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: 2008 2009
The U.S. Government (USG) and Uganda government are working together to ensure peace and security,
good governance, access to social services, economic growth, and humanitarian assistance in northern
Uganda. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Uganda intends to
support an integrated program to promote peace and stability in northern Uganda. The program will be
entitled Stability, Peace and Reconciliation In Northern Uganda (SPRING). In light of recent developments
in northern Uganda, including the ongoing peace talks between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), improved security and the return home of large numbers of internally
displaced populations, the new program will contribute to the transition from relief to recovery and
development. SPRING will support a core set of activities in three component areas: (1) Peace-building
and reconciliation, (2) Economic security and social inclusion, and (3) Access to justice. The PEPFAR AB
activity in FY08 promotes the third component - access to justice. This activity leverages USAID/Uganda's
Democracy and Governance activities expected to be awarded in October 2007.
As people return to their homes after years of displacement in northern Uganda, vulnerable populations
(including women, youth, children and child-headed households) will be most impacted; access to land and
resources are key to ensuring economic security. When vulnerable groups have no access to land and
other resources, there is an increased likelihood of HIV infection as they become reliant on males for
survival and are therefore more vulnerable to high-risk activity such as transactional sex, and sexual
violence.
According to recent studies, 56% of Uganda's population is under the age of 15. By 2050 the population is
expected to quadruple to 93 million. Northern Uganda's children (age 0-17) and youth (age 18-24)
constitute a significant group which is in need of education, economic opportunities and social services to
prevent their having to resort to high-risk sex or other risky coping mechanisms. Without these support
systems in place and other positive motivation, restless and war-affected young people will become a major
source of instability and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Conversely, this youth cohort can become a
powerful force for stability and peace if they are supported and their energies are channeled constructively.
It is critical that young people living in and returning from IDP camps are integrated socially and
economically into their host communities and are given opportunities to become productive members of
society with a stake in the future.
SPRING will support activities that promote non-violent decision-making and constructive social and
economic participation. SPRING will work with young people most at-risk for marginalization, HIV/AIDS or
recruitment into destructive activities and through proactive outreach, will engage people constructively.
This project will link with and complement the SPRING OVC and Policy activities. SPRING will include
HIV/AIDS components (prevention, education, OVC, and advocacy support for HIV/AIDS-affected families
and individuals) as part of its overall strategy to promote equity and economic growth for HIV vulnerable
women and youth.
The formal justice system remains very weak in the North and the war has also weakened traditional justice
systems. Moreover, justice is often expensive and inaccessible. As a result, the most vulnerable
populations are often the least capable of pursuing and accessing justice. Law enforcement has been
strengthened and improved in recent months but impunity and corruption are still prevalent. Additionally,
misinformation and rumors are omnipresent throughout the North and most people have limited access to
accurate and useful information about their rights and responsibilities under the law. There is little faith
among Internally Displaced Persons in the formal justice system and there is an over-reliance on the limited
capacity of already weakened traditional justice mechanisms. At the same time, there is a wide range of
grievances that require some combination of justice and reconciliation to be resolved.
Not only are justice institutions weak but public awareness of rights and responsibilities under the law is
very limited in the North. Moreover, both statutory and customary policies and laws on key issues such as
land remain unclear. Therefore, as the return process picks up pace and new disputes begin to accrue on
top of past ones, it will become increasingly critical that the population is educated about their rights and
responsibilities and that vulnerable OVC households are facilitated to have access to their ancestral assets
such as land which is a key factor to their livelihoods. Child protection with a focus on legal aid and
paralegal support activities will be the focus of this new activity. Linkages will be made with the SPRING AB
& Policy activities.
Evidence from other post-conflict situations illustrates the relationship between HIV/AIDS (and women),
property rights and access to land, namely: 1) access to land at the time of return and resettlement; 2)
ability to use land to earn income for their families; and 3) ability to inherit land or pass it on as inheritance
to their children. When women or other vulnerable groups have no access to land and other resources,
there is an increase likelihood of HIV infection as they may be reliant on males for survival and are therefore
more vulnerable to high-risk activity such as transactional sex, and sexual violence. To promote equity and
economic growth for vulnerable persons, and to reduce the number of new HIV infections that will occur as
people leave the camps, prevention, education and advocacy support to HIV/AIDS affected families and
individuals will be an integral part of SPRING.
economic participation. This project will link with and complement the SPRING OVC and AB activities.
Illustrative activities under this component will include:
•Advocacy to increase access to economic opportunities (including access to land) that enable vulnerable
people including HIV/AIDS affected women to maintain a stable and secure standard of living;
•Engagement of the community to decrease social exclusion of vulnerable populations, including HIV/AIDS
affected women and infected families and individuals, particularly women;
•Activities with civil society organizations (including NGOs, women's groups and business associations) to
promote local economic development for selected vulnerable populations including HIV/AIDS affected and
infection women and their families;
•Advocacy to increase access by vulnerable populations including HIV affected women and their families to
legal aid, and to increase awareness of human rights and land/property issues.
