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. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES This activity relates to activities in Counseling and Testing (#6894), (#6983) and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (#6891).
2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) and their counterparts will use sporting activities as platforms to promote safe sexual practices especially among sexually active youth and young adults with particular emphasis on mutual fidelity. PCVs and their counterparts will work with the youth to develop HIV/AIDS messages that will be displayed on posters, pamphlets, bumper-stickers, branded, ideally, on T-shirts and on the balls that will be used in the sporting activities.
Peace Corps will also continue supporting the 11 PCVs who arrived in country in 2005 and 12 that will arrive in 2006. These PCVs will continue adapting and/or creating HIV/AIDS messages in Kenyan Sign Language e.g. on DVDs, CDs or VCRs, posters, etc. The emphasis of these PCVs who are fluent in Kenyan Sign Language will be on Being Faithful and will be directed towards sexually active deaf youth and young adults.
Peace Corps will also support training in five-day regional cross-sectoral HIV/AIDS workshops whose participants will be PCVs and their counterparts. Participants will be trained on the design and delivery of activities that provide a supportive environment of youth and young adults, through the involvement of families, schools, health facilities, peers and communities, to meet the HIV/AIDS and reproductive needs of youth and young adults. The PCVs and their counterparts will in turn train other community members and co-workers at their sites.
Peace Corps will also support the translation into 6 local languages and reproduction and distribution of an HIV/AIDS training manual. These will be in Kiswahili, Luo, Luhya, Kikuyu, Kalenjin and Kamba. It has become increasingly necessary to communicate in local languages to ensure that vital information on HIV/AIDS is not lost or misinterpreted through verbal translation. PCVs also gain more acceptance and trust in their communities when they are able to speak in local languages or the national language. Ultimately, community members are more willing to openly discuss issues surrounding HIV/AIDS and opens up opportunities for PCVs to work with community.
Peace Corps will also support 20 PCVs who will work in and with local organizations to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission by increasing their communities' awareness of HIV/AIDS issues through Abstinence and Be faithful messages. The outcome will be to enhance their communities' abilities to adopt health-seeking behaviors and make informed choices about their bodies and their lives.
Peace Corps will continue to support Volunteer Activity and Support Training (VAST) where Counterparts and PCVs will access small grants and technical assistance, enabling them to expand both their reach and quality of services delivered to people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Such low cost interventions will promote Being Faithful initiatives that assist in the reduction of HIV transmission.
3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA Activities being carried out will contribute directly to USG's Five-Year strategy in support of Kenya's integrated HIV/AIDS programs, through PCVs involvement in working through a strong network of organizations at the community level and acts as a catalyst to provide long-term capacity development support to NGOs, CBOs and FBOs. Peace Corps Kenya has 140 volunteers serving in six of eight provinces in rural Kenya for a period of two years which enables them to make a comprehensive needs assessment in their communities and to design and implement the appropriate response, collectively with their community members. In FY 2007, PCVs will continue engaging in a range of activities that will lay particular emphasis to Being Faithful.
4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES These activities link to the Basic Healthcare and Support Activities being undertaken by CDC and USAID and their partners. The Counseling and Testing activities link with the Hope Worldwide (#6894) and Liverpool VCT (#6983) in counseling youth and providing information to young adults, some of whom are deaf and who Peace Corps volunteers
work with. The activities will also link with Condoms and Other Preventions through demonstrations of appropriate condom use. The Peace Corps Volunteers will continue to work with Hope Worldwide through youth sporting activities, which target Orphans and Vulnerable Children (#6891).
5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED These activities will target youth and adults infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and will include caregivers. The number of individuals reached through community outreach that promotes HIV/AIDS prevention through Abstinence and/or Being Faithful (AB) is 70,300 while those reached through Abstinence Only (A) are 40,200. The activities will also train 726 individuals in promoting HIV/AIDS prevention through Abstinence and/or Being faithful.
6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED Gender is addressed especially ensuring inclusion of both men and women in activities, training community volunteers and teachers to identify, counsel and refer victims of sexual abuse and violence, challenging norms about masculinity and perception of multiple sexual partners. Activities will be designed to reduce stigma associated with HIV/AIDS.
7. EMPHASIS AREAS Major emphasis on community mobilization and participation activities. Minor emphasis includes peer education and life skills training and capacity building of teachers and community health workers.
As post continues to expand and diversity PEPFAR activities both in scope and scale as well as across all current Peace Corps program areas of Public Health, Education and Small Enterprise Development and Information Communication and Technology, the need for a consolidated PEPFAR coordinator to strictly manage the PEPFAR activities is more apparent and needed. Additionally, post will require expanded office space for the PEPFAR coordinator and commensurate furnishings and equipment (computer) to support the position.
Post will also continue to provide support to one Program Assistant recruited in FY05 and one driver recruited in FY06 who provide technical and administrative support to Peace Corps Volunteers who are engaged in meeting the Emergency Plan goals.
Other funding will support activities such as PCV site development and visits, communications between post and PCVs, supplies, conference travel for the Country Director and PEPFAR coordinator to annual PEPFAR conferences and equipment maintenance.
