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Zimbabwe AIDS Policy and Advocacy Project (ZAPA)

Constella Futures provided project management and technical assistance towards the achievement of the Intermediate Results-2 under USAID/Zimbabwe's Strategic Objective - mitigating the HIV/AIDS crisis, "Enhanced Capacity to Conduct Advocacy and Implement Policy to Prevent HIV Transmission and Mitigate Impact at the National Level." This USAID-funded Zimbabwe AIDS Policy and Advocacy Project (ZAPA) recently came to an end after five years of successful program implementation. USAID | Zimbabwe designed the ZAPA Project to promote two key ideas—“Break the Silence” and “Leadership is Key.”

From February 2002 to February 2006, Constella Futures implemented a range of activities to provide much-needed information on HIV/AIDS to policymakers and to stimulate public discussion on HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. Working with nongovernmental and private organizations, ZAPA assisted in workplace and institutional policy development that was designed to guide organizations as they formulated their own HIV/AIDS-related activities. Constella Futures supported education and advocacy activities within the project's partner institutions, and for the people and groups the partners worked with.

ZAPA was organized around five HIV/AIDS themes:

• Women's empowerment
• Youth
• Stigma and discrimination
• Orphans and vulnerable children, and
• Reproductive health

Project services included a large grants program, wide-ranging technical assistance, training, policy workshops, and data generating studies. Constella Futures met and exceeded USAID expectations for performance by the end of this project.