PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
07-P0219: Young Women's Friendly Centre.
This activity has USG Team Botswana Internal Reference Number P0219. This activity links to the following: P0211 & P0504 & X1406.
The Young Women Friendly Centre (YWFC) educates and counsels youth and their peers, in Mahalapye sub-district, in HIV prevention through abstinence and faithfulness messaging. The program partners with schools to identify and train students as peer educators. Focused on AB messaging and BCC, the training empowers the students to facilitate clubs in their respective schools and educate their peers about positive behavior change. These clubs will meet weekly to learn about HIV/AIDS and depending on their ages, educate each other on life skills; organize outreach events; school HIV education sessions; implement income generating activities to raise funds for designated AIDS programs and groups; and discuss personal experiences. YWFC schedules exchange visits between school clubs to help link them with each other, motivate them and provide support. All activities will be conducted under the guise of the school guidance and counseling teachers and peer educators, but the end result is to have the communities own their clubs.
In addition to training students, YWFC also trains community members to conduct community mobilization in villages and clinics, bars and shebeens. The program provides basic and intensive training for youth and group leaders on peer education, HIV/AIDS, STIs, counseling, prevention through abstinence and being faithful, leadership, dissemination of information, and proper data collection methods. Trained community members will conduct community mobilization activities once a week in each village. These activities will include picture codes, dramas, role playing, songs and demonstrations. One-on-one counseling sessions will also be available at outreach sessions, where referrals to government health officials (for bereaved and crisis clients) and follow-ups will be encouraged. The counselors will also be offering supportive counseling of HIV status, stress management, pre test and post test counseling, positive living, and care for carers. IEC/BCC materials in both English and Setswana will be distributed to the community.
YWFC will include all trained individuals in the Ntswe Lengwe Network Database that will be distributed to clinics, schools and community groups so that the services and skills gained through Ntswe Lengwe are utilized and provided to those in need. In addition, the program will produce a quarterly newsletter that will inform the community of current outreach initiatives and activities, referral numbers, personal stories, HIV/AIDS and AB educational facts, comments from the village community members, and a "dear aunty" section for questions and answers.
