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.
TITLE: This activity narrative refers the central Gender Initiative, "PEPFAR Gender Initiative on Male Norms
and Behaviors"
The PEPFAR gender initiative on male norms and behaviors has been developed as part of a set of
PEPFAR special gender initiatives. The evidence of the importance of certain male norms and behaviors'
impact on HIV risk and the AIDS epidemic, as well as the potential for positive male engagement in HIV risk
reduction and mitigation of the effects of the AIDS epidemic continues to grow. The program aims to
strengthen male engagement programs in three focus countries (Namibia, Tanzania and Ethiopia) by:
providing PEPFAR and national program managers with technical resources and support to develop and
manage a more strategic, intensive, and coordinated approach to addressing male norms and behaviors
that can lead to HIV/STI risk through the development of a national strategy; providing technical assistance
to in country partners in these countries to facilitate integration and application of evidence-based
approaches and to support appropriate adaptation and program innovation; and evaluating the program in
these countries, including the national strategic plan and capacity-building process among local partners,
and outcomes related to both male participant attitudes and behaviors. The feasibility and effectiveness of
these interventions and their potential for sustainability, scale-up, and transferability to other settings will be
a focus of this program.
In FY 2007-FY 2008, the ACQUIRE Project and Instituto Promundo will work with USG and the government
of Tanzania (GOT) to implement a large scale national stakeholders dialogue to increase support and buy-
in for addressing male involvement and HIV/AIDS among key in-country partners. The initiative will also
focus on increasing collaboration between stakeholders and increasing the capacity of in-country partners
to address male gender norms.
The design for the program in Tanzania was developed based on the results of discussions held with
PEPFAR partners in Tanzania in April 2007. Although many of the PEPFAR partners were interested in
engaging men in HIV related programs, few partners had successfully done so because many did not have
the capacity. The discussions highlighted the need to orient key partners about state of the art male
engagement approaches and how to integrate these into HIV prevention and care and treatment programs.
The outcomes from the stakeholders' dialogue in October will inform a planning process that will include
training and technical assistance support to PEPFAR partners to integrate male engagement approaches
into their programs. To assess the impact of the project, a process evaluation will be carried out. The
process evaluation will focus on the capacity building/strategic planning process related to incorporating a
focus on gender/engaging men in HIV prevention, care and treatment among PEPFAR partners. It will
include an assessment of ways in which the PEPFAR partners have integrated male engagement into their
programs because of the technical assistance they have received from the project partners. Additionally,
the process evaluation will focus on ways that the TA has contributed to the skills of staff in the area of male
engagement and HIV.
