Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 7621
Country/Region: Rwanda
Year: 2009
Main Partner: To Be Determined
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $0

ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008.

USAID/ Rwanda recently awarded a cooperative agreement to implement a youth livelihoods project. The

Rwanda youth project is a five-year, $7.5 million activity directly targeting 2,500 out-of-school youth per

year, aged 15-24, in urban areas. This activity is a multi-sector collaboration within USAID/Rwanda,

involving input and funding from all four sectors: Education (Basic Education), Health (PEPFAR),

Democracy and Governance, and Economic Growth.

The project will reduce youth vulnerability to health risks, especially HIV/AIDS, and work to maintain a

healthy workforce that can effectively contribute to the growth of the country's economy. Of the 2,500

targeted youth per year, 1,000 will be orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC).

PEPFAR funds will enable youth to build the skills and knowledge necessary to become healthy productive

workers and participants in civic and community affairs. This includes: life skills in critical health topics (i.e.,

reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention) and leadership development, as well as meaningful

opportunities for civic engagement.

Through life skills education, the project will provide youth with the information and skills they need to

manage and negotiate health, childbearing, and relationships. The project will provide youth with life skills

instruction and counseling, including on such topics as HIV/AIDS prevention, interpersonal communication,

reproductive health, and other youth-oriented health training consistent with best practices of PEPFAR-

funded programs. Whenever possible, the project will link to existing PEPFAR-supported activities and

institutions in order to better address the needs of the youth it is serving, particularly OVC.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 16949

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

16949 16949.08 U.S. Agency for To Be Determined 7621 7621.08 Basic

International Education/Youth

Development Employment

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Economic Strengthening

Education

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education

Water

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