National Coordinating Coalition

The Guyana Civil Society Leadership (GCSL) Project is implemented by Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) Inc., a non-profit and non-governmental organization, through a three (3) year cooperative agreement between the VYC and USAID. With the granting of the award which falls under USAID’s “Public Health Response to HIV/AIDS Strengthened”, the GCSL project is supporting the membership of the NCC to achieve the following three (3) objectives:

To coordinate, in collaboration with governmental and other partners, the NGO response to HIV/AIDS/STIs, and other health and social issues in Guyana;

To mobilize resources to ensure the sustainability of the National Coordinating Coalition (NCC) and response to national health and social issues;

To offer support, and advocate for policies and practices, for healthy communities and national development.

Strategic Objective 1 focuses on legally establishing a national coalition of NGOs, development of the NCC governance structure, production of a five (5) year strategic plan and a resource mobilization plan, capacity building of the NCC membership (including training in proposal writing, business planning, and entrepreneurship geared towards strengthening their resource base and management capacity), and expansion of the coalition membership.

Strategic Objective 2 is concerned with capacity building of VYC’s staff and the NGO coalition through the Washington-based Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) project, conducting a policy and issues analysis of the laws and practices that undermine and impede the NCC’s agenda, and establishing the Coalition’s advocacy platform as supported by a clear advocacy plan.

Strategic Objective 3 emphasises collaborative partnerships between NCC and key stakeholders as guided by a situation analysis of the opportunities that exist for a civil society engagement with government ministries and private sector organisations.

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