Lesotho Grant Strategy

HIV/AIDS Treatment expansion

We are seeking programmes that enable the expansion and decentralisation of treatment services, including ARV provision, PMTCT, paediatric care and treatment for co-infection such as TB.  Programmes should work in collaboration with or within the health sector to strengthen and integrate national provision of comprehensive care.  They must demonstrate impact and anticipate how the work will be sustained over the long term.
 

Addressing the needs of women 

We are seeking programmes that aim to decrease the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS and to mitigate its impact on them, including:

• Provision of integrated services that include sexual reproductive health, HIV testing/treatment and prevention of mother-to-child transmission.  Programmes should have the ability to scale and to strengthen local or national provision within the health sector.  They should offer multiple entry levels and show clear measurement of impact. 
• Provision of legal/human rights programmes that empower women infected, affected and at risk of HIV/AIDS to make informed choices, protect themselves and exercise their rights at local, regional and national level.  Programmes must demonstrate measurement of impact.
• Provision of effective and sustainable, high impact food security and income generation programmes, particularly those integrated with HIV treatment and care, that have the ability to scale up.  They must show clear measurement of impact at household level and for the individual, and anticipate how the programme will be sustained over the long term.
   

Vulnerable populations

Programmes providing access to information and prevention methods, and integrated sexual reproductive health and HIV testing/treatment services to migrant male labour and to men who have sex with men. Programmes must demonstrate clear measurement of impact, effective and appropriate entry levels for services, and a cost effective process of adding beneficiaries to the programme.
 

Organisations/Networks of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)

We are seeking organisations and networks which empower PLWHA, enabling them to play a key role in the development of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services (particularly support to serodiscordant couples), improve their quality of life and exercise self-determination.  Programmes must demonstrate impact at an organisational and beneficiary level, and anticipate how the programme will be sustained over the long term.
  

Small Grants Fund

EJAF also operates a Small Grants Programme aimed at Community Based Organisations which, in Lesotho, is administered via the Firelight Foundation. Please see their website for more details and how to apply: www.firelightfoundation.org
  

NB All programmes will need to ensure that beneficiaries are central to the design and implementation of the programme and be able to demonstrate their impact on the beneficiary group.