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Description of the project
KRCS is the non-state Principal Recipient (PR) for the Global Fund HIV Grant, running from January 2018 to June 2021.The grant is focusing on creating demand for health services from the community through increasing access to community HIV testing and counseling; expanding services for HIV prevention; providing community HIV care and support and strengthening community health systems.
One of the modules KRCS is implementing under the grant is human rights and gender whose objective is to increase awareness on human rights related to HIV and improve enabling environment to address human rights violations. The intervention will also contribute towards reduction in self-reported stigma and discrimination related to HIV.
1.3 Problem statement
The HIV stigma index 2014 a report of the first National HIV and AIDS Stigma Survey in Kenya showed that HIV stigma and discrimination in Kenya is high at 45 with marked regional variations. HIV-related discrimination is often deeply interwoven with other forms of discrimination largely due to low levels of awareness on legal rights, inefficiencies within law enforcement institutions and underutilization of available avenues for dispute resolution. Where the human rights of HIV-positive people are not protected, they suffer stigma and discrimination, become ill, become unable to support themselves and their families, and if not provided treatment, they die.
The existing legal frameworks constituted to protect and safeguard HIV interests and address violations remain under-utilized. Despite the existence of a progressive constitutional framework, Kenya still has some old punitive laws that hinder the access and provision of HIV services
The legal environment (laws, enforcement and justice systems) has immense potential to better lives and to help turn the crisis around, but this has not been effectively exploited for various reasons.
1.4 Current situation
Currently there is no training manual on know your rights focusing on people living and affected by HIV that have been adopted nationally by different stakeholders. Having a standardized training manual will go a long way to ensure the people living with HIV get the right information on understanding and claiming their rights when they are violated. The know your rights manual will enhance the capacity of people living and affected by HIV on matters of legal and human rights. It is envisaged that proper application of the developed manual will go a long way in supporting the empowerment of the PLHIVs to actively claim their rights and address the current barriers to HIV services.
2.0 The consultancy
This Request for Proposals (RFP) document is intended to lead to identification of a consultant to develop know your rights training manual focusing on people living and affected by HIV.
2.1 Purpose
The aim of the consultancy is to develop a training manual on know your rights focusing on people living and affected by HIV. The manual aims to guide trainers to lead workshops that enable people who serve people living and affected by HIV to give information and skills to defend and assert their rights. The manual will be used in workshops that train facilitators to teach people living and affected by HIV to understand human rights and how promotion of the same can leverage HIV services. The manual will also ensure recognition of the rights violation of PLHIVs and ensure they claim their rights to health.
