Lesotho HIV and AIDS Technical Assistance Project

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The HIV and AIDS Technical Assistance Project for Lesotho aims at building capacity of government agencies and civil society organizations at both the national and local level to address the identified key gaps in implementing the national HIV and AIDS strategic plan in an effort to contain and reverse the epidemic. There are three components to the project, the first component being improving institutional capacity to implement the multi-sectoral response. This component builds on the previous HIV and AIDS Capacity and Technical Assistance (HCTA) project and complements existing programs. HCTA project focused on establishing a grant management mechanism within the National AIDS Commission (NAC) and supporting the management capacity for implementing the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria (GFATM) grants within the Global Fund Coordinating Unit (GFCU). This project is intended to support capacity building of national level institutions, both public and private, in support of Lesotho's HIV and AIDS multi-sectoral response. The second component is the improving capacity to scale up the health sector response. This component will mainly support ministry of health and social welfare units to build capacity for delivering essential and effective HIV services and to mitigate the impact of the epidemic. Finally, the third component is the capacity support to the decentralized local response. This component will build capacity through provision of technical assistance to government and civil society implementers at district and community levels to plan, coordinate, implement, and monitor a range of defined essential HIV and TB services that need to be in every community for an effective, expanded HIV response and to ensure universal access.