Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 4718
Country/Region: Rwanda
Year: 2007
Main Partner: World Vision
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: FBO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $50,000

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $50,000

This activity relates to HKID (8148, 8150).

World Vision and its partner, ADRA, began Title II Food for Peace development activities in Rwanda in October 2004 with the objective of addressing food insecurity, especially among households affected by HIV/AIDS. Title II direct food aid and nutritional information activities currently benefit thousands of HIV/AIDS affected households in Rwanda. USAID/Rwanda will support these wrap-around programs by providing EP funding for two Nutrition Officers and two Logistics Managers for both World Vision and ADRA.

Over the last year, World Vision and ADRA targeted 1,500 households with food aid. The health and nutrition component of this project includes improving the health and nutrition for women, children and vulnerable groups including PLWHA and OVC. World Vision operates in the following 11 districts: Bugesera and Gatsibo (Eastern province); Gicumbi, Gakenke, Musanze, and Rulindo (Northern province); Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru (Southern province); and Gasabo, Kicukiro, and Nyarugenge (Kigali province). In the existing Title II program, World Vision and ADRA provide food aid, education, support, and health services to PLWHA and their families. These partners employ the Hearth Model for training mothers, foster parents, and health workers. Malnourished children and PLWHA receive supplemental feeding and vitamins for nutritional recuperation. World Vision is also working to enhance agricultural production and marketing, environmental protection, and infrastructure through business training and rehabilitation of feeder-roads and culverts. These activities target PLWHA, and include HIV/AIDS prevention activities that promote healthy behaviors.

In FY 2007, the EP will support two Nutrition Officers and two Logistics Managers to help expand and manage World Vision's and ADRA's food aid and HIV/AIDS activities. The two Nutrition Officers will oversee the above activities involving nutritional education - training and supervising the volunteers and collaborating with the other partners in the 11 districts. These two positions will serve as liaisons between the Title II food aid programs and PEPFAR ensuring that PLWHA and OVC participating in World Vision and ADRA's food aid programs receive comprehensive services from the health facilities and community-based programs in the area. The two Commodity Logistics Officers will be responsible for ensuring that all USG commodities are handled correctly and accounted for according to regulations until they reach the final beneficiaries. These positions will supervise the warehouse staff, verify all warehouse reports for accuracy, report on delivery and warehouse losses, and dispose of any damaged food.

This EP funding will allow World Vision and ADRA to target their Title II resources to support more beneficiaries and more volunteers while at the same time providing the staffing needed to manage the increase in program activity. In FY 2007, these partners will provide food aid to an estimated 5000 HIV/AIDS infected and affected households, or 28,000 individuals. There are no direct or indirect targets however for this activity as the beneficiaries will be directly counted by other partners providing PLWHA and OVC services.

This activity addresses the key legislative issue of food wrap around. This activity reflects the ideas presented in the Rwanda EP five-year strategy by integrating and linking PEPFAR programming with other USAID programming.