MATOY

October 2003 -October 2004

Please note that this is a closed, archived program.

Within the scope of the World Bank-supported Multisectoral Project for the Prevention of HIV/AIDS (PMPS), Pact and its partner John Snow International (JSI) signed an agreement with the Malagasy Government to support its efforts in promoting multisector responses to HIV/AIDS and controlling prevalence rates.

Pact and JSI function as "facilitation organizations" to assist Malagasy NGOs and community-based organizations, or "promoters," compete for grants and implement projects under the Fond d'Appui a la Prevention of STIs/HIV/AIDS (FAP) program. FAP is a grant-making mechanism that was created by PMPS to channel funds to international, national, regional and local institutions to carry out activities related to prevention of STI/HIV/AIDS. As such Pact plays two major roles:

• Promoting FAP among local associations and NGOs, providing promoters with technical backstopping in writing qualified proposals for FAP, assessing the quality of these proposals, and submitting them to FAP with key comments and recommendations.
• Assessing the capacity of organizations applying for FAP and providing technical support to make them operational.

Interim results

• Pact carried out 56 workshops for local Malagasy organizations to market FAP and outline means to access it. This activity raised the interest of 1,426 local organizations who submitted applications for funding activities related to the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Madagascar.
• The capacity of the local organization in identifying activities and conceptualizing them into concrete proposal was greatly enhanced. Pact evaluated over 1,300 project proposals since the launching of the program. Out of these around 550 proposals were of adequate quality to be submitted to FAP and subsequently received funding. Pact provided advice and technical backstopping to selected organization of potential proposals in enhancing their proposals.
• Local organizations' capacity to manage and implement projects was greatly enhanced through training. Pact provided training sessions in administrative and financial management of projects, monitoring and evaluation, report writing, community participation and other related aspects of project implementation. Around 2,000 people benefited from this training.