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.
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In FY 10, Peace Corps/Lesotho (PC/L) will continue its support of the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan of the Government of Lesotho (GoL) and the PEPFAR Partnership Framework by contributing to the reduction of HIV incidence, providing high quality OVC services, improving human resource capacity and strengthening the health system in all 10 districts.
PC/L will train all of its approximately 80 Volunteers in the Community Health and Economic Development (CHED) and Education projects and their counterparts to promote behavior change related to sexual prevention. PC/L Volunteers will also support the GoL's PMTCT goals through community mobilization.
Through the recruitment of 7 PEPFAR-funded 2-year Volunteers and 2 Peace Corps Response Volunteers, PC/L will expand its activities in the areas of human capacity development and health systems strengthening. Volunteers will assist and coach local data clerks and district health information officers in improving the quality of data collection, compilation, analysis and reporting. PC/L will also assist local HIV/AIDS umbrella groups by building their organizational capacity and expanding their outreach efforts. Finally, PC/L is working with the MOHSW and the Ministry of Education to develop Volunteer assignments at the National Health Training College in Maseru. Prevention AB and OVC prevention will be the primary focal points of Volunteers' activities. Volunteers will promote the development of life skills among young people and address behavior change related to multiple concurrent partners among adults. They will also teach, coach and mentor OVCs using a Life Skills curriculum; create linkages between OVC services and underserved communities; and assist with establishing programmes and support mechanisms for keeping OVCs in school.
PC/L will use carryover funds from previous years to continue to support activities in the areas of other prevention and basic health care and support for people living with HIV. They will also work with PLWA groups at the district level to help organize income generating activities.
PC/L's grassroots approach to development aims to build the capacity of local organizations and counterparts throughout the 2-year length of service of the Volunteers. Volunteers and their counterparts receive training in monitoring and evaluation and PEPFAR reporting. PC/L compiles data on Volunteers' PEPFAR-funded activities on a quarterly basis and conducts periodic site visits to monitor the implementation of activities.
In all 10 districts, Peace Corps/Lesotho (PC/L) Volunteers work with OVC (boys and girls under 18 years) in their communities to develop life skills (including HIV prevention skills), create income generating activities and household gardens and link them to other GoL social welfare programs. Some Volunteers work with local leaders to ensure that accurate records of OVCs in the community are kept.
In FY10, PC/L will recruit 2 PEPFAR-funded Volunteers for the Community Health and Economic Development (CHED) project. These Volunteers will contribute to strengthening the health system by
developing human resources in clinics and communities and strengthening linkages and coordination between communities and HIV and AIDS service organizations, particularly those addressing the needs of OVC. PC/L also plans to support the MOHSW's efforts to improve data collection and monitoring and evaluation by coaching data clerks at the clinic level.
To ensure quality, PC/L partners with local and international organizations, such as AED, PSI, Lesotho Planned Parenthood Association, C-Change, and PHELA Development and Communications to train Volunteers and their counterparts using evidence-based curricula to disseminate prevention messages through mass media, interpersonal communications. Volunteers' activities are monitored by PC/L staff through site visits and quarterly reporting.
In all 10 districts Peace Corps/Lesotho (PC/L) Volunteers collaborate with the MOHSW and the Ministry of Education on age-appropriate HIV prevention at the individual, small group and community levels with in- and out-of-school youth under the age of 24. The approximately 80 PC Volunteers in the Community Health and Economic Development (CHED) and Education projects work with counterparts and young people to form youth clubs, organize sports tournaments, and hold youth empowerment camps as ways to develop life and leadership skills among young people, educate them about HIV prevention and promote gender equality. In FY10, PC/L will recruit 5 PEPFAR-funded Volunteers for the CHED project. These Volunteers will contribute to strengthening the health system by developing human resources in clinics and communities and strengthening linkages and coordination between communities and HIV and AIDS service organizations. PC/L also plans to support the MOHSW's efforts to improve data collection and monitoring and evaluation by coaching data clerks at the clinic level. In addition, PC/L will recruit two PEPFAR-funded Peace Corps Response Volunteers (who are former Volunteers assigned for up to one year) to teach at the National Health Training College, incorporating HIV prevention into. In addition, PEPFAR funds will continue to be set aside for small grants for community-initiated prevention projects.
PC/L focuses on addressing the major driver of the epidemic in the country, multiple and concurrent partnerships (MCP), by training Volunteers and their counterparts to support the "One Love" campaign and raise awareness in their communities on the risks of having MCPs, engaging in transactional sex and trans-generational sex, and couples living apart for extended periods. Volunteers will also continue to help communities address male norms and gender-based violence through the Men As Partners program, and promote prevention among PLWA. Volunteers will also mobilize communities increase uptake of HIV testing and counseling in ANC settings.
