FAQ
What is CAPACITY?
What is CAPACITY's Mission?
Who is CAPACITY's Donor?
What are the CAPACITY Strategies?
What are the CAPACITY Approaches?
What is the Stewardship/Three Ones Approach?
What is the 60 Plus Approach?
What is the Continuum of Care Approach?
What is the Community Mobilization?
Who are the CAPACITY Target Populations?
How Does CAPACITY Work?
With Whom Does CAPACITY Work?
Which Organizations are Implementing CAPACITY?
What is JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.?
Where is CAPACITY Working?
Where are CAPACITY's Offices?
How Can You Get More Information About CAPACITY?
CAPACITY
CAPACITY stands for "Central Asian Program on AIDS Control in Vulnerable Populations". CAPACITY is a five-year, $13-million dollar, USAID-funded HIV-prevention project working in the five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The CAPACITY Project's period of performance is from October 2004 through September 2009.
CAPACITY's Mission
The CAPACITY Project's mission is to develop and test approaches and models for scaling-up and increasing coverage of vulnerable populations with the goal of contributing towards reducing HIV transmission and to increase accessibility of quality HIV/AIDS care services.
CAPACITY's Donor
The CAPACITY Project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development in Central Asia. For more information about USAID/CAR, see their website http://centralasia.usaid.gov
CAPACITY Strategies
The CAPACITY Project organizes its work according to main strategies, or objectives: Improving Stewardship, Increasing Coverage, Improving AIDS Services, and Improving Resource-Use through Integration.
CAPACITY Approaches
The CAPACITY Project employs three approaches in order to successfully implement our strategies: Stewardship/Three Ones, 60 Plus, and Continuum of Care.
Stewardship/Three Ones Approach
The Stewardship and the Three Ones Principle approach drives CAPACITY's work to support the National AIDS Program Coordination Mechanism (NCM). This mechanism is a combination of the National AIDS Coordination Committee (NACC—variously named in each country) and the Republican AIDS Center (RAC). Both the NACC and the RAC are supported to work together to act as the steward, or leader in driving the national AIDS programs. The NACC serves as the overall coordination and approval body, made up of multisectoral representatives. The RAC is the existing organization in each country that maintains most of the specialists in HIV/AIDS within the government. The RAC needs to be strengthened and supported to manage the multiple implementing and donor stakeholders working on HIV/AIDS in the coutnries to be sure there are minimal gaps in the national AIDS program, that stakeholders do not overlap geographically and technically, and that stakeholders collaborate where appropriate.
60 Plus Approach
The 60 Plus approach drives CAPACITY's work to promote the expansion of coverage to adequate levels among vulnerable populations to change behavior, reduce risk of HIV transmission, and increase access to HIV/AIDS services. This is achieved by adapting or developing models, implementing models, testing models, and then advocating for the scale-up of successful models by other stakeholders under the coordination of the steward in each country. At the same time, the Project works to strengthen the capacity of NGOs to increase the number of organizations capable of implementing successful models of HIV prevention.
Continuum of Care Approach
The Continuum of Care (CoC) approach drives CAPACITY's work to promote the provision of effective and efficient HIV/AIDS care, support, and treatment services which meet the total medical and psychosocial needs of PLHA and their families.
Community Mobilization
Community Mobilization is strengthening organizational, institutional and programmatic abilities of NGOs and civil society to mobilize scale-up activities in response to HIV/AIDS epidemic.
CAPACITY Target Populations
CAPACITY focuses its efforts on injecting drug-users, sex workers and vulnerable youth.
CAPACITY's Partners
CAPACITY works in partnership with a variety of national and international stakeholders. CAPACITY's key stakeholders on the national level are National AIDS Coordinating Mechanisms (NACM), National AIDS Centers, and civil society organizations. On the other hand, CAPACITY partners with Central Asia AIDS project (CAAP) on the basis of the memorandum of understanding, as is negotiating for similar cooperation with CARHAP and UNODC in the areas of common interest; and coordinates its activities with UNAIDS.
Organizations Implementing CAPACITY
The CAPACITY Project is implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) in partnership with Abt Associates, Inc, Boston University, Howard University, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Population Services International (PSI).
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., or JSI, is a non-profit public health organization working around the world to improve the lives of individuals and families. JSI's headquarters is in Boston, USA and has more than 50 offices worldwide. The majority of JSI's experience is in the management of broad scale public health programs, particulary in the technical areas of Maternal and Child Health, Commodities and Logistics, Reproductive Health, Monitoring and Evaluation and HIV/AIDS. You can access more information about JSI at www.jsi.com.
CAPACITY Geography
CAPACITY is working in all five of the Central Asian countries, with an office in each capital city and several project model implementation sites throughout the countries. In particular, CAPACITY has model implementation sites in the following locations:
- Kazakhstan: Almaty (raboci poselok) and Aksy village (Pavlodar oblast)
- Kyrgyzstan: Osh city, Karasoo city, kashgar-Kishkak village (Osh oblast)
- Tajikistan: Khujand, Kairakum and Chkalovsk in Sughd oblast, and Kurgan-Tube in Khatlon oblast
- Uzbekistan: the city of Urghut and 4 makhallas in Urghut rayon of Samarqand oblast.
CAPACITY's Offices Location
CAPACITY's Regional office in located in Almaty, Kazakhstan and the Project has country offices in Ashgabat, Bishkek, Dushanbe, and Tashkent.
More Information About CAPACITY?
If you want more information about CAPACITY, please send your request to
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Partners
www.rcaids.kz
Republican AIDS Center, Kazakhstan
www.ncc.tj
National Coordination Committee, Tajikistan
www.afew.org
AIDS Foundation East-West
www.caap.info
Central Asia AIDS Control Project
www.cdc.gov
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
www.ddrprogram.org
Drug Demand Reduction Project
www.theglobalfund.org
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberkulosis and Malaria
www.projecthope.org
Project HOPE/TB
www.soros.org
Soros Foundation
www.undp.org
UNDP
www.unicef.org
United Nations Children's Fund
www.unodc.org
United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime
www.usaid.gov
USAID
www.euro.who.int
World Health Organization
www.zplus.kz
ZdravPlus Project
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