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Global Special Concerns
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The Global Bureau Office of Program Development and Strategic Planning coordinates two separate programs: collaboration with the U.S. Peace Corps and managing the bureau's program development and learning objective.
The U.S. Peace Corps and USAID, through an interagency agreement, work in partnership to provide program assistance to over 70 countries worldwide. The primary implementing activity is the Small Project Assistance (SPA) program that is managed by the Global Bureau. The SPA program employs the technical skills of Peace Corps volunteers to enable communities to address and resolve persistent development problems through implementing low-cost, grassroots, development approaches. USAID guides and directs Peace Corp in identifying common community concerns and to develop strategies to address them. The SPA program achieves its programmatic goals in two of USAID's priority areas: (1) economic growth and (2) global health. Activities include environmental and sanitation interventions, strengthening local organizational capacity, and increased involvement in health and child survival, and basic education. In addition, community members receive technical skills training and are advised on techniques of principles of self-help in planning, implementing, managing and sustaining capacity building projects. Both USAID and the Peace Corps plan to continue this program. Close to 50% of the resources come from USAID mission buy-ins. The program will rely increasingly on this demand-driven principle. Key results achieved last year include:
Latrine construction and sanitary hand-washing stations in Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Guatemala; Construction or refurbishing of health posts and health care facilities in Guinea, St. Lucia, El Salvador and Burkina Faso; Establishment or improvement of libraries and community resource centers worldwide; Supporting midwife and traditional birth attendant training with the Guinea Ministry of Health; Improvements to school facilities in Armenia, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan, thereby increasing educational opportunities at the grassroots level. The Global Bureau Program Development and Learning objective was introduced as a means to finance Global Bureau program development costs, program assessments and evaluation efforts in March 2001. Through a single consolidated objective, the bureau is able to design, support and evaluate programs, projects or activities in an independent fashion. It is a broad-based objective that enables the bureau to initiate program development and evaluation activities and achieve the following results:
- Identification of new opportunities for development assistance;
- Development of new strategies or revision of existing strategies;
- Identification and integration of cross-cutting themes into operating unit programs to enhance complementarity among objectives and overall program synergy;
- Identification of more effective mechanisms to implement programs;
- Research and development, including pilot activities to determine the feasibility of proposed initiatives; and
- Identification of trends that have regional and worldwide implications.
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