The Department of State will implement two overarching activities in this area : Public Affairs' events

($295,000) and Ambassador's Self Help Program ($220,000).

The majority of the State Department Public Diplomacy activities fall under the prevention and anti-stigma

outreach activities for OVC, other Namibian youth, and, to an extent, adults who support them. Other

activities (Namib$Alive) support prevention outreach to most affected populations, in this case trucker/combi

drivers and mobile communities and (the International Visitor Leadership Programs) capacity building and

training.

Task 1) International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) - The primary emphasis of this task is to provide

training of leaders in the field of HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention through the State Department's

IVLP short-term professional exchange program. We have sent 6 health care professionals to the US over

the past two years with excellent results. The FY07 IVLP program will bring 4 professionals to the US and

focus on nutrition, paliative care, OVC, and counseling. PEPFAR provides funding for international air fare

and per diem and the Department of State picks up the costs for travel in the US, other logistical expenses

and the escort/interpreter.

Task 2) Namib$Alive III - PEPFAR will continue to fund this Peace Corps project to bring prevention

messages to truckers/combi drivers and other mobile populations (MARP) through an imaginative mix of

local music and prevention messages from local musicians. This will directly support the push for improved

prevention.

Task 3) Youth Sporting Events and Prevention - Building on last year's successful Kicking Out HIV sporting

tournament, this task will expand prevention outreach to youth, especially in the outlying regions, by mixing

prevention with sporting tournaments.

Task 4) KCR Youth Programming - This will continue the popular Katutura Community Radio (KCR)

program aimed at reaching youth in Windhoek's most at risk neighborhoods. KCR has a popular mix of

local celebrities, HIV/AIDS experts, contests and prizes all offered at the peak hours to reach youth after

school.

Task 5) Living in a Positive World Tours - With this task, Public Affairs expects to reach 50,000 youth in all

regions of Namibia with prevention, anti-stigma, and positive choices messages put forth by 5 young male

musicians and a young HIV positive counselor/speaker. We also hope to add an HIV positive male former

boxer. Through an innovative mix of song, sketch, and their own life stories, these artists are reaching

Namibian youth in a way others cannot.

Task 6) US Speaker program - With this task, we will bring American speakers with HIV/AIDS expertise

and artists who make use of HIV/AIDS messaging in their art to Namibia to perform, speak to youth, and run

work shops. We may combine them with the Living Positive Tours or have stand alone programs. They will

do prevention work.

Task 7) JMAC Art Murals - Continuing the successful prototype, local artists will assist young artists to

create murals on their school and community center walls, incorporating prevention and anti-stigma

messaging. The young artists present their work to the school as part of the project.

Task 8) HIV/AIDS Radio drama - Building on successful models from other countries and using local

writers, producers, and actors, we will create a radio "telenovella" to better reach the potentially huge

Namibian audience who listen to soap operas and thereby reach a new audience with prevention

messages.

Task 9) Library Conference to set up HIV/AIDS reference sections - Working with local librarians and the

Embassy's librarian, this task will provide resources for two conferences to help local librarians set up an

HIV/AIDS reference section.

Task 10) Book donations for libraries - This task will provide books and other resources for these new

reference sections.

Task 11) Small grants, press materials, advertising and media training - This task will continue to provide

funds for prototype projects, for example, providing 6 month small grants to other radio stations to produce

local HIV/AIDS prevention programming for local youth. We will also continue our media outreach and

training activities, such as sending journalists to the US to cover PEPFAR in the US or to regional training

conferences. It will allow for travel of interested journalists to PEPFAR projects and advertising for grant

opportunities.

Task 12) Major Media Campaign - This funding will be used on a major media campaign which will use

modern media tools to push prevention messages to the widest audience possible.

Task 13) PEPFAR PD Staff - This funding will support an assistant in the Embassy's Office of Public

Affairs to work on PEPFAR-related activities, grants, and materials.

With the $220,000 to support the Ambassador's HIV/AIDS Self Help Program , we will directly reach an

average of 100 community members per project through 15 small community-based HIV/AIDS projects with

prevention messages, support services, training, capacity enhancement or other resources.

Activities funded by the program will involve capacity-building for grass-roots and community-based

organizations to conduct HIV/AIDS programs that work to reduce stigma, increase sustainable livelihoods

for caregivers of OVC and support Peace Corps identified projecs that work in HIV/AIDS and HIV/TB related

areas. This funding directly contributes to:

• Support for one full-time Self-Help coordinator

• Develop project guidelines, promotional materials, application and other documents

• Advertise/market new program to communities

• Commence acceptance of applications, qualification of projects and dispersal of funds; and

Monitor and evaluate projects annually

This activity will fund support for the PEPFAR Coordinator's office in which there will be three positions:

PEPFAR Coordinator, Administrative Assistant and a Strategic Information Liaison/Deputy Coordinator. In

addition, there will be a PEPFAR public affairs officer who will be working out of the Public Affairs Office as

a deputy to the PAO of the US Embassy, and an Ambassador's Self-help Program Coordinator working

within the embassy responsible for the management of self-help grants funded under PEPFAR.

The total cost of this personnel is $910,000 ($140,000 for ICASS and $770,000 for direct staff costs)

A reduction of funding by $250,000 will allow for the transfer of the $250,000 from State/AF, Namibia

Country Coordinator's Office to USAID for onward application to the hiring mechanism by which the Country

Coordinator's Office will recruit and hire a Strategic Information (SI)/Deputy Country Coordinator. The

USAID Agreement number for this mechanism is:

GPO-A-00-06-00005-00. The name of the contractor is Global Health Fellows Program, and the USAID

Agreement CTO is Rochelle Thompson.

A reduction of funding by $125,000 will allow for the transfer of the $125,000 from State/AF, Namibia

Country Coordinator's Office to USAID for onward application to the hiring mechanism by which the Country

Coordinator is hired and retained. The USAID Agreement number for this mechanism is: GPO-C-00-07-

00006-00. The name of the contractor is IAP WorldWide Services Corp., and the USAID Agreement CTO is

Larry Brown.