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.
Years of mechanism: 2008 2009
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The Government of Botswana has clearly recognized HIV/AIDS as a health and development crisis and has
mounted a comprehensive, multi-sectoral response to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic and mitigate its impact.
While the governmental response to HIV/AIDS has been strong, effective implementation of programs and
services has been hampered by human capacity shortages at all levels. The capacity deficit is manifested
in both absolute numbers and in skills. With PEPFAR funding in 2005 and 2006, Government undertook an
assessment of the health workforce and put a new human resources for health (HRH) plan in place (2006 -
2016) to address both absolute shortages and inequities in health worker distribution. The assessment
report made numerous recommendations for further steps necessary to facilitate the smooth
implementation of the new plan in such areas as recruitment, training, monitoring and evaluation and policy.
In 2008, the Capacity Project will be engaged to assist the Department of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and
Evaluation (DPPME) in the Ministry of Health to identify the recommendations/activities that most urgently
need to be addressed in order to implement the new HRH plan and provide technical assistance in doing
so. Among those likely to be identified are: 1) Development and implementation of an Human Resource
Information System (HRIS) for health workers, 2) Development and implementation of a management
course for hospital superintendents and senior staff, 3) Development of short- and long-term recruitment
strategies for the health workforce, and 3) Development of short- and long-term training strategies. It is
anticipated that this initial work will develop into a longer-term technical support relationship in which the
Capacity Project or a similar technical assistance agency will assist the Government of Botswana with its
long-term strategy for addressing workforce deficits and human capacity development. Contributions to the
Program Area/Benchmarks or outcomes: This activity will strengthen the ability of the Government to
implement its new human resource plan by identifying and providing technical assistance to address critical
gaps. Outcomes for 2008 include: Identification of urgent issues; Provide technical assistance in the
development and implementation of one of the following: HRIS, Management Course, Recruitment
Strategy, Training Strategy.
