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.
SUMMARY:
This is a new activity in FY 2009. In collaboration with the South African Department of Social Development
(DOSD), PEPFAR funds will be used to co-fund activities that support the protection and care of OVC. This
activity will focus co-funding and supporting programs that the DOSD would like to scale up as well as
activities that encourage and entrench collaboration between partners across the entire spectrum of service
areas.
A service provider to implement this activity will be selected in October 2009. USAID will expand its
collaboration and partnering with the South Africa Department of Social Development in areas that promote
the well-being of OVC in the country and will seek to co-fund activities that support the protection and care
of OVC, with the goal being a defined area of cooperation and co-funding scale up activities in the OVC
arena.
BACKGROUND:
In 2008, the USG has collaborated with the DOSD in providing assistance in the development of an
effective monitoring plan to develop indicators to measure progress being made under the National Action
Plan and to identify opportunities for improvement particularly related to the Children's Act and objectives
related to OVC.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
PEPFAR support to the DOSD will include:
-Technical Assistance to update the five-year National Action Plan which will need to be updated in 2009 for
the next five year period. Once the 2009-2014 National Action Plan is developed PEPFAR will review the
activities that would be most appropriate for co-funding to scale up successful models of care for OVC.
-Exploring opportunities for co-funding programs and technical activities. Specifically PEPFAR and DOSD
co-funded and review models of care and best practice programs for lessons learned and national
endorsement of effective models of care that can be replicated or scaled up.
-Continuation of technical, training and consultative support in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation of
OVC programs and assistance to the DOSD to strengthen the DOSD OVC Strategic Plan and Child
Protection issues.
-Providing TA and consultation on increasing the number of OVC receiving grants, benefits and social
services at the local areas.
-Assist with assuring that appropriate information is available for OVC policy makers (e.g. studies,
assessments, and research).
-Continuation of efforts to develop an OVC Quality Improvement Program for OVC service in South Africa.
This support may include funding for stakeholders forums, workshops, etc. in an effort to obtain broad
based participation, input and feedback for identifying the most effective action steps and interventions to
develop National Quality Standards for the protection, care and support of orphans and vulnerable children.
-Human capacity development in the area of monitoring and evaluation of the National Action Plan of OVC.
This will include providing skilled technical assistance for short and long term time periods to provide
mentoring and on the job skills sharing for DOSD staff. This may also include providing support to ensure
that sex-disaggregated targets for all reporting indicators on the National Action Plan are available.
-Assist the DOSD to develop a gender strategic planning process to ensure that gender considerations are
integral to the OVC National Action Plan. Likely support may include a gender assessment of the national
DOSD OVC programs, workshops to share results and resulting recommendations.
-Gender Integration workshop to provide OVC program managers with tools to integrate gender into their
programs.
The activities are aligned with the improvement of the quality of the OVC programs in South Africa. In
addition, the goal will be to strengthen of capacity of the DOSD staff. The activities will be in line with the
harmonizing of support to the Department's Policy Framework on OVC and the National Action Plan for
OVC and the South Africa Government's HIV & AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2007-2011 and
other government guidelines related to meeting the needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS. The
proposed activities also support government's efforts to develop policies, strategies and programs on
integrating services for orphan and vulnerable children. PEPFAR will support the DOSD to ensure that
gender integration is central to the support provided to DOSD. The gender priorities that will be addressed
are: increasing gender equity in HIV and AIDS programs and increasing women's legal rights.
This support will be aligned to achieve the objective of several South African policy frameworks, including
the HIV&AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan 2007-2011, the National Action Plan for OVC and Other
Children Made Vulnerable by HIV and AIDS (NAPOVC), the National Guidelines for Social Services to
Children Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS and is rooted in conducting all activities in line with the new
Children's Act (CA). This activity will contribute to the PEPFAR goal of providing care and support to 10
million HIV-affected individuals, including OVC. In addition it will contribute to the PEPFAR objective of
strengthening local and national structures to provide long term responses to reaching the most vulnerable
OVC with quality services and coordinated care.
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
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