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 in-

service 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.

TITLE:

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 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, 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.

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, 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

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 25,000 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.

Activity Narrative: 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. 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. 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

that will ensure sustainability and continuity.

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.

TITLE: Peace Corps Tanzania Community Based 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. 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

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.

Activity Narrative:

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.

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.

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 and five regions on Zanzibar. Each of

the 133 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 2008 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 2008 monies to continue similar trainings for PCV and their counterparts.

With FY 2008 funds, PC/T will bring ten additional EP fully funded PCV to work primarily on HIV/AIDS

related activities. PC/T will use FY 2008 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 2008 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.

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 2008, PCV and their HCN counterparts will expand their work to reach 2,000 OVC, providing

them with nutrition education and/or IGAs. In FY 2008, PCV will train over 1,000 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

Activity Narrative: activities into the district council plans, ensuring sustainability of those activities even after the PCV have

completed their service.

TITLE: Peace Corps Tanzania Management and Staffing Narrative

NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: 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 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.

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 will begin 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 FY 2008, PC/T will spend 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 will use a

portion of the FY 2008 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 plans to hire 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.

PC/T will use a $35,000 in FY 2008 funds to purchase a new vehicle, as the current vehicle has passed the

recommended mileage.