PEPFAR Technical Oversight and Management Expenses: FY 2008

Project Title: USAID Technical Oversight and Management

Budget: FY 2008 GHCS: $22,540,000 million

Implementing Mechanism: Direct and indirect expenses including salary, benefits, travel, supplies, professional services and equipment.

Contact Person(s): Paul Mahanna (USAID/GH/OHA), Ben Gustafson (USAID/GH/OHA)

Program Description:

Under the direction of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a partner in the unified U.S. Government (USG) effort to implement the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

This program funds technical assistance and other activities to further PEPFAR policy and programmatic objectives, in the field, at headquarters and internationally. It utilizes existing contractual mechanisms within USAID to the maximum extent possible.

USAID?s headquarters offices support PEPFAR implementation by:

• Using standing contracts and grants to facilitate access to technical expertise for program design, strategy development, and general support of field programs and policy development.
• Supporting operations of field offices (e.g., increased support for procurement and grants, human resources management, financial management, information resources management, communications, management analysis services, facilities planning and management, security, rent and utilities and agency crosscutting activities to implement PEPFAR);
• Directing and providing scientific and technical assistance and monitoring of central cooperative agreements for field programs (e.g., abstinence and be faithful, orphans and vulnerable children, and safe medical injections programs);
• Providing technical assistance to country programs (e.g., through direct assistance by USAID program and scientific experts from a variety disciplines including medical officers/physicians, health scientists, epidemiologists, public health advisors, AIDS education and training experts, statisticians and informaticians);
• Coordinating agency activities with those of other USG agencies implementing PEPFAR (e.g., joint planning, monitoring and evaluation, legal consultation, participation on core teams and technical working groups, policy and budget coordination).

This program will continue to contribute to achieving critical PEPFAR goals, including supporting prevention of seven million new HIV infections; supporting treatment for two million HIV-infected individuals; and supporting care for ten million people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

Time Frame: FY 2008

Project Title: HHS Technical Oversight and Management

Budget: FY 2008 GHCS: $23,807,200

Implementing Mechanism: Direct and indirect expenses including salary, benefits, travel, supplies, professional services and equipment.

Contact Person(s): Lisa Dunlop (HHS/OGHA)

Program Description:

Under the direction of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator?s Office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a partner in the unified U.S. Government (USG) effort to implement the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). HHS includes several agencies that are key players in PEPFAR such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration. HHS efforts are coordinated by the Office of the Secretary/Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA).

HHS headquarters offices support PEPFAR implementation by:

• Supporting operations of field offices (e.g., increased support for procurement and grants, human resources management, financial management, information resources management, communications, management analysis services, facilities planning and management, security, rent and utilities and agency crosscutting activities to implement PEPFAR);
• Directing and providing scientific and technical assistance and monitoring of central cooperative agreements for field programs (e.g., antiretroviral treatment, blood safety programs, twinning program);
• Providing technical assistance to country programs (e.g., through direct assistance by HHS program and scientific experts from a variety disciplines including medical officers/physicians, health scientists, epidemiologists, public health advisors, AIDS education and training experts, statisticians and informaticians);
• Coordinating agency activities with those of other USG agencies implementing PEPFAR (e.g., joint planning, monitoring and evaluation, legal consultation, participation on core teams and technical working groups, policy and budget coordination).

This program will continue to contribute to achieving critical PEPFAR goals, including supporting prevention of seven million new HIV infections; supporting treatment for two million HIV-infected individuals; and supporting care for ten million people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

Time Frame: FY 2008

Project Title: Other Agency Technical Oversight and Management

Budget: FY 2008 GHCS for OGAC $8,381,555

Implementing Mechanism: Direct and indirect expenses including salary, benefits, travel, supplies, professional services and equipment.

Contact Person(s): Rebecca Hooper (OGAC)

Program Description:

Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC): OGAC was formed upon the passage of the 2003 Leadership Act to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The office is staffed with a range of experienced leaders and technical specialists from across the government and private sector. Although the legislation authorized implementation/granting authority to the Office of the Coordinator, it opted to focus on coordination and leadership rather than direct implementation, deferring to the expertise of implementing agencies. The eight primary roles of the Office of the Coordinator for the USG are:

• Leading policy development and oversight;
• Maintaining and promoting interagency coordination and programmatic implementation;
• Building interagency technical coordination;
• Overseeing the development of interagency program guidance;
• Representing and reporting on the status of the initiative;
• Focusing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation;
• Assuring budgetary oversight; and
• Engaging with international organizations and foundation to ensure country coordination.

OGAC expenses include personnel, travel and transportation, rent, communications and utilities, printing and reproduction, other services, supplies and materials, and equipment.

This program will continue to contribute to achieving critical PEPFAR goals, including supporting prevention of seven million new HIV infections; supporting treatment for two million HIV-infected individuals; and supporting care for ten million people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

Time Frame: FY 2008

Project Title: Peace Corps Technical Oversight and Management

Budget: FY 2008 GHCS: $570,012

Implementing Mechanism: Direct expenses including salary, benefits, travel, supplies, professional services and equipment.

Contact Person(s): J. Ronald Campbell (Peace Corps), AIDS Relief Coordinator

Program Description:

Peace Corps: Headquarters expenses include a program coordinator, an administrative officer, a programming and training advisor, and a monitoring and evaluation analyst. These staff, along with a Peace Corps funded AIDS Relief Coordinator, provide technical oversight and management to twenty-six Peace Corps posts that receive PEPFAR (GHCS) funding and are implementing PEPFAR activities. Peace Corps volunteers work with local community-based organizations and individuals to build capacity and mobilize communities around HIV/AIDS prevention, and care activities as well as treatment services with governmental and nongovernmental agencies, faith-based organizations, youth, PLWHA and others.

This program will continue to contribute to achieving critical PEPFAR goals, including supporting prevention of seven million new HIV infections; supporting treatment for two million HIV-infected individuals; and supporting care for ten million people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

Time Frame: FY 2008

Project Title: Department of Defense Technical Oversight and Management

Budget: FY 2008 GHCS: $1,837,550

Implementing Mechanism: Direct and indirect expenses including salary, benefits, travel, supplies, professional services and equipment.

Contact Person(s): Rick Shaffer (DoD)

Program Description:

Department of Defense (DoD) The DoD is one of the key implementing agencies of PEPFAR. DoD?s main mission under PEPFAR is to support military-to-military HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention education, the development of policies for dealing with HIV/AIDS in a military setting, counseling, testing, and HIV-related palliative care for military members and their families, as well as clinical and laboratory infrastructure development. In addition, DoD provides HIV prevention and clinical experts to many Technical Working Groups which are leveraged to support all populations and goals of PEPFAR. DoD activities will include:

• Support and oversight of field offices executing military HIV operations
• Provide assistance with military HIV policy development
• Facilitation and coordination of collaborative HIV activities between militaries
• Scientific and technical assistance to field programs
• Scientific, technical and programmatic participation in interagency technical working groups, sub committees and initiatives
• Monitoring of central cooperative agreements for field programs
• Coordination of DoD HIV activities with those of other USG agencies implementing PEPFAR
• Support of clinical and lab HIV education for military personnel

DoD expenses include personnel, travel and transportation, rent, communications and utilities, printing and reproduction, contracting and granting, other services, supplies and materials, and equipment in support of the above activities.

This program will continue to contribute to achieving critical goals, including supporting prevention of seven million new HIV infections; supporting treatment for two million HIV-infected individuals; and supporting care for ten million people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

Time Frame: FY 2008

Project Title: Department of Labor Technical Oversight and Management

Budget: FY 2008 GHCS: $62,500

Implementing Mechanism: Direct and indirect expenses including salary, benefits, travel, supplies, professional services and equipment.

Contact Person(s): Paula Church (DOL)

Program Description:

Department of Labor (DOL): DOL currently oversees HIV/AIDS education workplace projects in over 20 countries, and is receiving PEPFAR funds for projects in 8 countries. DOL programs build on its unique experience bringing workers, employers, and Ministries of Labor together to address workplace issues, including HIV/AIDS.

Workplace programs take advantage of a unique and underutilized venue for HIV programs. The workplace is where employed adults spend most of their waking hours, a ?captive? audience for education over time to influence behavior change and reduce discrimination. These programs provide additional benefits as educated workers share HIV/AIDS information at home and in their communities, and link with other services such Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT). With a relatively stable audience, the workplace also facilitates effective monitoring and evaluation to verify the program?s impact.

DOL has worked closely with PEPFAR to try and ensure coordination with the field teams in Focus Countries and other larger PEPFAR program countries. DOL headquarters works with the country teams where DOL programs are receiving PEPFAR funds, providing support and input to the PEPFAR team, information upon request, and acting as the main liaison with the implementers in the country.

DOL is an active member of the PPP TWG, and as such participated in TWG COP review process the last two years. DOL will conduct a cross country evaluation of its workplace programs and is spearheading an effort to collect monitoring data from all USG agencies? workplace programs in order to share effective indicators, best practices, and lessons learned.

This program will continue to contribute to achieving critical PEPFAR goals, including supporting prevention of seven million new HIV infections; supporting treatment for two million HIV-infected individuals; and supporting care for ten million people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

Time Frame: FY 2008