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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.
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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.
1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES This activity relates to activities in counseling and testing ((#8976, #8782, #8781, and #8776); palliative care (#7102, #8936, #8863, #8929, and #8934) and ARV services (#8765, #8792, #8797, and #8813).
2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION The Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale (AVSI) program will provide quality services to orphans, vulnerable children (OVC), caregivers and the communities through an operative network of 24 local partners. AVSI will follow a strategic approach, outlined in the following: a) to primarily focus on the child as a unique and unrepeatable human being, endowed with dignity and potential, and by nature, not only by necessity, in relationship with family and community; b) to follow a bottom-up approach in the identification of beneficiaries and the choice and delivery of support, that is, to listen to and involve the beneficiaries to the highest degree possible in order to provide them with that which is consistent with their real needs and expectations, in a gender-sensitive manner, and not according to "external" blueprints. Priority will be given to fostering education, since AVSI considers the educative process of the child the main concern, even in the most distressful situations, and key for any other development; c) to ensure that every child supported be cared for by an adult, either in the family or by someone in the community or of a Community Based Organization (CBO); d) to rely on and to enhance the operational capacity of the CBOs through close and continuous working relations between AVSI personnel and every single partner, as well as among the partners themselves through an operational and stable network. The activities and services combine indirect and direct forms of assistance. Direct assistance will include requirements for school attendance, learning materials, after-school programs, vocational training, health care, recreational and emotional support. Indirect assistance will consist of support to quality education, income generating activities (IGAs), community projects and sensitization and family support. The identification of the children is done by the local partners who work in strict collaboration with district authorities. This method allows to reach the most vulnerable ones, not forgetting that HIV/AIDS is but one of the root causes of vulnerability of children and it is interrelated with other factors including poverty and conflict in what is often a vicious cycle. AVSI will work in close contact with its local partners and social workers to jointly establish and update the selection criteria and the characteristics of intervention within each specific community. The identification of the OVC included as direct beneficiaries of the program is left up to each local partner, because we believe that they really know the community and the needs of the children inside their community since the live with them. The activities and services given to each child are decided case by case, according to the personal and family needs. Direct assistance for school requirements of the OVC represents the main percentage of child expenditure and assistance, being the need for education the main need of orphans and the best response for their growth and to promote their self esteem and sustainability for the future. Training and consultations will be provided for individual partners and local networks to address institutional and operational weaknesses and to improve capacity, efficiency and quality. AVSI's strategic approach, in any project and any country, begins with the person at the center, with a "primarily focus on the child as an unique and unrepeatable human being endowed with dignity and potential, and by nature, not only by necessity, in relationship with family and community." Consistent with this method and to guide project implementation, social workers and teachers' training is one of the activities organized specifically to help adults to pay more attention to the child as a person. The fact that near each child who is supported in the program there is always an adult/educator to evaluate his/her situation, to respond to his/her needs and the ones of the family and community, is a method through which each activity is concretely focused on "the child as a person." Given the number of on-the-ground stakeholders, training activities organized for teachers, AVSI social workers, local partners, and families can help to harmonize this way of working. The "Risk of Education" training module takes this principle as its starting point to convey a holistic approach to the adventure of educating a child.
3. CONTRIBUTION TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA This activity will reach 2,894 orphans and vulnerable children and train 160 caregivers.
4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES This activity is linked to counseling and testing, home and community support and ARV
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5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED This activity will target OVC and their caregivers, community leaders, program managers, religious leaders, volunteers, CBOs, FBOs and NGOs. AVSI will build the capacity of OVC caregivers, such as social workers and teachers. During the training sessions for the social workers, vulnerability is one of the main topics, together with the methods of observation of the child, the identification of his/her needs and how to respond.
6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED The individualized approach to the identification and care of beneficiaries, including the choice of direct and indirect activities to be implemented, is also gender sensitive, in the sense of paying particular attention to the needs of girls, who are generally underestimated in these countries. The personal adult relationship is particularly important for girls to receive the attention and services best suited to their life situation. The other issue to be addressed is stigma and discrimination and wrap around in education and food.
7. EMPHASIS AREAS Major emphasis area is linkages with other sectors and initiatives and local organization capacity development. Minor emphasis to be addressed is information, education and communication and infrastructure.
