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 relates to other Track 1.0 HKID projects and the RAPIDS HKID (#8947).
The Community Based Care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project (CBCOVC) is a Track 1.0 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) project that began in FY 2005. Christian Aid (CA), the prime partner, is a UK-based international development agency with over 40 years of experience supporting more than 550 indigenous non-governmental and faith-based organizations in 60 countries. CA is working with a mutually supportive network of two faith-based and two secular partners in Zambia to respond to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR): Catholic Dioceses of Ndola (CDN), Copperbelt Health Education Project (CHEP), Archdiocese of Lusaka (ADL), and Family Health Trust (FHT). These four partners will work with CA to implement quality OVC programming in impoverished areas of Zambia hard hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. These locations include both rural and urban areas of Zambia's Copperbelt region and marginalized peri-urban areas of Lusaka and in rural areas of Zambia's Central, Eastern and Southern Provinces.
The expected impact of the CBCOVC Project is to improve the quality of life for over 15,000 OVC. The expected outcomes are: 1) OVC have sustainable access to essential services such as education, food and nutrition, psychosocial support, and income generation; 2) OVC are protected from stigma, discrimination, exploitation, violence, and sexual abuse; 3) capacity of sub-partners and community institutions developed to support high quality OVC programming; and 4) lessons learned, models, and best practices shared and replicated. The project will reach 10,000 OVCs in FY 2006. So far 3,245 children have been reached in the first six months and 583 care givers have been trained. In FY 2007, CBCOVC and its partners will provide care and support to approximately 13,000 OVC and train at least 1,449 caregivers.
To achieve the expected impact and outcomes, the project will continue to provide educational support to non-school going OVC, food security support, and income generation support to impoverished OVC households. The educational support involves paying school fees, providing uniform, books, and pencils for the most impoverished OVC, while food security support entails developing the capacity of food insecure OVC households to produce nutritious and adequate food. Income generation work involves mobilizing and training Group Savings and Loan (GSL) clubs and linking them to viable markets. Older OVC are being trained in marketable vocational skills and will be supported to establish their own businesses.
In addition, CBCOVC and its partners will work to protect OVC rights and reduce the stigma and discrimination they experience. Funding will primarily go to support the community-based child protection committees that are being set up, training older OVC in life skills, and supporting community groups to carry out anti-stigma and discrimination campaigns. CBCOVC will also work with various national networks to address policy issues to complement and reinforce the community-level work. Intensive capacity building will be undertaken for the four sub-partners, as well as the community institutions and groups they support to ensure quality programming.
The project will be geared towards supporting community-based responses to provide care and support for OVC within family and community settings. In the project's first year, much effort was given to community capacity building, so that caregivers and other community stakeholders have the right knowledge and skills to provide quality care and support to OVC.
In FY 2007, strong networks will be created with clinical facilities and other OVC support programs. CBCOVC will provide support to sub-partners to network and exchange lessons, successful approaches and learning with each other and other regional and national OVC stakeholders. The project will further support linkages to the food security, micro-finance, micro-credit, and education sectors. The sub-partners are already members of Zambia's USG OVC Forum and two are partners in the RAPIDS program. CBCOVC is an active member of the OVC forum and coordinates with all other USG OVC Projects to prevent overlapping and duplication. The Zambian Program Officer regularly participates in all relevant regional and national networking and sharing initiatives.
The project will ensure that an equitable number of boys and girls who are OVC benefit
from the project. A tracking system for OVC has been developed and is being used by the four sub-partners. It was designed particularly to avoid the double counting at the project level, and identify essential service gaps among targeted OVC. The system is centered on databases operated by its sub-grantees. Both evaluation and monitoring data is gender-disaggregated to ensure gender equity in all the project's various interventions. Work is also being undertaken to link women and girls to the project's educational support, food security, and income generation interventions. Finally, the project's experienced M&E and program officers continue to support the sub-partners to implement interventions that adhere to PEPFAR OVC programming guidance, national, and international standards for best practice.
To ensure sustainability of activities, the project activities are integrated in sub-partner existing programs and structures from design and inception. Sub-partners will also be encouraged to leverage funds from other sources such as government and the private sector. This will be complemented by regular exchange visits and reflection workshops that will take place among the sub-partners and with other OVC stakeholders in Zambia, in an effort to share and document lessons learned and successful approaches.
