Bokamoso Activity

Background
The Bokamoso activity will support GOL’s multi-sector strategies and priorities for HIV mitigation and prevention for children and youth through provision of comprehensive OVC services in all ten (10) districts. It will also provide DREAMS interventions in four (4) districts (Berea, Maseru, Mafeteng, Mohale’s Hoek). The Activity will also support programming to foster an enabling environment for AGYW and ABYM that will benefit all youth in Lesotho. USAID’s expectations for technical approaches are laid out below. Programming must be framed within PEPFAR guidance for OVC1 and for HIV prevention and DREAMS2 in the target districts. DREAMS and OVC programming must be delivered in a seamless integrated manner for synergy and efficiency in these target districts. Broader structural interventions to create an enabling environment for AGYW and may also target ABYM must adhere to the DREAMS guidance.

Grant Details
The Bokamoso activity will implement innovative strategies targeting the most vulnerable OVC and AGYW to improve their access to accurate HIV knowledge, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, social protection, violence prevention, and economic and educational opportunities. Sustainability must be mainstreamed in all activity areas to ensure the continuity of key priorities in line with the GOL’s existing and planned structures, systems, and processes.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligibility for this NOFO is restricted to local entities in the Southern Africa region in accordance with PEPFAR FY 2020 Country Operational Plan Guidance and applies to the principal/prime applicant only.

Period of Performance
The period of performance is a five-year activity entitled Bokamoso (Brighter Future) Activity.

Grant Value
USAID intends to make a single award to the applicant who best meets the objectives of this funding opportunity based on the merit review criteria described in Section E of this NOFO subject to a risk assessment in accordance with ADS 303.3.9.

Place of Performance
In its first year of operation, Bokamoso is expected to work in all ten districts of Lesotho to target households with vulnerable children. It will also operate in four districts (Berea, Maseru, Mafeteng, Mohale’s Hoek) to deliver DREAMS services to AGYW.