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.
BELONG (OVC Track 1)
This is a continuing activity from FY05 and FY06. This is a Track I partner.
Under COP0606, the BELONG Project focused on increasing the numbers of OVC in Ethiopia accessing quality services through sustainable, community-based programs that effectively reduce their vulnerability. PCI implements its programs through local NGOs selected based on specific criteria developed by a team from the Christian Relief and Development Association (CRDA), the umbrella organization for all local non-government organizations that are operating within Ethiopia, PCI and other relevant partner organizations. The NGOs selected include Addis Development Vision (ADV), Alem Children's Support organization (ACSO), the Ethiopian Muslim Relief and Development Association (EMRDA), Hope for Rural Children and Orphans (HORCO), Nutrition Plus Holistic Home Care (NPHHC) and Hiwote HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Organization (HAPCSO). Presently, these partner organizations are engaged in actual program implementation in six regions of the country: (the Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region (SNNPR), Amhara, Afar, Oromia, Tigray and Addis Ababa.
In FY07, depending on results of the needs assessment, PCI will address basic or core services such as shelter and care, protection, health care, psychosocial support and education. PCI and its partners will build upon and adapt successful experiences in integrating support for OVC into existing home-based care (HBC) services and other programs providing services to OVC, to expand and improve coverage for vulnerable children and their families. PCI implements a portion of the BELONG project activities through local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the World Food Program (WFP), with PCI serving as the prime agency. These partners focus on providing comprehensive OVC services and include health services, psychosocial support, education and nutritional food security support, as well as assistance with, community-based assessment, planning and local development. The activity works in selected areas of Addis Ababa Afar, Amhara, Oromia, SNNRP and Tigray regions. Focusing on poor women and older OVC, the economic empowerment component of the project will increase the capacity of 4,400 caretakers, older OVC and households providing care for OVC to support themselves, their children and siblings through economic empowerment initiatives.
This model involves bringing women together in savings-oriented, peer lending groups. In these groups, numeracy skills are strengthened, as the foundation of successful lending and small business development, to address the multi-faceted development needs of vulnerable communities in targeted areas. This component will be implemented by additional local partners that PCI is currently selecting.
Another component of the project focuses on building the technical and organizational capacity of partner organizations, to help them provide quality OVC services through innovative and replicable strategies that. This component will be facilitated by a capacity building taskforce utilizing participatory processes to assess the existing capacities of partner organizations, in order to identify organizational needs and necessary interventions to address these and build their capacity. The project will coordinate closely with all relevant implementing and coordinating agencies to maximize impact and minimize duplication. It will also support these partner organizations in mentoring other local organizations and in disseminating innovative OVC support strategies and quality services. It will also promote peer-to-peer learning and regular networking among partner and non-partner organizations, so that the latter could be mentored and learn about promising practices from existing partners.
PCI, per the OVC Guidance from OGAC, will make distinctions during its semi-annual and annual reporting between direct primary and indirect supplemental services, and will indicate how they address gender in their program implementation. They will also develop pertinent program indicators.
As an exit strategy, PCI will focus on local development capacity, promoting the sustainability of the OVC Community-Based Program by increasing the capacities of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs), Woreda Education Boards and focal persons. Target groups will be trained in the Children in Local Development (CHILD) methodology, a community self-help approach through which they can acquire the skills and knowledge to
carry out needs assessment, priority setting, local level action planning, resource mobilization and implementation of child-focused activities. This process primarily emphasizes community resilience and self reliance.
