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 OVC projects and RAPIDS HKID (#8947).
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee project (CRWRC) is a Track 1.0 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) project that started in FY 2004 and will continue to expand care to OVC through the Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Agencies (AERDO) HIV/AIDS Alliance in Zambia, including its direct affiliate, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), and the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM), Reformed Church in Zambia Eastern Diaconia Services (RCZ), World Hope International (WHI), the Reformed Community Support Organization (RECS) and Operation Blessing International (OBI). CRWRC works to support the Zambia National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework.
By mid-year FY 2006, CWCRC and its partners provided essential services to 12,053 OVC, trained 2,222 caregivers and 625 church leaders, involved 83 CBOs and 113 churches in OVC activities, and supported 148 OVC care groups.
In FY 2007, CRWRC will provide care and support in seven of the nine provinces for 15,500 OVC, train 1,230 caregivers, and build the capacity of 71 FBOs and 15 CBOs. The four local FBOs will work to support and build the capacity of smaller FBOs and CBOs. The fifth organization, OBI, will specialize in mass media.
CRWRC and its partners will mobilize and strengthen their affiliate FBOs by training FBO coordinators in leadership and OVC support skills and by supporting volunteer members and caregivers in psycho-social counseling, home-based care, and income generating activities (IGAs). Programs will provide OVC with available health care, social, and educational services.
One main activity will focus on IGA for caregivers so they will be better able to care for their OVC through providing better nutrition and educational support. OVC who are diagnosed HIV positive will be referred to appropriate institutions that offer ART and care interventions, for example government clinics and health centers. OVC support will be integrated in the community through the involvement of trained community volunteers, FBOs and CBOs. For example, OVC caregivers will be given agricultural and small-scale entrepreneurship start-up capital and partners will provide technical assistance on how to manage these IGAs. Caregivers will be given livelihood/IGA skills training in farming, gardening, animal multiplication, and animal husbandry projects, sewing and tailoring, and carpentry. Income generated from these projects will be used to cater for the school, medical, food and clothing needs of OVC.
Partners will train church and community volunteers as caregivers in skills training in OVC, palliative care, nutrition, prevention of common community diseases including HIVAIDS. In addition, local partners will be assisted in establishing methods of sustaining OVC programs. CRWRC and their FBO/CBO partners will develop and strengthen livelihood skills of caregivers and volunteers in order to empower them to address problems in their households. Activities under skills training include gardening and livestock rearing, crafts, fish farming, carpentry, and tailoring for older OVC. Other areas in which training will be provided to the targeted communities include community health and personal hygiene, peer education skills on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, and OVC care. OVC care includes psycho-social support, awareness-raising on issues of protection of property, OVC rights, and will writing.
CRWRC will also focus on OVC protection issues and community sensitization to spread wider awareness to the plight of OVC and the dangers they encounter. Programs will address certain harmful traditional beliefs that men are the unquestioned and even unaccountable heads of households that can lead to the exploitation of OVC. Specific attention will be devoted toward gender considerations through sensitization workshops which raise awareness and counter discrimination of women and girl OVC in the target area by aiming to reduce both the use of women as cheap labor and of sexual abuse that puts them at risk of HIV/AIDS. Programs will also support existing women's groups, which consist of a large percentage of caregivers, through training, food assistance, and health related activities. In an effort to fully engage the community to take ownership in OVC protection matters, CRWRC will encourage the active participation of both female and male volunteers and beneficiaries.
OBI will implement an additional program component focused on mobilizing and creating a more OVC friendly community. OBI will use formative and summative research to develop key behavior change television messages for a series of radio and television, public service announcements (PSAs) to an audience of 400,000 people (although during peak hours on Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) TV when the PSAs are aired, the viewership is 2.5 million people). Working through indigenous advertising agencies, OBI will conduct focus group discussions with adults and OVC and administer surveys to gather information on the challenges to transforming public perceptions on OVC and HIV/AIDS. This information will then form the basis of behavior change communication (BCC) message points. The PSAs will be pre-tested in country, in collaboration with projects such as the Health Communications Partnership. The overall goal is to effectively use mass media to raise awareness and support of the Zambian society for OVC, focusing on advocacy for the protection of property and assets of families and ultimately to create a supportive environment for OVC.
Coupled with active participation in the USG Zambia OVC Forum, CRWRC will enhance efficiency and effectiveness of program activities and ensure OVC quality care. Programs will focus on improving special consideration and appropriate referrals and linkages to treatment and other care programs such as Pediatric ART, CT, palliative care, home-based care, and prevention. Particular attention will be given to HIV positive OVC and/or OVC whose caregivers are HIV positive.
CRWRC will further strengthen its M&E to track output and outcome indicators and also to ensure that duplication and double counting are eliminated.
CRWRC will continue to place a major emphasis on program sustainability by developing and strengthening FBOs and CBOs and by building livelihood skills of caregivers and volunteers to enable the sustained care for OVC. CRWRC local partners and communities will create strong networks and referral linkages with government, other FBOs and CBOs, and GRZ services and other USG-funded OVC projects. Trained volunteers, strengthened NGO and government ministry networks, and established IGA activities will make CRWRC's OVC support sustainable well past the life of the program.
