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
BELONG (OVC Track 1)
ACTIVITY UNCHAGED FROM FY2008.
This is a continuing centrally-funded Track 1 activity that is linked to World Food Program (10523) and DAI
(10486).
COP08 NARRATIVE
The Better Education and Life Opportunities for Vulnerable Children through Networking and Organizational
Growth (BELONG) project relates to activities under Orphan and Vulnerable Program Area and is being
implemented with 12 implementing partners with PCI serving as the prime agency. The program focuses on
selected areas of Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Oromiya, SNNRP and Tigray regions. PCI was providing
primary direct support services to 2,672 OVC and 111 with supplemental direct support for a total of 2,783
OVC reached as of March 31, 2007.
The BELONG Project is designed to increase the number of OVC in Ethiopia accessing quality services
through sustainable, community-based programs that effectively reduce their vulnerability. In COP08, PCI
plans to reach 10,500 OVC and train 3,721 caregivers. PCI and its partners work to not only expand
coverage but also in providing critical support services for vulnerable children and their families. PCI and its
local partners focus on providing comprehensive, integrated OVC services that include healthcare,
psychosocial and life skills support, education assistance including tutorial support to children with poor
academic performance and vocational training for older OVC, nutritional food security, child rights protection
and legal support by promoting succession planning, and HIV/AIDS preventions activities. Such services
are provided to the OVC through regular home visits as well as community based channels by trained
volunteer caregivers on one-to-one and group approaches.
PCI and its partners organize and engage caretakers and guardians in savings led self-help groups, internal
lending, and income generation activities to strengthen their economic capacity to take good care for
themselves and the children under them. This economic empowerment component of the BELONG project
aims to strengthen the capacity of more than 5,000 caretakers, particularly poor women and older OVC to
support themselves, their children and siblings through economic empowerment initiatives. This model
involves bringing targeted women and older OVC together into savings-led, peer-lending groups, where
numeric and basic business skills are strengthened through tailor made trainings as the foundation of
successful lending and small business development to strengthen the economic capacity of vulnerable
households in targeted areas.
The second core activity of the BELONG project is improving access to and quality of education for OVC
through the school platform. PCI decided to support the Child In Local Development (CHILD) methodology
the World Food Program is implementing together with the Ministry of Education for this purpose. Thus the
BELONG project has targeted 200 CHILD schools in Amhara, Oromiya and Tigray to improve access and
quality of education for OVC using the CHILD community development framework for engaging the
community in a needs-based, local planning process and local level resources mobilization efforts. Through
this methodology, members of Parent-Teachers Associations (PTA), community leaders, religious leaders,
representatives of the local administration and school administrations come together to assess their
problems related with the well-being of their children, after which they develop community action plans.
Such community plans largely get implemented by mobilizing local resources and PCI's support is used to
fill financial gaps not exceeding 35% of resources needed to realize such action plans by each partner
school. Activities included in such community action plans are maintenance of classrooms, purchase of
additional desks and text books, training of PTA members, establishment or strengthening of Anti-AIDS and
Girls clubs, promoting of school gardens and income generation activities like silk worm rearing, bee-
keeping, poultry and dairy farms from which children learn by doing as part of their lessons while WFP
addresses the immediate nutritional needs of the children in these CHILD schools. Healthcare and water
problems are also discussed and addressed through this process. As such CHILD schools are transforming
into "centers for local development" through this framework.
The third main activity of the project focuses on building the technical and organizational capacity of partner
NGO and community-based organizations (CBO) to help them provide quality OVC services through
innovative and replicable strategies that others could learn from. This activity also aims at bolstering
community capacity and leadership in mobilizing local resources, developing appropriate community action
planning and implementation. It is facilitated by a capacity building taskforce involving participatory
processes of assessing the existing capacities of partner organizations, identifying priority gaps and builds
their capacities. To realize this objective, PCI brings its partner organizations together on a monthly basis to
discuss on different OVC related thematic areas, to share experiences and lessons from each other and
improve their service delivery capacity and quality of services. Conducting cross visits and sharing of
promising practices are part of this main activity. PCI provides customized trainings of trainers to relevant
staff of partner NGO and CBO and, through close monitoring and follow up, ensures that such trainings are
cascaded and benefited targeted groups. In addition, the project coordinates closely with all other OVC
program implementing and coordinating agencies to maximize impact and minimize duplication. This activity
is also complemented by another activity that promotes peer-to-peer learning and regular networking
among partner NGO and CBO. This involves identification of core competencies of few of the partners in
OVC programming and assisting them to mentor the rest of the partners ,so that the latter could adopt
promising practices of mentor organizations to improve the quality of their OVC support programs.
The BELONG project gives emphasis not only on addressing immediate critical needs of OVC and their
guardians, but more importantly to eventually become self-reliant and dignified citizens rather than relying
on external support. The BELONG project is consistent with the GOE's strategy for expanding care and
support for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV as outlined in the Road Map.
PCI and its partners are cognizant of the importance of integration of activities with other PEPFAR and non-
Activity Narrative: PEPFAR funded activities and leveraging complementary services of other actors in the operation areas
ensuring the delivery provision of comprehensive services. In this regard, PCI has been able to integrate the
BELONG project activities with its other project entitled "Give a Goat Project" that targets older OVC and
very poor caretakers by providing them with goats or sheep for rearing and income generation. Again, the
integration of the women economic empowerment activity of the BELONG project with the urban gardening
project of DAI in two project sites is helping beneficiaries to save from their the urban gardening proceeds
and start internal lending quickly to be able to establish different income generation activities. Since this
king of leveraging complementary services and integration of activities are critical for sustainability and to
bring lasting change in the lives of target groups, PCI and its partners will continue ensuring greater
integration of project activities with PEPFAR and non-PEPFAR interventions in 2008.
Sub partners:
Christian Relief and Development Association (CRDA)
Alem Children Support Organization (ACSO)
Addis Development Vision (ADV)
Action for Self-Reliance (AFSR)
Ethiopian Muslims Relief and Development Association (EMRDA)
Developing Family Together (DFT)
HIV/AIDS Prevention, care, and Support Organization (HAPCSO)
Hope for Rural Children Organization (HORCO)
Integrated Services for AIDS Prevention and Support Organization (ISAPSO)
Love for Children Organization (LCO)
Nutrition Plus Holistic Home Care (NPHHC)
Social Welfare Development Association (SWDA)
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 16558
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
16558 5580.08 U.S. Agency for Project Concern 7467 314.08 Track 1 $726,000
International International
Development
8096 5580.07 U.S. Agency for Project Concern 4702 314.07 Track 1 $663,810
5580 5580.06 U.S. Agency for Project Concern 3752 314.06 $512,731
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
Health-related Wraparound Programs
* Child Survival Activities
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $345,000
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
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