With a total population of 7.4 million, a Human Development Index1 (HDI) of 117 over 177, GDP per capita of $3553 (in purchasing power parity terms), and HIV prevalence of 0.7%2 [0.4%-1.1%] in 20073 , Honduras is the country second-most affected by HIV/AIDS in Central America. It has defined its epidemic as bimodal; i.e. generalized in the Atlantic coast and concentrated mostly among men who have sex with men (MSM), commercial sex workers (CSW), and the Garifuna4 Population. Based on the UNGASS5 progress report, HIV prevalence among these groups is almost ten times higher than among pregnant woman.

Honduras has over the years received technical assistance in strategic planning development. The first plan, not costed, was developed for the period 1998-2002 (PENSIDA), while the second, developed for the period 2003-2007 (PENSIDA-II), was costed at USD 24.6 million.

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He also currently serves as a member of the fundraising and strategy work-group at the Trinidad Conservation Program which supports sustainable agriculture and rural livelihood in Honduras. Prior to joining R4D, Ryan worked on U.S. conservation legislation as part of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Coalition at the Open Space Institute. He was previously an agriculture and food security Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua where he helped develop and implement organic fertilizers and pesticides, agro-forestry techniques, farmer loan programs and low-cost irrigation technology.

Mr. LeMier received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Dayton where he studied environmental biology and Spanish. He is currently completing his master’s degree from the Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, focusing on international development.

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As country manager of Results for Development’s Tanzania office, Ms. Chatur oversees R4D’s country operations while cultivating and managing partnerships with government, donors, private sector and implementing partner institutions.

As a senior program officer with R4D’s market shaping practice, Ms. Chatur leads the public-sector portfolio of the practice’s childhood pneumonia treatment project in Tanzania. This involves conducting and overseeing market landscaping, supply chain monitoring and cost-effectiveness analyses to identify and address barriers to accessing treatment for pneumonia, the leading infectious cause of death in children under five globally. She also manages the procurement of 6 million pneumonia treatments for children seeking care in public sector health facilities; provides strategic and technical support in national forums; conducts advocacy for child health interests; and contributes to monitoring, evaluation and learning activities to ensure a sustainable access to, and rational use of lifesaving medicines.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Chatur worked with the Aga Khan Development Network in Tanzania, managing the start-up and scale-up phases of a project to increase access to diagnostic and reproductive child health services through the establishment of 30 private nonprofit health centers across the country. Prior to that, she worked with the World Health Organization in Honduras as part of their Young Professional Millennium Development Goals program. Ms. Chatur conducted a community-based assessment of a marginalized region’s progress in achieving the millennium development goals and highlighted regional vulnerabilities to improve advocacy for national and international support.

Ms. Chatur has also consulted for NextGenU.org, an innovative online platform aimed at training and educating health professionals in low- and middle-income countries. She led the development of NextGenU.org’s MPH Social and Behavioral Sciences course.

Ms. Chatur holds an MPH in global health from Simon Fraser University and a BA in psychology and commerce from the University of British Columbia. She speaks English, and is conversational in Spanish, Gujarati and Kiswahili.

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As an accounting senior specialist at Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Diarra oversees and manages the billing department, ensuring accurate and timely invoicing for services rendered processing invoices in Jamis. He generates milestone reports as necessary and liaises with finance executives to coordinate upcoming payments. Mr. Diarra is responsible for reviewing the monthly expenses reports of R4D’s global offices. He collaborates with cross-functional teams (grants, procurement and programs) to resolve billing issues and provide timely and effective customer support. Mr. Diarra reviews and approves business expense reports, receipts and supporting documents for credit card payments in Concur by making sure that R4D’s travel policies are followed.

Prior to joining to R4D, Mr. Diarra worked at Freedom House as a project accountant where he utilized Deltek Costpoint to reconcile monthly expense reports, petty cash accounts and advance accounts for international offices in Uganda, DRC, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Honduras, Venezuela and several Eurasian countries. He has experience preparing USAID and DOS monthly reports (SF-270) and quarterly financial reports (SF-425) and uploading them into the Payment Management Services (PMS).

Mr. Diarra holds a Master of Science degree in accounting from Strayer University and an Associate of Arts degree in business administration from Montgomery College. He speaks English, French and Bambara.

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As a senior sustainability advisor at R4D, Mr. Maldonado will lead analytical and consultative activities for the HIV Sustainability and Human Rights Project. In this role, he will work with decision-makers across sectors to strengthen the health financing landscape and HIV response within partner countries.

Mr. Maldonado has coauthored over 20 reports on public investment with a focus on children and adolescent health, developed methodologies of budgetary and econometric analysis, and trained civil society actors and government officials on economic basics for advocacy and policymaking. He also supported the Committee on the Rights of the Child in the formulation of the General Comment #19 regarding public spending in Geneva.

Before joining R4D, Mr. Maldonado was senior economist at the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies where he coordinated public spending and human rights work. In this position, he examined the effects of fiscal policy on children in Central America, Bolivia and Guyana.

He currently serves as a lecturer in Del Valle University in Guatemala.

Mr. Maldonado holds a master’s degree in development from Del Valle University and a BA in economics  from San Carlos University. He is a native speaker of Spanish and speaks fluent English.

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Mr. Burkholder is the senior director of subawards and procurement at Results for Development (R4D), where he oversees the organization’s subawards and procurement teams. Myron contributes to policies and practices that ensure that R4D’s global subawarding and procurement practices are effective, efficient and transparent and are appropriate for engaging with our partners.

Prior to joining R4D, Myron led the program impact and quality assurance operations team at Catholic Relief Services (CRS), providing operations support to CRS’ global technical experts and to their global grants team.  At CRS he co-led a global initiative to reform CRS policy and practice around granting subrecipient indirect costs with an eye toward improving sustainability of CRS’ partner non-profits.   

Myron worked for nine years at Lutheran World Relief (Corus International) on the Latin America program team in a variety of program and operations roles including as deputy regional director for operations supporting multi-country finance, administration, human resources and grants management practice.  

Myron’s interest in international development began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Honduras, where he worked with water boards in rural communities to improve sustainable administration of rural water and sanitation facilities and to obtain funding and technical support for infrastructure expansion and upgrades.     

Myron holds a Master of Arts degree in international policy studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey [formerly Monterey Institute of International Studies]; along with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and a Bachelor of Science in speech communication, both from James Madison University.  He is a native English speaker and can communicate fluently in Spanish.   

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