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.
UNICEF's support with PEPFAR funds will continue to focus on the policy and legislation level as well as the institutional level, which will contribute to accelerating UNICEF's continued support to community-based interventions for OVC as well as other interventions pertaining to child protection. The key strategies based on the global frameworks will be to strengthen the capacity of families to protect and care for OVC; ensure access for OVC to essential services; protect the most vulnerable children through improved enforceable policy and legislation; raise awareness at all levels through advocacy and social mobilization to create a supportive environment for OVC and their families.
While institutional care in Guyana normally forms one of the first level of response for children who do not have parental care for reasons of orphan-hood and other vulnerabilities, it hinders the development of sustainable solutions and often does not meet the complex needs of children. Hence, UNICEF will continue to work with the Ministry of Labor, Human Services and Social Security, residential care facilities for children, community and faith based organizations to establish and reinforce minimum standards of care for children in institutions, reintegrate children from residential institutions to their families or other community care options, and strengthen the capacity of the MOLHSSS, through training of social workers and child care professionals, and, the maintenance and expansion of the child database.
Birth registration of children is crucial given the disparities in access to this service especially for children in hard to reach areas in Guyana, and the attendant problems. UNICEF will therefore promote a national campaign to encourage registration (which will also support the PMTCT initiative in determining more accurate target population estimates). In addition, access to legal aid support for OVC is imperative to ensure that they are not exploited through child labor, trafficking or cheated out of inheritance. Activities will include the establishment of a legal aid system in 7 regions to support OVC and their caregivers. In this regard, UNICEF will collaborate with the Ministries of Health; Labor, Human Services and Social Security; Legal Affairs; and Education.
UNICEF was mandated to be the lead Agency in the development of a national policy on OVC and the subsequent National Plan of Action, to ensure that children's issues are on the Agenda of policy makers. To this end, UNICEF will continue to provide technical assistance for and facilitate the adoption and enforcement of the National OVC Policy which was formulated and approved by the Ministry of Labour Human Services and Social Security, as well as the implementation of the draft OVC National Plan of Action.
The response to OVC requires a multi-sectoral approach. UNICEF is therefore supporting the institutional strengthening of multiple line Ministries, including the MoLHSSS, MoH and Ministry of Education (MoE). Activities will also include strengthening the institutional capacity of the MoLHSSS through the setting up of a cadre of ‘child specialists' in the OVC Unit, enhancing the monitoring and evaluation system for OVC, including the expansion of the Child Protection Monitoring System, strengthening an institutionalized referral system and informal mediation mechanisms at the Regional level, developing a user-friendly version of the Children's Bill, supporting the roll out of the life skills component of the Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) program in selected primary schools in Region 4, and building the capacity of health sector and education sector professionals to respond to the needs of OVC.
