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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

DONOR FUNDS

Summary of Achievements on the Government Capacity Building and Support
Program (GCBS) project
Strategic Objective 1: Strengthen service delivery, management and oversight of community care service structures that
protect Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Adolescents, Youth (OVCAY) and their families.

• Core Package of Services financing strategy • Partnerships for increased referrals of beneficiaries
completed of sex workers established across districts
Revised Ungubani risk assessment for orphans and • Gender Based Violence (GBV) Lives program capacity
vulnerable children, adolescents and youth, resulting development at site level
in improved case planning and management • 58 facilitators employed and trained for rollout of
• Government capacity building and support interventions under G2G
programme SWs trained in the prevention and early • Contracted with Department for ongoing
intervention core package services appointment and placement of Government to
• Prevention and early intervention core package • Government (G2G) team for Financial Year 2021
services pilot in Limpopo and Gauteng finalised • Technical assistance support to the Department for
• Core package services launched nationally reaching G2G rollout
108 Social Service Practitioners in the sector • Technical assistance for refinement of social
• Core package services national training conducted behaviour change interventions, case management,
reaching 195 Social Service Practitioners and monitoring and evaluation tools for G2G rollout
• Site level capacity support visits from April 2020 to • Remote training of G2G personnel on core package
September 2020, 7 to Social Service Practitioner and services case management, Social Service
NPOs supporting the prevention and early Practitioners guidelines, and ChommY
intervention core package services for vulnerable • Conducted routine data quality assessments (RDQAs)
children, reaching 107 573 orphans and vulnerable for G2G partners for Q1 and Q2 data
children, adolescents and youth, 13 939 children and • Finalised the ChommY (for ages 10–14 years) social
adolescents living with HIV and 47 986 adolescent behaviour change program, launched it with the
girls and young women (AGYW; ages 10–17) • Department and trained all government capacity
• Government capacity building and support building and support programme personnel on
programme site level team capacity support visits rollout of ChommY
from October 2020 to March 2021 to service points • Piloted remote group work interventions focusing on
and NPOs supporting core package services for YOLO with AG in Mpumalanga
vulnerable children, reaching 90 504 orphans and • Update ChommY manual to include Covid-19 and
vulnerable children, adolescents and youth, 17 201 consent sessions
children and adolescents living with HIV and 38 652 • Scope of work developed for the digitising of YOLO
adolescent girls and young women (ages 10–17) program
• Adapting HIV testing services tracker form in the • 37 National and provincial department personnel
above guidelines to address viral load tracking more trained on the ChommY program
effectively • ChommY rolled out in North West, Bojanala district
• Training in HIV disclosure and adherence support with 31 departmental facilitators trained
• Child abuse, neglect and exploitation case • 53 ChommY facilitators trained in City of Tshwane
management incident report enhanced and Thabo Mofutsanyane districts
• Development of and training on the remote • 667 ChommY beneficiaries commenced sessions,
counselling guidelines with 385 completing all sessions
• Provision of remote telephonic counselling to 34 324 • 24 YOLO facilitators trained in Limpopo, Capricorn;
beneficiaries, supporting ongoing service deliver with 786 adolescent girls recruited
during Covid-19 lockdown and subsequent • Determined, Resilient, Empowered, Aids-free,
restrictions Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) personnel appointed
• Social Service Practitioners guidelines rolled out at by Quarter 1
district level through workshops and on-site • Sub awardees selected for City of Joburg (COJ) and
in-service training, resulting in 93% HIV status known Capricorn, with contracts finalised in December 2020
amongst beneficiaries • Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) signed with
• Training in above guidelines for Department officials all DREAMS implementing partners
• Children and adolescents living with HIV sub • 54 Let’s Talk facilitators trained
awardees appointed reaching 3 085, children and • Enrolment of caregivers and adolescent girls
adolescents living with HIV, 73% of sub-contractors’ conducted in all districts using present government
target capacity building and support programme
• Adolescent reached (ages 10 – 17 years): 38 652 girls beneficiaries and community events
and 23 803 boys • 5 103 adolescents, girls and young women enrolled,
• Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) referrals for 1 698 awaiting initiation into groups
girls – Q3 to confirm initiation on PREP • 3 073 adolescents, girls and young women enrolled
started Let’s Talk program

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