Blood:Water Mission
Programs
Budget
$275,000.00
Description
Organizational Strengthening (OS) is the capacity building processes through which partner organizations invest in and improve their institutional and technical capacities for the delivery of high-quality programs and efficacy of mission. This includes an externally-facilitated participatory self-assessment using the Institutional Development Framework ("IDF"), incorporating representatives of an organization's board, senior management, and staff to allow for a diverse, unbiased critique. Partners score themselves across 4 developmental stages and identify priorities for investment. This prioritized improvement plan is executed over 2-year cycles for up to 8 years in partnership with Blood:Water, with up to $10,000 of additional funding each grant cycle. In addition, Blood:Water implements OS activities across the portfolio of partners, currently including peer exchange visits, a partner summit every two years, support with monitoring and evaluation, and technical updates and learning.
Program Successes
By the close of 2022, five Blood:Water partners had completed at least two full cycles* of IDF assessment, demonstrating an average of 20% growth overall, with partners rating firmly in the developing stage and progressing toward the sustaining stage throughout the IDF process.
Category
International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security - International Development
Beneficiaries
Africa
Long-term Success
Strengthening organizations will directly reinforce program quality and community impact. When applied deliberately to complement the formal health sector, the anticipated outcome of these capacity-building processes is a strengthened and resourced civil society organization implementing programs that create demand for and reinforce clinical models while championing their communities before government.
- We expect stronger, healthier organizations in Africa that attract investment.
- We expect the services and programs of our partners to be increasingly aligned with the needs and assets of the communities.
- We expect increased financial viability of partners through greater diversity of funding sources and improvements in accounting and financial management.
- We expect to cultivate an active, engaged and contextualized community of practice.
- We expect our partners to grow as peer influencers.
Short-term Success
We measure participation in organizational strengthening activities as well as the percent change over time with the IDF process (see next section for more details about the IDF process). We want to see strengthened organizations demonstrated by a positive % change in the IDF score by resource area and overall.
Program Success Monitored By
We ensure that baseline information is collected when initiating a partnership so that we can more effectively measure impact over time. Our first IDF assessment with an organization provides a baseline across organizational domains. We utilize this baseline information to measure the change in capacity of the partner over multiple grant cycles (typically 6-8 years). Our "Core Indicator Matrix" reporting from partners every quarter will track progress toward their objectives. The narrative reporting highlights qualitative aspects and any challenges and barriers. The IDF results of each partner every two years will track progress with building capacity across the various domains of each organization.
Program Areas Served
Sub-Saharan Africa
$275,000.00
Description
Organizational Strengthening (OS) is the capacity building processes through which partner organizations invest in and improve their institutional and technical capacities for the delivery of high-quality programs and efficacy of mission. This includes an externally-facilitated participatory self-assessment using the Institutional Development Framework ("IDF"), incorporating representatives of an organization's board, senior management, and staff to allow for a diverse, unbiased critique. Partners score themselves across 4 developmental stages and identify priorities for investment. This prioritized improvement plan is executed over 2-year cycles for up to 8 years in partnership with Blood:Water, with up to $10,000 of additional funding each grant cycle. In addition, Blood:Water implements OS activities across the portfolio of partners, currently including peer exchange visits, a partner summit every two years, support with monitoring and evaluation, and technical updates and learning.
Program Successes
By the close of 2022, five Blood:Water partners had completed at least two full cycles* of IDF assessment, demonstrating an average of 20% growth overall, with partners rating firmly in the developing stage and progressing toward the sustaining stage throughout the IDF process.
Category
International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security - International Development
Beneficiaries
Africa
Long-term Success
Strengthening organizations will directly reinforce program quality and community impact. When applied deliberately to complement the formal health sector, the anticipated outcome of these capacity-building processes is a strengthened and resourced civil society organization implementing programs that create demand for and reinforce clinical models while championing their communities before government.
- We expect stronger, healthier organizations in Africa that attract investment.
- We expect the services and programs of our partners to be increasingly aligned with the needs and assets of the communities.
- We expect increased financial viability of partners through greater diversity of funding sources and improvements in accounting and financial management.
- We expect to cultivate an active, engaged and contextualized community of practice.
- We expect our partners to grow as peer influencers.
Short-term Success
We measure participation in organizational strengthening activities as well as the percent change over time with the IDF process (see next section for more details about the IDF process). We want to see strengthened organizations demonstrated by a positive % change in the IDF score by resource area and overall.
Program Success Monitored By
We ensure that baseline information is collected when initiating a partnership so that we can more effectively measure impact over time. Our first IDF assessment with an organization provides a baseline across organizational domains. We utilize this baseline information to measure the change in capacity of the partner over multiple grant cycles (typically 6-8 years). Our "Core Indicator Matrix" reporting from partners every quarter will track progress toward their objectives. The narrative reporting highlights qualitative aspects and any challenges and barriers. The IDF results of each partner every two years will track progress with building capacity across the various domains of each organization.
Program Areas Served
Sub-Saharan Africa
Budget
$350,000.00
Description
Through various technologies, the three areas of WASH - water, sanitation, and hygiene - work together to strengthen one another and maximize health impact at the community level. For instance, the impact of clean water is dependent upon access to and use of latrines and safe hand-washing behaviors, and vice versa. All three are necessary for one to be a success. And when local leaders rise up to form water committees to lead WASH solutions and promote health from within their own communities, there is no end to the change that can take place. We work with our local partners to provide access to clean water through a wide range of technologies. With knowledge of the local context, our partners select the technology that will be most effective in the community where they are working based on environmental, cultural, economic, and technological factors to optimize quantity, quality, access, and reliability. In many cases, a combination of technologies is required to achieve these goals.
Program Successes
Our 2022 Annual Report highlights our programmatic successes with access to safe water and sanitation, hygiene trainings, and much more. Also includes up-to-date stories and examples of change. Go to https://www.bloodwater.org/2022-annual-report
Beneficiaries
People with HIV/AIDS
Economically disadvantaged people
Africa
Long-term Success
Increased water and sanitation coverage in communities East and Southern Africa.
Short-term Success
We measure water, sanitation and hygiene ("WASH") deliverables as described in the section below.
Program Success Monitored By
We ensure that baseline information is collected when initiating a partnership so that we can more effectively measure impact over time. Our first grant with an organization includes a baseline survey of needs, service coverage, and health (ex. instances of illnesses or disease). We utilize this baseline information to measure the change in health and service coverage in a community related to the work of our partners over multiple grant cycles (typically 6-8 years). Our "Core Indicator Matrix" reporting from partners every quarter will track progress toward their objectives. The narrative reporting highlights qualitative aspects and any challenges and barriers.
Program Areas Served
Sub-Saharan Africa
$350,000.00
Description
Through various technologies, the three areas of WASH - water, sanitation, and hygiene - work together to strengthen one another and maximize health impact at the community level. For instance, the impact of clean water is dependent upon access to and use of latrines and safe hand-washing behaviors, and vice versa. All three are necessary for one to be a success. And when local leaders rise up to form water committees to lead WASH solutions and promote health from within their own communities, there is no end to the change that can take place. We work with our local partners to provide access to clean water through a wide range of technologies. With knowledge of the local context, our partners select the technology that will be most effective in the community where they are working based on environmental, cultural, economic, and technological factors to optimize quantity, quality, access, and reliability. In many cases, a combination of technologies is required to achieve these goals.
Program Successes
Our 2022 Annual Report highlights our programmatic successes with access to safe water and sanitation, hygiene trainings, and much more. Also includes up-to-date stories and examples of change. Go to https://www.bloodwater.org/2022-annual-report
Beneficiaries
People with HIV/AIDS
Economically disadvantaged people
Africa
Long-term Success
Increased water and sanitation coverage in communities East and Southern Africa.
Short-term Success
We measure water, sanitation and hygiene ("WASH") deliverables as described in the section below.
Program Success Monitored By
We ensure that baseline information is collected when initiating a partnership so that we can more effectively measure impact over time. Our first grant with an organization includes a baseline survey of needs, service coverage, and health (ex. instances of illnesses or disease). We utilize this baseline information to measure the change in health and service coverage in a community related to the work of our partners over multiple grant cycles (typically 6-8 years). Our "Core Indicator Matrix" reporting from partners every quarter will track progress toward their objectives. The narrative reporting highlights qualitative aspects and any challenges and barriers.
Program Areas Served
Sub-Saharan Africa
Budget
$350,000.00
Description
Blood:Water's HIV/AIDS programs center around community care and support. Blood:Water invests in partners that work at the community and household level to address individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS, comprehensively addressing psychological, social, cultural, material and legal vulnerabilities that occur through the continuum of illness. This work encompasses clinical support services such as palliative care, nutritional assessment, case management, ART adherence and other support that improves outcomes both within and outside the clinic. Our partners also focus on psychosocial care, creating support groups for those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as addressing and advocating against stigma and discrimination associated with HIV.
Program Successes
Our 2022 Annual Report highlights our programmatic successes with HIV/AIDS community care support. Also includes up-to-date stories and examples of change. Go to https://www.bloodwater.org/2022-annual-report
Beneficiaries
People with HIV/AIDS
Economically disadvantaged people
Africa
Long-term Success
Increased access to quality healthcare and support for people affected by HIV/AIDS in communities East and Southern Africa.
Short-term Success
We measure HIV/AIDS deliverables as described in the section below.
Program Success Monitored By
We ensure that baseline information is collected when initiating a partnership so that we can more effectively measure impact over time. Our first grant with an organization includes a baseline survey of needs, service coverage, and health (ex. instances of illnesses or disease). We utilize this baseline information to measure the change in health and service coverage in a community related to the work of our partners over multiple grant cycles (typically 6-8 years). Our "Core Indicator Matrix" reporting from partners every quarter will track progress toward their objectives. The narrative reporting highlights qualitative aspects and any challenges and barriers.
Program Areas Served
Sub-Saharan Africa
$350,000.00
Description
Blood:Water's HIV/AIDS programs center around community care and support. Blood:Water invests in partners that work at the community and household level to address individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS, comprehensively addressing psychological, social, cultural, material and legal vulnerabilities that occur through the continuum of illness. This work encompasses clinical support services such as palliative care, nutritional assessment, case management, ART adherence and other support that improves outcomes both within and outside the clinic. Our partners also focus on psychosocial care, creating support groups for those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as addressing and advocating against stigma and discrimination associated with HIV.
Program Successes
Our 2022 Annual Report highlights our programmatic successes with HIV/AIDS community care support. Also includes up-to-date stories and examples of change. Go to https://www.bloodwater.org/2022-annual-report
Beneficiaries
People with HIV/AIDS
Economically disadvantaged people
Africa
Long-term Success
Increased access to quality healthcare and support for people affected by HIV/AIDS in communities East and Southern Africa.
Short-term Success
We measure HIV/AIDS deliverables as described in the section below.
Program Success Monitored By
We ensure that baseline information is collected when initiating a partnership so that we can more effectively measure impact over time. Our first grant with an organization includes a baseline survey of needs, service coverage, and health (ex. instances of illnesses or disease). We utilize this baseline information to measure the change in health and service coverage in a community related to the work of our partners over multiple grant cycles (typically 6-8 years). Our "Core Indicator Matrix" reporting from partners every quarter will track progress toward their objectives. The narrative reporting highlights qualitative aspects and any challenges and barriers.
Program Areas Served
Sub-Saharan Africa
