New support for 64,000 children living with HIV in India

June 18, 2007

18 Jun 2007 16:54:00 GMT

Alliance India's CHAHA project will be extending care and support

services to at least 64,000 children living with and affected by HIV

in India. It is to put programmes in place that will help to keep the

children with their parents or extended families.

The project is a new five-year community and home-based care and

support programme focused on how HIV impacts on children and women.

Led by Alliance India as a principal recipient of Global Fund Round 6

funding, the CHAHA project will support the delivery of a

comprehensive package of interventions in 40 districts in four states

in India through eight sub-recipient organisations and with 59

implementing non-governmental organisation partners.

The project got underway recently when Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

met with potential non-governmental organisation partners in

Maharashtra. CRS is one of the sub-recipient organisations of the

CHAHA project. It will implement the project alongside nine non-

governmental organisations.

CRS organised the two-day induction meeting with partners to address

the reasons why India needs a programme on orphans and vulnerable

children and to share project details with them. Alliance India staff

facilitated the workshop, which was attended by two representatives

from each of the implementing non-governmental organisations plus CRS

(national and state) and the State AIDS Control Society (SACS).

The workshop looked at project approaches, key activities, the

monitoring and evaluation framework, targets, unit costing, budgeting

and project management. It also offered an opportunity to revisit the

individual workplans and budgets of the implementing organisations.

SACS will be updated periodically on the progress of the project and

will support the co-ordination of project activities.

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