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
This is a continuing activity from FY 2007.
The aim of the expanded COPE project is to provide a comprehensive menu of services to OVC while
strengthening the capacity of families and the community to meet the needs of vulnerable children. In FY
2007, Africare is providing services to 2,350 OVC in the areas of education (1,064 in primary school, 300 in
secondary school) and vocational training (61), health care, nutrition, economic strengthening, psychosocial
support, and protection. Through Service Corps Volunteers (SCV), 38 COPE clubs were initiated - 30 in
schools and eight in the communities for out of school youth. In FY 2007, Africare trained 1,071 OVC
caregivers in IGA management, market responsiveness, psychosocial support, and caregiver roles and
responsibilities. In the same period, 260 peer educators were trained, who in turn trained 400 peer
counselors.
In FY 2008, Africare will increase the number of OVC to 3,450 who will benefit from their menu of services.
District officials, community leaders and OVC themselves will be instrumental in the process of selecting
beneficiaries and needed services. Africare will provide training in financial and program management to
new partner FBOs and CBOs. Africare will bring together religious leaders, teachers, district authorities, and
community members to form a multi-sectoral district-level Child Forum and Orphan Community Care (OCC)
committees to determine selection criteria and identify beneficiaries. This project will work with existing
government structures, such as district committees, MIGEPROF and the other EP OVC implementers to
deliver needed services to OVC.
This project will train community volunteers in psychosocial support, basic human rights for children,
nutrition, trauma processing, HIV prevention and monitoring the status of OVC and their families. These
volunteers will routinely visit the homes of beneficiaries using a family-centered, holistic approach in
delivering emotional support and referrals to other services. Volunteers will link sick OVC to health care
services and malnourished OVC to food assistance. The project will provide nutritional support and initiate
backyard gardens. COPE will train caregivers in IGA support areas and assist them in undertaking selected
income generation activities which have an identified commercial market. OVC will be enrolled in vocational
training schools and provided start-up kits upon graduation. COPE will provide relevant technical assistance
and capacity building to associations serving OVC in the local communities. Volunteers will create COPE
clubs supported through CBOs, FBOs, schools and PLHIV associations in the communities served by the
project. To avoid stigma, both OVC and non-OVC will participate in the club meetings which will serve to
deliver HIV education and recruit peer educators.
Using a three month curriculum, volunteers will train youth as peer educators to provide OVC and other
youth with correct information about HIV and AIDS; allow youth to understand their own risk factors; support
youth in abstaining from sex; fidelity; and develop youth's negotiation skills to sustain these healthy
practices. Particular attention will be given to the participation of OVC as peer educators. FBOs and CBOs
will organize caregiver support groups to provide additional psychosocial support for OVC and their
caregivers. The SCV will use the Child Status Index to appraise the effectiveness of services in effectuating
change in OVC's well-being. The COPE project will wrap around PMI and other on-going EP funded
programs such as Title II food (Africare is also a Title II implementing partner), immunization and vitamin A
distribution.
Africare recognizes that gender often determines the needs and roles of youth in communities and families,
as well as their access to services. Africare's approach ensures that both girls and boys are linked to
appropriate services according to their age group and identified needs, and that girls have access to
educational opportunities. This activity supports the Rwanda EP five-year strategy of mobilizing and
supporting local Rwandan organizations to provide community-based care for Rwanda's most vulnerable
children. It also supports two key legislative issues: stigma and discrimination, and increasing women's
access to income and productive resources.
