One of the key componets of Families for Children Program was its grant program aimed to expand the existing services and introduce new services.

Another essential task of the grant program was providing oppotunities for futher development and dissemination of models introduced in program pilot sites.

As of May 1, 2009 Families for Children Program had provided support to 123 grant projects worth $ 932,323.

CATEGORIES OF GRANT PROJECTS

FCP grant projects provided derect services to vulnerable families and children, performed trainings and conducted public awareness campaigns.

TYPES OF GRANTS

FCP developed clear mechanisms and procedures of grant competitions:

• Open Grant Competitions: all organizations working in the field of child welfare were invited to participate in the 4 open grant competitions.
• 4 Special Purpose Grant Competitions were conducted among arganizations that have the ability and experience to implement the project tasks.
• Quick Start Partnership Grant Competitions is an on-going mechanism that issues unsolicited grants to organizations that require additional funds to implement their projects successfully.

REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF PROJECTS

Implementation of the grant projectsants was performed in FCP pilot sites as well as nationwide.

SOURCES OF FINANCE

The grant projects were financed througn several sources: general FCP funding (DCOF), USAID HIV/AIDS funding and Holt International additional funds.