This document sets out the strategy to build and strengthen capacity to provide leadership, coordination and operational oversight at the central, regional, and district levels under the CORE Initiatives Uganda to prevent OVC and HIV among youth.
CORE Initiatives Uganda is a 4-year project supporting the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development’s (MGLSD) efforts to lead, manage and coordinate the national response to OVC and HIV prevention among youth. Its purpose is to expand targeted HIV/AIDS services for youth and critical services for OVC by strengthening partnerships between the Government of Uganda (GOU) and civil society, including faith-based and community-based organizations. CORE Uganda is led by CARE International Uganda (CARE Uganda). Other partners in the consortium include the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA), the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) and Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communications Program (JHUCCP).
The CORE Initiatives Project will enable MGLSD to:
- Effectively lead, manage, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the national response to orphans and other vulnerable children and HIV prevention among youth;
- Expand the availability and quality of services for orphans and other vulnerable children; and
- Expand the availability and quality of HIV programming with youth.
This capacity building strategy was largely based on a capacity needs assessment conducted in 2005 – as well as the original CORE project proposal - to determine MGLSD and district management and operational capacity needs in providing leadership and coordination, monitoring and evaluating the national response to OVC and AB/Y. The capacity building strategy addresses the following issues:
- Scope of the capacity building mandate, given the need to build capacity across the four different areas of work of the CORE Initiative, three of which fall under the respective responsibility of the three other CORE partners, and what this means for specific collaborations with these partners;
- Scale of the capacity building mandate, given the rapid pace and scale up of the granting component of CORE Uganda
- Coverage of the capacity building mandate, given the need
- Complexity of the capacity building mandate, given the decentralized public sector environment, fragmented national response to OVC andyouth HIV prevention issues, and the challenges of government-CSO relationships; and
- Measuring progress and success, especially in relation to the impact of the capacity building interventions on the quality as well as the quantity of work with youth, orphans and other vulnerable children
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