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.
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The Ambassador's HIV/AIDS Relief Fund (AHRF) projects that provide care and support to assist individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS, especially orphans and vulnerable children, and people living with HIV/AIDS. As such, the AHRF makes immediate contributions to Goal 1 of the Partnership Framework of improving the quality of life for PLHIV and those affected by HIV and AIDS. The longer term effects of these projects go toward GHI IR 2.4 for improved health support systems and IR 3.3 for strengthened social norms and structural environment for the empowerment of women and girls.
To support all these goals, grants can fund the gamut of projects, from the procurement of materials and goods to infrastructural development to start-up capital for income generating activities. Project details are not available at this time, since review and approval of projects takes place during the following fiscal year .
The Small Grants Coordinator convenes a selection committee twice a year, made up of members from throughout the USG mission. The committee assesses applications based on their relevance to the overall objectives of the AHRF but also on budget reasonableness and price efficiencies, applicant references, and project location in regions of Tanzania that are underserved by other USG foreign assistance programs. Grantees, all of whom are local organizations, are required to submit regular progress reports to the Small Grants Coordinator. In addition, the Small Grants Coordinator as well as other members of the USG Mission such as the Front Office and PEPFAR make site visits to evaluate project completion.
The objective of the AHRF is to fund activities that support communities affected by HIV and AIDS. One of its two target audiences is orphans and vulnerable children. The local organizations who are the AHRF grantees use the funds for a variety of interventions that improve OVC access to quality care and education, from direct support for school fees and school materials to infrastructural devleopment such as classrooms, playgrounds, and homes. The income generating projects described under budget code OHSS also contribute to increasing the capacity of local structures to respond to children, families, and communities in need. The AHRF has positioned itself as a source of assistance for organizations that have few other such opportunities . This mechanism consequently prioritizes grantees in areas where USG implementing partners are not very active, but also supports interventions that have immediate impact as well as more sustainable effects.
The AHRF often provides grants that serve as start up capital for income generating activities. This initial contribution can procure inputs such as lifestock and fish which in turn produce goods that the grantee uses as a source of revenue to fund its core activities of care and support. The beneficiairies not only receive additional financial support but often gain management, business, and other technical skills These funds have also often paid for the construction or renovation of classrooms and related spaces to enhance the learning environment for OVC and for women and girls. The overall effect of these grants lends toward capacity and skills building both of the implementing organization itself and of its beneficiaries.
