Community REACH

Program Overview

The leader award, Community REACH, is an eight and a half 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 March 2010 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

The U.S. government has made the fight against HIV/AIDS a top priority, not only for humanitarian reasons, but because the HIV/AIDS crisis threatens the prosperity, stability, and development of nations around the world. USAID has allocated almost $6 billion in funding since inception of its international HIV/AIDS program in 1986, more than any other public or private organization.  USAID currently has HIV/AIDS programs in nearly  100 countries worldwide.

USAID is a key partner in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , the largest commitment ever by any nation for an international health initiative dedicated to a single disease – a five-year, $15 billion multifaceted approach to combating the disease in more than 120 countries around the world.  For more information:  http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/

Constella Futures, the international development unit of Constella Group, specializes in the design and implementation of public health and social programs for developing countries. Since 1971, they have worked on projects in more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Its staff works collaboratively with in-country counterparts to improve policies and programs that address population issues, reproductive health, HIV, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health. Constella Futures’ experts in disciplines such as public policy, economics and health finance, medicine, law and human rights, public health, demography, epidemiology, gender, social marketing and communications, and monitoring and evaluation employ a focused yet flexible approach to helping countries and communities build local capacity and forge public-private partnerships. For more information: http://www.constellagroup.com/international-development/.