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Program Development and Strategic Planning
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940-001CENTRAL OPERATING UNIT: Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade: Office of Program Development and Strategic Planning (EGAT/PDSP)
PROGRAM TITLE: Peace Corps Small Projects
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Enhance Communities' Capabilities to Conduct Low-Cost Grassroots, Sustainable Development Activities, 940-001
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $1,000,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $1,000,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1985 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: The joint USAID/Peace Corps Small Project Assistance (SPA) program enables Peace Corps volunteers worldwide to identify, design, and implement small-scale, community-level, self-help, sustainable development activities in areas of priority interest to USAID. These activities increase participation at the local level and help lay the foundation for long-term economic and social transition. The program has two primary components: (1) grant funding for small sustainable development activities developed by Peace Corps volunteers in conjunction with local community organizations; and (2) technical assistance to support host country nationals and training for counterparts in activities that enhance local capacity building in the design and management of specific activities.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAID will support a wide range of services through Peace Corps to host country officials and community counterparts, non-governmental and community organizations, volunteers, and field staff. These activities will include approximately 1,000 small-scale, self-help project grants, more than 150 in-service technical, capacity building, and project management training events, and technical services for assessments, project design, and evaluations. In addition, resources will be used to produce training manuals, journals, and materials, and to provide supplies for individual projects, including audio-visual equipment, CD Roms, and Internet development tools for Peace Corps country programs and interested parties.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID plans to use FY 2003 resources requested in this Budget Justification to bring more volunteers and counterparts into the process of promoting grass root sustainable development. Though program activities will remain the same, new small grants will be awarded, and training activities, information production, and dissemination will be enhanced to meet the growing need for capacity building skills and material support. An increasing percentage of resources will be allocated by USAID field missions to support the program.
Performance and Results: In FY 2000, this program funded about 1,300 community-based grant activities. These activities directly benefited over 950,000 individuals (of which more than 52% were women or girls). Grants totaled $2,375,000 and local contributions exceeded $2,462,000. In addition to Project Design and Management workshops and other training for community and organization leaders, the program supported 2,436 host country nationals to participate in 150 Peace Corps capacity building training events worldwide. A wide range of community activities were implemented, including:
- improvements to community health facilities (Cameroon, Senegal, Romania, Panama, El Salvador) and basic community health training in birthing, first aid, maternal and child health, and nutrition (Jordan, Mongolia, Ukraine, Gabon, Zambia, Guatemala, Honduras,);
- expansion of HIV/AIDS education and awareness by integrating information into vital health messages, and training on sexually transmitted diseases and drug use through video and radio (Mali, Guatemala), and local participatory theater (Benin, Zambia);
- provision of HIV/AIDS training in prevention and treatment to community health workers (Burkina Faso, Togo, Namibia, Zambia), to traditional and religious leaders (Mauritania, Lesotho), to classroom teachers (Cameroon, Tanzania), and to youth program leadership (Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi);
- construction and improvements to local water sanitation and water delivery systems (Morocco, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Philippines, Thailand);
- establishment or improvement of libraries and community centers in the use of information technology (Armenia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Gabon, Guinea, Eastern Caribbean, Belize);
- classroom construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance (Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Benin, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Uzbekistan);
- strengthened non-formal education (Macedonia, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Zambia, Morocco, Jamaica) and vocational training opportunities (Kenya, Togo, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala); and
- environmental education stressing (1) conservation and sustainable use of resources (Philippines, Slovak Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Panama), (2) the benefits of recycling and waste disposal (Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Madagascar, Bolivia, Panama), and (3) maintaining the productive capacity of natural resources through agro-forestry and soil conservation (Morocco, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua).
Principal Contractors and Grantees: This program is implemented wholly through an interagency agreement with the Peace Corps which, in turn, provides grant funds and technical assistance to local community organizations.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
940-001 Enhance communities' capabilities to conduct low-cost, grass-roots, sustainable development activities AEEB DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 1,400 8,215 Expenditures 760 5,970 Unliquidated 640 2,245 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 1,200 Expenditures 0 1,000 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 1,400 9,415 Expenditures 760 6,970 Unliquidated 640 2,445 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 1,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 1,000 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 1,000 Future Obligations 0 2,346 Est. Total Cost 1,400 13,761
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