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.
Years of mechanism: 2013 2014
$304,030 to Futures Group to support the Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development in the development of a ministry-wide policy and strategic plan.
In COP 13, USG will seek to optimize sustainability of HIV/AIDS interventions, through investments which will support the broader context of Malawis health system. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Malawi has had a devastating effect on the population and as such the pandemic has also created approximately half a million HIV/AIDS orphans in Malawi. In addition, the socio-cultural and economic situation of Malawi has enhanced gender inequalities. HIV/AIDS continues to exacerbate this gender inequity by affecting the health and social support systems, particularly for women. In Malawi, the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Welfare (MoGCSW) is mandated to provide services through its five priority technical areas of Gender affairs, Social Welfare, Child Development, Adult Literacy, and Community Development. The Ministry however faces critical capacity weaknesses and is largely unable to effectively deliver and execute its mandated services and roles. A weak policy direction coupled with weak leadership and governance skills and weak institutional capacity building strategies has crippled the MoGCSWs performance over the past decade. However, the new leadership which has recently been brought in is keen to reverse this trend and this presents a tremendous opportunity for USG to support, rebuild and revitalize the operations of this key Ministry. In FY 12, the Health Policy Project (HPP) is supporting the MoGCSW to conduct a Ministry wide participatory strategic review process which will result in development of a new national strategic plan for the MoGCSW. Most crucial, availability and implementation of the new strategy will enable the MoGCSW to reposition itself in Malawis development arena and reclaim its roles as leader and coordinating body for community work and gender programming in Malawi, which the Ministry had slowly lost over the past decade.
While supporting development of the strategy is a first crucial step, ensuring the strategy is implemented and that the MoGCSW has capacity to do so are the crucial follow on steps. Therefore in COP 13, HPP will utilize OHSS funds to follow up its initial support to the MoGCSW, with Technical Assistance support to institutionalize the new MoGCSW national strategy.
In COP 13, HPP will be positioned to provide tailored TA to strengthen institutional capacity of the MoGCSW to effectively lead the Gender, Child Development, Social Welfare and Community Development portfolios of the Ministry. HPP will provide on-site mentoring, coaching and training of key Ministry staff and Ministry leadership to build their capacities in Leadership, Governance and technical skills across these key portfolios. This focused and tailored capacity building resource will in turn aid the MoGCSW to translate its new strategic plan into action.
This activity will be implemented at national level and is a focused intervention for USG since it is utilizing HIV/AIDS funds to address system gaps such as institutional capacity development of the Ministry, which when addressed, will benefit several of the USGs HIV/AIDS portfolios such as Gender, OVC and HIV/AIDS community care. The activity will also yield secondary benefits for USG since it will utilize HIV/AIDS funds to support systems strengthening interventions that will benefit non HIV elements of the system such as community development and adult literacy. See Document in Library for additional Overview Narrative.
