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.
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
The Salvation Army has declined future PEPFAR funding for FY 2009. The USG will recuit a new partner to
provide services to ensure that there is continuity in this activity in FY 2009.
In collaboration with the South African Department of Social Development (DOSD), PEPFAR funds will be
used to support the provision of OVC with access to a comprehensive coordinated range of services that
meet their needs. The new partner will implement interventions that provide care and protection services to
OVC and will work to ensure access to a comprehensive coordinated range of services that meet their
needs. Services will include psychosocial support, access to government grants and school fee exemption.
The Partner is expected to facilitate access to food nutrition and educational support (including assistance
with food parcels, uniforms and school materials). An emphasis area will be training and building the
capacity of volunteer caregivers to respond to the needs of OVC.
BACKGROUND:
The Partner that is currently providing services to OVC will no longer be doing so as of September 2009.
This COP represents a follow-on activity to identify another implementing partner to provide services to
OVC and ensure that services are continued.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
ACTIVITY 1: Training of volunteer caregivers and establishing quality training programs that will provide and
enhance skills of those providing care to OVC
The programs will be designed with appropriate curriculum, qualified trainers and have a mechanism in
which to measure the quality and impact of the training on promoting the well being of OVC. This partner
will ensure that capacity building is integral in providing quality comprehensive services to OVC and their
families. Training of primary and secondary caregivers in child and youth care work, ensuring linkages to
social security and child protection interventions as well as in the establishment of income generating
activities such as vegetable gardens, poultry farming and tailoring will all be part of the activities
implemented by this new partner.
ACTIVITY 2: Comprehensive OVC services
The partner will establish a program to deliver comprehensive and holistic support services to OVC and
provide focused bereavement counseling for OVC, specifically young people heading households who
struggle to cope with their own intense grief as well as the responsibilities of dealing with the grief of their
siblings which often manifests in different ways (bedwetting, depression). A further group that will be
focused on is the grannies heading households who struggle with intense grief related to the multiple losses
of their children, coupled with the stress of the responsibilities of raising many grandchildren of varying ages
in the context of poverty. In addition the care workers themselves may struggle with unresolved personal
grief and often have great difficulty providing good psychosocial support. The new partner will use some
funds to contract specialists in the area of bereavement and grief to strengthen the capacity of carers at all
levels.
ACTIVITY 3: Establishment of a referral process
The partner will establish a referral process for services that employs the "household-centered approach"
that links OVC families with other critical services that include PMTCT, care and support, treatment,
palliative care, etc.
ACTIVITY 4: Gender mainstreaming
The partner will implement gender interventions that address the priority gender issues affecting OVC care
in the target area.
The major components of this program are: a) capacity building in OVC program design and
implementation; b) collaboration and coordination with government and other services/programs for the
provision of quality care and support to OVC; 3) effective monitoring and evaluation and 4) gender
mainstreaming.
These activities are directly aligned to the South Africa Department of Social Development (DOSD) strategic
priorities for OVC in its national plan of action for OVC. Strategy one seeks to strengthen the capacity of
families to provide essential care and support for OVC. Strategy two seeks to mobilize communities to care
for OVC.
Activities will be aligned with the Department of Social Development's Policy Framework on OVC and the
OVC National Plan of Action and the SAG's HIV & AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2007-2011
and other government responses related to meeting the needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS. The
new partner will also explore co-funding opportunities with DOSD, other donors and the private sector
where possible.
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SUMMARY: The Salvation Army will provide OVC with a comprehensive range of services through the
establishment of OVC Support Centers, which will offer psychosocial support, access to government grants
for eligible OVC, school fee exemption, and referrals to other service providers such as social workers.
Through leveraging community resources, trained community members will also facilitate access to feeding
schemes and educational support (including assistance with uniforms and school materials). The major and
minor emphasis area for this activity is training and building the capacity of the volunteer caregivers to
respond more effectively to the needs of the OVC, community mobilization/participation and the
Activity Narrative: development of networks, linkages and referral systems. Key target populations are OVC, families affected
by HIV and AIDS, caregivers and volunteers.
The Salvation Army is an international Christian denomination with specific community programs to address
all aspects of HIV and AIDS through community-based care and prevention programming including home-
based care, psychosocial support for OVC, individualized pre- and post-test counseling, clinical care for
opportunistic infections, community counseling, and youth mobilization. Salvation Army developed Matsoho
A Thuso, a care and prevention model in November 2004 with PEPFAR funding. This model includes care
and support activities for OVC in accordance with South African Government (SAG) OVC policy. Salvation
Army works to capacitate communities to care for OVC through training volunteers, offering outreach
services and mobilizing community resources. The project currently operates in 70 sites in eight of South
Africa's nine provinces, many of which are in rural and underserved areas. In FY 2007 Salvation Army will
intensify and enhance OVC care and support activities through training new caregivers as well as retraining
existing caregivers on a range of care and support services for OVC and their families.
ACTIVITY 1: Training
To respond to the needs of OVC, The Salvation Army has developed a training course for its community
networks to establish and strengthen services for OVC. Volunteers attend a 5-day training course based on
a collection of resources used practically in the field to equip them with skills to employ child-friendly
interactive methodologies to identify and support OVC and to set up OVC Support Centers in their
communities, providing children with a range of support services. The collection of resources that will be
used includes practical exercises which cover the following topics: defining and identifying OVC, practical
skills for care and support, establishing and managing an OVC support center, understanding and
accessing the SAG social support system, and basic monitoring and evaluation. Community volunteers are
identified and profiled from local congregations and return to serve their communities after training
increasing community support for OVC. Community volunteers will be provided with ongoing, on-site
support and mentorship by skilled program staff. In the period ending June 2006, 85 volunteers were trained
as OVC caregivers. In FY 2007 the Salvation Army will train additional caregivers to expand service delivery
and enhance the quality of care provided through intensive supervision.
ACTIVITY 2: Establishment of OVC Support Centers
This activity involves the establishment of OVC Support Centers in communities where The Salvation Army
already has a presence. Through extensive outreach to churches, community leaders and networks,
community volunteers will inform the community of the establishment of the OVC Support Center and its
services. As a result of this outreach, OVC will come to the OVC Support Center where their needs will be
assessed and documented. OVC will then be provided with a comprehensive range of services based on
each child's individual needs that include, but are not limited to, psychosocial support (primarily through
child-friendly participatory approaches), building resilience, life skills and assistance in accessing SAG
social support systems (including HIV prevention advocacy on behalf of OVC and their families). Volunteers
will also negotiate with schools to help OVC obtain school-fee exemptions to ensure OVC have access to
education. In addition, OVC will be linked to existing community resources for the provision of food, school
uniforms and supplies. All outreach activities will be sensitive to gender and will address gender issues that
arise in the equity of access to services through the routine monitoring of service data. Any imbalances
detected will be addressed. In the period ending June 2006, Salvation Army provided services to just over
2000 OVC. FY 2007 funding will be used to intensify and enhance OVC services. Salvation Army will
facilitate the referral system to ensure that the OVC have access to health and treatment services.
ACTIVITY 3: Establishment of referral networks and linkages
When volunteers identify cases they are not equipped to deal with, referrals will be made to relevant service
providers such as child protection services, health care providers and social workers. The Salvation Army
will form linkages and partnerships with existing specialized service providers such as social workers,
police, child protection units and child health systems to improve and/or increase access to such services
as well as to public and private institutions providing pediatric ARV treatment and services for HIV-infected
children. Through utilizing established networks (such as women's groups, study groups, and Sunday
School programs) and private and public sector partnerships, the Salvation Army will be able to access
other community resources to further enhance OVC outreach initiatives. Reports on activities and data will
be routinely forwarded to the local Departments of Social Development to share data and information
contributing to national statistics of the OVC profiles the country and leveraging more support and resources
for the OVC. This will improve the quality of service delivery and the services rendered and ensure that the
program is in line with SAG policy, guidelines and priorities. With the incorporation of Abaqulusi child
survival program and Community youth and OVC response into Matsoho A Thuso, attention will be given to
documenting the best practices from their way of working and try and replicate them in other service hubs.
Wherever feasible, The Salvation Army will retain the knowledge and services of the staff and volunteers
associated with the Abaqulusi Child Survival program Northern KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape
Community Youth and OVC response program.
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
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