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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Peace Corps Central America is building upon previous years support to expand and deepen Volunteers work with communities to design and implement context-appropriate prevention interventions addressing the keys drivers of the epidemic, including sexual and behavioral risk, and harmful gender/cultural norms. PC promotes behavior change through use of evidence-based programs and integration of efforts with other USG agencies and implementing partners. Programs also include a cross-cutting focus on reduction of stigma and discrimination.
Peace Corps continues to strengthen its approach to development which advances country ownership of PEPFAR program efforts through placement of Volunteers in requesting local governmental and non-governmental organizations for specific assignments that are time-limited and designed from the onset to build community capacity to sustain projects. In every instance, this involves day-to-day collaboration with host country national partners and counterparts. Peace Corps has Volunteers in a variety of sectors including health, education, agriculture, youth in development and business development and is able to integrate HIV programming into these areas and reach populations that are not reached by other USG partners, especially in the rural areas of each ROP country.
Additionally Volunteers will work with local health systems to ensure their ability to strengthen health care worker capacity to provide adequate prevention education, confidential voluntary counseling and testing services, and dignified care and treatment. As long-term residents of their communities of service, they are also able on a continuing basis to model transparency, accountability and good governance/good business practices in their projects.
In the area of prevention, funds will be used for the placement, training and support of Volunteers to work with communities to design and implement context-appropriate and evidence-based prevention interventions addressing the keys drivers of the epidemic, including sexual and behavioral risk, stigma and discrimination, and harmful gender/cultural norms. Volunteers will work to ensure that these interventions are culturally and linguistically relevant to their target audiences.
Volunteers will also work with local PLHIV associations where possible to focus on prevention and healthy living. Volunteers will aid community members and organizations in designing and implementing programs for PLHIV with a focus on support group models that can help to mitigate the effects of HIV, improve health outcomes for PLHIV, improve household nutritional status and optimize the quality of life of adults and children living with and affected by HIV.
Volunteers will work with community counterparts at the local level to offer combination prevention approaches offering the minimum package of prevention services but also targeting structural factors that impact transmission including stigma, discrimination and gender inequity. Across the region Volunteers will reach out to at-risk youth and the community members who work with them to implement prevention strategies on reducing vulnerability and increasing community capacity . In Nicaragua, Volunteers will work with most at risk populations in combination prevention helping them develop plans for development of new skills to help them reduce their social vulnerability through workshops and trainings. In Honduras, Volunteers and their counterparts will work with self-help groups to increase their ability to provide prevention programming to HIV positive members. In Guatemala, Volunteers will work with local personnel of the Ministry of Health to train them in techniques of HIV prevention outreach and voluntary counseling and testing. In Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, Volunteers will provide outreach to men at risk especially in rural communities. In Belize, Peace Corps Response Volunteers will help the national AIDS response integrate best practices into their programming. All of these efforts will include cross-cutting objectives of reducing stigma and discrimination and gender inequity especially at the local level and will be carried out in partnership with local and regional government and civil society in order to increase host country capacity capacity.
