The government has developed the ‘Home and Community-Based Care and Support’ (HCBCS) programme to provide home-based care for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from AIDS who cannot access hospital care. This programme is run jointly by the Departments of Health and Social Development. Provincial offices of these Departments provide training and funds for community caregivers working with various NPOs throughout the country. The government announced plans in early 2005 to spend an additional R500 million a year over the next five years creating jobs for caregivers. Of the 150 000 jobs to be created more than three quarters will be in home-based care projects, with an additional 90 000 short-term workers recruited at existing sites. NPOs working in this field must therefore increase their efforts to obtain government funding so that their home-based caregivers can at least receive proper training and a regular monthly stipend. training.
For more information on this programme and other government initiatives to support the care of orphans and vulnerable children in the community contact your provincial or local Department of Health and/or Social Development.
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Toll-free helpline: 0800 220 250
Eligibility criteria / priority areas
The Department of Social Development will consider projects that aim to:
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Strengthen the capacity of families
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Strengthen community-based responses to helping children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS
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Build the capacity of children
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Create an enabling environment for children and their families
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Link income-generating projects to support groups
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Offer psycho-social support
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Provide social relief
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Provide peer education
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Toll-free helpline: 0800-012-322
Priority Areas
The Department of Health will consider funding any NPOs whose work falls within any of the sub-programmes of the broad objectives of the National HIV and AIDS and TB Programme. This includes the following categories:
- Prevention
- Integration of HIV and AIDS and TB
- Partnership support
- Care, counselling and support
- Youth
For more information about these different programme areas click here.
Director: NGO funding co-ordination
Mr Collen Bonnecwe
Tel: 012 312-0136
Fax: 012 312-0921
Email:
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For information about how to apply for funding contact your nearest Department of Health Office or the relevant provincial HIV and AIDS Office.
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This section explains what the National Development Agency (NDA) is, who the NDA funds, and how to apply for a grant. |
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This section explains how to apply for a grant from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund. |
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The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is one of the government’s short-to-medium term programmes aimed at the provision of additional work opportunities coupled with training.The EPWP aims to create additional work opportunities for a minimum of one million people (at least 40% women, 30% youth and 2% disabled) in South Africa between 2004 and 2009.
The EPWP, working with the Departments of Social Development, Health and Education, selected two programmes - Home Community-Based Care (HCBC) and Early Childhood Development (ECD) - as the lead pilot programmes for the social sector. This has led to the development of variety of training programmes in these fields. Read more about how this programme works on www.epwp.gov.za
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