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 2012 2014 2015
BACKGROUND OF UNION STRUCTURE, SPREAD AND MEMBERSHIP
The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) has a membership of 235, 000 educators spread out in the nine provinces of South Africa. The structural leadership of SADTU consists of national office bearers based at the national office in Johannesburg, provincial office bearers based in the nine SADTU provincial offices, regional office bearers in 5 to 7 regional offices per province, up to a total of 54, and 553 branch office bearers in offices within each region. Each branch is made up of about 100 schools (sites). SADTU also has site leaders in each school, represented by the secretary, education/gender convener and a site steward. Most educaotrs in schools are SADTU memebers, SADTU being the largest teacher union in South africa. Union events are held regularly during the year at different structural levels, which may be branch meetings, regional meetings, provincial meetings or national events. In addition, committee members within and across structures meet to discuss related programmes. HIV&AIDS programmes fall under the gender desk, which is a structural desk beginning at site upto national level, led by the Vice President for Gender. The HIV&AIDS pandemic affect union members at all levels and since educators work with learners on a daily basis, they are also faced with the problems of dealing with orphans and vu2lnerable children daily. According to the 2005 ELRC(HSRC) study, the HIV prevalence amongst educators was 12%, which was the same as in the general population. However, in 2006, the public antenal clinic HIV prevalence rates from the Health Systems Trust reflected a high HIV Prevalence in six provinces as follows: EC(28.6%), KZN(37.4%) MP(32), FS(31.1%), GP(30.3%) and NW(29%). Since the educators general HIV Prevalence was similar to that of the general population, it can be assumed that these ANC statistics are also typical amongst educators.
The PPCT-OVC project aims to reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS by focusing on preventing transmission of HIV for teachers, their workplace community, and caring for orphans and vulnerable children in the workplace. The programme seeks to reduce the impact of the HIV&AIDS pandemic by implementing activities in five programme areas; Sexual Prevention, Other Prevention, Counselling and Testing, Care and Strategic Information and Policy. This programme has been implemented incrementally in six provinces, largely amongst union members in all the nine provinces of South Africa as well as amongst learners in selected schools. Since it began in Eastrn Cape, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mpumalanga provinces in 2007 - 2008, in 2008 - 2009 implementation was begun in Gauteng, Free State and North West Provinces and in the 2009 - 2010 period it now includes all nine provinces. During this period, 2010 - 2011 the SADTU aims to develop more sustainable mechanisms building on what has been gradually being achieved through continued positive interaction hrough collaborative action with the provincial Departments. Memoranda of Agreement with the Department of Health in the various provinces have been slow from beurocratic processes, however collaboration has been possible in the form of structural support for VCT and referrals for treatment, support group training material and anti-retro viral therapy. Support from the Department of Education has mainly been in the form of providing release time for educators and learners to attend to programme activities. SADTU is also forming parnership with other
organisations with specialised skills in training specific gender groups, e.g. Man as Partners with Engenderhealth and Women and Gender with Ditsela. The training is then cascaded to local area leaders where peer education groups are then encouraged with gender groups for a holistic approach to the reduction of new HIV infections and that of the impact of the countrywide pandemic. In all instances, the organisations provide the training free and SADTU then covers logistics. Specific partership is also sought in the business organisations to offer further training in business management to strenghten income generation projects that the programme is running. More sustainable and efficient and cheaper strategies for providing access to voluntary counselling and testing, as well as more efficient referral systems as well as improved efforts to care and support . With the extremely slow processes of signing the Memoranda of Agreement after a series of advocacy meetings have been held, the VCT programme had to proceed only with private VCT providers at a larger cost. Consequently the funding goes to non- sustainable strategies of providing VCT access that is also limited by their availability and convenience. The SADTU workplace is such that a lot of the time, meetings take place outside working hours, thus limiting the use of public services in the workplace, as they knock off just when meetings are at their peak and members are more interested in accessing VCT services. This is usually the case when we have VCT services provided by the local public clinics from the Department of Health and other private organisations, they leave 'early' in terms of union standards and leave queues of disappointed members. SADTU is therefore seeking to provide an in-house mobile VCT clinic that would be able to offer these services for members within the operating time frames of the organisation, i.e. from early afternoon; 12h00 to early evening, 20h00. The funds that have been used in the 2008-2009 period on VCT can easily purchase a mobile clinic and test more that five times the numbers reached in this period; i.e. 3000 x 5 = 15 000 members. In the other prevention programme area, SADTU being located in the heart of Johannesburg city is in the proximity of operations of vulnerable groups such as pirating cormmecial sex workers. Interventions on HIV prevetion education, access to free VCT and provisioning of female condoms (which they say are more discreet for men who do not want to use condoms) will be provided for this vulnerable group of women. This was begun at a very small scale, and will be expanded to reach this community in other regional towns as well. The OVC programme in the schools will also be expanded to teach a wider range of skills to prevent vulnerability to HIV to these young people include more learners and other partners that offer a variety of development programmes to strenghten decision making skills and self empowerment.
The SADTU project covers the following key issues: End-of-Program Evaluation, Workplace progams; and Gender; increasing women's legal rights and protection, increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services, adressing male norms and behaviour, and increasing women's access to income and productive resources.
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