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
09.P.AB05: TBD-Assistance to MLG District Prevention Programs
ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY2008
It is anticipated that the same activities conducted by NASTAD last year will be continued through a TBD
organization.
From COP08:
NASTAD is embedded in the MLG to provide a range of support to the DACs and the DMSACs. In 2007,
they hired an officer dedicated to prevention; held a workshop for approximately 20 DACs, Peace Corps
Volunteers (PCVs), and Implementing Partner representatives from the 5 focus districts; and conducted one
-on-one follow up visits to those districts to support improved prevention activity planning and
implementation. NASTAD will continue to support quality prevention planning, implementation, and
monitoring in five districts identified for PEPFAR prevention assistance by the Ministry.
This activity responds to a relatively low capacity to address critical prevention needs on the district level.
With this support, districts officials and implementers will be able to hold more strategic (albeit small scale)
interventions, rather than funding a wide range of unrelated one-off activities targeting a large number of
target audiences. NASTAD will also focus on helping the district staff responsible for overseeing the District
Implementation Plans with monitoring of quality and reach of the various activities funded by the DMSAC.
NASTAD will hold training workshops and provide one-on-one technical assistance to key individuals
working in the DMSAC, including the DAC and attached PCV (in cases where a PCV is there) and at times
key district-level implementing partners, who are often small civil society groups. Local and international
NASTAD staff will provide that assistance. NASTAD will also facilitate training and implementation support
from other Botswana training and implementation providers, such as YOHO (e.g. for theater training) and
the Botswana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (BBCA) (e.g. for workplace outreach). NASTAD will also
coordinate and support the distribution and planning of funds provided to the MLG under PEPFAR to
support more prevention activities in these districts.
Complementing this activity are 1) a small grants program for some of the local civil society groups working
in these five districts, and 2) provision of additional funding for prevention activities for the MLG. Together,
these three activities will increase the total amount of assistance and funding for prevention activities in
those districts, through two critical directions: the DMSAC and local planning and monitoring bodies and the
civil society groups that conduct a large share of the prevention-related implementation on the local level.
The funding for this activity is from both the AB program area (66%) and the C/OP program area (33%).
The District comprehensive plans that NASTAD will support usually includes activities for a range of target
groups and issues, including some that belong under AB (e.g. school abstinence pageants) and some that
belong under C/OP (sex worker outreach).
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 17414
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
17414 12281.08 HHS/Centers for National 7750 1367.08 U62/CCU32456 $500,000
Disease Control & Association of 96 - Capacity
Prevention State and Building
Territorial AIDS
Assistance for
Directors
GAP through
Technical
Assistance
Collaboration
with the
NASTAD
12281 12281.07 HHS/Centers for National 5300 1367.07 NASTAD $65,000
Disease Control & Association of
Prevention State and
Table 3.3.02:
09.P.OP05: TBD-Assistance to MLG District Prevention Programs
ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY2008, CONTINUING ACTIVITY WITH A NEW PARTNER
NASTAD is embedded in the MLGt to provide a range of support to the DACs and the DMSACs. In 2007,
they hired an officer dedicated to prevention, held a workshop for approximately 20 DACs, Peace Corps
Volunteers (PCVs), and Implementing Partner representatives from the 5 focus districts, and conducted one
This activity is responding to a relatively low capacity to address critical prevention needs on the district
level. With this support, districts officials and implementers will be able to hold more strategic (albeit small
scale) interventions, rather than funding a wide range of unrelated one-off activities targeting a large
number of target audiences. NASTAD will also focus on helping the district staff responsible for overseeing
the District Implementation Plans with monitoring of quality and reach of the various activities funded by the
DMSAC.
working in the DMSAC, including the DAC and attached PCVs (in cases where a PCV is there) and at times
from other Botswana training and implementation providers, such as Youth Health Organization (YOHO)
(e.g. for theater training) and the Botswana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (BBCA) (e.g. for workplace
outreach). NASTAD will also coordinate and support the distribution and planning of funds provided to the
Ministry of Local Government under PEPFAR to support more prevention activities in these districts.
The funding for this activity is from both the AB program area (66%) and the C/OP (33%). The District
Comprehensive Plans that NASTAD will support usually includes activities for a range of target groups and
issues, including some that belong under AB (e.g. school abstinence pageants) and some that belong under
C/OP (sex worker outreach).
Continuing Activity: 17641
17641 10145.08 HHS/Centers for National 7750 1367.08 U62/CCU32456 $250,000
10145 10145.07 HHS/Centers for National 5300 1367.07 NASTAD $0
Table 3.3.03:
09.X.SS02: TBD - Community Planning
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN CHANGED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
This activity remains largely unchanged from last year, but will continue with a new partner. All districts will
continue to receive one-on-one technical assistance to improve their district HIV plans using the new
evidence-based toolkit introduced in FY2008. Emphasis will be placed on the use of effective, evidence-
based interventions in the district response. The work in evidence-based planning (EBP) will be
complemented by a new civil society prevention small grants project. MLG headquarters' staff will continue
to benefit from technical assistance.
The FY2009 work plan will be informed by the results of a program evaluation to be conducted during
FY2008.
This activity will result in the following output: 75% of districts will submit a comprehensive HIV/AIDS plan
to the Ministry of Local Government (MLG) that contains sections describing all six steps of the evidence-
based planning process and interventions that are evidence-based.
The Botswana National Strategic Framework (NSF, 2003), which guides the country's response to HIV,
outlines a decentralized strategy to address the epidemic. This is led by District Multi-Sectoral AIDS
Committees (DMSACs) and District AIDS Coordinators (DACs) who develop and implement interventions,
captured in annual work plans, to address the epidemic in their areas. Recognizing that these plans and
the resultant response were not adequately addressing the local situation, NASTAD, a U.S. NGO, was
engaged in 2003 to provide technical assistance in this area. The objective of this technical assistance is to
build the capacity of national and district level government workers to improve the response to their
epidemic by applying an evidence-based, community planning approach. NASTAD works in partnership
with the MLG, Department of Primary Health Care Services (DPHCS), to provide in-depth on-site technical
assistance and training to all DACs and DMSACs to help assure the development of high quality annual
evidenced-based comprehensive district HIV plans.
Since the program was established in 2003, the NASTAD team has developed a District HIV/AIDS Planning
Toolkit and trained all DACs and DMSAC members and Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) on Evidence
Based Planning. The capacity of the Districts to perform key functions, particularly in the area of community
profiling and analysis of epidemiologic information, has been enhanced. As the work continues into the
future, NASTAD will address identified weaknesses in the use of evidence based planning in each district.
Specifically, attention will need to be focused on techniques for conducting and analyzing community needs
assessments, prioritization of gaps in services, identification of activities that are based in sound theory and
practice in the field, implementation of activities and monitoring and evaluation of those activities. NASTAD
will undertake a strategic planning process directed at its own program in Botswana and develop a plan for
institutionalizing evidence based planning in MLG and the District Offices, thus ensuring sustainable
planning processes that will continue to function without the assistance of NASTAD.
2007 Accomplishments:
Trained 229 people in 9 districts (DACs, DMSAC members, PCVs and other community members) in
evidence-based planning during technical site visits; developed and implemented quality assurance
mechanisms; promoted development of district networking and referral systems and monitoring of
expenditures; developed standardized database with which DACs to track implementation of their plan, and
provide standardized reporting of variables to MLG; providing technical assistance to develop a stigma
component of the CCEP and training to trainers.
2008 Plans:
Continue to partner with MLG DPHCS to provide one-on-one on-site tailored technical assistance to all 27
districts in the use of evidence-based planning methods for the development of annual district
comprehensive plans; continue to train as needed DACs (27), DMSACs, associated technical sub-
committees (DMSAC co-chairs, TAC chairs, lead DMSAC civil society member, monitoring and evaluation
officers - 162) and PCVs (20); train relevant Policy Advisors in the DPHCS (responsible for planning, home
based care, orphans and vulnerable children, CCEP and monitoring and evaluation) in evidence-based
planning (5); mentor DACs by having them join the NASTAD technical assistance teams in order to afford
an opportunity for lateral learning from their peers in the field; conduct one national training for all DACs;
collaborate with district monitoring and evaluation officers to continue to support MLG's effort to develop
and implement a standardized reporting system for district planning and prevention activities. An external
evaluation of the program will be conducted in 2008. As a result, 20 out of 27 districts will submit a
Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Plan to MLG that contains sections describing all eight steps of the evidence
based planning process.
Continuing Activity: 17415
17415 3540.08 HHS/Centers for National 7750 1367.08 U62/CCU32456 $380,000
9874 3540.07 HHS/Centers for National 5300 1367.07 NASTAD $380,000
3540 3540.06 HHS/Centers for National 2912 1367.06 NASTAD $245,000
Emphasis Areas
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.18:
