PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
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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.
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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: 2007 2008 2009
NEW/REPLACEMENT NARRATIVE
In 2005, Project HOPE began the "Sustainable Strengthening of Families of Orphans and Vulnerable
Children" project. The foundation of this project is to expand Project HOPE's Village Health Fund (VHF)
methodology to families supporting and caring for OVC in Namibia. This is done by providing micro loans to
groups of women to start or expand their income generation activities along with valuable health education
in a capacity building environment. The micro loans enable women who are otherwise constrained by
unemployment and lack of ownership of assets to invest in economically productive activities. The project
has expanded to reach elderly caregivers, orphan headed households, and young girls/women throughout
Northern Namibia. The educational component has a different focus depending upon the target group. For
OVC caregivers, the education will focus upon strengthening the capabilities of these OVC providers and
caretakers to provide valuable care and support across multiple domains to OVC. For young women, the
education component focuses on prevention messaging, with a particular focus on high risk behaviors like
transactional and cross-generational sex. Through the VHF groups, selected volunteers will also be trained
to provide education, counseling, and other services directly to OVC and young women.
Project HOPE Namibia (HOPE) entered the Kavango and Caprivi regions last year, replicating the Village
Health Fund methodology used in their micro credit program for OVC caregivers to empower young women
ages 15-24 years while integrating prevention education to address the societal issues driving cross-
generational sex, transactional sex and multiple partner concurrency. This initiative, known as "Economic
Empowerment as a Means to Mitigate the Impact of HIV" arose from the expressed needs of young women
in the Caprivi, Kavango and Ohangwena regions and discussions with SMA, Nawa Life Trust/JHU, the
DAPP and Acquire (Engender Health).
Project HOPE has used this intervention as an opportunity to conduct an evaluation of whether micro credit
combined with prevention messages has a greater impact on the reduction of high risk sexual behaviors
than prevention messages alone. This evaluation has been conducted in the form of a quasi experimental
design with two arms. A full intervention arm which consists of micro credit and prevention education and a
second arm with prevention education only. Project HOPE is partnering with Catholic AIDS Action to
conduct this evaluation. Both arms are educated by trained peer educators using Catholic AIDS Action's
Stepping Stones curriculum. The curriculum contains sessions that model constructive communication
skills, promote abstinence and fidelity (within marriages or other sexual relationships), and inform on
methods for overall reduction of exposure to HIV/AIDS. The hypothesis is that coupling micro credit with
prevention messages will be more effective than prevention messages alone because it will provide young
women with the means to create their own economic opportunities, thus reducing their vulnerability to
coercion into transactional sex as a means of survival.
To date, more than 780 young women have received micro loans and Stepping Stones education from
Project HOPE. Additionally, baseline data has been collected from all 780 young women in each arm of the
evaluation (1,560 total respondents). During FY09, another 300 young women will enroll in the program,
bringing the total number of women reached to 1,080 by the beginning of FY10.
In FY10, Project HOPE will focus on supporting the 1,080 young women reached throughout the first two
years of the project by providing increasing levels of capital for those who remain in the program and
providing ongoing business skills development to loan recipients. These young women will be empowered
to utilize the social capital they have fostered in their Village Health Funds to re-visit the community needs
assessments completed during their initial Stepping Stones trainings and devise a strategy for implementing
an action plan to address the most prioritized issues. Specific focus will be given to raising awareness about
gender equality and potentially harmful social norms regarding sexual practices. Another 150 young
women ages 15-30 will receive micro loans and complete the Stepping Stones curriculum during FY 10.
The age range will be expanded beyond the original range of 15-24 years to achieve deeper outreach and
introduce a greater depth of business experience in to the Village Health Funds, which is expected to lead
to knowledge transfer that will improve business performance.
There will be 2 focus areas for these activities:
1. Economic Strengthening
- Conduct analysis of community dynamics, economic situation and opportunities, and needs of target
groups to develop appropriate loan policies and skills training programs to improve business performance
- Adapt and contextualize tools and materials through focus group discussions.
- Provide orientation and training to help participants in VHFs with implementation of group policies,
procedures and organization.
- Provide seed capital through micro loans to participating young women to invest in income generating
activities. As they repay, they will be offered a subsequent loan of higher amount so their business can
grow.
- Collect evaluation information on new participants in order to document potential changes in socio-
economic status.
2. Prevention Education
- Provide comprehensive HIV prevention information to young women and their families.
- Health Activists selected from the VHF will conduct 1-hour sessions once a week for 14 consecutive
weeks to complete the Stepping Stones curriculum.
- Empower young women to address critical issues facing their communities through the creation of
action plans guided by the VHF Management Committee and Health Activists (based on needs assessment
conducted in earlier Stepping Stones trainings).
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 16199
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
16199 8025.08 U.S. Agency for Project HOPE 7376 4667.08 $225,140
International
Development
8025 8025.07 U.S. Agency for Project HOPE 4667 4667.07 $97,791
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
* Reducing violence and coercion
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $86,900
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.02:
Children" project. The foundation of this project is to expand Project HOPE's Village Health Bank (VHB)
Northern Namibia. The educational component has a different focus depending on the target group. For
Project HOPE is a Track 1 Partner with an agreement in place for 2005-2010 and also receives funding
from the country office. In FY07, Project HOPE underwent an assessment of their program direction and
implementation, which resulted in a new project alignment between country funding program and Track 1
scope of work. Under the Track 1 agreement, HOPE works with female OVC caregivers between the ages
of 24 and 60 years in the Oshana, Omusati, Ohangwena, and Oshikoto (North Central) Regions. The
country funding program supports work with elderly and OVC heads of households in the North Central
Regions and prevention activities with young women in the Kavango and Caprivi Regions. To date, over
1,900 female caregivers of OVC in the North Central Regions are participating in this program.
Approximately 100 households headed by elderly or OVC were added in FY08 and another 200 are
expected to be added in FY09.
During FY10, Project HOPE will begin to focus heavily on a deepening of the quality of services provided to
the households it reaches. Expansion of activities will be limited in comparison to previous years with focus
shifting toward ensuring that the economic impact of the Village Health Fund program and the care and
support services available to OVC are well monitored and delivered in accordance with best practices
learned since the Sustainable Strengthening of Families of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Program
began in 2005. This shift in focus is reflected in the reduction of activities in areas such as training new
volunteers and forming new Village Health Funds.
During FY10, Project HOPE plans to carry out the following activities with COP09 funding:
Activity 1: Continued economic strengthening provided to 300 elderly and junior head of household OVC
caregivers participating in VHF loan groups and completion of OVC
care and support training for caregivers enrolled in FY09.
- 100 OVC caregivers who received first micro loan during FY 09 complete the 16 session OVC care and
support training during the period.
- Subsequent loans of higher amounts made available to the 300 caregivers enrolled since FY 08,
contingent upon repayment history.
- Ongoing business skills training provided to all active loan recipients.
Activity 2: Collect socioeconomic data on caregivers and OVC through member profile and parenting map.
- All outstanding 12 month follow up member profiles and parenting maps collected.
Activity 3: Enroll and provide bursaries for 50 OVC to complete vocational training programs and support
graduates in securing apprenticeships with local enterprise. Vocations to include plumbing, welding, general
electrical, culinary arts/hospitality, hydroponics and others.
Activity 4: Project HOPE began exploration of expanding its OVC services in FY08 to include food and
nutritional supplementation. Activities in FY08 included: participating in a strategic task force on Enriched
Mahangu Porridge, pilot test of a prototype mix, discussions between possible suppliers and processing
plans. The aim of these activities is to coordinate the efforts of several stakeholders to produce a nutritional
supplement that can be made available for food aid distribution programs throughout Namibia. Project
HOPE would broker the procurement and processing of inputs grown by local suppliers for an Enriched
Mahangu Porridge that would be produced at local plants and made available for purchase by NGOs. At a
later stage, if the product proves to have a viable market, it will be made available for purchase to Project
HOPE's VHF members at wholesale prices to retail in communities as an IGA (to occur at later stage once
product has proven to have viable market). In FY 09, further steps need to be taken to realize the
production and distribution of the Fortified Mahangu Cereal:
- Further product testing to achieve the most palatable mix.
- Purchase agreements with local NGOs to secure a market for the product (CAA has verbally agreed to be
primary partner).
- Signing of MoU between Project HOPE, COSDEC and NNFU—this MoU will outline the various
arrangements that will ensure no breakdowns occur in the supply chain.
Activity 5: Project HOPE Namibia entered the Kavango and Caprivi regions in FY08, replicating the Village
generational sex, transactional sex and multiple partner concurrency. A portion of the women reached with
direct economic strengthening via micro loans and health care services through prevention education are
under the age of 18. The limited economic opportunities available to these young women result in
susceptibility to coercion into transactional sexual relationships. This vulnerability constitutes a need for
care through prevention activities that not only increase awareness of risk behavior, but expand access to
counseling services and psycho social support. To ensure these OVC are receiving needed services, the
prevention activities funded under HVAB are being incorporated into HKID country funding. Targets linked
Activity Narrative: to these activities are listed under the HVOP portion of this document.
Continuing Activity: 16201
16201 8026.08 U.S. Agency for Project HOPE 7376 4667.08 $730,000
8026 8026.07 U.S. Agency for Project HOPE 4667 4667.07 $650,311
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $51,850
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Commodities $120,000
Table 3.3.13:
