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.
AVSI's strategic approach is as follows: a) to focus on the child as a unique and unrepeatable human being, endowed with dignity and potential; b) to follow a bottom-up approach in the identification of beneficiaries and the choice and delivery of support ; c) to ensure that every child supported be cared for by an adult, either in the family or by someone in the community or of a CBO; and d) to rely on and to enhance the operational capacity of the CBOs through close and continuous working relations between AVSI personnel and every single partner through an operational and stable network. The Objectives of AVSI's OVC Program are as follows: To strengthen the coping capacities of OVC and their families (natural or foster) and communities affected by HIV/AIDS; To support education and skill training for OVC: To improve health status and care for OVC; To address the psychosocial needs of OVC;To support community-based relief for OVC;To enhance the capacity of AVSI's current and prospective local partners; To integrate and harmonize the OVC focused intervention with other HIV/AIDS and poverty reduction initiatives on the ground. AVSI provides support to OVCs in the following core program areas: food/nutrition, protection,health care, psychosocial support, education and economic strentgthening. AVSI considers education an important tool to help overcome vulnerability. For this reason therefore AVSI will put more emphasis on supporting children in school, moreover not forgetting related activities like provision of health care, psychosocial support, nutritional support, remedial classes, recreational activities, emotional support as well as other requirements needed to attend school. For our project, we consider every child supported to have access to health care, which means all the 6011 children to be supported this financial year will be entitled to this service whenever they need it. AVSI will support 5726 children with school fees for Nursery, primary and Secondary education and 260 in vocational institutes. For these children to go to school, they will need certain requirements like; uniforms, books, pens, school bags etc which will be provided to 4,724 most needy children during the year. In addition to that, AVSI partners have realized that there are some children that need extra support in class, and for this reason, they have decided to organize remedial classes for 573 children.
Among the children that AVSI supports, some have got serious nutritional needs, because some are on ARVs while others are malnourished. Therefore AVSI has planned to provide the identified 539 children with nutritional support following medical practitioners' prescriptions. AVSI's experience in working with children has provided an important lesson of the need for recreational activities like organized trips, get-together parties, drama etc. therefore this financial year, AVSI plans to have 3,383 children benefiting from this activity. Moreover emotional support in terms of home visits to get to know the families of the OVC and to share experiences with the guardians and children have been arranged. The number of home visits by AVSI and partners' social workers will amount to 8,480 this financial year. There will also be 9,365 school visits to have an interaction with the teachers and head teachers of the schools where the OVCs attend. Moreover AVSI partners have planned to have 16,350 visits from children and their guardians to their offices. Besides direct support to OVCs, AVSI intends to support capacity building for care givers and partner organizations. The year under planning, AVSI will hold 23 workshops and trainings on a variety of topics related to education, financial management and care giving for OVCS for a total number of 645 beneficiaries. In addition to this, AVSI plans to strengthen the organizational and financial management capacities for 39 partner organizations, through regular follow up visits and tailor made trainings where necessary. AVSI recognizes that OVCs do not live in a vacuum. For this reason, several indirect activities for families and communities within which these children live, have been planned for. The activities planned for this financial year are; community sensitization mainly but not limited to HIV/AIDS, business trainings for guardians and some other people in the communities that have shown interest and need, as well as income generating activities to boost the livelihoods of the families of the OVCs and moreover begin a step for arranging the sustainability of care and support for the OVC. Among the beneficiariesof supplemental direct support, AVSI plans to support a number of needy children who will benefit from requirements for school, remedial classes, recreational activities and enjoy the rehabilitation and equipment provided to the schools they attend. Lastly AVSI will support community projects to increase care and support for OVC, like: adult literacy, renovation of houses for widows, water and sanitation in slums, house rent, food and non food items est.
AVSI has developed a data base to collect all information about OVCs served and activities supported to each of them, having a specific code.This can avoid duplication and double - counting. AVSI OVC program is leveraging resources and partnerships with other agencies, like the Memory Project, a US organisation ,whose goal is to exchange among students in US and Africa through sharing of books and experiences, and international donors such as WFP (food support for PLWAs) and EU (TOT for social workers and teachers to prevent HIV/AIDS among adolescents)so to give supplementary services for OVCs when necessary. Collaboration and coordination with national and district OVC fora will be ensured by regular participation of AVSI staff and local partners' staff to all coordination meetings heald at national and district level.
