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: 2013 2014 2015
This activity will be funded through an amendment to USAID's current implementation letter (IL) with the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) which will expire on September 30th, 2013. The activities included in the original IL use reprogrammed FY09 and FY10 funding. Two activities will be continued, namely: (1) support one of five of GAC regional Technical Support Units (TSU) to manage and coordinate HIV/AIDS activities. This will be the third and final year of TSU support as the GoG will cover these costs in future, and (2) support implementation of human rights and anti-stigma and discrimination efforts within the framework of Ghanas HIV response. New activities included in this mechanism are sub-grants to local NGOs to provide sex workers and MSM with a comprehensive service package of HIV prevention and protection as well as linkages to clinical services that are accessible and acceptable to the specific groups.
Through peer education, outreach, Helpline programs and Testing and Counseling services, MSM, FSW, MSW, and NPPs will be encouraged to disclose their HIV status to their regular partners and provided with KP information, counseling and linked to appropriate services at drop-in centers and KP-friendly centers. Funding will go into supporting linkages with social media platform set up to reach more hidden MSM on-line. In all GOG institutions supported under this mechanism, GAC will promote testing and counseling and provide the necessary support systems to ensure that security and the judiciary services do not hinder efforts of KPs to access TC and other KP services.
HIV/AIDS stigma has been identified as one of the principal obstacles to HIV prevention. KP who are in need of access to HIV services are those with the highest levels of fear and stigma that they might experience in health facilities. The mechanism seeks to support GAC to further expand on the drive for stigma reduction and discrimination against KPs in health outreach and amongst security and judiciary services of Ghana, through series of orientations, trainings and development and use of support tools for KP programming. Among those tools are newly developed standard operation procedures developed by USAID that will are accepted as the national standard for KP programming, including for monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance activities. Other specific activities to be implemented include strengthening of the National anti-stigma and discrimination technical working group to coordinate national-level discourse and guide implementation of anti-stigma and discrimination activities for KPs; and support for work to prevent police abuse against KPs in Ghana.
