PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
Years of mechanism: 2008 2009
ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008
TITLE: Peace Corps AB Activities
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. All of these 133 PCVs are expected to work on HIV/AIDS activities. 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 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.
NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: 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. 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.
With FY 2007 OP funds, PC/T implemented AB prevention activities specifically targeting youth in primary
schools. 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 receive in their lifetime.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: In FY 2006 PC/T reached 4,962 males and 5,371 female individuals through
community outreach interventions that promote abstinence and/or being faithful. In the same year PC/T also
trained 860 individuals to promote HIV/AIDS prevention programs that promote abstinence and/or being
faithful. In FY 2007 PC/T reached 3,826 males and 3,935 females through community outreach
interventions that promote abstinence and/or being faithful. PC/T also trained 131 individuals to promote
HIV/AIDS prevention programs that promote abstinence and/or being faithful during the same period.
ACTIVITIES: With FY 2008 AB funds, PC/T will continue to target youth in primary schools for its AB
prevention work. Primary school youth will be reached through EP-funded volunteers by: facilitating
classroom sessions; strategically placing question and answer boxes throughout primary school campuses;
and conducting extra curricular activities like health and life skills clubs, sports and field trips where AB
messages will be the primary focus.
PCVs will also continue to train primary school teachers and peer educators in primary schools for them to
initiate AB activities and life skills training to pupils. The training for teachers will also aim at enabling them
to start up and maintain awareness activities in schools and initiate peer educator programs.
The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) is conducting on the job training with teachers
on how to initiate HIV/AIDS activities in schools. However, the actual numbers of trained teachers are very
small and even some of the trained teachers still do not feel confident or lack tools to teach these subjects.
PCVs have been able to compliment the MOEVT efforts by training teachers and offering them participatory
techniques while simultaneously mentoring them.
In FY 2008 PC/T will use a portion of the EP funds to initiate activities targeting adult males with being
faithful messages. PC/T will collaborate with partners implementing male norms programs in streamlining
messaging and sharing tools developed for targeting this group.
Some FY 2007 AB funds will also be used for Volunteer Activities Support & Training (VAST) grants that
provides monies for PCVs to implement community-initiated HIV/AIDS activities.
LINKAGES: Peace Corps Tanzania seeks to cultivate partnerships with grassroots NGOs, CBOs, CSOs
and FBOs, which will enhance our community development focus in the communities where our volunteers
are placed. In addition, PC/T will foster linkages with other implementing partners in this area to
complement interventions so as to provide a more comprehensive service package to the beneficiaries.
PC/T will share the best practices and lessons learned particularly through collaboration with the MOEVT,
by piloting ideas which could be scaled-up by other partners.
CHECK BOXES: PC/T interventions in this area will also target adult male norms and behavior, with an
emphasis on messages promoting being faithful. Adult males will also be targeted with messages
addressing transgenerational sex and gender based violence. PC/T will also ensure increased involvement
of females on HIV/AIDS programs by empowering them to making decisions about their bodies and to be
more assertive. PCVs will be supported in interventions targeting female students as beneficiaries. In
addition, male students will be taught life skills to enable them to acquire new gender values. In FY 2008
PC/T will continue to support PCV activities targeting boys and girls from primary schools, and provide
inservice
training for male and female teachers in primary schools.
M&E: The PC/T AB program will allow PCVs and their Host Country National (HCN) counterparts to reach
13,000 primary school youth, half of them being female. In addition, PCVs will reach 100 adult males with
messsages addressing being faithful (B) behaviour.
In FY 2008 PCVs will provide training for 400 primary schools teachers and they will also train 100 peer
educators in primary schools. Peer education has proven to be very effective in reaching youth with
behavioral change initiatives that are sustainable.
SUSTAINAIBLITY: AB activities are already well integrated in to PC/T's project plans and core programming
that will ensure sustainability and continuity.
In addition PCVs involves the local government leadership in the planning of their activities. Communities
are encouraged to contribute for the projects which gives a sense of ownership for the projects. In addition a
few PCVs have managed to have their activities incorporated into the District council plans, which ensures
sustainability of those activities even when the PCVs have completed their service.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 13676
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
13676 4868.08 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 6571 1026.08 $40,300
7849 4868.07 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 4606 1026.07 $140,000
4868 4868.06 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 2891 1026.06 $100,000
Table 3.3.02:
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWIING WAYS
TITLE:
130 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania All 130 PCVs are expected
to work on HIV/AIDS activities. 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,
communitybased
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
NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: EP funds provide PC/T with the opportunity to contribute to the
Tanzania EP mission portfolio. 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 also forms 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. 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 and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) (HBHC), and Orphans and Vulnerable
Children (OVC. HKID) and both their caretakers.
With FY 2006 OP funds, PC/T implemented its HIV/AIDS 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/AIDS. In FY 2007, some OP funds are dedicated to Volunteer Activities Support & Training (VAST)
grants that provides monies for volunteers to implement community-initiated HIV/AIDS activities.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: In FY 2006, PC/T reached 5,659 males and 7,256 females with community
outreach HIV/AIDS prevention programs that are NOT focused on abstinence and/or being faithful. In the
same time period, 751 individuals were trained to promote HIV/AIDS prevention through other behavior
change beyond abstinence and/or being faithful.
In FY 2007 PC/T reached 3,736 males and 4,067 females with community outreach HIV/AIDS prevention
programs that are NOT focused on abstinence and/or being faithful. In the same time period, 1,136
individuals were trained to promote HIV/AIDS prevention through other behavior change beyond abstinence
and/or being faithful.
ACTIVITIES: In FY 2008 and 2009 PC/T will continue to target prevention and awareness messages with
youth in
secondary schools, out-of-school youth, teachers, and other community groups. Some of the specific
activities done by the PCVs and their host country national (HCN) counterparts 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.
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 learn 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. 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/AIDS.
In FY 2008, PC/T will continue to train community groups with community-based HIV/AIDS prevention
messages. A variety of techniques will be used by volunteers including showing videos, community theatre,
and other targeted activities. Volunteers have also managed to work with target the vulnerable groups like
street children and petty traders at the bus station with various prevention activities. In FY 2008 PC/T will
encourage PCV to continue targeting these groups.
In FY 2008, PC/T will continue to conduct workshops for all first-year PCVs and their HCN counterparts
enabling them to conduct EP OP program activities. All PCVs will be trained on monitoring and reporting
program results. PC/T will also set aside some EP funds to be accessed through VAST grants to fund
trainings and other awareness activities in their communities. PC/T will continue to utilize materials
devoloped by PC/T and other partners. Whenever needed, PC/T will use EP funds in reprinting, copying,
and distributing these materials to volunteers and sharing with other partners.
LINKAGES: PC/T seeks to cultivate partnerships with grassroots NGOs, CBOs, CSOs, and FBOs, which
enhance community development focus in the communities where volunteers are placed. In addition, PC/T
will foster linkages with other implementing partners in this area to complement interventions in order to
provide a more comprehensive service package to the beneficiaries. PC/T will share best practices and
lessons learned, particularly through collaborations with the MOEVT, by piloting ideas that may be scaled
up by other partners.
CHECK BOXES: PC/T interventions in this area will also address gender issues through ensuring increased
Activity Narrative: involvement of females on HIV/AIDS programs. Through Life Skills teaching targeting boys, they are given
new gender values enabling them to form better relationships and respect for women.
In FY 2008, PC/T will continue to support PCV activities targeting boys, girls from secondary schools, out of
school youths including those who are more vulnerable, community members, and in-service training for
teachers in secondary schools.
M&E: In FY 2008, PC/T will directly reach over 15,000 secondary school youth, half of them being female
students, with prevention and awareness messages through PCVs actions. PCVs and their HCN
counterparts will also reach 400 teachers with HIV/AIDS awareness activities and Life Skills trainings.
HIV.AIDS awareness information will reach approximately 5,000 community members through large
community awareness meetings, community drama activities, and video shows. Planned capacity-building
activities are scheduled to train 400 teachers in secondary schools to provide them with the knowledge,
skills, and tools to teach HIV/AIDS subjects and Life Skills curricula. Teachers will also address
reproductive health issues in addition to address the correct and consistent use of condoms following the
MOEVT guidance for implementing HIV/AIDS and Lifeskills education programme in schools.
Capacitybuilding
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. In FY 2008, PCVs will train 400 peer
educators in secondary schools and 250 out-of-school youth through community theater, games, and
community mobilization activities.
SUSTAINAIBLITY: OP activities are already well integrated into PC/Ts project plans and core programming
In addition, PCVs involves the local government leadership in planning activities. Communities are
encouraged to contribute to the projects, which gives a sense of ownership for the initiatives at a community
level. In addition, a few PCVs have managed to have their activities incorporated into the district council
plans, which ensures sustainability of those activities even when the PCVs have completed their service.
Continuing Activity: 13677
13677 3497.08 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 6571 1026.08 $57,500
7847 3497.07 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 4606 1026.07 $200,000
3497 3497.06 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 2891 1026.06 $200,000
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Addressing male norms and behaviors
Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.03:
ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008.
TITLE: Peace Corps Tanzania Community Based Care
Zanzibar. All of the 133 Volunteers in Tanzania are expected to work on HIV/AIDS activities. PC/T has three
projects, the Education Project, that brings PCVs to Tanzania to teach mathematics, hard sciences or
information and communication technology (ICT) 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.
NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: PC/T has used the experiences gained in its Environment
Project and experience with natural resources management to improve the nutritional status of people living
with HIV/AIDS (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. The main aim is to
improve quantity and quality of food available to PLWHAs and their caretakers, in close proximity to their
homestead so they do not have to walk so far to get food.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: In FY 2006, PC/T provided general HIV-related palliative care (excluding TB
treatment and prophylaxis) to 456 males and 725 female beneficiaries. During the same time Peace Corps
trained 109 individuals to provide HIV-related palliative care for HIV-infected individuals. In FY 2007, PC/T
provided general HIV- related palliative care (excluding TB treatment and prophylaxis) to 1,111 male and
1,338 female beneficiaries. During the same timeframe, Peace Corps trained 390 individuals to provide HIV
-related palliative care for HIV-infected individuals.
ACTIVITIES: With FY08 funds, PC/T will scale up existing interventions with PLWHAs and their caretakers.
PC/T will continue to conduct permaculture workshops with Environment and Heath Education PCVs and
their Host Country National (HCN) counterparts to give them the capacity needed to conduct these nutrition
education and permaculture activities in their communities. This was a successful activity in FY 2007 and
the plan is to continue on this track in FY 2008. PC/T will set aside monies to pay for a technical expert to
conduct these trainings for PCVs and their counterparts. A fruit drying workshop will be introduced, as well.
PC/T will set aside some EP funds to be obtained by PCVs 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 also plans to use FY 2008 palliative care funds to facilitate income generating activities (IGA) targeted
at PLWHAs and their caretakers. PC/T will promote vocational skills using community available resource
people. PC/T will facilitate these resource people with various skills to mentor groups of PLWHAs to enable
the beneficiaries to acquire these skills. By giving PLWHAs these skills, they should be capable of providing
enough income for themselves, enabling them to afford bus fare to access other services without relying on
continual handouts and support from other people. This training will also enable beneficiaries to come out of
the dependency cycle; i.e., those relying on handouts for sustenance. 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 strategy will be to identify and organize PLWHA groups and facilitate community
trainings for various skills through mentoring people with those skills. The expectation is that the 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 FY 2008 funds, PC/T will bring 10 additional EP
fully-funded PCVs, plus two extendees to work primarily on HIV/AIDS related work. PC/T will use FY 2008
HBHC funds to pay for the costs of five of these ten EP funded PCVs. This will increase PC/T's numbers of
PCVs who work primarily on HIV to over 45, which will have a greater impact in reaching more PLWHAs
and their caretakers with HBHC funds. Other PCVs will continue to work on PC/T's HIV program as a
stipulated in their project framework. In addition, PC/T will use some of the FY 2008 funds to pay for two
third-year extension PCVs. Palliative care funds will be used to pay for one of these two extending PCVs.
LINKAGES: PC/T seeks to cultivate partnerships with grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
community-based organizations (CBOs), civil society organizations (CSOs) and faith-based organizations
(FBOs), which enhance its community development focus in the communities where PCVs are placed. In
addition PC/T will foster linkages with UGS-funded implementing partners working with families affected by
HIV/AIDS to complement their interventions so as to provide a more comprehensive service package to the
beneficiaries. PC/T will share the good practices and lessons learned through its permaculture interventions
with other partners.
CHECK BOXES: PC/T interventions in this area will target women to increase their access to income. Some
PCVs are working with organized groups of women in their communities in these groups some of the
women are widows or taking care of sick spouses and relatives at home; e.g., a PCV in Njombe district has
given training on jam making to a group of women and managed to link these women to the market in Dar
Es Salaam to sell their products. PC/T will continue to support such activities targeting women. PCVs
routinely work with CBOs, CSOs, and FBOs, includilng support groups for PLWHA. PCVs have been
supporting these organizations with planning, grants writing, monitoring / reporting, organizational and
systems support. PC/T will continue to support PCVs working with local CBOs. In addition, PC/T will
continue to provide wraparound services, such as economical strengthening through IGA training and
initiation of small scale community projects, to improve the livelihood of beneficiaries. In particular, PC/T will
continue with the promotion of the permaculture activities as the one certain way to address the food
security challenge in the community.
M&E: In FY 2008 PCVs and their HCN counterparts will expand their work to reach 2,000 PLWHAs and
provide them with nutrition education and/or training in income-generating activities. The food that is
Activity Narrative: 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. In FY 2008, PCVs will train 1,000 caretakers on
how to provide care for PLWHAs, specifically on how nutrition impacts the quality of care. The hope is that
through these community mobilization activities caretakers and community members will be motivated to
take action on addressing the challenges PLWHAs face in communities.
SUSTAINAIBLITY: Permaculture and IGA activities are already well integrated in to PC/T's project plans
and core programming that will ensure sustainability. In addition PCVs involve the local government
leadership in the planning of their activities. Communities are encouraged to contribute for the projects
which gives a sense of ownership for the projects. In addition, a few PCVs have managed to have their
activities incorporated into the District Council plans, which helps to ensure sustainability of those activities,
even after the PCVs have completed their service.
Continuing Activity: 13678
13678 5007.08 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 6571 1026.08 $370,700
7851 5007.07 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 4606 1026.07 $250,000
5007 5007.06 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 2891 1026.06 $75,000
Table 3.3.08:
ACTIVITY NARRATIVE HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
With FY 2009 funds, PC/T will bring ten additional PEPFAR-funded Peace Corps Volunteers to work
primarily on HIV/AIDS-related activities. Peace Corps/Tanzania (PC/T) will use FY 2009 OVC funds to pay
for the costs of five of these ten PEPFAR-funded PCVs. This will increase PC/T's numbers of PCVs who
work primarily on HIV to over 45, which will have a greater impact in reaching more OVC and their
caretakers with OVC funds. Other PCVs will also continue to work on PC/T's HIV/AIDS program as
stipulated in their project frameworks. In addition, PC/T will use some of the FY 2009 funds to pay for one
of two third-year extension volunteers.
PC/T volunteers will encourage good nutrition education in their communities, helping to identify those OVC
who have faltered growth, severe or moderate malnourishment, or other nutrition deficits. For OVC
identified with an immediate need, living in a food insecure household, PC/T will provide linkages to relevant
community services and link the household to a Permaculture activity.
*END ACTIVITY MODIFICATION*
TITLE: Permaculture Gardening for Improved Nutritional Status
NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: Peace Corps/Tanzania (PC/T) has applied experiences gained
in its environment project and experience with natural resources management to improve the nutritional
status of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and their caretakers through the demonstration and
promotion of permaculture and home gardening activities in their communities. Permaculture is an intensive
form of agriculture, aimed at household improvement of food production from effective gardening.
The main aims are to improve quantity and quality of food available to OVC and their caretakers in close
proximity to their homestead so they do not have to walk to great lengths to get food.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: In FY 2006, the first year of the program, PC/T served 55 male and 128 female
OVC through the OVC program. During the same period, PC/T 159 providers and caretakers on caring for
OVC. In FY 2007, the PC/T OVC program served 255 male and 291 female OVC with supplementary
services, and trained 372 providers and caretakers on caring for OVC. In 2008, PC/T program served 109
male and 110 female OVC with supplementary services, and trained 207 caretakers and providers on
caring of OVC
ACTIVITIES: PC/T directly implements Emergency Plan (EP) activities through the actions of its 133 Peace
Corps Volunteers (PCV) in 15 of 21 regions on mainland Tanzania. Each of the 130 PCV are responsible
for assisting the facilitation of HIV/AIDS activities. PC/T has three projects: the education project, which
brings PCV 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 PCV in
communities to work as health educators primarily addressing HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities.
PC/T will continue to conduct permaculture workshops with environment and heath education PCV and their
HCN counterparts, as well as adding fruit drying workshops to give them the capacity needed to conduct
these nutrition education and income-generating activities (IGA) in their communities. Permaculture was
such a successful activity in 2007 that the plan is to continue this endeavor in 2008. PC/T will also use EP
funds to pay a technical expert to conduct these trainings for PCV and their counterparts. A fruit-drying
workshop will be introduced as well. PC/T will set aside some EP funds to be obtained by PCV through
volunteer activities support & training (VAST) grants to fund care activities targeted to OVC and their
caretakers. PC/T will develop and acquire the needed materials for conducting the planned activities using
EP funds.
PC/T also plans to use FY 2009 OVC funds to facilitate IGA targeted at strengthening households caring for
OVC. PC/T will promote obtaining vocational skills using community individuals and resources. PC/T will
facilitate sessions for community individuals to mentor groups of OVC to enable the beneficiaries to acquire
these skills. By educating OVC on vocational skills, IGA may enable the individual to provide for their
household, thereby enabling a self-sustaining way of life. In order to facilitate these activities, PCV will link
OVC with skilled individuals in their communities or bring skilled individuals to instruct the OVC as volunteer
guest trainers to teach them various skills (e.g., carpentry, tailoring, bread making, food processing, soap
making, and other skills). Some of the EP funds will be used to purchase training tools for different skills
training. PC/T will facilitate these beneficiaries to start up small-scale IGA projects in their communities. In
FY 2007, PC/T planned for PCV training on memory books for OVC. Based on lessons learned with this
activity, PC/T will use FY 2009 monies to continue similar trainings for PCV and their counterparts. FY 2008
PC/T brought in 10 Volunteers to work on HIV/AIDS related activities. The costs of five of them has been
funded from the OVC program
With FY 2009 funds, PC/T will bring ten additional EP fully funded PCV to work primarily on HIV/AIDS
related activities. PC/T will use FY 2009 OVC funds to pay for the costs of five of these ten EP funded
volunteers. This will increase PC/T's numbers of PCV who work primarily on HIV to over 45, which will have
a greater impact in reaching more OVC and their caretakers with OVC funds. Other PCV will also continue
to work on PC/T's HIV/AIDS program as stipulated in their project frameworks. In addition, PC/T will use
some of the FY 2009 funds to pay for one of two third-year extension volunteers.
LINKAGES: PC/T seeks to cultivate partnerships with grassroots, non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
community-based organizations (CBOs), and faith-based organizations (FBOs), which enhance community
development focus in the communities where PCV are placed. In addition, PC/T will foster linkages with
USG-funded implementing partners in the applicable regions in order to complement their interventions.
This will provide a more comprehensive service package to the beneficiaries. PC/T will share the promising
practices and lessons learned through their permaculture, IGA, and vocational skills training to the OVC
Implementing Partners Group.
Activity Narrative: CHECK BOXES: PC/T interventions in this area will target women to increase their access to income.
There are a number of PCV working with organized groups of women in their communities. Some of these
women are elderly widows serving as caregivers to OVC. PC/T will continue to support activities targeting
women.
PCV have collaborated with NGOs, CBOs, and FBOs that work with OVC. PCV have been supporting these
organizations through planning, grant writing, monitoring/reporting, organizational, and systems support.
PC/T will continue to support PCV working with these local organizations. PC/T will continue to provide
wraparound services such as economic strengthening through IGA training, and initiation of small-scale
community projects to improve the livelihood of beneficiaries. In addition, PC/T will continue with the
promotion of permaculture activities as the one proven method to address food security challenges in the
community.
M&E: In FY 2009, PCV and their HCN counterparts will expand their work to reach 1,000 OVC, providing
them with nutrition education and/or IGAs. In FY 2009, PCV will train over 500 caretakers on how to provide
care for OVC, specifically on how nutrition affects the quality of care. Ideally, through these community
mobilization activities, caretakers and community members will be motivated to take action on the growing
OVC challenge in communities.
SUSTAINAIBLITY: Permaculture and IGA activities are already well integrated into PC/T's project plans and
core programming. These activities will assist beneficiaries to be more self-sustainable. In addition, PCV
involve local government leadership in planning these activities. Communities are encouraged to contribute
to these projects, which facilitates a sense of ownership for the projects. A few PCV have incorporated their
activities into the district council plans, ensuring sustainability of those activities even after the PCV have
completed their service.
Continuing Activity: 13679
13679 4981.08 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 6571 1026.08 $346,000
7850 4981.07 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 4606 1026.07 $250,000
4981 4981.06 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 2891 1026.06 $25,000
* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools $40,000
and Service Delivery
Table 3.3.13:
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED.
TITLE: Peace Corps Tanzania Management and Staffing Narrative.
NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE:
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
and care activities.
The HIV/AIDS Program Officer (PO), continues to provide technical assistance to PCVs, organize and
facilitate various trainings to PCVs from all three projects in PC/T. The PO also attends EP working group
meetings, coordinate PC/T's monitoring and reporting system, facilitate sharing of ideas learned and identify
new resources. In FY08 PC/T will continue to have the PO working and supporting Volunteers and the PC/T
program.
In FY 2006 an EP Administrative Associate (AA) was hired to ease some of the workload on the HIV/AIDS
PO. This AA also handles all the logistics for PC/T's many HIV/AIDS EP ISTs as well as handles some of
the administrative tasks that result because of EP activities easing some of the challenges created by these
EP activities that were previously being carried out in the administrative unit. As well PC/T's AA handles
Volunteer Activities Support & Training (VAST) grants for all PCVs applying for grant monies in the areas of
HIV/AIDS prevention and care. This position will continue to be critical to post as post with increased EP
activities making a great administrative workload under its proposed EP activities. This position has truly
eased some of the workload of the PO and administrative staff making for a more manageable situation at
PC/T overall.
A Program Assistant was recruited in FY07; the PA will assist the Health Education project APCD with the
volunteer support and training. The PA has begun duties in July/07
A driver was recruited during FY05 and continues to support EP activities for all of PC/T's Volunteers who
are all engaged in some form of HIV/AIDS prevention and/or care work.
In FY 06 an outside expert trainer trained a Tanzanian technical coordinator to coordinate health education
activities at PST. The trained Host Country National (HCN) secured a full time position with Peace Corps
Tanzania. For this reason in FY08, PC/T spent a portion of the EP funding to recruit an expert trainer from
the outside to assist in the training of the local technical trainers. In addition PC/T used a portion of the
FY09 EP funds to pay for a PST technical trainer to assist the training manager.
PC/T's current Permaculture specialist trainer continues to provide quality training in permaculture as the
trainer is a former PC APCD for environment in Africa and has extensive experience in permaculture and
sustainable agriculture and understands how to link those activities with HIV/AIDS activities particularly for
PLWHAs and OVCs. In FY08 Post hired a fulltime HCN staff for a position of Training Specialist. The
strategy is to develop a more sustainable capacity of HCN staff for Permaculture activities. This person will
also be available more to the field assisting Volunteers in initiating gardens. In addition the Training
Specialist will be a back up trainer for the HIV/AIDS and Life Skills trainings. Currently the PO is the only
person conducting these trainings for Volunteers and the Post will like to have a strategy in place for more
sustained plan for training PCVs.
FY 2009 no additional staff is expected at post.
Continuing Activity: 13680
13680 3498.08 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 6571 1026.08 $282,600
7848 3498.07 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 4606 1026.07 $110,000
3498 3498.06 Peace Corps US Peace Corps 2891 1026.06 $76,000
Table 3.3.19:
