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
PC has focused on HIV/AIDS-related activities in the "Escojo Mi Vida" (I Choose My Life) program for the last six years. During that time, financial assistance from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has enabled PC to build the infrastructure and programs that have become a national PEPFAR program. The initiative has a well developed program which systematically allows PCV's and Dominican youth to promote HIV/AIDS prevention activities using organizational capacity building concepts.
The goal of the Escojo Mi Vida initiative will continue having young adults throughout the Dominican Republic acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to make healthy decisions to care for themselves and their families.
The success of the PCDR HIV/AIDS "Escojo" prevention program is due to the use of an Organizational Capacity Building Model, BCC (Behavior Change Communication). Concepts are passed on from Peace Corps Volunteer trainers to PCVs who in turn train young people to form the "Escojo" groups. These groups develop their own leadership, who are in turn trained and certified, and continue the process of training and forming other groups in their communities. Although they had actively participated in this process for many years in the PEPFAR Framework, two PCDR Project Sectors, Youth, Family, and Community Development and Community Environmental Development, will formally add PCVs to the organizational capacity building methodology. Along with Healthy Communities' Volunteers, they will continue working in the Prevention technical area (HVOP) program.
The Escojo Mi Vida initiative looks to expand its efforts to reach a wider national focus, moving from a geographical focus to one that encompasses vulnerable and mobile populations. Volunteers and Project Partners will be working with pregnant women, poorly educated women, residents of Bateyes, vulnerable youths from 13 to 18 year of age, and sexually active youths from ages 15 to 25. The Escojo Mi Vida program will reach Dominican and Haitian populations all over the Dominican Republic.
Escojo will have a National Escojo/PEPFAR Coordinator and will have increased the network of Regional Coordinators and Peer Youth Educators to be affiliated to and supported by the members of the Escojo Consortium. The Consortium will be the national structure responsible of providing sustainability to the Escojo Groups and promoting the Escojo strategy at the national level.
Each Consortium will have an assigned PCV to assist in the internal training and orientation of each consortium group. PCDR Volunteers will work to build the capacity of each Consortium to be self sustainable. Small grants (know as VAST grants and are up to US$10,000 for each of the 10 consortium groups) will be available for Escojo Consortium organizations in 2010. The grant requests will be prepared by PCVs and Consortium members and will provide resources for the following two institutional strengthening Consortium activities: 1) training events in coordination with consortium members and 2) institutional assessment of consortium members.
Training events in coordination with consortium members are as follows: consortium members and PCV's will plan, implement, and evaluate a series of national, regional, and province-level workshops to help meet the needs of vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS, to promote abstinence and fidelity as the HIV/AIDS prevention strategy in evangelical churches, and to ensure a collaborative grass root referral system of pregnant women for testing and counseling. Institutional assessment of consortium members for each of the selected consortium organizations in their legal standing, administrative organization, and programmatic strengthening. Results of the assessment will be used to develop an individual organizational assistance plan.
Volunteer and Project Partners will have the following activities:
Certification Workshop.Youth leaders are trained and certified as Coordinators.
Executive Conference to promote the Escojo methodology and to create an opportunity to dialogue between key Escojo/PEPFAR stakeholders.
Regional Conference to focus on training youth in the basic curriculum which includes healthy decision making, HIV/AIDS prevention, avoiding adolescent pregnancies, building self-esteem, and focusing on creating positive futures.
Sub regional Management Workshop to learn about how to coordinate the sub-regional follow-up meetings.
Sub-regional Follow-up Meeting, a small scale, one-day meeting to focus on forming networks between groups working in the same geographic areas.
Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Workshop to learn how to report according to the Peace Corps procedures and guidelines provided by the PEPFAR.
Sustainability Conference to give support to active groups who are no longer working directly with a Peace Corps Volunteer in their community.
Sports Camp to use sports as incentives for young women and men in their communities to attend workshops about sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention.
National Conference to train participants on maintaining the level of quality information, to continue social marketing, and to promote sustainability of the groups.
VAST Grants to provide resources for community groups to develop and organize local conferences and activities for HIV/AIDS prevention training.
World AIDS Day event to promote HIV/AIDS awareness among Dominican youth.
National Health Promoter Conference to further train Healthy Communities participants who are community leaders.
Health Promoter Regional Workshop to focus on training the Health Promoters in the basic Healthy Communities curriculum of healthy decision-making which includes HIV/AIDS prevention.
Health Promoter Certification Workshop rural community leaders are trained and certified as Healthy Community Trainers.
Brigada Verde (Green Brigade) Regional Conference to focus on training Dominican youth in basic community environmental action and healthy decision making, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
National Conference Brigada Verde, to further train Brigada Verde participants on Peer sharing of successful interventions and education on HIV/AIDS.
Five day National GLOW Girls Camp to receive training in leadership, healthy decision making and prevention of HIV/AIDS and early pregnancy through the use of interactive activities.
Regional GLOW camp conference to focus on training youth Peer Educators in the basic GLOW goals of positive decision making and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Sub regional GLOW exchange to encourage local girls groups who have participated in GLOW to share experiences and network with other groups from the same region.
