This activity is specifically linked with #9060, #9063, #9061, #7727, #7852, #7734, #8688 and #7754 in AB, with #7847 in Other Prevention, with #7850 in OVC, and with # 7851 in Palliative Care.

Peace Corps Tanzania (PC/T) directly implements Emergency Plan (EP) activities through the actions of its 133 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania and five regions on Zanzibar. Approximately one-third of these 133 PCVs work principally on HIV/AIDS activities as a primary assignment and the remaining two-thirds of these PCVs work on HIV/AIDS activities as secondary projects. PC/T has three projects, the education project that brings PCVs to Tanzania to teach mathematics, hard sciences or information and communication technology in secondary schools, the environment project which is a rural, community-based project that helps people to better manage their natural resources and the health education project that places PCVs in communities to work as health educators primarly addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities.

PC/T brings to the table the uniqueness of reaching people at the grassroots, community level, an area that widens the gap of people reached and trained in Tanzania as few other implementers go to places where PCVs live and work. PC/T is also forming linkages with other implementing partners to enable more comprehensive services to reach targeted communities. Currently, PC/T implements an integrated HIV/AIDS program where all PCVs in country, irrespective of their primary project, are strongly encouraged to implement HIV/AIDS activities. PC/T trains all first year Volunteers and host country national (HCN) counterparts (CPs) on HIV/AIDS participatory methods and Life Skills through its training manual. They are also provided with the tools to conduct their trainings which includes; Life Skills training manual in Swahili and English, PC/T's HIV/AIDS manual, The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) guidelines for teaching on reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS and Life Skills in schools. PC/T also acquires materials in the form of print media and/or videos from other partners like the German development agency (GTZ), Population Services International (PSI) and Family Health International (FHI). In FY07 PC/T will continue to conduct these trainings for PCVs and their HCN CPs.

With FY06 funds, PC/T implemented AB prevention activities specifically targeting youth in primary schools. In Tanzania most pupils finish their primary education at an average age of 15 years. The current primary school enrollment rate is over 90% since the Tanzanian government is pushing hard for universal access to primary education. Secondary school enrollment is currently below 15%, so PC/T recognizes the great value of targeting primary school youth with AB messages since for most youth, primary education is the only formal training they will receive in life and these messages will reach more youth under 15 through formal schooling channels. PC/T's focus on Life Skills enables youth to assess healthy life choices that are appropriate for them to avoid being infected by HIV. Some FY06 AB funds were also used for Volunteer Activities Support & Training (VAST) grants that provides monies for PCVs to implement community-initiated HIV/AIDS activities.

With FY07 AB funds, PC/T will continue to target youth in primary schools for its AB prevention work. PCVs will also continue to train primary school teachers and peer educators in primary schools for them to initiate AB activities with pupils. PC/T is collaborating with the MOEVT initiative to train teachers on strategies to address HIV/AIDS in schools by facilitating trainings and serving as mentors. In reality very few teachers have been trained and some of those who are trained still do not have the confidence to teach these subjects. PCVs have been able to compliment the MOEVT efforts by training teachers and giving them participatory techniques to teach HIV/AIDS.

With FY07 funds, PC/T will bring 10 additional PCVs fully funded by the EP to work primarily on HIV prevention and care activities, one of whom will be fully funded using AB funds.

The PC/T AB program will allow PCVs and their HCN CPs to reach 13,000 primary school youth, half of whom will be female students. Primary school youth will be reached through Volunteers and CP by: facilitating classroom sessions; strategically placing question and answer boxes throughout primary school campuses; and conducting extra

curricular activities like health clubs, Life Skills clubs, sports and field trips where AB messages will be the primary focus.

PCVs and their HCN counterparts will continue to train primary school teachers, who in turn will teach their students HIV/AIDS awareness messages and Life Skills. The trainings are expected to give confidence to teachers to teach HIV/AIDS related curriculum that is focused on AB, teaching Life Skills, starting up and maintaining awareness activities in schools and initiating peer educator groups. In FY07 PCVs will provide training to 500 people which will include primary schools teachers and peer educators in primary schools. Peer education has proven to be very effective in reaching youth with behavioral change initiatives that are sustainable. PCVs community level work is a strength of the PC/T EP program as it is sustainable.

All PCVs will be trained on how to monitor and report program results. PC/T will also set aside some AB funds to be accessed through VAST grants to fund AB trainings and other awareness activities in their communities. PC/T will develop and acquire the needed materials such as videos, manuals, posters and books for conducting the planned activities using EP funds. AB activities are already well integrated in to PC/T's project plans and core programming and that will insure sustainability despite future EP funding.

This activity specifically links with activity #7849 in AB, #5007 in Palliative Care, #7850 in OVC. Peace Corps will support other activities as relevant in the regions in which it is active.

Peace Corps Tanzania (PC/T) directly implements Emergency Plan (EP) activities through the actions of its 133 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania and five regions on Zanzibar. Approximately one-third of these 133 PCVs work principally on HIV/AIDS activities as a primary assignment and the remaining two-thirds of these PCVs work on HIV/AIDS activities as secondary projects. PC/T has three projects, the education project that brings PCVs to Tanzania to teach mathematics, hard sciences or information and communication technology in secondary schools, the environment project which is a rural, community-based project that helps people to better manage their natural resources and the health education project that places PCVs in communities to work as health educators primarly addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities.

PC/T brings to the table the uniqueness of reaching people at the grassroots, community level, an area that widens the gap of people reached and trained in Tanzania as few other implementers go to places where PCVs live and work. PC/T is also forming linkages with other implementing partners to enable more comprehensive services to reach targeted communities. Currently, PC/T implements an integrated HIV/AIDS program where all PCVs in country, irrespective of their primary project, are strongly encouraged to implement HIV/AIDS activities. PC/T trains all first year Volunteers and host country national (HCN) counterparts (CP) on HIV/AIDS participatory methods and Life Skills through its training manual. They are also provided with the tools to conduct their trainings which includes; Life Skills training manual in Swahili and English, PC/T's HIV/AIDS manual, The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) guidelines for teaching on reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS and Life Skills in schools. PC/T also acquires materials in the form of print media and/or videos from other partners like German devolopment agency (GTZ), Population Services International (PSI) and Family Health International (FHI). In FY07 PC/T will continue to conduct these trainings for PCVs and their HCN CPs.

With FY06 prevention funds, PC/T implemented its HIV OP program by specifically targeting youth in secondary schools, teachers and other community members. The strategy is implemented by either directly reaching beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS awareness messages or through training different community groups to build their capacity to train others in HIV/AIDS awareness activities. PC/T uses a Life Skills training approach with the main intention being behavioral change to prevent becoming infected with HIV. Some FY06 OP funds were also used for Volunteer Activities Support & Training (VAST) grants that provides monies for Volunteers to implement community-initiated HIV/AIDS activities.

In FY07, PC/T will continue to target prevention and awareness messages with youth in secondary schools, out-of-school youth, teachers and other community groups. A recent behavioral survey conducted by YouthNet in Iringa included some of the following findings: that the median age for first intercourse was 18 and 20 years for girls and boys respectively in rural areas and 18 years for both genders in urban settings. This is the age when most youth are either out of school or are enrolled in secondary schools, thus there is a need to target these youth with well-balanced messages. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) guidance for teaching HIV/AIDS and Life Skills in schools gives an opportunity for students in secondary schools to be taught about condoms as one of the ways to prevent HIV transmission. Through collaboration with the MOEVT in Tanzania, PC/T has also been asked to work with teachers as an affected group as…. "over 3,000 teachers are said to have died due to HIV/AIDS in 2004." PC/T implements a Life Skills approach which helps people to learn to assess healthy life choices that are appropriate for them to avoid being infected by HIV.

With FY07 funds, PC/T will bring 10 additional PCVs fully funded by the EP to work primarily on HIV prevention and care activities, one of whom will be fully funded using OP funds.

In FY07, PC/T will directly reach 30,000 individuals, with prevention and awareness messages initiated by PCVs' actions. These people will include secondary school students,

out of school youths and other community groups half of whom will be female. Some of these actions include: facilitating classroom sessions, strategically placing question and answer boxes throughout secondary school campuses, and conducting extra-curricular activities like health clubs, Life Skills clubs and sports and field trips focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention. Some of the strategies to reach community groups will include; large community awareness meetings, community drama activities and video shows.

PCVs and their HCN CPs will train 1,450 individuals of whom will include teachers and peer educators in both secondary schools and in out of school youth groups. PC/T is collaborating with the MOEVT initiative to train teachers on strategies to address HIV/AIDS in schools by facilitating trainings and serving as mentors. Planned capacity building activities for teachers in secondary schools are aimed for them to gain confidence to teach HIV/AIDS subjects and Life Skills curricula as well as reproductive health and the correct and consistent use of condoms. Capacity building activities will also enable these teachers to gain the skills required to initiate and maintain HIV/AIDS awareness activities and peer education programs in schools.

All PCVs will be trained on how to monitor and report program results. PC/T will also set aside some OP funds to be accessed through VAST grants to fund OP trainings and other awareness activities in their communities. PC/T will develop and acquire the needed materials such as videos, manuals, posters and books for conducting the planned activities using EP funds. OP activities are already well integrated in to PC/T's project plans and core programming and that will insure sustainability despite future EP funding.

This activity relates also relates to Peace Corps activities in Abstinence and Be Faithful (#7774) and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) (#7687). It also relates to home-based care (#7816) and OVC (#8866).

Peace Corps Tanzania (PC/T) directly implements Emergency Plan (EP) activities through the actions of its 133 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania and five regions on Zanzibar. Approximately one-third of these 133 PCVs work on HIV/AIDS activities as a primary assignment and the remaining two-thirds of these PCVs work on HIV/AIDS activities as secondary projects. PC/T has three projects: the education project, brings PCVs to Tanzania to teach mathematics, hard sciences, or information and communication technology in secondary schools; the environment project, a rural, community-based project that helps people to better manage their natural resources; and the health education project, which places PCVs in communities to work as health educators primarily addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities.

In FY06, PC/T implemented its HIV/AIDS program in four program areas: Abstinence and Being Faithful (AB), Other Prevention (OP), Basic Health Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) (HBC) and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and their caretakers. PC/T utilized the experiences gained in its environment project and experience with natural resources management to improve the nutritional status of PLWHAs and their caretakers through the initiation and promotion of demonstration permaculture and home gardening activities in their communities. Permaculture is an intensive form of agriculture aimed at household improvement of food production from gardening. Its main aims are to improve quantity and quality of food available to PLWHAs and their caretakers close to their homestead so they do not have to walk so far to get food. PC/T does not use EP monies to purchase food directly for the beneficiaries of the project. The strategy is to mobilize and train community groups including PLWHAs and their caretakers to start permaculture and home/community gardening activities. Training in nutritional concepts is provided alongside this activity with the aim of bolstering immune systems of PLWHAs in a more sustainable manner.

With FY07 funds, PC/T will scale up existing interventions with PLWHAs and their caretakers. PC/T plans to use FY07 HBC funds to facilitate income generation activities (IGA) targeted at PLWHAs and their caretakers. PC/T will promote obtaining vocational skills using resource people available in the community. PC/T will facilitate these resource people with various skills to mentor groups of PLWHAs to enable the beneficiaries to acquire these skills. PLWHAs with new vocational skills can better provide enough income for themselves, and reduce their dependence on food assistance. PC/T will facilitate these beneficiaries to start up small-scale IGA projects in their communities. PC/T will not use EP monies to pay for students' school or college fees. The expectation is that skilled resource people in the community will volunteer to work with PLWHAs. Some of the EP funds will be used to purchase training tools for different skills training.

With FY07 funds, PC/T will bring 10 additional EP fully funded Volunteers for primarily HIV related work. PC/T will use FY07 HBC funds to pay the costs of four of ten of these EP funded PCVs. This will increase PC/T's number of PCVs who work primarily on HIV to over 45, extending PC/T's reach to more PLWHAs and their caretakers with HBC funds. In addition, other PCVs will continue to work on PC/T's HIV program as a secondary activity.

In FY07, PCVs and their host country national (HCN) counterparts will expand their work to reach 600 PLWHAs and provide them with nutrition education and/or training in income-generating activities. The food that is produced from these permaculture, home/community gardening, and fruit drying activities will be available for needy PLWHAs to sell as income for their many needs.

PCVs and their HCN CPs will be oriented to the NACP-developed care guidance for HBC providers to ensure there is understanding and compliance with the national guidelines for HBC. PCVs will be encouraged whenever possible to link up with local HBC providers with the aim of providing a more comprehensive care package to the beneficiaries. This has worked effectively in communities in Dodoma in the first year of operation.

PCVs and their HCN CPs will identify 1,000 caregivers who may either be immediate family members of the PLWHAs, extended family members for OVCs, village health workers,

teachers in schools with OVC challenges, known HBC providers or members of other related groups.

PCVs and their HCN CPs will train these caregivers on nutrition and its importance in the continuum of care. Specific aspects of the trainings will include eating a balanced diet, food preparation practices, gardening using a permaculture approach, and food preservation techniques, for example fruit drying, as a means to keep nutritious foods longer.

PC/T will continue to conduct permaculture workshops and training with environment and heath education PCVs and their HCN counterparts to train them to conduct these nutrition education and income-generation activities in their communities. PC/T will set aside monies to fund a technical expert to conduct these trainings for PCVs and their counterparts and will introduce a fruit-drying workshop. Some EP funds will be set aside for PCVs to access through Volunteer Activities Support and Training (VAST) grants to fund care activities targeted to PLWHAs and their caretakers. PC/T will develop and acquire the needed materials for conducting the planned activities using EP funds. PC/T has proven experience and expertise in permaculture and IGA activities, which are already well integrated into PC/T's project plans and core programming, and will continue beyond the life of the EP.

This activity is related to Peace Corps activities in Abstinence and Being Faithful (#7849), Other Prevention (#7847), and Palliative Care--Basic Health Care (#7851),. FHI (#7715) and PACT (#7783), Salvation Army (#7801), Africare (#7674), CRS(#7691), and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (#8866).

Peace Corps Tanzania (PC/T) directly implements Emergency Plan (EP) activities through the actions of its 133 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania and five regions on Zanzibar. Approximately one-third of these 133 PCVs work principally on HIV/AIDS activities as a primary assignment and the remaining two-thirds of these PCVs work on HIV/AIDS activities as secondary projects. PC/T has three projects: education, environment, and health education. T, he education project brings PCVs to Tanzania to teach mathematics, hard sciences or information and communication technology in secondary schools. TThe environmental rural community-based project helps people to better manage their natural resources. Finally, the health education project places PCVs in communities to work as health educators primarily addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities.

In FY07, PC/T will bring 10 additional PCVs to work primarily on HIV/AIDs work, four of which will be funded using OVC funding. This will increase PC/T's numbers of PCVs who work primarily on HIV/AIDsAIDS to over 45, while other PCVs continue to work on PC/T's HIV program as a secondary project.

FY07 funding will be used to scale up existing PC/T interventions with OVC and their caretakers in collaboration with other implementing partners. In particular, funding will be used to facilitate nutrition and/or income generation activities (IGAs). The goal of the nutrition activities is to improve the nutritional status of OVC and their caretakers through the initiation and promotion of demonstration permaculturepermaculture and home gardening activities in their communities. Permaculture is an intensive form of agriculture aimed at household improvement of food production from gardening. Its main aims are to improve quantity and quality of food available to OVC and their caretakers close to their homestead so they do not have to walk long distances to get food. The food that is produced from these permaculture and home/community gardening activities will be available for needy OVCs to sell for income to meet their many needs. PC/T does not use EP monies to purchase food directly for the beneficiaries of the project. The strategy is to mobilize and train community groups, including OVC and their caretakers, to engage in starting permaculture and home/community gardening activities. Nutritional training is also provided, with the aim of bolstering immune systems of OVC in a more sustainable manner.

FY07 funding will also be used to facilitate IGAs, including the promotion of vocational skills using available community resources. By dependence cycle we mean relying on aid for sustinence. By giving OVCs a skill, PC/T anticipates they can provide enough income for themselves without relying on continual handouts as they mature in to adults. PC/T will facilitate these beneficiaries to start small-scale IGA projects in their communities. PC/T will not use EP monies to pay for students' school or college fees. The strategy will be to identify and organize identified OVC, and facilitate Most Vulnerable Children Committees (MVCC) and community trainings. Some of the EP funds will be used to purchase some training tools for skills training.

PC/T will continue to conduct permaculture workshops with environment and heath education PCVs and their HCN counterparts to give them the capacity needed to conduct these nutrition education and income-generation activities in their communities. PC/T will also include training on stigma and discrimination for all PCVs working in HIV/AIDS. This was a successful activity in FY06, and the plan is to continue on this course in FY07. PC/T will set aside monies to pay for a technical expert to conduct these trainings for PCVs and their counterparts. PC/T will set aside some EP funds to be obtained by PCVs through Volunteer Activities SupprtSupport Training (VAST) grants to fund care activities targeted to OVC. Finally, PC/T will develop and acquire the needed materials for conducting the planned activities.

In the areas where other USG partners will be working, PCVs will link with them to facilitate comprehensive support to OVC, including the training of caretakers and strengthening OVC households through permaculture activities. Organizations, as listed

above, may include: Salvation Army (#7801), Africare (#7674), Deloitte (#8866), and CRS(#7691). FY07 funds will enable Volunteers and their host country counterparts (HCN) to reach 1,000 OVC. PCVs will also train 1,000 caretakers, specifically focused on nutrition.

Peace Corps Tanzania (PC/T) directly implements Emergency Plan (EP) activities through the actions of its 133 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania and five regions on Zanzibar. Approximately one-third of these 133 PCVs work principally on HIV/AIDS activities as a primary assignment and the remaining two-thirds of these PCVs work on HIV/AIDS activities as secondary projects. PC/T has three projects, the education project that brings PCVs to Tanzania to teach mathematics, hard sciences, or information and communication technology in secondary schools. The environment project which is a rural, community-based project that helps people to better manage their natural resources and the health education project that places PCVs in communities to work as health educators primarily addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities.

In FY 2006, PC/T implemented its HIV/AIDS program in four program areas: Abstinence and Being Faithful (AB), Other Prevention (OP), Basic Health Care (HBC) and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and both their caretakers.

In FY 2006, PC/T has three full-time personal service contractors (PSC)s funded from the EP. These three PSCs include a program manager (PM) who is a medical doctor (MD) by qualification. The PM has the general role of overseeing program implementation for PC/T EP activities. The second is an administrative associate (AA) who takes care of logistical and administrative matters for PC/T's EP activities as well as manage its EP resources. The third staff member is a driver.

With FY 2007 funds, PC/T will bring 10 EP fully-funded Volunteers to work primarily on HIV related work. This will increase PC/T's numbers of PCVs who work primarily on HIV to approximately 50, which will have a greater impact in reaching more beneficiaries through the PC/T AIDS program. This addition of the 10 EP fully-funded Volunteers will increase the workload of managing HIV Volunteers. A program assistant (PA) is needed to further support this project. PC/T plans to employ one full-time PSC using EP funds in FY 2007 for the position of (PA) for health education.