders at the school level. This teacher-level support will hone in on teaching skills, discuss student performance, model quality instruction, and improve student reading levels. The activity will support inclusive education for students with disabilities and continue developing high quality teaching and learning materials including teacher training guides and supplementary reading materials for all students. .Implemented by Research Triangle Group and awarded through full and open competition, MERIT employs interventions grounded in research-based pedagogy for improving learners' reading abilities. MERIT operates within existing government structures and through high levels of engagement with the MoEST and local experts. The 2018 U.S.Government Strategy on Basic Education states "equal access to relevant, quality education creates pathways for greater economic growth, improved health outcomes, sustained democratic governance, and more peaceful and resilient societies.".. . Objectives for Malawi: Implemented by RTI International in all primary schools in Malawi to improve reading performance of Malawian students in standards 1-4. MERIT interventions will improve reading instruction and acquisition in the classroom, increase parental and community engagement in supporting student reading, create safer learning environments for reading, institute pathways for sustainability, and advance USAID/Malawi’s priority of integration across programs.
Evidence-Based, Targeted HIV Prevention (EBT Prev) Project The primary aim of EBT Prev has been to drill down into most-at-risk populations (MARPs), conduct social behavior change communications (SBCCs) and inspire changes in behaviors.
USAID/OFDA Grant for Malawi/Drought-2016 Increasing Mitigation, Productivity & Adaptation through ClimateSmart Techniques (IMPACT) - Malawi
United in Building and Advancing Life Expectations (UBALE) (Malawi):  The southern region of Malawi is prone to droughts and floods. The frequencies and magnitudes of the droughts and floods affect food production leading to food insecurity, especially among the  vulnerable households. Other factors such as environmental degradation, high population growth and lack of livelihood options exacerbates the food insecurity situation. USAID's United in Building and Advancing Life Expectations activity will invest $975,800 of FY 2019 Title II resources, in addition to Community Development Funds, to improve food security and livelihoods for 248,200 households in the disaster-prone areas of Blantyre, Chikwawa and Nsanje districts of Southern Malawi. Illustrative activities include: 1) Social behavior change around maternal and child health and nutrition, and family planning using the Care Group Model; 2) the promotion of conservation agriculture, natural resource management, agribusiness, and informal micro-finance finance among smallholders; and 3) community-based disaster risk management. These interventions will improve maternal and child health, nutrition, and livelihoods among beneficiaries, and will increase the capacity of targeted households to withstand natural and economic shocks and stresses. The activity is aligned with USAID's Feed the Future Secondary Zone of Influence and supports the Integrated Country Strategy's Mission objective 1.2 to increase sustainable livelihoods. The activity supports Goal 4.4 of the Joint Regional Strategy and Strategic Objective 1.1 of the Joint Strategic Plan..
Tiwalere OVC (Orphans and Vulnerable Children) Project Tiwalere will provide targetted support to OVC households and 826 Community Based Childcare Centers (CBCCs) and will strengthen linkages between CBCCs and other health, social service, and community support systems. It will provide nutrition education, community mobilisation, psychosocial services, income generating activities, training in gardening, agricultural system strengthening, and other areas to assure high quality, community-based, sustainable intervations in HIV/AIDS affected communities.
Food for Peace FY2019 Award Humanitarian Assistance Activity - Food for Peace FY2019 Award
Optimizing HIV Services for Epidemic Control (OHSEC) (Malawi):  USAID's Optimizing HIV/AIDS Services for Epidemic Control activity in Malawi supports the National Tuberculosis (TB) Program to implement the National TB Strategy nationwide. FY 2019 funds will enable the activity to: 1) strengthen the TB laboratory and diagnostic network by building the capacity of national and district level staff; 2) maintain a Service Level Agreement and warranty with the service provider of Gxalert real-time connectivity which ensures real-time reporting of various TB testing services to a centralized database; 3) enroll new Xpert machines added to the network on the Service Level Agreement and warranty; 4) support the implementation of Xpert scale-up and Universal Drug Sensitivity Testing as the new standard of care; 5) ensure linkage to treatment of diagnosed drug-resistant TB patients; 6) support the National TB Program to respond rapidly to issues reported through Gxalert, including follow-up of diagnosed drug resistant patients, forecasting and redistributing test cartridges, determine and organize additional training and support; and 7) build the capacity of the National TB reference and district laboratories. As a local organization with significant technical capacity and experience on USAID and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief programming, Partners in Hope is well-positioned and experienced to lead the TB control efforts in Malawi. The interventions implemented by this activity support the Integrated Country Strategy and are in line with the existing U.S. government Global TB Strategy with a vision to reach every person with TB, cure those in need of treatment, and prevent disease progression and new infections and the USAID Global Accelerator to End TB, USAID's contribution to the United Nation's target of treating 40 million people between 2018 and 2022. .
Community-based Therapeutic Care Institutionalization in Malawi (CTCIM) The CTCIM project was designed to address the need to institutionalize the nationwide CMAM program, which provides care to malnourished and severely malnourished children under the age of 5 through a four-prong strategy: treating severely malnourished children with medical complications in a NRU; treating severely malnourished children without medical conditions in outpatient therapy; providing a supplementary food program to underweight children; and providing outreach and community mobilization.
Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED) The activity focuses on increasing access to and improving the quality of secondary schools throughout Malawi.
Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice Activity (STEP) The objective of the activity is to strengthen the higher education systems to train teachers in early grade instruction and provide pathways of continuous professional development for teachers to excel in their discipline and at the primary school level.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Support (MELS) activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Support (MELS) task order under the PPL Monitoring and Evaluation Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (EVAL ME IDIQ) contract
Cash Transfer Program - GiveDirectly GiveDirectly has worked with USAID to run cash benchmarking studies in Malawi.
Malawi Governance for Solutions (GfS) Activity, Through the Malawi Governance for Solutions (GfS) Activity, USAID seeks to build on the incremental gains in decentralization and associated service delivery improvements, with the understanding that to make the significant leaps now required for Malawi to meet its own development goalsin the face of a fast-growing, young populationa bold, adaptive, and sustainable approach is required.
EQUIP-Malawi (Extending QUality ImProvement for HIV /AIDS in Malawi) Partners in Hope (PIH) Medical Center and its partners propose to collaborate with Christian Hospital Association of Malawi (CHAM) to achieve the following overall goal: To improve the quality of HIV care in Malawi by increasing the capacity of CHAM facilities to deliver care, sustained by integrating and strengthening linkages within the continuum of care, innovative mentored training to develop a model for workforce training, and through the performance of operational research to inform the future of the Malawi National programs and policies. The goal will be achieved through three complementary objectives: 1. Strengthening the continuum of care between different health services and between facilities and communities. 2. Develop Zonal Mentoring Teams. 3. Create a consortium of sites for operational research.
SUSTAINABLE INCREASES IN RURAL INCOMES Supports the following illustrative program-funded costs: salaries of US, FSN, and TCN and other staff such as PSCs, RSSAs, PASAs, CASUs working for the US Government managing, administering, and supporting programs and their program-funded benefits such as housing, travel, transportation, education allowances etc; institutional contractors that provide such staff, rent, IT services, the program-funded share of utilities, staff training costs and the cost of developing and administering training programs, equipment and supplies, ICASS, vehicle fuel and maintenance, maintenance contracts, janitorial services, operational unit web page development and maintenance, outreach such as publications and the cost of their preparation (including staff costs), and technical assistance to ensure USG compliance with regulations.
Strengthening Evidence Based Agriculture Policy (SEBAP) (Malawi):  USAID/Malawi's Strengthening Evidence Based Agriculture Policy (SEBAP) activity supports capacity building efforts for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MoAFS) to promote and increase evidence-based decision making.FY 2014 activities include: -Upgrading MoAFS's capacity to collect and aggregate data for their annual crop estimates. -Supporting monitoring and evaluation efforts of Malawi's Country Investment Plan, known as the Agriculture Sector Wide Approach.-Conducting policy analysis of key Government of Malawi agriculture policies.Activities will result in growth of the agriculture sector through improved capacity of the MoAFS to generate, analyze, and utilize accurate and reliable data and the timely availability of information to guide investments in Malawi's agricultural sector.
Protection, Assistance and Solutions Supports the following illustrative program-funded costs: salaries of US, FSN, and TCN and other staff such as PSCs, RSSAs, PASAs, CASUs working for the US Government managing, administering, and supporting programs and their program-funded benefits such as housing, travel, transportation, education allowances etc; institutional contractors that provide such staff, rent, IT services, the program-funded share of utilities, staff training costs and the cost of developing and administering training programs, equipment and supplies, ICASS, vehicle fuel and maintenance, maintenance contracts, janitorial services, operational unit web page development and maintenance, outreach such as publications and the cost of their preparation (including staff costs), and technical assistance to ensure USG compliance with regulations.
Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests in Malawi - Tiphike Mwa Makono (Malawi):  USAID's Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) activity uses nature-based solutions to reduce the risk and vulnerability of people, communities, and ecosystems to climate change support through forestry management.MCHF supports households and communities to implement climate-smart and forest landscape restoration interventions on 7,500 hectares of degraded agricultural land (including soil and water conservation and farmer-managed natural regeneration) to build local capacity to adapt to climate change. In Malawi, MCHF supports a variety of learning events where communities, traditional leaders, and district councils can share their experiences on the threats to long-term management of both customary and state forests, as well as on the importance of restoring forest landscapes to lower risk and make Malawi less vulnerable to more tropical cyclones. Climate Change Adaptation funds will strengthen GoM's capacity to improve the quality, management, and application of forest data and information to make the information available to integrate with other climate information to inform disaster risk reduction and climate risk management. MCHF supports nascent rural enterprises and smallholder farmers to transition and use 1) irrigation to diversify away from rainfed agriculture and 2) renewable or alternative energy sources to move away from fossil fuels that are expensive and bad for the environment, as this lowers their business risk and makes them less vulnerable to climate change.This activity supports the Mission's Integrated Country Strategy Objective 2.3: Malawi implements its climate adaptation and climate mitigation goals, fosters climate-positive business, reduces vulnerabilities to climate change, and increases the country's resilience to shocks and stresses..
Local Endeavors for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment (LEAP) Activity The goal of the Local Endeavors for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment (LEAP) activity is to prevent new HIV infections in targeted populations, particularly sex workers at high risk of HIV infection.
Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support Activity The Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support (MTPDS) activity is a three-year, USAID-funded project supporting the professional development of teachers and implementation of the National Primary Curriculum (PCAR) through a framework of continuous professional development (CPD) for teachers nationwide. The project builds upon the successes of previous CPD programs, supported by the Government of Malawis Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), USAID and other development partners. MTPDS is designed to provide unified teacher training and CPD, distance learning and systems management in direct support of the Primary Curriculum and Assessment Reform (PCAR) and the New Primary Curriculum (NPC). Its ultimate goal is to ensure that larger numbers of teachers are trained to help students develop early literacy and numeracy skills, and over time become independent learners.
Rapid Feedback Monitoring System (RFMS) Rapid Feedback Monitoring System (RFMS) activity in Malawi
USAID Title II Development Program through Project Concern International. USAID Title II Development Program through Project Concern International.
Growth Poles Activities Investing in diversified agriculture-led growth poles for inclusive, sustainable and resilient wealth creation (growth poles) activity
Learn to Perform (l2p) -  USAID Malawi monitoring, evaluation and learning platform activity. The project supports USAID/Malawi in its performance management and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) in support of USAIDs overarching goal of a more self-reliant Malawi that is gender-equitable and democratically accountable.
Education Policy, Decision Making, and Decentralisation Education Policy, Decision Making, and Decentralisation
Title II Emergency Award - UNICEF Malawi Title II Emergency Award - UNICEF Malawi
Improved Quality & Effectiveness of Basic Ed Improved Quality & Effectiveness of Basic Ed
Transition Award: Strengthening Inclusive Agricultural Sector Growth and Sustainable Natural Resources Governance in Malawi Transition Award: Strengthening Inclusive Agricultural Sector Growth and Sustainable Natural Resources Governance in Malawi
UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Adolescents and youth activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Adolescents and youth activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Adolescents and youth activities
UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Population change and data activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Population change and data activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Population change and data activities
UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Quality of care and services activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Quality of care and services activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Quality of care and services activities
UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Policy and accountability activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Policy and accountability activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Policy and accountability activities
UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Gender and social norms activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Gender and social norms activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Gender and social norms activities
UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Humanitarian action activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Humanitarian action activities UNFPA Syrian Arab Republic Humanitarian action activities