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
MET Approach for Primary Behavior Change in Youth
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS
This is an ongoing Track 1 funded AB only activity.
In FY08, 48,637 youth were reached with community outreach HIV/AIDS prevention programs that promote
abstinence and/or being faithful. MET organizes its youth leaders into Community-Based Volunteer Teams
(CBVT) that serve to sustain HIV prevention activities upon project phase out. Each year, this program
conducts LQAS using behavioral indicators to measure changes in risk behaviors, attitudes, and
misconceptions. The result of the LQAS is used to guide development of annual implementation plans.
COP08 ACTIVITY NARRATIVE
Samaritan's Purse (SP) implements the Mobilizing, Equipping, and Training (MET) youth program in Gedeo
zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region. The SP MET program goal is to help youth
make healthy choices that prevent new HIV infections, especially through abstinence from sex until
marriage and faithfulness within marriage. To achieve this goal, SP MET program mobilizes churches and
communities to action in their spheres of influence by utilizing moral instruction for primary behavior change,
and focusing on abstinence until marriage, faithfulness within marriage and increasing secondary
abstinence, as well as other healthy behaviors such as avoiding alcohol and drug use. The MET approach
builds and expands the capacity of churches, schools, and communities to help youth choose healthy
behaviors as a norm.
For this program, youth leaders participate in a 5-day initial training led by staff trainers using the There Is
Hope curriculum. Each youth leader is meant to work with 40 youth in his or her community. Active Peer
Educators has the opportunity to participate in a second level training that allows them to reach more youth
with life-skills based mentoring. Those who remain committed to the task of promoting healthy behaviors will
join Community-based Volunteer Teams (CBVT). SP will provide administrative support and toolkits for
starting additional activities for young people. SP program staff will supervise each team to provide
technical assistance and track progress. CBVT are entrusted with maintaining the community mobilization
and sustaining abstinence and faithfulness focused prevention messages for youth.
In the first six months of FY07, SP reached 18,417 youth with community outreach that promotes HIV
prevention through abstinence and faithfulness. Seven hundred seventy three youth leaders were also
trained to provide prevention education. Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) survey was conducted
which enhanced better understanding of the local situation and highlighted some of the progresses made by
the program.
In FY08, SP will continue to emphasize successful strategies undertaken in FY06 and FY 07. The SP MET
team will train 1,627 individuals on stigma and discrimination, basics of voluntary counseling and testing
(VCT), facts about HIV and AIDS, and abstinence and faithfulness based prevention. Trained youth leaders
will reach 62,766 individuals through community outreach programs. By the end of FY08, 37 CBVT will be
added to the already established volunteers' teams in Gedeo zone.
Based on the findings of the LQAS, SP will give special emphasis to increasing comprehensive knowledge
on HIV among youth aged 15-24. In particular, SP will facilitate discussions about misconceptions during
training sessions. SP will also emphasize decreasing stigma and increasing acceptance of People Living
with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) among both married and never-married youth.
In FY08, the program will strengthen its media component which was launched in FY07. Through the
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP) FM radio station the media program will target youth
in Dilla town. Posters and billboards in local languages will be used to communicate HIV/AIDS messages in
Gedeo zone.
The MET program targets youth, one of the population groups in Ethiopia with a high prevalence of HIV.
The program uses church and community leaders and school teachers to reach youth through churches,
anti-AIDS clubs, community youth centers, or other locations.
Efforts to increase comprehensive knowledge on HIV/AIDS and thereby bring about behavior change will be
critical to avert new infections. Capacity building of volunteer groups will ensure sustainability of prevention
activities in the community.
This activity is linked with other AB programs focusing on youth. It also relates with prevention programs
that reach various population groups in SNNP.
This activity particularly emphasizes addressing male norms and behaviors, increasing gender equity in
HIV/AIDS program, reducing violence and coercion, and building the capacity of local organizations. This
will be accomplished through development and enhancement of skills and knowledge on HIV prevention
with already established community and church leaders as well as teachers who already have relationships
with groups in the target population. Their influence combined with their training in HIV prevention,
communication skills, and facilitation of discussions on misconceptions and comprehensive awareness of
issues surrounding HIV will enable the volunteers to deliver messages effectively. The capacity of the
volunteers will be further developed as they form groups of CBVT and gain experience in developing and
implementing new activities with the support of SP.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 16559
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
16559 5631.08 U.S. Agency for Samaritan's Purse 7468 1531.08 Track 1 $566,573
International
Development
8097 5631.07 U.S. Agency for Samaritan's Purse 4703 1531.07 Track 1 $566,186
5631 5631.06 U.S. Agency for Samaritan's Purse 3780 1531.06 $491,076
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Addressing male norms and behaviors
* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
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