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.
This activity relates to HKID (8148, 8152).
Title II Food for Peace activities under CRS began in Rwanda in January 2001 with the objective of addressing food insecurity and responding to emergency drought situations. To date, CRS with its partner Caritas has increasingly targeted households affected by HIV/AIDS. Title II funding supports and enhances CRS' EP-funded activities for PLWHA and OVC. Title II direct food aid and nutritional information activities currently benefit thousands of HIV/AIDS affected households in Rwanda. USAID/Rwanda will support these important wrap-around programs by providing EP funding for four CRS staff positions - two Nutrition Officers and two Commodity Logistics Officers.
The primary objective of CRS' food security and HIV/AIDS initiative is to improve the health and nutritional status of PLWHA and OVC. CRS and its partner Caritas implement this Title II project in the districts of Gisagara and Huye in the Southern province and in the districts of Karongi and Ngororero in the Western province. Outside the city of Kigali, the Western and Southern provinces have the highest incidence of HIV infection, with 2.7% of adults in Southern Province and 3.2% of adults in Western Province testing positive (2005 RDHS-III). CRS identified the four selected districts based on their high levels of food insecurity. Additionally, in April 2006, an emergency food security assessment conducted by WFP identified Huye and Gisagara districts as two out of the five most severely food insecure districts in the country, with 18% of the population classified as severely food insecure. As such, these targeted districts are extremely food insecure. CRS' food aid program currently provides 4,400 beneficiaries with a multi-year food aid package. In FY 2007, CRS will move to a six-month food support package to follow the new national food aid guidelines.
In FY 2007, the EP funding will support two Nutrition Officers and two Commodity Logistics Officers to help expand and manage CRS' food aid and HIV/AIDS project. CRS and its partners work with PLWHA associations and OVC to provide a package of food security activities focused on supporting human capabilities of vulnerable food insecure households. The package will include: 1) time limited (six month) food distributions to targeted households; 2) education in nutrition and hygiene practices with an emphasis on the needs of PLWHA, OVCs and those on ART; 3) training in improved farming techniques through Farmer Field Schools; 4) provision of improved seed varieties through seed fairs; and 5) a savings mobilization program to build savings and enhance access to credit.
The two Nutrition Officers will oversee the above activities involving nutritional education - training and supervising the volunteers and Caritas staff and collaborating with the other partners in the four districts. These two staff positions will help ensure that the PLWHA and OVC referred to CRS' food aid program receive comprehensive services from the health facilities and community-based programs in the area. The Nutrition Officers will also increase the overall integration of CRS' Title II and PEPFAR programming. In addition to Title II activities, CRS and Caritas support OVC and AB Track 1 prevention activities in Gisagara and Huye. CRS and Caritas also implement multiple HIV/AIDS related programs in Karongi and Ngororero districts with Title II and CHAMP funding. The two Commodity Logistics Officers will be responsible for ensuring that all USG commodities are handled correctly and accounted for according to regulations until they reach the final beneficiaries. These positions will supervise the warehouse staff, verify all warehouse reports for accuracy, report on delivery and warehouse losses, and dispose of any damaged food.
This funding will allow CRS to target its Title II resources to support more beneficiaries and more volunteers while at the same time providing the staffing needed to manage the increase in program activity. CRS plans to reach a total of 8,800 HIV-affected households, or 44,000 individuals with food aid. There are no direct or indirect targets for this activity as the beneficiaries will be directly counted by other partners providing PLWHA and OVC services.
This activity addresses the key legislative issue of food wrap around. This activity reflects the ideas presented in the Rwanda EP five-year strategy by integrating and linking PEPFAR programming with other USAID programming.
