Programme Focus
The stakeholders of the National Response - government, civil society, bilateral and multilateral organizations, international NGOs - contribute in distinct areas according to their comparative advantage.
USAID and its technical partners - FHI, Policy, and PSI - invest almost half of their programmatic funding in this area. The specific component on female sex workers and clients has received major support, thus ensuring the delivery of prevention education and services, including condom social marketing, to this group. USAID supports 32% of the financing of the National Action Plan. While DFID assistance accounts 33% of pledged amount with focus on programme for Mobile population and Treatment Care and Support, assistance has also been extended to meet some of the financing gap in other areas.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) contributes towards prevention, treatment, care and support. The prevention component of the GFATM focuses on mobile populations and young people, including extensive awareness-building and advocacy. The GFATM programme provides major support to the treatment, care and support component through the scale-up of ARV treatment. The 2005-06 GFATM support will account for approximately 15% of the national estimate of PLWHAs needing ARV drugs. The GFATM contribution to the total Action Plan is 18% of the resource needs. Similarly, the World Bank is providing unprecedented support to civil society development, particularly in institution-building, through a direct contribution of $ 50,000 for this year. The local non-governmental organizations are key stakeholders in the prevention area. In particular, the Nepal Red Cross Society and the Family Planning Association of Nepal sustain ongoing awareness-raising and life-skills education for young people, especially at community levels. These two local NGOs contribute 6% to the Action Plan. Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) A cross-cutting theme is the role of civil society in management and implementation. Local NGOs are central mechanisms for programme delivery and have largely been the implementing partners of bilateral and multilateral donors. Their distinctive contribution has been in prevention education and services, e.g., counseling. It is envisioned that they will assume more important roles in the delivery of treatment, care and support activities. |
