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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Peace Corps Malawis goals in HIV programming are to promote safe behaviors and practices, empower communities to care for OVC and PLWHIV, and strengthen local assemblies response systems. In order to achieve these goals we will continue to pursue an integrated, holistic approach to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care. This approach involves 100% of the PCV community and interventions vary depending upon their sector, location and primary responsibilities. We will focus on key ABC prevention efforts aimed at adolescent and youth, particularly girls; we will promote evidence based prevention interventions such as testing and counseling, male circumcision, and PMTCT targeting their respective audiences. PCVs will support OVC and PLWHIV through the creation, as appropriate, and support of care and support groups, training of care givers, particularly with respect to pediatric and adolescent health care needs, and providing linkages of needs to resources and services. Additionally Peace Corps will strengthen its system strengthening interventions with and expansion of Response Volunteers at District Assemblies and select partner NGOs to assist in decentralization efforts and their efforts to map, organize, and coordinate activities in their districts, as well as developing, implementing, and assessing HIV/AIDs workplace policies and programs.
Volunteers will be trained on the importance of testing and counseling and working with their counterparts, health workers and community members will actively promote testing and counseling services in their communities, and refer interested parties to testing centers.
Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts will be trained to fully understand needs of OVC, adolescents and youth LWHIV and the resources available to them. Working with caregivers and care groups Volunteers will provide or arrange service through linkages within the communities. With special focus on girls, Go Girls initiative will be integrated into Volunteer community level activities.
Through specialized training in activities such nutrition, perma-gardening and IGA development and strengthening, Volunteers will work to strengthen the resiliency of families caring for OCV and PLHIV.
Volunteers will also use existing grant mechanisms to fund small projects that compliment and reinforce their interventions.
Peace Corps Response Volunteers will be placed at District Assemblies and select NGOs to engage in the following activities:
Co facilitation of participatory strategic planning exercies to enable data driven planning and financing;
Assessments of the institutional capacities of host organizations to better understand outcomes and facilitate annual planning;
Faciliating sharing of best practices and mapping of partner HIV/AIDS activities and programs;
Developng, implementing and assessing district level HIV/AIDS workplace policies and programs;
Strengthening referral systems at the district level
In conjunction with Ministry of Health and USG partner sanctioned campaigns, Peace Corps Volunteers will work toward increasing demand by promoting voluntary male circumcision as an evidence based HIV prevention method.
The principal activites are aimed at the promotion of behavior change focusing on abstinence and being fatihful, . Activities will include training for all Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts on prevention activities such as initiating Hope programs in their communities, training community members to support and maintain the programs, organizing girl's empowerment programs in parternship with the Ministry of Education in promoting Camp Glow and Go Girls activities, etc.
Volunteers are trained in and conduct Life skills education in communities and schools. Volunteers will further expand on these activities by using VAST grants to support their community interventions.
Through direct support to pre-service and in-serve training events for all Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts across the three sectors: Health, Education, and Environment; Volunteers and their counterparts will attain knowledge and experience in life skills training and facilitation, the proper use of Hope Kits in conjunction with their activities, identification and use of traditional natural medicines.
Volunteers will further expand on these activities by using VAST grants to support their community interventions. As these grants are based on application it is not possible to detail into the HVOP table at this time.
