Program Overview

The leader award, Community REACH, is a seven-year global USAID program funded through the Global Bureau for Health’s Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA) and designed to facilitate the efficient flow of grant funds to organizations to support HIV/AIDS programs that reach individuals, families, and communities most vulnerable to HIV infection and HIV-related consequences with the services they need most. Community REACH promotes both scaling-up of successful programs and start-up of new programs with potential for demonstrable impact on the pandemic.

Awarded to Pact in October 2001, the Rapid Response Mechanism Leader with Associates Award (LWA) includes the Community REACH (Rapid and Effective Action Combating HIV/AIDS) Leader Award, implemented by Pact in partnership with Constella Futures. USAID OHA funding for the program is available through September 2008 with a ceiling of $40 million. In addition to the Leader Award, Pact may enter into Associate Award agreements directly with USAID at the country level.

The Associate Award component allows USAID regional bureaus and country missions to work with Pact under the umbrella of the leader award to develop NGO grant programs tailored to their specific geographic areas and needs without additional competition.

Our Mission

Our mission as Community REACH is to rapidly make support available to community-based HIV/AIDS programs that reach the most vulnerable groups that are not served or are underserved with the most needed services.

Our Vision

Community REACH envisions communities united by courage and hope, equipped with strengthened capacity, and energized by ownership to lead an expanded fight against HIV/AIDS. This fight will result in decreasing transmission of HIV, better care for those living with HIV/AIDS, especially among the most vulnerable, and a safer, more interconnected world.

Partners

Community REACH is funded under an agreement with the USAID Global Bureau's Center for Population, Health and Nutrition (G/PHN).

Since 1986 the U.S. government has providing over $6 billion towards the fight against HIV/AIDS globally. By 2003, USAID's budget for HIV alone had risen to $795 million from the initial budget of $1.1 million in 1986. USAID provides an, "expanded response" that aims to improve the capacity of developing countries to protect vulnerable groups and support those who are infected and affected by the epidemic. USAID implements HIV/AIDS programs in over one hundred countries through a combination of in-country and regional initiatives.

Pact's implementing partner, Constella Futures, has established worldwide HIV/AIDS projects and brings solid technical and policy-oriented experience to the team in order to provide effective monitoring and evaluation of grant activities. Constella Futures is particularly known for the development and application of the AIDS Impact Model (AIM), intended to raise leadership awareness about HIV/AIDS issues and stimulate policy dialogue.

Constella Futures is dedicated to enhancing sustainable international development, through the application of innovative policy, marketing, communications, education, training, and research techniques. They work with public and private partners in developing countries to develop effective laws and policies, stimulate private sector growth and implement marketing and communications programs that create change.