Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is a leading indigenous not-for-profit, non-governmental organization established in Nigeria in 1989 in response to the health and social needs of the disadvantaged groups in rural and urban communities. ARFH is committed to improving the quality of the life of the people in Nigeria and elsewhere in sub-Sahara Africa. Since its inception, ARFH has consistently responded to the public health challenges including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, maternal mortality and morbidity and sexual and reproductive health problems in Nigeria.

ARFH is implementing a 5- year USAID grant (December, 2019 – December, 2024) project titled “Integrated Child Health and Social Services Award” in Lagos State. Recently, our donor USAID has provided opportunity to expand into Kwara State to also provide support to children and adolescents living with HIV and their households that will guarantee their retention in care, adherence to ART and ultimately achieve viral suppression while ensuring that the HEIs also remained HIV negative by the time of the final outcome. The project aims at expanding access to sustainable care and support services to 21,557 OVC and 6,598 Households in Kwara State.

The ICHSSA 2 Project will initially target four priority enrolment streams in Kwara State which include Children and Adolescents living with HIV (C/ALHIV), HIV Exposed Infants (HEI), Children of Adult Living with HIV (CPLHIV) and CKP. This will be extended subsequently to other enrollment streams, to achieve saturation.

To ensure seamless engagement of key critical stakeholders for a smooth start-up of implementation in Kwara State, ARFH is delighted to announce the release of this call for Expression of Interest for local Nigerian Civil Society Organizations/Community Based Organizations to implement interventions for Vulnerable Children (OVC) in the local governments in Kwara State under this project. Notes of Expression of Interest is being solicited for sub-grants from CSO/CBOs who have the capacity, drive and hands on experience to provide comprehensive, coordinated care for vulnerable children, while building household capacity to care for their own children as frontline providers of care and support.

Successful organizations will be contributing to the overall project goal of improving the quality of life of OVC, their caregivers and their households. Successful CBOs will be funded by USAID through a Grants Mechanism managed by ARFH.

Successful organizations are expected to work in collaboration with State and Local government structures as well as the private sector.