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: 2011 2012 2013 2014
Goal: Increase Ivoirian capacity for sustainable, high-quality care and support for OVC.
Objectives:
- Strengthen government capacity to plan, coordinate, support, and monitor OVC care. Support the National OVC Program by building operational and technical capacities of social centers to coordinate services. Train and accompany social workers and OVC coordination platforms.
- Strengthen capacities of families, communities, and local partners to provide quality OVC care. Support 12 local NGOs/CBOs and 575 community members to deliver care for OVC and to strengthen the capacity of HIV-affected families to provide for their children.
- Reduce vulnerability through access to OVC care and socio-economic support, with an emphasis on reducing gender-based vulnerabilities.
SC will play a capacity building role, transitioning decision making and financial control to local NGOs and supporting social centers to oversee local strategy and coordination of OVC support.
SC will ensure cost-efficiency by delivering services through local partners, identifying the most efficient interventions, and ensuring close monitoring of expenditures.
To ensure high-quality M&E, SC provides support to local partners to ensure quality data collection and reporting and conducts regular field supervision. An external program evaluation is planned.
Vehicles:
Through COP11: 6, plus 6 mopeds, 6 motorbikes
New requests in COP12: 2 vehicles, 4 motorbikes
Total planned vehicles for life of mechanism: 10 vehicles, 6 mopeds, 16 motorbikes
New request justification:
2 vehicles ($86,000) will support TA and monitoring of subpartners in expanding intervention zone. 4 motorbikes ($9,000) will go to subpartners providing direct care in far-flung villages.
Goal: To increase Ivoirian capacity for sustainable, high-quality care and support for the welfare of OVC due to HIV/AIDS.
Target populations: OVC, families affected by HIV, communities, local NGO/CBOs, social centers, OVC coordination platforms, National OVC Program (PNOEV).
Geographic areas: Save the Children (SC) supports the national decentralization strategy by focusing on remote areas where the PNOEV struggles to extend its reach, in the extreme West, East and Northwest of CI (regions of Moyen Cavally, Montagnes, Bafing, Denguele, Moyen Comoe, Zanzan), with a smaller project in Abidjan (Adjame).
Strategy: SC plays a capacity building role to ensure a comprehensive system of OVC care and support, with an emphasis on reducing gender-based vulnerabilities, targeting its support at 3 levels:
- PNOEV and state-run social centers: SC will support the national target to provide appropriate support to 50% of OVC by 2015. At least 23,000 OVC (26% of the PNOEV national total, and 5% of all OVC) will be reached by SC and its subpartners by Sept 2013. SC support to 13 social centers, including in-service training, coaching, and accompaniment to 30 social workers, will help ensure that the social centers monitor and coordinate OVC activities at the local level; collect, manage, analyze, and use quality data on OVC care and support; and are able to carry out and disseminate OVC situational analyses for their regions. SC will also train and support 40 social workers to conduct life-skills sessions for at-risk adolescent girls.
- Communities: SC will continue to provide technical, organizational, and financial support to enable 12 local NGOs to provide community-based care and support. At least 575 community caregivers will provide services, based on assessed needs, in the following areas: nutrition, health, education, psychosocial support, economic strengthening, legal and child protection, and shelter and caregiving. SC will also support local partners to develop age- and gender-specific strategies for the improvement of their OVC programming, SC will provide training and good-practice guides in economic strengthening, nutritional support, and family-based care, with guidance on effective monitoring and evaluation of activities.
- OVC and families: SC will support government and civil society to develop their expertise in family-centered HIV programming. SC will use the expertise of its non-PEPFAR-funded teams in WASH, health, nutrition, and food security to ensure best practices, synergistic action, and collaborative oversight of activities in support of families.
Program successes include rapidly scaling up OVC services in severely conflict-affected regions with limited government services. Challenges include ensuring quality M&E starting with data collection by village-level community caregivers. In response, SC has upgraded its OVC database, required all subpartners to hire M&E officers, and conducted extensive M&E training, which will continue under COP12.
Research/Evaluation: Ten internships will be offered to recent social-work graduates to work in social centers with a remit to carry out research in a specific technical area of OVC care and support or to evaluate existing interventions. Their work will be supervised by SC staff, and learning will be shared widely among OVC actors. SCs OVC portfolio will undergo an external evaluation at the end of COP12 to assess impact, quality, and cost effectiveness.
