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: 2010 2011
These funds will be used to support technical area staff.
Peace Corps Rwanda will support volunteers to engage in sexual prevention activities aiming at promoting abstinence and being faithful messages in the general population in Rwanda. Since reopening, the program has sworn in 20 PEPFAR volunteers, and has assigned them to 11 of the 22 GOR's priority districts. They are conducting community-based training, outreach and education on sexual prevention and have effectively reached 6,000 youth and adults with AB intervention activities.
In terms of geographic coverage, PEPFAR-supported Peace Corps volunteers are currently working in Ngoma, Kamonyi, Karongi, Nyamsheke, Ngororero, Nyarugenge, Ruhango, Nyamagabe, Muhanga and Rwamagana districts. Expansion of activities to other districts, where health services are still scarce is the future goal.
In FY 2010, Peace Corps Volunteers will be placed with local organizations promoting abstinence and
faithfulness among in- and out-of-school youth and young married couples. Data from the DHS 2005 indicate that women are infected at younger ages than men. Further, HIV prevalence in youth aged 15- 24 years is 1.5% for females compared to 0.4% in males. To help mitigate HIV transmission, Peace Corps volunteers will live and work at their respective communities for two and a half years, at the sector and district levels, where they will scale up prevention activities targeting most-at-risk populations. Specifically, they will work closely with local partners to conduct 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 prevention for positives, and promotion of testing and counseling. Lastly, they will facilitate linkages between providers of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment.
Peace Corps volunteers receive different trainings to promote quality assurance of their work: • Pre-Service Training (PST): Trainees receive health technical training that prepare them to start work on HIV and AIDS related activities. • In-Service Training (IST) and Mid-Service: Volunteers receive health technical training that helps in building their capacity and develop their competencies and skills on HIV and AIDS activities.
Peace Corps mechanisms for M&E include: • Peace Corps volunteer quarterly reports: Volunteers submit quarterly reports of the HIV/AIDS activities which are reviewed by Peace Corps staff; these reports are recorded into a Volunteer Information Database. • Peace Corps volunteers site visits: Staff regularly visit to monitor and supervise volunteers HIV/AIDS activities in collaboration with volunteers host agencies. • Counterpart/Supervisor surveys: Help in identification of Peace Corps effectiveness of their HIV/AIDS activities.
Peace Corps Rwanda will support volunteers to engage in condoms and other sexual prevention activities at the grass roots level in Rwanda's imidugudu and sectors. Since reopening, the program has sworn in 20 PEPFAR volunteers, and has assigned them to 11 of the 22 GOR's priority districts. There, they are tasked to help reinforce the GOR's efforts in the prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission. Through collaboration with their counterparts, volunteers have carried out various HIV other prevention activities throughout their communities.
In FY 2009, under the HVOP program area, Peace Corps conducted HIV/AIDS training during pre- service and in-service trainings. To ensure consistent messaging as well as strengthen PC/R's capacity for networking and collaboration, training was conducted in partnership with GOR and other PEPFAR partners.
Request for funding for the HVOP program area will decrease for FY 2010, and will support costs associated with the 27 month long service of 20 new Peace Corps volunteers who will support various local partners develop and implement prevention programs that address consistent and correct condom use, STI management, GBV, alcohol use and other critical behaviors and/or norms that may increase risk to HIV. Peace Corps volunteers activities' will target the overall population, and will include women, men, youth, OVCs, PLWHA, and MARPs.
In terms of geographic coverage, PEPFAR-supported volunteers are currently working in Ngoma, Kamonyi, Karongi, Nyamsheke, Ngororero, Nyarugenge, Ruhango, Nyamagabe, Muhanga and Rwamagana districts. Post hopes to expand volunteer activities to other PEPFAR districts, where health services are still scarce.
In FY 2010, Peace Corps volunteers will continue to promote HVOP activities at the community, sector and district levels. Specifically they will focus on strengthening youth friendly health centers and anti- AIDs clubs, establishing discordant couples' groups, promoting correct and consistent condom use, testing and counseling and prevention for positives. Additionally, they will facilitate linkages between providers of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and other wrap-around services. Peace Corps/Rwanda will also support volunteers getting involved in cross-cutting projects, reinforcing host agencies' efforts in the integration of health education with nutrition and income generating activities. This is timely, as kitchen gardens and food security were identified by the GOR as a priority in the fight against HIV/AIDS, poverty, malnutrition and other health issues.
Peace Corps volunteers receive different trainings to promote quality assurance of their work: • Pre-Service Training (PST): Trainees receive health technical training that prepare them to start work on HIV and AIDS related activities. • In-Service Training (IST) and Mid-Service: Volunteers receive health technical training that helps in building their capacity and develop their competencies and skills on HIV/AIDS activities.
Peace Corps mechanisms for M&E include: • Peace Corps volunteer quarterly reports: Volunteers submit quarterly reports of the HIV/AIDS activities which are reviewed by Peace Corps staff; these reports are recorded into a Volunteer Information
Database. • Peace Corps volunteers site visits: Staff regularly visit to monitor and supervise volunteers HIV/AIDS activities in collaboration with volunteers host agencies • Counterpart/Supervisor surveys: Help in identification of Peace Corps effectiveness of their HIV/AIDS activities.
