Afghan Family Guidance Association (AFGA), our Member Association, is one of 26 winners amongst the 75 short listed for the SARD competitive grant programme.

They won the grant for a project called: Tackling HIV/AIDS stigma and reduction: from insight to action.

The programme identifies and supports small-scale development projects that have the potential to be expanded or replicated. 

The programme operates at a global, regional or country level, and uses a transparent process to support innovations that address development challenges at the community level.

Proposals had to reflect the theme of how to tackle stigma and discrimination related to HIV and AIDS.

Criteria

Innovation:  the proposal should present non-conventional and/or creative approaches to reducing HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination.

Ownership: the proposed activities must be relevant, appropriate, and demonstrate acceptance within the community of beneficiaries, or have a plan for how to obtain and maintain acceptance and ownership by the beneficiaries.

Replicability: the proposal should identify its potential to be replicated by other organizations in other places with similar conditions.

Results: the proposal should demonstrate/quantify very clearly how it will mitigate stigma or discrimination.

All the winners will enter into a grant agreement with the World Bank that indicates how and when the award money will be disbursed to them and what results/milestones their projects will deliver.

The activity will be monitored over the following 18 months.

At the end of the 18 months, there will be a gathering of the winners and partners to review lessons learned and to disseminate and discuss the results in February - March 2010.

Partners and sponsors

• UNAIDS
• UNICEF
• UNODC
• UNDP
• GFATM
• Government of Norway