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.
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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: 2007 2008 2009
The Scaling-Up Together We Can (TWC) project uses three outreach strategies—curriculum based interventions, peer to peer outreach, and edutainment events—to provide Haitian youth with knowledge and essential skills to avoid HIV infection. Partnership building, capacity building of the Haitian Red Cross (HRC), and the engagement of adult stakeholders such as parents and teachers are also key elements of the project.
TWC is a Track 1 ABY (abstinence and be faithful for youth) program active in two other countries (Tanzania and Guyana) in addition to Haiti. The project has been operational in Haiti since June 2004 and works in close collaboration with the Haitian Ministry of Health (MOH) and National AIDS Program (UCC) and has recently established a partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Youth. TWC is implemented in Haiti by the HRC which is a local (indigenous) organization. The activities in this country funded narrative are new and represent an expanded technical and partnership role for the American and Haitian Red Cross Societies. The project addresses gender issues through assuring 50% of its staff from project coordinators to peer educators are female. Curriculum and adult outreach interventions directly address cross-generational sex, multiple sex partner and early sexual initiation norms and behaviors. The project is currently seeking to improve female youth's access to life and job skills.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
ACTIVITY 1: Haitian youth in other areas of the country should benefit from TWC HIV prevention messages. In 2007 the ARC and HRC propose work to support indigenous NGO and CBO networks that target out-of-school youth. Both Red Cross Societies will provide technical assistance to USAID's Education Project, (IDEJEN) to incorporate HIV/AIDS prevention activities into their ongoing program which includes job and life skills. ARC will work through their Haitian Red Cross counterpart organization to roll out the TWC curriculum which is being successfully utilized in Haiti. ARC and HRC will provide training of trainers to IDEJEN to assist it in establishing a peer education program. To maximize the impact of this training, ARC and HRC will assist IDEJEN by further adapting the TWC curriculum for low literate youth incorporating innovative, yet evidenced-based approaches to reach out of school youth including role-plays, theater skits, games and other highly participatory interventions. In this manner, ARC and HRC will utilize TWC's participatory, skill building approach to introduce HIV prevention activities through IDEJEN's network of 12 CBOs. Technical assistance will be provided to 20 IDEJEN field managers to gain skills in the technical areas and learn effective approaches for promoting abstinence and being faithful to youth between the ages of 10-24. IDEJEN Field Managers will be trained in all components of the TWC curriculum which emphasizes abstinence (including secondary abstinence), being faithful to one's partner, and other healthy behaviors including condom use for high risk youth in accordance with Emergency Plan guidelines.
Both Red Cross Societies will also assist IDEJEN in the training of 60 adult stakeholders and adult volunteers in IDEJEN and its CBO network. This technical assistance will enable education managers and CBOs to better increase their skills in planning and implementing HIV/AIDS prevention programs within their ongoing vocational training programs for out of school youth. Improvements in programming will promote messages among partners to support interventions which reduce risky behavior and reduce HIV/AIDS transmission.
ACTIVITY 2: The HRC will benefit from job skills training manuals and methodologies currently used by IDEJEN. This will help the HRC further reduce the incidence of HIV among its in and out of school youth beneficiaries by better addressing economic factors influencing behavioral risk factors of Haitian youth. These objectives will be accomplished through the sharing of documents, lessons learned, observational visits to IDEJEN sponsored cyber centers, as well as through training that can be included as part of the TOT training outlined in Activity 1 above. ARC, HRC and IDEJEN will also examine approaches for linking HRC youth beneficiaries to IDEJEN sponsored cyber cafes and job and life skill trainings. The targets are to train 20 Field Managers as TOTs in establishing peer education program for promoting prevention through abstinence and/or being faithful and 60 adult leaders/volunteers in community mobilization for gaining parent involvement and community support for IDEJEN's CBO network in HIV/AID prevention activities..
These results contribute to the Emergency Plan 2-7-10 goals by preventing new HIV infections among Haitian youth through the improvement of knowledge, attitudes and skills pertaining to HIV/AIDS. The project addresses gender issues through assuring 50% of its staff from project coordinators to peer educators are female. Curriculum and adult outreach interventions directly address cross-generational sex, multiple sex partner and early sexual initiation norms and behaviors. The project is currently seeking to improve female youth's access to life and job skills.
