{"value"=>"<p>The files in Subseries 2.5 document the individual projects undertaken by CARE in sixty-three countries, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s. Except for the files in Boxes 200 and 201, which are grouped together by continent (Africa and Europe), materials are arranged alphabetically by country and in approximate chronological order therein.</p> <p>The nature of the projects varied widely, from providing farming tools and vocational kits to building schools and clinics, improving roads and waterways, and maintaining feeding programs based on P. L. 480 commodities. After 1970, MEDICO's training programs for hospital and clinic personnel also came under the administration of the Program Department.</p> <p>Early projects (ca. 1952-1974) tended to be limited to one or several sites and purposes, and funded mainly by donor contributions. With the implementation of multi-year planning in 1975, projects became long-term and broader in scope and location, with more overall financial involvement from host governments and supplemental grant funding. For instance, one 1970 project in Chile was the renovation of a Valparaiso nursery school, paid for by a $247. 00 donations from a former Peace Corps volunteer, whereas a similar project in 1977 provided for the construction of more than 200 nursery schools and kindergartens throughout Chile over the next several years, jointly funded by CARE and the Chilean Ministry of Education.</p> <p>Each country's projects are numbered separately. Pre-1975 projects have sequential numbers with the year added as a suffix: e. g., Guatemala #230-66. Under the multi-year planning system, each new project received a five-digit PCN (project control number), with the last digit or digits standing for the year (s) in which the project began. (A more detailed explanation of the project control numbering system is in the <span class=\"title\">CARE Program Manual</span>, v. 3, 1979, in Box 525).</p> <p>Most project files contain a project proposal, usually submitted by a mission chief, and related correspondence with CARE headquarters; supportive documents, such as blueprints or maps; and in the cases of projects co-sponsored by the host government or funded by outside agencies, copies of country agreements and grants. Post-1975 boxes also include separate folders for quarterly and trimester progress reports submitted by country directors, annual implementation plans (A. I. P.s) detailing projected and actual expenditures and activities for each fiscal year, and correspondence.</p> <p>For some countries, the records of the regional program.</p> <p>Officer (R. P. O). is available, filed at the end of the sequence for those countries. These materials, circa 1974-1985, consist chiefly of correspondence with mission chiefs and other CARE personnel, A. I. P.s, and project implementation evaluations (P. I. E.s), periodically submitted by missions to CARE headquarters. Duplicates of many of these items are in the regular country project files.</p> <p>Files from the Chile, Jordan, Liberia, and Tunisia missions were returned to CARE upon termination of CARE's operations in those countries, and are also included in this subseries.</p>"}