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.
Gembu Centre for HIV/AIDS Advocacy Nigeria's (GECHAAN) The New Tomorrow's Project (TNTP) is
presently operating in Sardauna Local Governance Area (LGA) in Taraba State. By the end of COP 08,
TNTP will have conducted surveys and advocacy meetings in three additional sites—Gashaka, Kurmi and
Bali in Taraba State—preparatory for expansion to these 3 LGAs in COP 09.
GECHAAN will expand its prevention program into three additional LGAs in 2009, namely, Gashaka, Kurmi
and Bali. GECHAAN will work with LGA council officials and traditional councils to mobilize support for the
project in their communities. TNTP prevention awareness creation activities will utilize community
discussion forums, such as village meeting sessions and ‘core encounter' support group sessions to
disseminate HIV prevention messages and also to discuss community norms and social structures that
increase risky sexual behavior. Other community awareness campaigns will include focus group
discussions, rallies, and community dialogues in all the project sites. Mass media strategies, such as the
"Voices of Hope" will be used to reinforce messages. TNTP will produce TV and Radio jingles that will be
aired weekly to reach a wide range of viewers and listeners in the project sites. Additionally, experts in the
field of HIV/AIDS will be invited to discuss relevant topics or issues on HIV/AIDS prevention messages on
the weekly broadcasts. Using this medium, advertisements regarding the organization and its services will
also be aired.
GECHAAN will emphasize HIV prevention education with women, youth and couples. GECHAAN will
extend the abstinence clubs initiative that has already started in Sardauna LGA secondary schools and
communities, and will also conduct youth prevention activities in the expanded project sites. In community
forums, youth will have the opportunity to spend time with adult and youth role models to discuss their
concerns and effective HIV prevention methods. Parents will be encouraged to be good role models and
will be provided with skills to facilitate meaningful parent/child communication sessions in their homes. Such
support will come from workshop trainings and IEC materials to enable parents to communicate more
easily, accurately and effectively with their children on HIV/AIDS. Education seminars will also be provided
for Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK) and Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) teachers on HIV/AIDS
prevention messages. This will help strengthen moral values in schools in our service areas and lead to the
formation of Religious Teachers Association on HIV/AIDS prevention. This has already begun in Sardauna
LGA. TNTP will also collaborate with National Youth Service Corps and similar groups to strengthen the
fight against HIV prevention in our service areas among youth.
Only individuals reached with three intervention strategies will be counted as being reached in accordance
with the national prevention plan minimum package. These interventions will include curricula/non-curricula
based approach, peer education (PE), and the ‘peer education plus' (PEP) model.
Youth prevention messages will focus on: the importance of abstinence in preventing HIV transmission
among unmarried individuals; deciding to delay sexual activity until marriage; development of skills among
unmarried individuals for practicing abstinence; and the adoption of social and community norms that
support delaying sex until marriage and discourage/denounce forced sexual activity among unmarried
individuals.
Be faithful messages targeting married adults and couples will be focused on: the importance of being
faithful and the role of fidelity in reducing the transmission of HIV among individuals in sexual relationships;
elimination of casual sex and multiple sexual partnerships; developments of skills for sustaining marital
fidelity; the adoption of social and community norms supportive of marital fidelity and partner reduction
using strategies that respect and respond to local customs and norms; and adoption of community social
norms that denounce forced sexual activity in marriage or in long-term partnerships.
GECHAAN will also organize seminars and/or trainings on micro finance, positive alternative sources of
livelihood, skills acquisition, and essential life skills training for target groups in the project sites.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA:
The GECHAAN project will contribute to prevention of new infections through Abstinence and Be faithful
strategies that reach 12,500 persons (5,150 males and 7,350 females). 7,000 persons (2,750 males and
4,250 females) will be reached with abstinence only strategies within the national response. GECHAN will
provide training to 1,200 individual in COP09.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED:
Target populations of the A/B Prevention messages include women, couples and youths, PLWHA, OVC and
HIV/AIDS affected families, and community leaders.
LINKAGES: This program is linked to HCT, treatment and care, and home based care. The ‘core encounter
support group forum' for PLWHAs will also link with facility based services for prevention with positive
interventions. This program will also work in synergy with its OVC component to provide prevention services
to orphans and vulnerable children.
EMPHASIS AREAS: An emphasis area will be community forums that discuss norms and behaviors that will
contribute to gender equity in accessing services and address some of the disparities that have placed
women at greater disadvantage. Prevention activities will target both sexes with behavior change
communication that promotes healthier concepts of maleness among the youth. This will reduce the
vulnerability of women and girls to abuse, sexual coercion and also discourage multiple sexual partnerships.
Effective parent/child communication will be emphasized as well.
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Addressing male norms and behaviors
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $120,000
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.02:
Gembu Centre for HIV/AIDS Advocacy Nigeria in The New Tomorrow's Project (TNTP) is presently
operating in Sardauna LGA in Taraba State. By the end of COP 08, TNTP would have conducted surveys
and advocacy meetings in three additional sites: Gashaka, Kurmi and Bali in Taraba State. In COP 09,
TNTP will expand to the three (3) LGAs.
The overall objective of the OVC program in The New Tomorrow's Project (TNTP) is to provide a
comprehensive plan of care and support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, ensuring their protection and
the provision of their basic needs through a community based service delivery and TNTP foster care
program.
In COP 09 GECHAAN will strengthen our Foster Care home program in Sardauna LGA, otherwise known
as the Mambilla Plateau, and extend same to Kurmi, Gashaka and Bali LGAs of Taraba State. We will work
closely with communities to keep orphans in those communities by establishing more caring and loving
homes where married couples care for orphaned and vulnerable children. This is a complex issue and
needs our continued careful and thorough attention to ensure that children have love, safe shelter, food,
clothing, medical care, and educational opportunities. We will work with leaders in our target communities
to identify orphans; and to select, recruit, and train suitable foster parents. We will also provide ongoing
counseling and support to both foster parents and the OVC themselves. In each community, we will
establish a committee of foster parents that will meet monthly to share and resolve problems and celebrate
accomplishments.
GECHAAN will provide small quarterly grants to foster parents to cover school fees, uniforms and supplies;
medical expenses; clothing; and augmentation of the family food budget. To ensure that the money is used
appropriately, GECHAAN staff will visit every community monthly. They will visit the schools, observe and
talk with the children, and interview teachers to see whether the children are wearing their uniforms and are
clean and alert. They will also meet with each foster parent to review expenditures for the quarter, using a
simple tracking card that each foster parent is expected to fill out, and checking receipts for purchases and
medical services.
GECHAAN will also implement additional controls on the program to ensure that families are effectively
utilizing the tools provided and that the OVC are receiving proper care. Specifically, these will include:
training sessions for new foster parents; monthly visits to the foster care homes to assess the situation and
ensure that OVC are receiving proper care; grant program (mini loan) to assist foster parents in receiving
training for better jobs, thus making them less dependent on assistance from our program; and guidance
counselors who will evaluate the children's educational needs and work with GECHAAN leadership team to
determine what opportunities will be available for them.
GECHAAN will place 2,550 OVC in care to receive primary direct services.
TNTP OVC program in Sardauna LGA has recorded great achievements. The OVC in care who were not in
school due to financial problems are now enrolled back in school. Foster parents can now provide food,
clothing and medical expenses to OVC from the augmented quarterly allowance given them. Most
importantly is that OVC in the foster parent care system stay within their own communities, are in touch with
their languages, customs, and traditions as opposed to the system of institutionalized orphan care.
This activity is linked with AIDSRelief supported palliative care for OVC. We will continue the ongoing work
with the AIDSRelief supported program for our OVC. Society for Family Health (SFH) support for providing
the children with ITN will also continue.
Training in caring for OVC will be provided to 877 providers/caregivers. These trainings will include training
for Foster Parents, Ward Managers and Regional Supervisors. 2,550 OVC will receive food and nutritional
supplementation through the OVC program.
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $10,000
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Food and Nutrition: Commodities $50,000
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education $260,000
Table 3.3.13:
