Mission and Goals

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Mission and Goals

• To promote world peace and friendship by helping
• The people of interested countries in meeting
  their need for trained men and women
• Promote a better understanding of Americans on
  the part of the peoples served
• Promote a better understanding of other peoples
  on the part of Americans

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Volunteer Programs
BusinessDevelopment 15
Health HIV/AIDS 21
Environment 14
Youth 6
Education 36
Agriculture 5
Other 4
Figures based on data as of 9/30/07 Percentages
do not total 100 due to rounding
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Volunteer Diversity
Age Distribution

• Active Volunteers and trainees 8,079
• Gender 59 women, 41 men
• Marital status 93 single, 7 married
• Minorities 17 of Volunteers

• Average age 27 years
• Volunteers over age 50 5 (oldest Volunteer is
  80)

Statistics based on data as of 9/30/07
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Volunteer Locations
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Approaches to Development Programming

• Top Down
• Policy Makers
• Implementing
• Organizations
• Target
• Populations

• Bottom Up
• Policy Makers
• Service
• Organizations
• Representative
• Organizations
• Families and
• Communities

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Capacity Building Levels

• Individual members and leaders of a community
• Organizations (including businesses and NGOs)
• Professionals and other Intermediary Service
  Providers
• Communities as a whole

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Approaches
to Development Programming

• Appreciative
• Inquiry
• Appreciating and Valuing
• Identify What Works Well
• Envisioning
• What Might Be
• Design
• Build on What Works
• Well
• Delivery

• Problem Solving
• Felt Need
• Identification of
• Problem
• Analysis of Causes
• Analysis of Possible
• Solutions
• Action Planning

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Designing Projects
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We orient and train Volunteers to work where
these conditions overlap
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Looking at the Education Sector

• Teaching Students (math, science, TEFL, literacy)
  
• Capacity Building for Teachers (Team-teaching,
  University Teacher Training, In-service workshops
  communities of practice)
• Organizational Strengthening (resource
  development, education administration,
  professional networks)
• Community Development (schoolcommunity links,
  extra-curricular projects e.g., big
  brother/sister projects, life skills, ICT
  training courses, leadership camps)

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What is SED?

• The Small Enterprise Development (SED) sector of
  Peace Corps is composed of projects in the
  following areas
• Business Development
• Community Development
• Municipal Development
• NGO/Organizational Development
• Many SED projects around the world have
  components of more than one sub sector

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SED Volunteer Outreach - 2007

• Peace Corps has 51 Small Enterprise Development
  projects in 47 countries.
• In 2007, the 1,312 SED Volunteers reached
• 6,016 Communities
• 6,549 Organizations
• 46,343 men
• 52,245 women
• 51,186 boys (under age 25)
• 55,937 girls (under age 25)
• 18,030 service providers

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Environment and Agriculture Sectors
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Agriculture Project Areas

• Crop Extension
• Apiculture
• Agribusiness
• Fisheries
• Post-Harvest Activities
• Animal Husbandry

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Environment Project Areas

• Environmental Education
• Environmental Awareness
• Ecotourism
• Natural Resources Management
• Agroforestry/forestry
• Parks and Wildlife

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Health Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

• Behavior Change and Communication
• Food and Nutrition
• Health Workers and Peer Educators
• Malaria/Mosquito-borne illnesses
• Maternal and Child Health
• Men's Health
• Organizational Development
• Reproductive Health
• School-Based Health
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

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Contributing to the Global Response to
HIV/AIDS

• Ed HIV/AIDS in Science and English lessons, TOT
• with teachers, Life Skills clubs, materials
  development
• for the deaf community
• Wat/San Hygiene education, improved water
  sources
• and latrines for PLWA and OVC
• Ag/Env HIV prevention with farmers,
  permaculture,
• nutrition education for PLWA, OVC and caregivers
• SED/ICT IGA for PLWA, vocational training for
  OVC, capacity building of HIV-focused NGOs,
• development of ME systems
• Health Capacity building of community health
  workers and caregivers, nutrition counseling,
  life
• skills education, MTCT and VCT promotion
• Youth Teaching Life Skills HIV/AIDS awareness
  and prevention through clubs, camps
• and sports events peer education strengthening
  youth-focused NGOs

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Youth Development Areas of Action

• Healthy Lifestyles
• - Life Skills and Family Life Training
• - Sports, arts music and theater
• - Early Parenting
• - Wellness, including HIV/AIDS prevention -
  Substance Abuse prevention
• World of Work
• - Pre-Employment Preparation
• - Entrepreneurship training
• - ICT literacy and technical skills
• Active Citizenship
• - Service-learning in schools and communities
• - Environmental Action

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Questions? Randy Adamsradams_at_peacecorps.gov
Jesse Buff jbuff_at_peacecorps.gov Kathy
Jacquart kjacquart_at_peacecorps.gov Kate Raftery
kraftery_at_peacecorps.gov Peggy
Seufertpseufert_at_peacecorps.gov