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Small Project Assistance Program Activities Report 1994 Small Project Assistance Program Activities Report 1994 Office of Training and Program Support Small Project Assistance Program ~ r.~~~ T~D~~~E~ DIRECTOR Dear Colleague: I am pleased to present the 1994 Activity Report for the Small Project Assistance (SPA) Program. For more than a decade, Peace Corps and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have combined resources to create this unique program which supports community-based, self-help development efforts. In 1994, more than 500 SPA-supported projects were undertaken in over 70 countries around the world. Wherever these projects are being implemented, Peace Corps Volunteers are working with communities to mobilize, organize, and focus resources on grassroots development activities. Through these efforts, SPA grants are being used to complement and help leverage local resources. It is this local resource mobilization that best demonstrates the self-help nature of these initiatives. In addition to the grants provided, more than 50 technical assistance and training activities were supported by SPA in 1994. These activities focused on increasing Volunteer and host country national skills in project design and management. 'Technical assistance funds were also used to support the participation of host country nationals in specific sectoral areas such as environment, health and nutrition, education, food production and women in development. Experience has demonstrated that the skills acquired through these various technical assistance activities are integral to effective project implementation at the community level. Since its inception, the SPA Program has consistently shown that grassroots initiatives have a strong likelihood of success where active community members and interested Peace Corps Volunteers join forces in project design and managment. Through the SPA Program's continued efforts, we look forward to building on these partnerships to better secure foundations for self-help development. Sincerely, (~e!~:t Director 1990 K STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 2 0 5 2 6 Table of Contents Acronyms and Abbreviations VI Acknowledgements VII Overview of the SPA Program .. Highlights from 1994 7 Future Directions 12 A Summary of Regional Activities Africa 14 Inter-America 16 Asia/Pacific 1~ Europe, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean 20 Appendices SPA Financial Information 23 Summary of SPA Grant Activities by Country 27 V Acronyms and Abbreviations ACN Activity Completion Notification AP Asia and Pacific Region AF Africa Region AFR Bureau for Africa ANE Bureau for Asia CY Calendar Year ECAM Europe, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean ENI Bureau for Europe and the New Independent States FY Fiscal Year HC Host Country HCN Host Country National IA Inter-America Region lAA Individual Activity Agreement IPBS Integrated Planning and Budget System 1ST In-Service Training LAC Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean MOU Memorandum of Understanding MSI Management Systems International NGO Non-Governmental Organization OPBF Office of Planning, Budget, and Finance OPSR Officer of Private Sector Relations OTAPS Office of Training and Program Support PASA Participating Agency Service Agreement PC Peace Corps PCV Peace Corps Volunteer PDM Project Design and Management SPA Small Project Assistance TA Technical Assistance USAID U.S. Agency for International Development vi flcknowledge",ents The Peace Corps' ability to facilitate grassroots development through the Small Project Assistance (SPA) Program has been greatly enhanced through coop­ eration with the U.S. Agency for International Developemt (USAID). In ad­ dition to the Global Bureau, the Regional Bureaus provided support during 1994. We would like to thank USAID Regional Bureau staff Melissa Brinkerhoff (ENI), Glen Cauven (AFR), Robert Meehan (LAC), and Frank Young (ANE). In addition, we gratefully thank Arnold Baker, USAID/Peace Corps Coordinator for his continual guidance. We are also grateful to the constant assistance offered by Jennet Robinson, Peace Corps' USAID/PVO Coordinator, and David Wolfe, Director of the General Support Division in Peace Corps' Office of Training and Program Support. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the contributions made by Vernon Hankerson and Laura Hofer in managing the SPA data base and generating the information presented in this report. Pat Bartlett is reponsible for all the graphic design. Together they all helped this report take shape. We offer a very special thank you to the Peace Corps regional and overseas staff and all the Peace Corps Volunteers whose efforts have made the SPA program possible. Your dedication has been fundamental to the success of community-based development. We also thank the USAID missions around the world which have provided financial and technical support. Finally, we would like to acknowledge and thank the many local leaders and community members who have helped identify solutions to problems and who have motivated their friends and neighbors to participate in the process of grassroots development. Time and again we have heard from Peace Corps Volunteers that successful SPA activities depend on the dedication of local people. It is their involvement that ensures that the SPA initiatives are truly "self-help." vii Since its inception, the program has supported more than 5,000 community projects and has directly benefitted over 2,000,000 individuals. In these communities, local contributions ofland, labor, material, andfinancial resources have surpassed $8,000,000. viii Overview of theSPfi Program More Than Those words marked the beginning shared by Peace Corps and USAID. ofthe Small Project Assistance (SPA) Both agencies understand that sus­ ADecade Program which was launched in Janu­ tainability depends on the participa­ ary of 1983 with the signing of a tion of local people in all aspects of of Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding any development effort. Participation (MOU) between the Peace Corps ensures that development initiatives (PC) and the U.S. Agency for Inter­ are based on the aspirations and ex­ "The intent ofthe national Development (USAID). perience of the people involved. funding mechanism is The program combines the financial to finance... small resources ofUSAID with the human By promoting participation in com­ "self-help" activities resources ofPeace Corps Volunteers munity development, SPA projects which will have and capitalizes on the strengths both are contributing to Peace Corps' goal immediate impact at agencies bring to the development ofpeople-to-people assistance at the the community level. process. grassroots level. In addition to the participation ofcommunity members, The activities will be Since its inception, the program has successful SPA projects depend on responsive to the needs supported more than 5,000 commu­ the participation and sensitive facili­ ofcommunities as nity projects and has directly bene­ tation of Peace Corps Volunteers. expressed by commu­ fitted over 2,000,000 individuals. In Volunteers who become involved in nity members through these communities, local contribu­ their communities are better able to their local group. 1 tions of land, labor, material, and fi­ fulfill the goals of cross-cultural un­ nancial resources have surpassed derstanding as well as technical as­ $8,000,000. sistance.2 SPA projects clearly support USAID's strategic goals as well. 3 The Support for The importance of small projects as majority ofprojects are related to the learning tools is increasingly being following four strategies: (1) encour­ Sustainable acknowledged by development prac­ aging broad-based economic growth, titioners. By going through the pro­ (2) stabilizing population growth and Development cess of project design and manage­ protecting human health, and (3) pro­ ment, members of a community or tecting the environment, and (4) local organization are given the op­ building democracy. Many SPA portunity to participate in needs as­ projects help strengthen democracy sessments, problem solving, planning, by enhancing community participa­ implementation and evaluation. tion in the development process and Each of these activities is an essen­ by encouraging the formation and de­ tial step in the process ofcommunity velopment ofgrass-roots NGOs. The development and the opportunity to democratic process begins when "practice" these steps through a spe­ people first come together to solve a cific project helps build capacity at the problem; oftentimes a SPA project local level. will provide the frame-work around which a community organizes. Such capacity building for community development is the cornerstone ofthe A number of projects also provide sustainable development philosophy humanitarian assistance and con- 1 OfficCl of Training and ProgrClm Support/Small ProjClct flssistancCl Program Water and sanitation projects accountfor approximately one­ fifth ofall SPA projects. tribute to poSt-CrISIS transItIOns pare and mitigate against the effects (USAID's fifth goal). For example, of drought. In these areas, Peace a Volunteer in Hungary is working Corps Volunteers and communities with Bosnian Refugees on a SPA work together to build wells and cis­ project designed to better integrate terns and introduce techniques such refugees into the local town. Also, in as agroforestry for soil conservation. drought prone regions ofAfrica such Such projects help provide an impor­ as the Sahel, SPA projects help rein­ tant buffer against natural disaster. force local people's capacity to pre- 2 Overview of the SPfI Program
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