Community Support Unit

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a major challenge to the family, church, and the community. The pandemic also affects the socio-economic structure of our communities. Therefore prevention efforts must aim at reducing the HIV/AIDS impact on the family, and reduce HIV transmission in our communities through targeted interventions. In order to prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS and mitigate its impact on individuals and communities we provide support to community based initiatives.

The Programme is responsible for programmes aimed at mobilising and initiating Community Based , Faith Based and Non-governmental Organisation in various communities on the Copperbelt

HIV/AIDS Polices Unit

The HIV/AIDS Policies programme is aimed at mobilising and providing technical support to different organisation both civil society and private sector to develop proactive HIV/AIDS prevention and impact mitigation programmes in their workplaces. Also to help these sectors to formulate and implement HIV/AIDS policies that would contribute significantly to prevention, Care and Support system

Advocacy and Gender Unit

Given the fact that there has been an historical power imbalance between the male and the female gender in favour of the earlier, it is imperative that women and men are given relevant and necessary information and education that will help them protect each other.

The Programme is in charge of looking at all programmes relating to children, youth and women’s programmes. They provide technical support to community based organisation, schools and NGOs in relation to gender and advocacy training mentoring and awareness raising

Peer Education Programme – Supported by Cecily’s Funds

We are working partnership with Cecily’s funds of United Kingdom is implementing a peer education program aiming at raising awareness on HIV/AIDS among the young people in schools. The programme is being implemented in 25 selected in Kitwe District of the Copperbelt province. To achieve this, our OVC partner organization ‘HODI’ recruits the peer educators and hand them to CHEP who later train them as peer educators. Currently the programme is reaching to over 6000 young people in schools with 40 trained peer educators.  Peer educators in this schools help to form active Anti-AIDS club to take a more proactive role in responding to the prevention of HIV/AIDS scourge among the pupils.

Monitoring and Evalution Unit

The programme is in charge of ensuring that all implemented programmes have a project implementation plan and that all activities are monitored, evaluated and documented. They also look special project that are of a short-term nature.

Information Systems Unit

The department enhance information management in the organisation, the department focuses on ensuring that all the information technology functions in CHEP are well organized and properly maintained. These include database, word processing, work planning , Website up date, reporting e-mail services and computer networks. The IT staff also provides technical support to partners on information management system.

Accounts Unit

This department has five personnel who ensure that CHEP’s property and finances are well accounted for but they also provide technical support on financial matters to CBOs and NGOs so that the fight against HIV/AIDS is effectively accelerated in the community

Administration Unit

The department is in charge of ensuring that all office and human resource procedures are timely and well implemented. The unit is in charge of ensuring that stationery and other office accessories are regularly replenished, staff contracts are timely signed and renewed and that visitors are well attended to.

Currently CHEP has a total number of 30 full time staff, who are qualified and experienced technical and programme staff and the remaining 8 are competent support staff.