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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 PRETORIA 002395 
 
SIPDIS 
 
PASS TO STATE/INL FOR DISSELKOEN, SNYDER; G/WID FOR KNOX; 
AID/AFR FOR ISRALOW, DOBBINS; AID/DCHA FOR AKUMU 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM SF
SUBJECT: WJEI IN SOUTH AFRICA (2) - ANNEXURES 
 
REF: PRETORIA 2378 
 
 
¶1.  This cable provides annexures to reftel cable, "WJEI IN 
SOUTH AFRICA: BUILDING ON SUCCESS." 
 
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              IV. "FINAL PROGRAM DESIGN" 
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¶2.  Per the format requested by the Department, the following 
sections summarize our conception of the South African WJEI 
program elements and activities going forward. 
 
- Strategic Priorities: assist women victims of sexual 
offenses; improve SAG capacity to curb violence against 
women; and build strong relationships with our South African 
partners in health and social services, law enforcement and 
the judiciary, and policymaking, leaving them with 
self-sustaining capabilities. 
 
- Potential Challenges: exceedingly high rates of crime, 
particularly but not only sexual offenses, taxing the 
capacity of all responders from medical and social workers to 
police, prosecutors, and judges; very high rates of HIV/AIDS, 
straining the social fabric and increasing the vulnerability 
of women and children to rape and sexual assault; limited 
institutional capacity of a 14-year-old democracy still 
transitioning from the apartheid era coping with shortages of 
skills and human capital; and competing funding priorities in 
a nation seeking to redress vast economic and social 
inequalities. 
 
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Links to PEPFAR 
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¶3.  Since there is a high correlation between HIV infection 
and sexual violence including rape, the President's Emergency 
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) supports Thuthuzela Care 
Centers (TCCs) with funding.  In FY'06, PEPFAR provided 
assistance to SOCA to undertake an audit of the ten existing 
TCCs to ensure that in providing treatment to rape victims 
they comply with protocols, guidelines and regulations of the 
National Department of Health.  With FY'07 funding, PEPFAR 
provided support to establish seven additional TCCs.  PEPFAR 
will provide $2,085,000 in FY'08 and $2,085,000 again in 
FY'09 to the new contract to implement WJEI activities from 
FY'09-11.  In addition, the PEPFAR initiative on Sexual and 
Gender Based Violence (SGBV) shares with the WJEI the goal of 
"developing and implementing sexual violence service delivery 
models." Consequently, $166,000 will be obligated to the new 
WJEI contract from the PEPFAR SGBV fund. 
 
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Program Element 1: Victims' Support 
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¶4.  This element involves assistance to victims of sexual 
violence, at the SAG's rape crisis centers. 
 
- Objective: to address the full range of medical, justice, 
and social needs of women victims of sexual violence. 
 
- Outputs to be measured: 
     - number of TCCs 
     - number of victims assisted 
     - number of TCC core staff trained 
 
- Desired outcome: 
     - end to secondary victimization 
     - reduced lead time to finalize cases 
     - higher conviction rates of perpetrators 
 
- Expected long term impact: increased number, improved 
quality, and expanded geographic scope of victims' assistance. 
 
 
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Program Element 2: Justice / Police Capacity Building 
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¶5. This element involves nationwide week-long training 
courses for SAPS detectives and first responders. 
 
- Objective: to improve police knowledge of legislation 
pertaining to sexual offenses; to impart effective techniques 
Qpertaining to sexual offenses; to impart effective techniques 
of securing crime scenes, collecting evidence, and 
 
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investigating cases; and to increase effectiveness and 
sensitivity in the interviewing of witnesses and victims. 
 
- Outputs to be measured: 
     - number of police detectives and first responders 
trained 
     - test score improvements vis-a-vis knowledge of sexual 
offenses 
     - higher rates of cases taken to court (not dismissed 
for poor evidence) 
     - higher conviction rates, in part due to strong case 
management 
 
- Desired outcomes: 
     - demonstrably enhanced capacity of South African law 
enforcement to investigate sexual violence, building solid 
and irrefutable case evidence for prosecution. 
     - improved coordination among ministries, in an 
integrated response to victims and violators. 
 
- Expected long term impact: 
     - improved crime scene management and evidence 
collection, enabling stronger prosecution potential (below), 
with its follow-on ripple effects on society 
 
 
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Program Element 3: Justice / Prosecutors and Judges 
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¶6. This element entails national colloquia for judges and 
training courses for NPA prosecutors. 
 
- Objective: to improve knowledge among magistrates, judges, 
and prosecutors of new legislation pertaining to sexual 
offenses; to inform prosecutors on the particular nature of 
evidence in such cases, to assist their efficacy in the 
courtroom; and to encourage a very specialized sensitivity to 
rape victims' emotional states and distinctive behaviors, in 
order to elicit effective testimony without subjecting 
victims to a second traumatization. 
 
- Outputs to be measured: 
     - number of judge and prosecutor participants 
     - test score improvements vis-a-vis knowledge of sexual 
offenses 
     - percentage of cases resulting in conviction 
 
- Desired outcomes: 
     - demonstrably enhanced capacity of South African 
criminal justice to prosecute cases of sexual violence. 
     - higher conviction rates 
 
- Expected long term impact: 
     - more sensitive treatment of victims, and improved 
prosecution of perpetrators 
     - greater confidence of victims to press charges 
     - end to assumption of impunity among perpetrators 
     - long-term deterrence of sexual criminality 
     - greater security for women, empowering them through 
greater physical mobility 
 
 
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              ¶V. FINANCIALS TO DATE 
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USAID Receipts and Expenditures 
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¶7.  The table below summarizes funds received and spent by 
USAID in South Africa for WJEI initiatives over FY'06-09. 
Remaining funds total $11.7 million, awarded in the contract 
to RTI to be spent FY'09-'11.  Sources of funding are PEPFAR; 
INL's Economic Support Fund (ESF) Carry-over; USAID 
Development Assistance (DA), both newly obligated funds and 
DA recoveries; and the Gender Based Violence (GBV) Initiative. 
 
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($ Thousands) 
                        FY'06     FY'07     FY'08     FY'09 
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Funds Received: 
- From PEPFAR             280     1,400     2,086     2,086 
- ESF Carryover                   1,000         -         - 
 
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- NOA ESF (Sept.'08)        -         -     4,780         - 
- Devt. Assistance          -       772         -         - 
- " " Recoveries            -       500         -         - 
- GBV Initiative            -         -       167         - 
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> Total received        1,280     2,672     7,033     2,086 
 
 
Funds Spent: 
- 4 TCCs refurbished      280       386         -         - 
- To be spent by 12/08      -     1,014         -         - 
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> Total spent             280     1,400         -         - 
 
 
 
>> Funds Remaining:     1,000     1,272     7,033     2,086 
 
 
>>> TOTAL Available Funds (All Years): $ 11,689,666 
 
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INL/POL Receipts and Expenditures 
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¶8.  The table below summarizes funds received and spent by 
INL's NLEA (Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs) section in 
South Africa over FY'04-08, and by the Political Section 
since assuming responsibility for WJEI as of mid-2008. 
Sources of funding are INL, ICITAP, and OPDAT.  According to 
post's Budget and Finance (B&F) section, funds in past years 
were spent on Financial Crimes Investigation (FCI), Resident 
Legal Advisor (RLA) and Intermittent Legal Advisor to NPA, 
Immigration and Border Security (IBS), Sartije Bartman Centre 
for Women and Children (SBC), Cyberism, Anti Trafficking 
Project (ATP), and Dimension Data (DD).  Remaining funds 
total about $1.05 million, of which all but FY'08 moneys are 
obligated to these listed initiatives with which the 
Political Section is unfamiliar.  The Political Section's 
spending to date on WJEI initiatives is limited to FY'08 
funds totaling approximately $244,400. 
 
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($ Thousands) 
                     FY'04   FY'05   FY'06   FY'07   FY'08 
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Funds Received: 
- From INL           189.8   322.4    66.0    33.0   136.0 
- From ICITAP            -       -       -       -   299.0 
- From OPDAT         555.1   467.0       -       -    41.0 
                     -----   -----   -----   -----   ----- 
> Total received     744.9   789.4    66.0    33.0   476.0 
 
 
Funds Spent: 
- FCI                 69.3    62.2       -       -       - 
- RLA/ILA NPA        219.3   162.2       -       -       - 
- IBS                 54.6       -       -       -       - 
- SBC                    -    12.0       -       -       - 
- Cyberism               -       -    66.0    33.0       - 
- ATP                    -       -       -       -    36.0 
- DD                     -       -       -       -   100.0 
- WJEI                   -       -       -       -   232.7 
- ILA                    -          -       -       -    11.7 
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> Total spent        343.2   236.4    66.0    33.0   380.4 
 
 
>> Funds Remaining:  401.7   553.0       -       -    95.6 
 
 
>>> TOTAL Available Funds (All Years): $1,050,300 
 
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              VI. FINANCIALS - FORECAST 
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¶9.  USAID forecast expenditures, per the contract with RTI, 
are estimated below. 
 
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($ Thousands) 
                      Year 1    Year 2    Year 3     Total 
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Direct Costs 
- Labor                  958     1,310       706     2,974 
- Subcontractor          566       566       566     1,698 
- Grants                 377       377       188       942 
- Equipment              329       253       183       765 
- Consultants            164       145       107       416 
- Materials               34        35        38       107 
- Other Direct           450       517       348     1,314 
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> Subtotal             2,877     3,204     2,136     8,217 
 
Indirect Costs 
- General/Admin          434       570       322     1,326 
- Materials, 
Supplies, Expenses        59        55        43       157 
- Other Indirect         400       550       289     1,238 
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> Subtotal               892     1,175       654     2,722 
 
Fee                      264       307       195       766 
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>> Total               4,033     4,686     2,986    11,705 
 
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¶10.  On the INL/POL side, the Political Section estimates a 
need for FY'09 funding of $1.0 million from INL.  This figure 
is based on the aforementioned $244,400 spent this year to 
support about four months of recent training, plus the 
projected expansion in the number of students going forward. 
Funds of this amount are already at post, as described above, 
but they must be "unlocked" or re-obligated by INL to be 
applied to WJEI training.  The Political Counselor is 
meanwhile working to find economies by seeking a meeting with 
the SAG's new Minister of Safety and Security, Mr. Nathi 
Mthethwa, to negotiate the shifting of a greater share of the 
costs to the South African partners.  Post requests 
Department guidance on establishing a sustainable funding 
stream for INL-sponsored WJEI activities. 
 
 
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              VII. HOST NATION CONTACTS 
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¶11.  As requested, key contacts at partner agencies are 
listed below. 
 
 
USAID Implementing Contractor 
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- Peter Vaz 
 
Chief of Party, RTI International 
 
27-12-346-4060 
 
 
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) 
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- Advocate Thoko Majokweni 
 
Director, National Prosecutor Authority/Sexual Offences and 
Community Affairs 
 
27-12-845-6136 
 
 
South African Police Service (SAPS) 
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- Raymin Lalla 
 
Divisional Commissioner, Detective Services Division 
 
27-12-393-2194 
 
 
- Gary Kruser 
 
 
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Commissioner, Training Division 
 
27-12-334-3747 
 
 
- Vineshkumar Moonoo 
 
Asst. Divisional Commissioner, General Investigations 
 
27-12-393-1826 
 
 
- Susan Pienaar 
 
Asst. Commissioner, Violence and Crime Prevention Division 
 
27-12-421-8007 
 
 
- Mulder Van Eyk 
 
Asst. Commissioner, Training Division 
 
27-12-334-3750 
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