Capacity Building for Foreign Treatment Centers

Implementing Partners: Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)

Funding Period: October 2010 - September 2015

Amount: $7,998,739

Purpose: Increase the capacity of ten foreign treatment centers to better provide psychological/mental health services to their torture survivors clients, and to better track, monitor, and evaluate services.

Objectives

• Financially support partner centers' capacity building efforts
• Mental health treatment and healing
• Organizational development
• Monitoring and evaluation

Under its “Capacity Building for Foreign Treatment Centers” project, USAID’s Victims of Torture Program works with the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) to assist individuals who suffer from the physical and psychological effects of torture in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The project works to provide torture survivors with better access to quality treatment services. It does so by providing subgrants to ten partner treatment centers in the areas of mental health treatment and healing, organizational development, monitoring and evaluation of mental health services or general operations. Centers can then meet with mental health needs of torture survivors, measure and track the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, work with and engage community and government on efforts to assist survivors of torture, and take opportunities to collaborate with academic institutions.

Through the International Capacity-Building project, USAID provides training and technical assistance to treatment centers in Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.