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The Sustaining Prevention, Care and Support Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Zimbabwe opportunity is a USAID-funded cooperative agreement designed to strengthen and sustain a broad package of services for children, adolescents, and youth who are affected by or living with HIV, along with the families and caregivers who support them. The overall goal is to improve outcomes across health, safety, education, and long-term stability for orphans and other vulnerable children in Zimbabwe, recognizing that HIV-related vulnerability often overlaps with poverty, protection risks, and barriers to staying in school. The activity is structured as a multi-award effort, with USAID/Zimbabwe (USAID-Harare) expecting to make up to six awards under a single solicitation, indicating an intent to support coverage across multiple geographic areas and to work through several implementing partners.
The program is organized around four core objectives that reflect a mix of direct service delivery and systems strengthening. Objective 1 focuses on improving access to HIV care and treatment for children, adolescents, and youth. In practical terms, this centers on ensuring that vulnerable young people are identified, linked to HIV testing and treatment services, supported to start and remain on antiretroviral therapy, and helped to overcome common barriers such as stigma, transport costs, missed appointments, and challenges with disclosure and adherence. The emphasis on children and adolescents is important because these age groups often face distinct clinical and social hurdles, including dependence on caregivers for clinic access, higher risk of treatment interruption during adolescence, and gaps in youth-friendly services.
Objective 2 addresses safety at both the child and family level by strengthening skills and expanding access to prevention and response services related to HIV and gender-based violence (GBV), alongside broader child protection services. This objective reflects the reality that vulnerability is not only medical but also social: children and adolescents affected by HIV may be at heightened risk of abuse, exploitation, neglect, or violence, and households under economic and caregiving strain may need structured support to create safer environments. Activities under this objective commonly include referrals and case management for survivors of violence, strengthening connections to health and legal services, prevention programming to reduce risk and harm, and coordinated child protection responses that prioritize the best interests of the child.
Objective 3 targets economic stability and educational attainment for vulnerable children and their families. This is the part of the activity that connects household resilience to child well-being outcomes. The logic is straightforward: when families are economically secure and children are able to stay in school, health and protection outcomes tend to improve as well. Support under this objective typically includes approaches that reduce financial shocks, strengthen caregiver livelihoods, and remove barriers to school attendance and progression. Educational support can involve helping households manage school-related costs, improving attendance and retention, and working with communities and schools to keep vulnerable learners engaged and supported.
Objective 4 is aimed at strengthening local systems so that planning, coordination, monitoring, and quality assurance for OVC services are more effective and sustainable. Rather than only funding direct services, USAID is signaling a strong interest in building durable, locally anchored capacity so that services can be better organized, tracked, and improved over time. This objective often includes improving data use for case management and referrals, supporting local stakeholders to coordinate across sectors (health, social welfare, education, and protection), and establishing practical quality standards so that vulnerable children and families receive consistent, safe, and effective support regardless of where they live.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was released by the Agency for International Development, Zimbabwe (USAID-Harare) under Funding Opportunity Number 72061322RFA00003. It falls under the Health funding activity category and uses a cooperative agreement instrument, meaning USAID anticipates substantial involvement during implementation, such as collaboration on planning, monitoring, and adaptive management. The opportunity listed an award ceiling of USD 80,000,000 and anticipated six awards, suggesting a sizeable, multi-partner program footprint. The funding opportunity was created on May 24, 2022, with an original closing date of June 23, 2022. Eligibility was broadly categorized as "Others" with additional clarification referenced in the full eligibility text, which typically means applicants needed to consult the complete notice for the specific types of organizations permitted to apply and any restrictions or preferences that may have applied.
Overall, the grant opportunity is built to address the interconnected needs of HIV-affected and HIV-infected children and youth in Zimbabwe by combining clinical linkage and treatment support, violence prevention and protection services, education and economic strengthening, and the behind-the-scenes system improvements needed to sustain quality services at scale.Apply for 72061322RFA00003
- The Agency for International Development, Zimbabwe USAID-Harare in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Sustaining Prevention, Care and Support Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Zimbabwe" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 24, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 23, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $80,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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