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.
1. UNICEF Goals and Objectives
UNICEF is currently in the fourth year of a five year country programme cycle. The overall goal of the country programme is to ensure that all children in Guyana enjoy greater respect and realization of their human rights to survival, development, participation and protection, improved capabilities and increased opportunities, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
2. Geographic Coverage
UNICEF will be supporting Government to implement this programme in all 10 regions of the country, targeting women and children between the ages of 0 to 18 years who are infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS.
3. Strategy towards costs efficiency
Over the past three years, UNICEF with the support of PEPFAR funded the salary costs of the current Director of the Child Protection Agency. The Director's commitment and drive resulted in the formation of the Child Protection Agency, with a suggested staff component of over 50 personnel. The Government of Guyana has taken over the responsibility of paying the salaries of all the staff. Due to a smooth transition, there is no salary costs factor for staff of the Agency to be borne by the Program. UNICEF's role over the next two years will be to provide technical support to the Agency in order to build the capacity of the newly recruited staff members. The establishment of the Child Protection teams in the regions will assist the social workers with monitoring and service delivery in some of the most remote areas of Guyana.
5. Monitoring and Evaluation Plans
Activities will also include enhancing the monitoring and evaluation system for OVC by developing a child protection Management Information System. A M&E training workshop will be conducted to train staff from the Agency in the monthly collection of data, what type of indicators to look at, how to enter the data into the database and to collate the data.
This is a Continuation Activity
PEPFAR support to UNICEF during 2010 will focus on institutional strengthening of the Child Protection Agency in the Ministry of Human Services. The outcome of the Institutional gap analysis will form the basis of the planned interventions for 2010. In this regard, UNICEF will focus on three broad areas: (1) Protect the most vulnerable children through improved enforceable policy and legislation by supporting the newly established Child Protection Agency in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security. (2) Support the provision of Alternative Care for Institutionalized children. (3) Strengthen the current Child Protection Management Information System (CPMIS) for the new Child Protection Agency.
4.1. Protect the most vulnerable children through improved enforceable policy and legislation by supporting the newly established Child Protection Agency in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security. As the lead Agency with responsibility for the development of a national policy on OVC and the subsequent National Plan of Action (NPA), UNICEF through its support to the MOLHSSS has made significant strides towards creating a conducive environment for the protection of children. However, there is still some key legislation that needs to be channeled through Parliament. UNICEF will continue to support the Child Protection Agency in advocating for the tabling of the outstanding Child Protection legislation and the development and approval of subsidiary legislation. Support will also be provided for the training of law enforcement practitioners, who will be required to deal with the new legislation. Furthermore, UNICEF will provide the Child Protection Agency with the required technical assistance to implement the OVC National Plan of Action once it is approved by Cabinet.
The newly established Child Protection Agency will employ 28 professional social workers, a child psychologist, legal counsel and other support staff, who are mainly university graduates, void of practical experience. UNICEF will therefore provide technical assistance to build the capacity of the Agency to render quality services. A major activity that will be completed in 2009 will be the institutional analysis of the Child Protection Agency in order to develop a comprehensive strategy which will include human resources, policy development, budgeting and service delivery.
4.2. Support the provision of alternative Care for Institutionalized children.
While institutional care in Guyana usually 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. Many of the children are in institutions because of abusive parents or adolescent parents who lack the ability to carry out the responsibilities of parenthood. Technical assistance will be provided to the Child Protection Agency to develop and implement Positive Parenting Programs for biological parents, foster and adoptive parents, including adolescent parents. The Agency aims to reintegrate or place 200 children with their families or with Foster families during 2010. The Agency has outsourced a Foster care Programme to Every Child Guyana to identify and screen potential foster parents for children in cases where reintegration with biological families is not possible. Technical assistance will be given to both Every Child Guyana and the Child Protection Agency to prepare families before a child is placed with a family.
In addition, since access to legal aid for OVC is imperative, care will be taken to ensure that they are not exploited through child labor or trafficking. Activities will include the continuing support to Guyana Legal Aid and Linden Legal Aid to support OVC and their caregivers. With the support of USAID through UNICEF, legal aid is currently available to children in regions, 2, 4 and 6. UNICEF will continue to collaborate with the Ministries of Labor; Culture, Youth and Sports; and Human Services and Social Security on this issue.
4.3. Strengthen the Child Protection Management Information System (CPMIS)
Continuous support will be provided for the collection of child protection data for Guyana and the strengthening of the current monitoring and evaluation system for the new Child Protection Agency including decentralized data collection, monitoring and linking to other services for data on child protection.
