Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 4112
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2008
Main Partner: U.S. Department of State
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Other USG Agency
Funding Agency: enumerations.State/African Affairs
Total Funding: $283,113

Funding for Management and Operations (HVMS): $68,651

"Cost of Doing Business" Assessment

The cost of doing business associated with the PEPFAR Coordination Office under the Department of

State / Africa Bureau includes ICASS charges. This estimate is based on the current office mix of one

direct-hire American, one local-hire American, one secunded American, and two locally employed staff

member.

Funding for Management and Operations (HVMS): $214,462

THIS IS AN ONGOING ACTIVITY.

Management and staffing funds allocated to the Department of State / Africa Bureau will support costs

associated with interagency coordination as a service to the overall U.S. Mission and the Emergency Plan

in Kenya. After the inception of the Emergency Plan, Kenya became the first focus country to identify the

need for a country coordinator to help implement the Emergency Plan. In 2006 a Country Coordination

Office (CCO) was established as a permanent part of the U.S. Embassy. The CCO currently consists of the

Country Coordinator, Deputy Country Coordinator, Senior Advisor for Policy and External Relations,

Information Specialist, and an Administrative Assistant. A clerk/driver is under recruitment at the time of

submission.

As in past years, the Country Coordinator, Deputy Country Coordinator, and Administrative Assistant

receive their salaries and benefits under USAID's management and staffing funding mechanism. In FY

2008, the Department of State / Africa Bureau management and staffing budget will continue to support

administrative and logistical functions of the CCO. CCO staff will expand to include an EFM hire COP

database manager. Many of the detailed COPRS and reprogramming functions currently performed by the

Deputy Country Coordinator will be re-assigned to this position to allow the deputy to focus more on

programmatic priorities including public-private partnerships and the planned healthy youth initiative. An

EFM special projects assistant will be identified to provide specific logistical and programmatic support for

the youth initiative.

The FY 2008 CCO budget will also support costs for interagency technical team stakeholders' meetings,

interagency team retreats, as well as costs related to the Country Coordinator's assistance to other

PEPFAR countries. This year, we will continue to fund the Embassy Public Affairs Section to develop a

press kit, host press events, and improve media coverage of PEPFAR locally and regionally.

PEPFAR/Kenya increasingly attracts highly-skilled pre- and post-graduate university students interested in

both supporting the program and learning by exposure to it, and funding in the FY 2008 COP will support

miscellaneous costs associated with accepting these valuable "staff-extenders."