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: 2008 2009
Pact, through its Community REACH project will continue to provide a mechanism for rapidly providing
assistance, through grants, to local organizations that include but are not limited to non-governmental
(NGO), community-based (CBO) and faith-based (FBO) organizations that have the potential to support
both the USG objectives and those of the Government of Nigeria (GoN) in HIV prevention programming. In
order to work towards sustainability, Pact would emphasize host country organizational capacity building
and technical assistance as important elements of an effective sub-grant program. COP09 funding is
provided in the sexual transmission prevention program area but as a result of this emphasis, indicator
targets and reporting are to be found in the health systems strengthening program area.
In COP 09, Community Reach will address key gaps in abstinence, be faithful, and condom and other
prevention (ABC) programming in Nigeria, such as: low capacity of local partners to implement large-scale
programs; lack of a comprehensive package to promote abstinence, fidelity and related changes in
communities and social norms; lack of FBO and CBO organizational capacity to implement high quality ABC
prevention programming that will bring about effective behavior change interventions with harmonized
messaging; poor coverage of rural areas with prevention programming; inadequate monitoring and
supervision skills of implementing partners; weak referral networks between facility and community-based
partners; too few programs that address the needs of adolescents, particularly females; and a paucity of
programs that address youth who are transitioning from abstinence to becoming sexually active.
In COP08, ABC partners provided a recommended minimum package of services from a pool of established
best practices to reach a target. These best practices include: the peer education model; "PEP plus" model;
curriculum and non-curriculum based school programs, community awareness campaigns; and
interventions that address age-appropriate income generation activities and essential life skills, among
others. In COP08, partners utilized a minimum of three of these interventions to reach a target and these
were reinforced with mass media activities. The minimum package of services ensures that the intended
behavior change outcomes are achieved and provides a proxy tool for measuring targets reached with ABC
services.
In order to both increase the capacity of local organizations to deliver HIV services and to expand the ability
of the USG/Nigeria team to meet its PEPFAR goals for COP 09, the USG/Nigeria team has determined that
it is necessary to add an additional capacity-building model to its current portfolio.
PACT will continue to mobilize and support community-based responses to ABC programming through an
effective and transparent grant award and administration system for the provision of responsive, fast-track
grant-making assistance to organizations responding to identified gaps in the ABC prevention program of
Nigeria. PACT will also provide HIV/AIDS implementers with access to financial resources and high quality
technical expertise to assist in achieving and effectively reporting results while complying with USG financial
and administrative requirements and build sustainability through provision of technical assistance to local
sub-grantees in their capacity to deliver quality ABC services at the grassroots level. The PACT Community
REACH program aims to strengthen referrals and linkages for increased access to ABC programs through
capacity-building of sub-grantees, fostering sustainability, and documenting evidence-based best practices,
lessons learned and new approaches, tools, and methodologies by engaging with local sub-grantees and
creating economic advancement opportunities through the active engagement of private or business sectors
in work force development for persons affected by HIV/AIDS and other caregivers.
PACT/Community REACH's ABC program will also continue to focus on quickly mobilizing local/indigenous
civil society organizations (CSOs), NGOs, and FBOs in the Southeast, North Central and South-South
geopolitical regions of Nigeria to play essential roles in filling the gaps identified in the ABC Prevention
services and provide grants to these grassroots organizations for comprehensive ABC services delivery
according to OGAC guidance and in line with the government of Nigeria HIV Prevention Plan and the
Nigeria strategic framework. Capacity building and service delivery capacity support will be provided to
these organizations to enable them to be sustainable and eligible to directly access donor funding.
PACT/Community Reach will identify, map and provide grants to established CBOs formed from ongoing
prevention program efforts and provide technical support to enhance their ability to continue providing
behavior maintenance activities in their rural communities.
Specific programmatic gaps that PACT/Community REACH will address include: mobilization of funding and
sub-granting to these organizations for ABC services provision; and assistance to indigenous CSOs, CBOs
and FBOs to develop strong programming, management and monitoring skills, with the ultimate goal of
graduating these local sub-partners to becoming prime partners themselves. PACT/Community REACH in
COP 09 will support 250 local/indigenous CSOs, CBOs and FBOs identified in the South-South, South East
and North Central geo-political zones of Nigeria with capacity building and/or small grants.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA
This program will contribute to PEPFAR goal of capacity development and system strengthening of local
and indigenous organizations for provision and sustenance of HIV prevention activities. It also contributes to
increased coverage and reach of the PERPFAR prevention program to the most in need (rural areas and
grass root populations).
LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES
Activities will be linked to Human Capacity Development, Gender, HCT, PMTCT, TB HIV, treatment, care
and SI.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED
The target populations for these activities will include individuals in the rural areas reached by local and
grass root indigenous organizations offering ABC prevention services in these rural areas. Population will
include men, women, youths, children and PLWHAs in the rural areas.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 18182
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
18182 18182.08 U.S. Agency for Pact, Inc. 7143 7143.08 USAID Track $500,000
International 2.0 FS
Development Community
Reach
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Addressing male norms and behaviors
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.02:
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
Table 3.3.03:
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAY
In COP09, PACT/Nigeria, also known as Community Reach, will continue to serve 8,000 Orphans and
Vulnerable Children (OVC), through providing grants to community-based organizations (CBOs) in order to
mobilize and support community-based responses to OVC. It will actively engage the private sector in order
to promote economic advancement opportunities for older OVC and caregivers. Four thousand OVC will
receive food and nutritional supplements. PACT/Nigeria will build sustainability by implementing evidence-
based best practices, lessons learned, new approaches, and tools and methodologies. Activities will also
focus on formalizing network of OVC Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and supporting the process
of transforming this into an umbrella granting organization
COP08 Narrative
Activity Narrative: ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:
This is a new activity and it links to all the other activities in the USG OVC portfolio. Analysis of the current
USG Nigeria OVC portfolio, conducted by the USG Nigeria's OVC TWG and reinforced by
recommendations from previous technical assistance (TA) assessments, has identified a number of key
programmatic gaps: current paucity of indigenous partners to take programs to scale; poor understanding of
OVC definitions by implementing partners; inadequate monitoring and supervision; weak referral networks
between facility-based and community-based partners; lack of coverage in high prevalence states; and few
programs addressing the needs of adolescent OVC, particularly females. In addition to these programmatic
gaps, the analysis identified a number of contracting constraints, as the in-country capacity for making
awards to new partners is constrained by the current capacity of indigenous, civil society organizations
(CSOs) to respond to the contracting regulations that exist in USG agencies. PACT/Community REACH
has the mandate and capacity to engage local partners through granting, in order to ensure quality and
comprehensive services at the grassroots level to OVCs, and to build organizational management capacity
that supports the graduation of sub-partners to prime, indigenous partners, and therefore can help fill these
needs.
Based on these findings, USG Nigeria developed a Leader with Associate (LWA) Proposal under the
PACT/Community REACH mechanism, Cooperative Agreement managed out of the Office of HIV/AIDS in
the Global Health Bureau at USAID/W. PACT/Community REACH was selected because it has
demonstrated capacity to quickly identify and provide grants to local CSOs in a range of technical areas
related to prevention, care and support, and program-related data collection and analysis.
The Nigeria OVC LWA focuses on PACT/Community REACH's ability to:
1. Quickly mobilize local/indigenous CSOs, NGOs, and FBOs in the Southeast, North Central and South-
South geopolitical regions of Nigeria that are playing essential roles in the fight against HIV/AIDS to provide
OVC and prevention services.
2. Provide grants to these organizations for comprehensive OVC services delivery according to OGAC
guidance and in line with the government of Nigeria Plan of Action for OVC and Standards of practice.
3. Support Organizational Capacity building and service delivery capacity building for these groups to
enable them to be more sustainable and eligible to directly access donor funding.
4. In the OVC program area, collaborate with USG policy programs tasked with facilitating the formation of
National Network of Civil Society organizations implementing OVC activities to establish a national umbrella
program for providing grants to members of the network.
Specific programmatic gaps that the LWA with PACT/Community REACH address include:
1. Mobilization of funding to organizations playing valuable roles in the fight against HIV/AIDS
a. PACT will quickly identify indigenous CSOs and sub-grant to them for OVC services. PACT will provide
organizational capacity development, which builds the capacity of PACT grantees to develop strong
programming, management and monitoring skills, with the goal of local sub-partners graduating to prime
partners.
b. Increase USG Nigeria's geographic areas of OVC service provision. Currently there is a dearth of OVC
services within the Southeast, South-South, and North Central regions of Nigeria, and grantee recruitment
will be focused in these regions. Community-based and faith-based organizations in particular will be
targeted as sub-grantees.
2. Provision of technical assistance to local sub-grantees to deliver quality OVC services at the grassroots
level. TA will be needed for accurate identification of OVC that qualify for services. Currently there is weak
understanding of the Nigerian definition of what children fall under the category of orphaned or vulnerable.
Activities will be designed to build provider understanding of who is eligible for OVC services, and work with
communities and clinical service providers to identify all children that are eligible for services. TA will also be
provided to PACT grantees to enable application of a holistic OVC service provision model. All OVC service
providers should know and understand the standard level of care for each of the 6+1 services. All OVC will
receive at least 3 of these services, one of which must be psychosocial support. These services
should be delivered through a family-centered and community-based model, that reaches out to all children
in a family infected/affected by HIV/AIDS using standards and practices that have been developed with
USG support and GON collaboration.
PACT Community REACH activities will also ensure a multi-program and multi-sectoral referral system. All
community-based and facility-based OVC service providers in a state should be aware of the geographic
regions where other partners are working, and collaborate to form linkages and referrals between clinical
and community-based care. Wherever possible, community partners should engage with and to link to
clinical service providers, refer clients for HCT, care, and treatment, accept client referrals, and use this as a
starting point to engage families in order to assist all children infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
PACT/Community REACH will also engage with local sub-grantees to promote sustainability and document
evidence-based best practices, lessons learned and new approaches, tools and methodologies. Work with
sub-grantees will also focus on developing robust M&E plans that articulate utilization of the Child Status
Index and GON tools to ensure high-quality programming.
Activity Narrative: CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA:
This activity substantively contributes to the overall USG Nigeria's 5-Year Strategy and to the
implementation of Nigeria's National Plan of Action on OVC by developing and strengthening capacity of
indigenous CBOs, FBOs and NGOs for service delivery to OVC. The organizational capacity building
component of this activity helps sustainability as the sub-grantees develop the potential to be prime
recipients of donor funding The suggested targets are determined based on the current estimated cost per
target for a minimum package of OVC interventions. As this is an LWA mechanism, the final targets will be
vetted thru OGAC, and uploaded into COPRS after final award negotiations. The programs and activities
implemented will increase the reach of OVC underserved populations and geographic areas with fairly high
HIV/AIDS prevalence in comparison with the national average.
LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES:
The activities implemented under the PACT/Community REACH award will achieve set targets for OVC
served and caregivers trained while also providing clear linkages between their own activities and the wider
OVC portfolio as implemented by other IPs. The emphasis on dissemination of best practices will also help
develop the sustainability.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED:
Populations targeted in these activities will include all OVC with special emphasis on reaching the hard to
reach populations. Also targeted are community members, traditional leaders, religious leaders, and the
men and women who act as caregivers for OVC.
EMPHASIS AREAS:
There is a strong emphasis on local organization capacity development and service delivery at grass root
level. Other emphasis areas include community mobilization; development of network/linkages/referral
system; information, education and communication and linkages with other sectors and initiatives.
Continuing Activity: 16301
16301 16301.08 U.S. Agency for Pact, Inc. 7143 7143.08 USAID Track $1,500,000
Table 3.3.13:
