Microgrants to expand the Implementation of Essential Community-Based Differentiated Services in Suriname

Deadline: 1-Dec-23

The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) is offering microgrants to expand the implementation of essential community-based differentiated services in line with national guidelines.

Categories

• Differentiated service delivery (DSD) service delivery models can be grouped into the following four categories:
  • Facility-based individual models, where clients are seen individually within health care facilities;
  • Out-of-facility individual models, where clients are seen individually outside of health care facilities;
  • Health care worker-managed group models, where clients are seen in a group managed by a health care worker, either a professional or law health care provider, within and/or outside of health care facilities; and
  • Client-managed group models, where clients meet in a group, generally outside of health care facilities

Funding Information

• Maximum Amount: US$26,000 over eighteen months (US$13,000 per year)
• Number of Grants per Country: One

Implementation Period

• Eighteen (18) month grant
•  commencing January 2024 (contingent upon a satisfactory progress evaluation after the first quarter of the grant has been completed)

Outputs/Means of Verification

• Report detailing:
  • Deliverable 1: Training of healthcare providers in DSD
    • Training Plan developed and implemented
    • Training manual/curriculum developed
    • Number of healthcare providers trained in DSD
  • Deliverable 2: DSD programme for KP
    • Progress report on implementation of DSD programme
    • Detailing intervention model and associated protocols
    • Number of KP and PLHIV reached (disaggregated by age, KP community) with DSD services
    • Number of KP referred/linked to DSD services
  • Deliverable 3: DSD programme for KP
    • Progress report on implementation of DSD programme
    • Detailing intervention model and associated protocols
    • Number of KP and PLHIV reached (disaggregated by age, KP community) with DSD services
    • Number of KP referred/linked to DSD services

Activities

• Increased coverage of essential and differentiated services for KP and PLHIV through:
  • Training of healthcare providers in DSD
  • Contribute to access to DSD for KP

Target/ Rationale

• Support for Differentiated service delivery (DSD) intervention models being implemented by CSO/CBO partners.
• The DSD model of care is defined as a person-centred approach to HIV service delivery with services tailored to the needs of patients (taking into consideration sub-population, context and environment). Examples of DSD interventions are as follows:
  • Adherence clubs
  • Community outreach efforts to trace defaulters or provide treatment education or adherence support
  • Extended clinic hours
  • Family models
  • Fast track services
  • Multi-month dispensing
  • Nonstable patient models
  • Key population models
  • Youth models

Eligibility Criteria

• Civil society and community-based organizations working with key population groups in Suriname.
• The organization must be legally constituted or have an experienced fiscal sponsor through which to receive money.

For more information, visit Caribbean Vulnerable Communities.