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: 2008 2009
No narrative 10/7/08
This is a continuing activity from FY06 and FY07.
Gondar University (GU), one of the oldest in Ethiopia and the only one in the north-west, trains various
health cadres and other professionals using curricula that particularly focus on community-oriented practical
education tailored to address the trained human resources needs of the country. The teaching hospital of
the university is a referral hospital providing health services to people coming from different areas of the
Amhara region, the second-largest region in Ethiopia—and the one where HIV/AIDS is most prevalent. It is
also strategically placed to support the Afar region, which along with Tigray and Amhara constitute ART
Operational Zone 1 in PEPFAR Ethiopia's regionalized support to the national ART program. In its strategic
plan, GU has identified HIV/AIDS as one of the major health and social threats for the institution and the
country at large. The university has thus committed itself to mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS by creating
university-wide prevention, treatment, and care and support programs. To this end, has initiated anti-
HIV/AIDS activities in its teaching, research, management, and community-outreach programs.
In FY05 and FY06, GU identified key interventions required to initiate and strengthen HIV/AIDS-related
interventions within the university community and the regions its referral hospital currently serve. Main
interventions identified by the university include: making HIV/AIDS an institutional priority; establishing an
HIV/AIDS coordination unit; planning and executing anti-AIDS activities with involvement of students;
expanded multidimensional response to HIV/AIDS epidemic - voluntary counseling and testing (VCT)
service, treatment, care and support, curriculum integration, community outreach, research, and the
creation of external partnerships; and incorporating policies and sanctions that safeguard female students
from the risks of vulnerability and assault, intimidation, and exploitation.
In FY07, GU is implementing the planned activities and initiating various HIV/AIDS-related activities that will
require consolidation and expansion over the coming years. Through support from PEPFAR Ethiopia, the
university is systematically institutionalizing HIV/AIDS program and building capacities that will enable it to
provide assistance to the regional health bureaus (RHB) and the health networks in Amhara, Tigray and
Afar regions. Using the collaboration link the university will establish with the University of Washington/I-
TECH through support from PEPFAR Ethiopia, it will strengthen its anti-HIV/AIDS response and technical
assistance (TA) to regional activities in FY07, including: mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in the curricula of all
faculties; strengthening pre-service training on comprehensive HIV/AIDS treatment, care, and prevention;
conducting baseline studies on the impact of HIV/AIDS on students, staff, and supportive groups of the
university; undertaking studies on the existing structure of HIV/AIDS activities in the university hospital's
teaching, research, and service as a spring-board for networking and main-streaming strategy;
strengthening the existing VCT service of the university; promoting advocacy and gender education; and
reducing HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in the university community.
In FY08, for GU to establish itself as a long-term technical support center for its ART operation zone, it
needs to build adequate managerial and leadership capacities. There is a need for deliberate action to
establish managerial and technical capabilities by offering the university the opportunity and challenge to
handle directly the administration and management of the technical and logistical arrangements required to
support the health networks delivering ART and other HIV/AIDS-related services. The university will
strengthen its support for in-service training and direct TA to Amhara RHB and initiate pre-service training
on HIV/AIDS, including ART. GU will be involved in targeted evaluation of HIV/AIDS program
implementation and in regional activities related to data processing, documentation of best practices, and
dissemination of scientific information. GU will collaborate with Washington University/I-TECH and
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and also undertake review meetings with other local universities
and stakeholders. By closely working with and getting intensive technical support from I-TECH, GU will be
provided with an opportunity to get engage directly in managing its HIV/AIDS program and its support to the
national and regional health networks. It will help the university start building the capacity it will need to take
over the technical support currently provided by I-TECH, when the latter pulls out its support through a well-
thought-out exit strategy.
