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.
This activity also relates to activities in OVC (#7674).
The Community-Based Orphan Care, Protection, and Empowerment (COPE) Project is a Track 1.0 regional project being implemented in four countries (Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Mozambique) to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). In Tanzania, the project is being implemented in the five districts of Dodoma region.
The project supports the scale up of Tanzania's National Plan of Action for Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) working with the Department of Social Welfare. It applies the national MVC identification process and emphasizes a community approach to enhance community participation leading to sustainable activities. The project works with the local government and emphasizes community mobilization for participation; linkages with complementary programs, and referrals; information and education, as well as behavior change communication; capacity building of local organizations; quality assurance and supportive supervision; training and, to a lesser extent, infrastructure improvement.
Over the five years of the activity, (begun in FY 2005), the project targets 60,500 orphans and vulnerable children, as well as 12,500 caregivers with direct support, and the surrounding community with indirect support. By the end of FY 2006, the COPE program has reached approximately 42,000 MVC and established 297 MVC Committees (MVCCs) to ensure sustainability of the services. These committees have received training in identification of MVC, their care, and support.
The project has five major components. First, enhancing district and community capacity to coordinate care and support services to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and caregivers to ensure greater community participation for sustainability. Second is providing life-skills training to youth in school and out-of-school, so that they can make responsible decisions. Psychosocial care and support services to OVC and caregivers are provided by trained Service Corps Volunteers from the community and in COPE Clubs. The COPE Clubs are a platform for HIV/AIDS prevention education and youth activities such as games, songs, and drama. Third is increased access to health care, malaria prevention, and nutritional support, including nutrition education and increased food production at the household level through the development of backyard gardens and small animal husbandry. The fourth seeks to increase educational opportunities for OVC. This will be accomplished through direct support to OVC in terms of uniforms and scholastic materials and providing block grants to secondary schools to offer scholarships to enroll and retain OVC. The last component, increased livelihood opportunities for OVC and caregivers, will be accomplished through partnership with the Emerging Markets Group who will facilitate the enrollment of older OVCs into vocational training and will provide grants and micro-credit to caregivers for small business ventures.
With FY 2007 funds, COPE will expand the number of trained Service Corps Volunteers from 45 to 70, and ensure they are prepared to provide PSS to MVCs and caregivers. The Volunteers and project staff will expand the number of COPE Clubs from 39 to 100 (extending to 3,000 members, comprised of both vulnerable and non-vulnerable children to prevent stigma of the clubs). The club members, through group discussions, meetings, games, drama, choir and sports, and interaction, will share HIV/AIDS prevention messages and support each other, In addition to life skills training for COPE Club members, the program will provide school uniforms, exercise books, pens, pencils and erasers for approximately 3,000 students from nursery to secondary schools. Where necessary, block grants will be made to enable OVC to continue with schooling without paying fees. In food production, caregivers will continue to be trained in the use of "double dig beds" labor-saving technology, whereby beds can be cultivated for three years before they have to be reploughed. The gardens are encouraged in the back yard, when space is available, to increase availability of vegetables for food as well as for sale. Training in nutrition, vaccination, and early health-seeking practices will be offered, as well as distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets. Africare will also provide support to local organizations currently serving OVC/MVC, including the MVCCs, to boost their capacity to work with more children and youth. With FY 2007 funds, Africare's COPE activity will cover an additional 3,000 OVC/MVC (total of 45,000).
As with all USG-funded implementing partners, Africare will support the implementation of
the national Data Management System (DMS), and will use that system for their own Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system. They will ensure that information about those MVC/OVC identified at the local level feeds into the national system, but also that it is available to MVCCs at the local level for planning, decision making, and monitoring.
