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: 2007 2008 2009
In 1994, Peace Corps closed its program in Rwanda due to political instability in the country. At the
invitation of the GOR, Peace Corps will re-establish its presence in Rwanda in FY 2008. Peace
Corps/Rwanda (PC/R) will recruit 35 volunteers, including 20 for the community development (CD) sector
and 15 for the education sector. Projects in these two sectors will be designed in the context of Rwanda's
Vision 2020 and decentralization plan. In the first year, 20 CD volunteers will be assigned to and
collaborate closely with Rwandan administrative authorities at the district, sector, cell and umudugudu
levels; international and Rwandan NGOs; C/FBOs; associations; cooperatives; and private sector partners.
The primary assignment of the first group of 15 education volunteers' will be teaching English, information
technology, math, or science. All volunteers will receive training in Kinyarwanda and French, live and work
for two years at the community level, and collaborate with their counterparts to build capacity and support
sustainable HIV prevention efforts.
In alignment with the GOR and EP strategies, volunteers will help build the capacity of rural communities to
develop comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention strategies. CD volunteers will conduct community-based
training and other outreach efforts focused on prevention through abstinence and being faithful. Education
volunteers will incorporate HIV/AIDS prevention activities into their classrooms, train fellow teachers, and
organize after school programs.
In its initial year, PC/R's EP program will concentrate on strategic assignment of volunteers within EP
priority districts to facilitate linkages between providers of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and other
wraparound services. Volunteers may be placed with other EP-funded organizations and institutions to help
build their capacity to integrate HIV prevention into broader community development initiatives. All
volunteers, regardless of assignment, will receive comprehensive EP-funded HIV/AIDS pre-service and in-
service training and will be expected to integrate HIV prevention activities into their work. To ensure
consistent messaging as well as strengthen PC/R's capacity for networking and collaboration, training will
be conducted in partnership with GOR and EP partners. Volunteers will have access to a EP-funded grants
mechanism, Volunteer Activity Support and Training (VAST), which provides funding for small community-
initiated projects, training and educational events related to AB prevention. PC/R will reproduce training and
messaging materials developed by other partners.
In accordance with the EP prevention guidance, volunteers will undertake specific activities that may include
collaboration with PSI, CHAMP, and other EP-funded partners to strengthen AB prevention efforts at the
community and district levels; building the institutional capacity of C/FBOs and associations in strategic
planning,M&E, and project development; development and strengthening of community-based activities
focused on partner reduction; reducing trans-generational sex and informal transactional sex; increasing
girls/women's empowerment, male involvement and male norms; strengthening youth friendly health
centers; helping to establish discordant couples' groups and activities focused on PFPs; and promotion of
TC.
Funding for this activity covers start-up costs that will include office expenses, personal services contracts
for host country national staff, all costs associated with supporting the 20 CD volunteers, and training
materials development. These costs will be split proportionally between the HVAB and HVOP program
areas. Peace Corps expects to field US direct hire staff in Rwanda by February 2008, with the first group of
35 volunteers arriving for 10 weeks of pre-service training on or about October 2008.
training and other outreach efforts focused on prevention through abstinence, being faithful, and consistent
and correct condom use. Education volunteers will incorporate HIV/AIDS prevention activities into their
classrooms, train fellow teachers, and organize after school programs.
collaboration with PSI, CHAMP, and other EP-funded partners to strengthen prevention efforts at the
planning, M&E, and project development; development and strengthening of community-based activities
girls'/women's empowerment, male involvement and male norms; strengthening youth friendly health
centers; helping to establish discordant couples groups and activities focused on prevention for positives;
and promotion of TC.
