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
With 82 television stations and more than 280 radio stations, the local media environment in the DRC is extremely challenging to work in. At the same time, media is one of the most effective ways to reach local populations that do not have direct contact with PEPFAR programs. In such a large country, with a diverse, even fractured, media environment, and many different organizations vying for public attention, media outreach efforts must be strategic, concentrated, coordinated, evaluated and adapted to local audiences. At the same time, other cultural opportunities, particularly music, art, and writing, exist in the DRC that can act as vehicles to influence opinions and attitudes.
While the Public Affairs Section in Embassy Kinshasa does not have the technical and scientific expertise, it does have a strong knowledge of ways to target key audiences and convey policy messages. Using the expertise of the PAS in public outreach, the resources of the DOS's Bureau of International Information Programs, and especially the critical public health knowledge of PEPFAR country team and implementing partners, and following guidance and coordination from PEPFAR PIO and OGAC PAS, Embassy Kinshasa will conduct public outreach activities to highlight PEPFAR activities and encourage participation in PEPFAR programs. Through PAS-organized events involving the U.S. Ambassador (as well as other high-level U.S. officials when possible) and the DRC government, the Mission will encourage discussion about PEPFAR, HIV/AIDS and related subjects, including Sexual and Gender- Based Violence (SGBV). We will also increase the media profile of PEPFAR brand and specific activities through press events. At the same time, PAS will organize events, such as concerts and art exhibitions, in close coordination with the PEFPAR team and implementing partners, to ensure that any outreach activities integrate key HIV/AIDS messages proposed by the PEPFAR team. Finally, through small grants to local journalists and media that participate in PEPFAR-funded journalist workshops, PAS Kinshasa will be able to support the development of initiatives developed by media outlets that will be able to accurately
report on HIV/AIDS and public health issues. All proposals will be vetted by the PEPFAR country team members to ensure they meet the appropriate PEFPAR standards.
M&E: M&E activities will include qualitative reporting on local media reaction, including focus group activity, to gauge public reaction to public outreach activities. Further M&E will be coordinated with PEPFAR team members.
These Public Affairs activities will support the PFIP's objectives of promoting key HIV/AIDS messages and enhancing country-ownership and sustainability. The development of key products and organization of public events, such as the signing ceremony of Partnership Framework, will engage key audiences, improve the policy environment, and advance a host of PEFPAR objectives. Both messaging and strategy will be continually refined to establish reachable and measurable goals. Country-ownership and sustainability will be encouraged by coordinating these activities with DRC officials who will be trained through workshops of the MOH Division of Communications.
Public Affairs outreach activities will support sexual prevention. The development of key products and
organization of public events to amplify prevention messages will encourage this critical objective. As
these activities will be coordinated by the PEPFAR country team with DRC host-government
interlocutors, this proposal will further host-country ownership of public outreach activities.
