**ANNEX I**

**Foreign Assistance Standardized Program Structure and Definitions**

**GOVERNING JUSTLY & DEMOCRATICALLY**

> **Program Element 2.2.3:** Local Government and Decentralization

**Definition:** Provide technical assistance and training to strengthen
sub-national government functions, including development of budgets,
local revenue raising, provision of local public services, community
planning, participation, and implementation of laws, regulations,
policies, and programs. Develop and/or strengthen associations of local
governments and/or local government officials.

> **Program Element 2.2.4:** Anti-Corruption Reforms

**Definition:** Promote governance institutions, processes, and policies
that are transparent and accountable across all development sectors.
Support non-governmental as well as governmental institutions (including
enforcement and investigation entities, independent audit agencies,
anti-corruption commissions, procurement agencies, legislatures, line
ministries, independent agencies, political parties, judicial actors, as
well as civil society organizations, academia, press and the private
sector). Support civic education and advocacy for reform of laws and
practices or directly improving accountability and transparency of
governance processes covering various development sectors.

> **Program Element 2.3.1:** Consensus-Building Processes

**Definition:** Promote peaceful agreement on democratic reform, rules,
and frameworks. Promote peaceful, broad-based participation in
determining, defining, and negotiating changes to governing structures.
Illustrative examples include promoting inclusive consensus-building
processes related to peace agreements, national dialogues, referenda on
key issues, and constitutional development or reform. Programs are
designed to incorporate and support mechanisms that advance conflict
mediation, resolution and negotiation of disputes in the context of
these processes.

> **Program Element 2.4.1:** Civic Participation

**Definition:** Strengthen the legal, regulatory, institutional, and
information environment which protects and enables the growth in
associational life and the development of independent and sustainable
civil society organizations (CSOs). Build the capacity of civil society
organizations to act as agents for reform and support their
participation in democratic decision-making through articulating and
representing their members' interests, engaging in service delivery, and
advocating for issues which become part of the public agenda and are
reflected in public policies. Encourage the strengthening of a civic
culture which supports democratic institutions and processes, active
participation in political and civic life, and the civic virtues of
tolerance, pluralism, compromise, trust, and respect for individual
rights, including gender equality.

**INVESTING IN PEOPLE**

> **Program Element 3.1.3:** Malaria

**Definition:** Support the implementation of the President's Malaria
Initiative (PMI), related malaria control programs, and malaria research
activities to reduce malaria-related mortality. Develop effective
malaria vaccines, new malaria treatment drugs, and targeted operations
research.

> **Program Element 3.1.7:** Family Planning and Reproductive Health

**Definition:** Expand access to high-quality voluntary family planning
(FP) services and information, and reproductive health (RH) care. This
element contributes to reducing unintended pregnancy and promoting
healthy reproductive behaviors of men and women, reducing abortion, and
reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity.

> **Program Element 3.1.6:** Maternal and Child Health

**Definition:** Increase the availability and use of proven life-saving
interventions that address the major killers of mothers and children and
improve their health and nutrition status, including effective maternity
care and management of obstetric complications; prevention services
including newborn care, routine immunization, polio eradication, safe
water and hygiene, and micronutrients; improved maternal, infant and
young child feeding; and treatment of life-threatening childhood
illnesses.

> **Sub-Element 3.1.6.8:** Household Level Water, Sanitation, Hygiene
> and Environment
>
> **Definition:** Increase household-level actions to prevent disease
> regardless of the state of public service infrastructure, including
> point-of-use water treatment, safe water storage and handling,
> sanitation marketing and promotion, promotion of hand washing with
> soap, reduction of exposure to indoor smoke from cooking and to local
> sources of environmental toxins such as lead. (Note that this
> sub-element addresses behavior, while Element 1.8 addresses other
> sub-elements to Water and Sanitation.)
>
> **Program Element 3.1.8:** Water Supply and Sanitation
>
> **Definition:** Ensure broadly accessible, reliable and economically
> sustainable water and sanitation services for health, security, and
> prosperity. (Note that this element does not include the household
> behavior aspects found in sub-element 1.6.7 or water issues directly
> relating to Agriculture -- found in the EG Objective.)
>
> **Program Element 3.2.1:** Basic Education

**Definition:** Improve early childhood education, primary education,
and secondary education, delivered in formal or non-formal settings. It
includes literacy, numeracy, and other basic skills programs for youth
and adults.

**ECONOMIC GROWTH**

> **Program Element 4.5.2:** Agricultural Sector Capacity

**Definition**: Sustain the productivity of the agricultural sector
through investments that foster increasing returns to land, labor, and
capital. Targeted interventions to male and female producers provide
improvements in technology and management practices, expanded access to
markets and credit, increased organizational and market efficiency, and
restoration and protection of resiliency in production and livelihood
systems.

> **Program Element 4.6.2:** Private Sector Capacity

**Definition**: Improve the capacity of businesses to integrate into
domestic and international markets through increases in productivity and
improvements in corporate governance and the development and application
of modern technology and marketing practices. Enhance the capacity of
businesses and business associations in terms of their corporate
governance capabilities and their application of best practices and
technologies to achieve increased production and marketing of products
and services. It includes adoption of efficient production processes,
improved labor productivity, environmentally-sound management of natural
resources and the development of accounting and management systems that
can help the company and industry group implement business, labor,
product and process standards that enhance business competitiveness.
Business capacity development programs may include activities that help
men- and women-owned firms and associations respond to these
international markets and create regional alliances.

> **Program Element 4.6.3:** Workforce Development

**Definition**: Assist youth and adults in acquiring knowledge and
developing skills beyond basic literacy and numeracy which are part of
the basic education element, attitudes, and behaviors to find legitimate
jobs, establish viable self-employment ventures, and stay employed and
productive in a changing economy. Create policies, programs, and systems
that respond to labor market demands in the formal and informal sectors.