Project title: Support 100 OVC on Solid waste works at Hawassa, Ethiopia
1. Brief project description:
Hawassa city is the regional capital of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS) of Ethiopia with projected population of more than 350,000 people. Being a capital of the region, a tourist attraction area and industrial hub with desirable environments, Hawassa has a high daily influx of people from Addis Ababa and from surrounding areas. The city of Hawassa is divided in to 8 sub cities (32 kebeles) namely Addis Ketema, Baheladdarash, Haykdar, Mehal, Menaheria, Misrak, Tabor and Tula. The major economic activities of the residents of Hawassa city include petty trade, daily labor, construction, transport, fishing around Lake Hawassa. The town is known with high migration and children trafficking problems, currently from the total population of the town 1030 (around 0.4) % community members are believed to live in the streets and make the street as their home. The number of people engaged in commercial sex work is increasing at alarming rate rendering young female and male vulnerable to HIV infection. HIV/AIDS have significantly contributed to the increase of orphans and vulnerable children in the city. The studied cause for high number of street community were extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, being an orphan, addiction to drugs and peer pressures as well as high expectation are the most common.
To reduce the prevalent problems of street children and contribute to HIV prevention endeavors, BSCYA initiated and implement the project entitled “Community based sustainable OVC and PLHIV support project at Hawassa city, SNNPR, Ethiopia“. The project will specifically be implemented under Hawassa city administration in two sub-cities, namely, Bahl-Adarash sub city and Tabor sub-city. The project aims at addressing the social, economic & psychological needs of OVCs and PLHIV.
2. Project overall objective
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the survival, development and wellbeing of Orphans & Vulnerable Children (OVCs) and PLHIV in Hawassa City of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State of Ethiopia.
3. Project location
The project will be carried out in Hawassa City Administration, in two sub-cities (Bahl-Adarash and Tabor).
ORGANIZATION DETAILS
Bethsaida Support for Children and Youth Association /BSCYA/ is a non-profit development Association established in 2007 by volunteer groups and legally registered (Regist. No. 2653) as local NGO under Ethiopian law by the Federal Charities and Society Agency.
Vision:
The vision of BSCYA is to see in the long run the nation where priority needs of vulnerable children & youth are met sustainably and their full potential unleashed to positively impact the society.
Mission:
The mission of BSCYA is to empower orphans, vulnerable children and youth as agents of their own development in harmony with their social and natural environment.
Goals and objectives
The overall goal of BSCYA is to create productive future generation by addressing the social, economic and psychological needs of orphans, vulnerable children & their families in Southern region of Ethiopia through their active engagement.
Objectives of BSCYA include:
· To provide care and support to orphan, vulnerable children, youth, and women guardians/care givers through community based approach
· To bring forth gradual change of attitude and empower orphan and vulnerable children through life skill education and counseling service
· To facilitate formal educational opportunities, amenities and capacity building trainings for street children and youth and encourage them to succeed in their schooling
· To make the life of street children, orphans and their guardians/ caregivers economically sustainable through relevant income generation activities
Members of the organization
BSCYA was founded by volunteer groups of 23 members. The supreme governing body of the organization is board of directors consisting of five members and the management committee consisting of three members is responsible for day to day administrative tasks.
Activities carried out in the past
Since its establishment BSCYA has been providing comprehensive OVC care & support interventions with financial/in-kind support from volunteer individuals, groups, funding partners, and government stakeholders. To mention few,
· Conducted psycho-social therapy services for 75 OVC and their family through counseling and moral teaching.
· Educational materials provided for 50 children in collaboration with volunteer community members and arranged school tutorials and summer computer courses for 50 children
· Health services (treatment) given for 15 children through referral linkage with governmental hospitals, PLCs and NGOs for two years.
· Health awareness creation trainings [including HIV, hygiene & sanitation] & provision of sanitation materials such as soaps, sanitary pads for girls were given for children and families at risk in collaboration with private and governmental hospitals
· Provided entrepreneurship training for 35 women’s and established 35 women self-help groups through IGA, the women are able to save money in Bank
· Provided vocational skill training for 5 street youths
· Created job opportunity in private organization for 2 youths
· Provided clothing support for 50 vulnerable children.
· Providing Nutritional (food) support for 50 at risk children continuously for six months.
· Conducted awareness creation programs and Celebrating street children s day regularly in each year. More than 3200 community members and stakeholders indirectly update with mass media, flayer and short term trainings.
· Provided short term training for 200 stakeholders who have selected from health department, Education Department, schools and other direct implementers.
· Conducting sensitization program for teachers, educational officials, health and other direct implementer.
· Worked collaboratively with members, beneficiaries, communities by sharing of Resources. Strongly worked with and on the system of government especially with schools and hospitals.
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
Introduction:
The impact of the pandemic HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia has been devastating. One of its most obvious negative effects in the country is its impact on social and economic conditions. So far, about 1.2 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.
BSCYA has been implementing holistic community based OVC support and development interventions in Hawassa city of Southern Nations Nationalities and peoples region (SNNPR). BSCYA is striving to address the diverse needs of orphan and vulnerable children and youths in line with its strategic objective of reducing their vulnerability to social, economic and psychological problems. BSCYA is engaged in community based social & economic support interventions, community awareness rising to reduce vulnerability of children and facilitation of quality social services to OVCs and youths who are most at risk. In this regard, 45 OVCs and 35 destitute women have been supported so far through the funds obtained from member contributions, volunteer individuals and funding partners. BSCYA targets beneficiaries who are unreached by government and other similar service providers. BSCYA strides to enhance these services and interventions to reach wider targets in Hawassa City where ever increasing child in-migration exists from neighboring rural kebeles. Thus, this project is initiated to address the basic needs of OVCs and PLHIV who are members of OVC households through community based support in a systematic and comprehensive manner over the next one year from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.
Scope of the project:
The project targets OVCs particularly those on the verge of leaving home due to poverty, those already in the streets and poor families of OVCs. The primary goal of the project is to empower OVCs and youth to address priority problems that forced them to streets to make their living. The project also aims at enabling PLHIV who are members of OVC households to live positively and productively.
Overall objective:
The general objective of the project is to improve the social, economic and psychological wellbeing of Orphans, Vulnerable Children & PLHIV who are members of OVC households through active community engagement.
Specific objectives:
· To provide quality, developmentally appropriate services to OVCs & PLHIV who are members of OVC HHs in Hawassa city
· Develop the capacity of OVCs, parents and caregivers to ensure sustainable OVC support via economic strengthening interventions
· Create linkage with social service providers, communities and community leaders to bring forth local resources towards OVC support
Project team:
Executive director: W/ro Alemtsehay Bekele, founder and executive director of BSCYA, will be responsible for general administrative & management duties (working full time). She will be supported by two volunteers working 3 days per week as an accountant and a cashier. The executive director will be responsible for monitoring of deliverables, timelines, finances, logistics and compliance in line with donor requirements & organizational administrative procedures in collaboration with the project coordinator.
Project coordinator: The project coordinator (Ato Abraham Berhanu, CV included in the document) works as a volunteer. Abraham has experience in project management, and he will oversee the project implementation activities. He will be responsible for coordinating the design and implementation of project activities. In collaboration with the executive director he will perform the critical task of planning, execution, monitoring (quality assurance), documentation & communication of relevant project information with key audiences including funding partner, government bodies, community leaders & beneficiary representatives.
Social worker: One social worker will be recruited by BSCYA for the project period. She/he will be responsible for implementation of project activities at the grassroots level.
BSCYA will allocate, office, office furniture, computers, printers, motor bike, salary and other running costs for project implementation as own contribution. The allocations of BSCYA for implementation of the project is estimated to be 222,000.00 ETB. The fund 558,918.00 ETB allocated by the donor partner will be channeled to direct project implementation.
Project durations:
This project will be implemented in one year period.
Activities by objective:
Objective 1: To provide quality, developmentally appropriate services to OVCs & PLHIV who are members of OVC HHs in Hawassa city
1.1 Nutritional behavior change interventions with OVC households to improve the nutritional content and use of household diet
Using Positive Deviance/Hearth approach which looks for the positive behaviors and strengths that exist in the community and can be built upon.” It posits that despite poverty, there are local practices, knowledge, and resources that can be exploited to promote positive health practices. Even in the poorest communities, some mothers are still able to raise healthy, well-nourished children “positive deviants”. If the feeding and hygiene practices of their mothers could be passed on to other mothers in the community, we would see the problems of malnutrition and other childhood illnesses significantly decrease. Moreover, since the solutions focused on in PD/Hearth come from within the community, the behaviors that the Hearth sessions emphasize are far more sustainable that solutions brought in from outside.
In practice, the PD/Hearth intervention brings together between six to ten mothers of malnourished children among OVC member HHs over a twelve day period to learn and practice the healthy nutrition behaviors. Led by one or more Volunteer Mothers from the community, the Hearth group prepares a nutrient dense meal using affordable, local foods and discusses a health issue of concern to the women and their children every day. Basic adapted hearth steps such as pre-hearth, actual hearth and post hearth steps will be followed during implementation of this intervention.
1.2 Provide nutritional support for 56 needy families/guardians of OVC who are at pre-primary & primary schools for nine months in 2017/18 academic year(wheat flour & cooking oil) to complement nutritional needs & improve learning outcomes of OVCs
1.3 Provide educational materials to 56 OVC including school uniforms, exercise books, pen, school bags etc. once in a year.
1.4 Provide VCT referral for 25 OVC living in HIV+ households for prevention of exposure & early detection of HIV status positive & responsible living
1.5 Provide HIV-related health interventions through referral [ART referral, treatment for opportunistic infections(OI)] for 25 OVC/PLHIV who are members of OVC HHs
Objective 2: Develop the capacity of OVC, parents and caregivers to ensure sustainable OVC support via economic strengthening interventions
2.1 Organize vocational skills training for OVC and PLHIV who are members of OVC households
2.1.1 Hair dressing training for 12 OVC/PLHIV
2.1.2 Computer skills training for 12 OVC/PLHIV
2.1.3 Driving skills training for 4 OVC/PLHIV (Bajaj, taxi, public transport et)
2.1.4 Provide entrepreneurship orientation & counseling to 44 OVC/PLHIV + 30 OVC households
2.1.5 Provide training to 16 OVC/PLHIV on solid waste management
2.2 Support startup capital in-kind to OVC and PLHIV who are members of OVC households to enable them launch feasible IGAs
2.2.1 Provide sets of hair dressing equipment for establishing three [male & female] beauty salons for three groups consisting of four OVC/PLHIV each
2.2.2 Provision of donkeys, donkey-carts & personal protective equipment for four groups(4 members each) of OVC/PLHIV to engage them in solid waste management of the city
2.2.3 Encourage 30 women headed OVC families to start feasible IGAs in petty trades such as Baking & selling enjera [Provide different materials such as energy saving stoves & seed capital)
Objective 3: Enhance linkage with social service providers, communities and community leaders to bring forth gradual change of attitude towards OVC support
3.1 Lobby & facilitate vocational training opportunities through government & non-governmental training institutions through referral linkage
3.2 Facilitate formal & informal employment opportunities for OVC & PLHIV who are members of OVC HHs and encourage them to succeed in their jobs
3.3 Facilitate psychosocial support (counseling service, participation in various social events such as sports competition, participation in exhibitions) in collaboration with relevant service provides
Targeted groups (Direct or indirect beneficiaries)
Direct beneficiaries:
- 100 OVC/PLHIV and 30 OVC/PLHIV households by the end of the project;
-100 OVC/PLHIV benefit from nutritional behavior change interventions
-56 needy families of OVC in preprimary & preschool receive basic nutritional assistance
-56 OVC get educational material support
-50 OVC receive VCT/ART/treatment service through referral linkage
-44 OVC benefit from vocational trainings & in-kind support and start small scale business
-30 OVC/PLHIV/women headed HHs benefit from vocational trainings & in-kind support and start small scale business