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: 2013 2014
The goal of this project is to contribute to the reduction of new HIV infections amongst adolescents through continuous education, behavioral change communication and linking the adolescents to available prevention services such as HIV counseling and testing, proper condom use, sexual and reproductive health, and safe male circumcision. The NGO selected will use a prevention strategy is based on two interventions that have been proven to work in Botswana Go Girls! and Steps. The Go Girls approach, which was a research-action intervention, was carried out in Botswana in the Francistown region by Johns Hopkins University. The project materials included manuals for program managers and community teaching aids in English and Setswana that were aimed at improving parent-adolescent communications about HIV and sexuality, teaching life skills for out of school girls, teaching life skills for in-school boys and girls, fostering safer school environments to reduce students vulnerability and increase responsible behaviors by teachers, and community mobilization activities to identify places of high risk and safety and reduce childrens vulnerability with the community. With strong ties to the communities of Tlokweng, Kanye and Morwa, The NGO selected will need to be well-qualified and well-placed to help communities organize to identify and address the structural, cultural, economic and behavioral issues that continue to foster high rates of HIV transmission in Botswana. In addition, they will be well-placed to refer clients to health services for HIV testing, STI screening and other related health services such as reproductive health, family planning and voluntary male medical circumcision.
This project embraces the principles of combination prevention, by mobilizing the communities where the NGO selected will work. The NGO will engage community leaders and ensure their buy-in and active participation in the project. They will use the methodologies and tools developed by the Go Girls! Initiative and the "steps" model. Community leaders will play a major role in project implementation by working with the project to identify places in the community where girls are most vulnerable and where they are safest and develop interventions to reduce their overall risk.
Working with the teachers in selected schools in Tlokweng, the NGO will facilitate the school-based Go Girls! activities including the Go Teachers! Module which helps teachers to create a safer school environment for adolescent students. Go Girls! also includes a module to train students, both boys and girls, on lifeskills and another on lifeskills for out-of-school girls. The NGO selected will also work with the community of Tlokweng to identify "video watch points" in the community. Groups of people will come together and watch the videos on HIV prevention and this will be followed by discussions to identify relevant HIV risk factors for their communities and come up with ways to address these issues. In addition to the community and school interventions, those who participate in the program will learn more about bio-medical HIV interventions and will be referred to appropriate facilities to receive them. In addition to counseling adolescents about abstinence and delayed coital debut, information about HIV counseling and testing, consistent and correct condom use, benefits of family planning, delayed and spaced pregnancies, mitigating gender-based violence and post exposure prophylaxis will also be provided and a directory of where these services are provided will be developed and given to the adolescents and their families. Mid-term and end-term project evaluations will be carried out using tools developed by the project to measure progress, including outcomes and impact that the project will have on the lives of the adolescents girls and families that participate in the project.
