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
This activity relates to other track 1.0 OVC projects, RAPIDS HKID, and HCP HKID.
The Breaking Barriers (BB) is a track 1.0 Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project that began in
2006. Funding for BB was sourced by Plan USA on behalf of the Hope for African Children Initiative
(HACI), an initiative which was made up of the following organization; CARE, Family Health Trust, PLAN,
and the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa-Zambia, World Vision Zambia and the Zambia Interfaith
Networking Group on HIV/AIDS. Following the closure of HACI on 30th June 2007, Plan Zambia has taken
over the management and implementation of BB.
Plan International is a child-centered development organization with no religious or political affiliations which
has been in existence in Zambia since 1995. Plan envisages a world where all children realize their full
potential in societies which respect people's rights and dignity. The organization's work is focused on
working with the community to enable them meet the needs and rights of children.
The goal of the Breaking Barriers' project, over a four year period, is to expand sustainable, effective,
quality OVC programs in education, PSS and community-based care for children and families affected by
HIV and AIDS, using an extensive network of schools (both formal and informal) and religious institutions as
a coordinated platform for rapid scale up and scale out. This goal will be achieved by expanding
sustainable, effective and quality OVC programs in education, psychosocial support and community- based
care for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, using an extensive network of schools (both formal and
non formal) and religious institutions as a coordinated platform.
BB will be implemented in Mazabuka and Chibombo District in 12 communities where RAPIDS or any Track
1 USG partner has no activities; hence there will not be duplication of work. In these communities BB aims
to scale-up OVC access to education, life skills, psychosocial support (PSS), and by strengthening existing
educational, religious and community institutions, resources and infrastructures. BB will further reduce the
incidence of orphanhood at an early age of the child's life by prolonging the child-parent relationship by
linking them to home-based care and ART and by providing physical and emotional support to
parents/guardians of the OVC. The program builds on the expertise of Plan Zambia, government
infrastructure, and the resources of both secular and faith-based communities all of which are exceptionally
positioned to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS.
In FY 2007, only 2,031 OVC were reached with supplemental direct services compared to the planned
target of 10,000 because funding was withheld pending an external audit which has since taken place. In
FY 2008, BB will reach at least 12,000 OVC (6,500 girls and 5,500 boys). Of the 12,000 OVC, 5,000 will be
primary direct while 7,000 will be supplemental beneficiaries of integrated program activities focusing on the
provision of a comprehensive package of education through school improvement and support with learning
and teaching material, psychosocial support, HIV/AIDS prevention through training of youths as peer
educators, home care services and advocacy for children rights. BB will train 180 OVC volunteers in
referring for palliative care and ART services and succession planning/will writing, 48 youths in peer
education and 60 community and religious leaders in stigma, denial and discrimination reduction will
achieve this.
Forty Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) caregivers from 8 centers will be trained in
psychosocial skills and childcare. This will improve the service delivery to children in their care. Eight
Center Parent Committees will be assisted with small scale farming inputs (seed and hoes) to scale up their
nutritional support to the ECCD centers. To ensure that the life of the mother is prolonged, Plan will link
their OVC services with Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) and Community Health Workers trained in the
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT). This will work in two ways. When the mother of a
household with OVC is pregnant, she will be referred for PMTCT. Also, when a PMTCT client has OVC in
the home, the trained TBA and health workers will refer the children for OVC services.
To ensure effective service delivery and volunteer retention, caregivers will receive non-cash incentives and
tools for work in form of bicycles. BB will train sixty community and religious leaders in children's rights as
stipulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to which Zambia is a signatory. Training
leaders in child rights will ensure the creation of a supportive environment where children are able to realize
their full potential in order to serve their communities as responsible and productive citizens. Two
documentaries advocating the rights of children will be aired on two national days (World AIDS Day and
Day of the African Child). The BB program will develop, print and distribute 5,000 pamphlets and 200
posters advocacy messages on rights of children.
BB will train Community Care Coalition (CCC) groups in project management, resource mobilization, and
community based M & E. School Improvement Program (SIP) committees will be trained in management,
record keeping and OVC care. The composition of SIP committees which includes children allows the
views of children to be heard and form the basis for future programming. This approach is also designed to
ensure that programs are sustainable at the community level.
Selection/identification of OVC is done by community structures such as Resident Development
Committees, SIP and the church, who work in liaison with the Plan Community Development Facilitators.
However, in schools where learning and teaching aids will be supplied, it will be difficult to disaggregate the
children according to PEPFAR requirement because the supplies will not be given to individual children but
to the schools. In addition, BB will provide small animal husbandry to OVC/PLHA households for livelihood
household security.
Plan will continue networking with civil societies such as the Young Women's Christian Association
(YWCA), Women, Law and Development in Africa (WiLDF) and Ministry of Community Development and
Social Services and the Global Movement for Children Zambia Chapter through advocacy related activities
and collaboration. This will ensure that the rights of children continue to be protected. Plan will also work
with other USAID OVC partners through the USG Zambia OVC Forum including bilateral OVC projects to
share lessons and prevent overlap of activities. Plan will also work closely with the Government of the
Republic of Zambia through the District Orphans and Vulnerable Children Committee and the District
HIV/AIDS Task Force.
The Breaking Barriers' project M&E plan will track process, outputs and outcomes to measure the success
Activity Narrative: of BB in education, psychosocial support, home-based care in OVC households, capacity building, and in
promoting an enabling environment for PLWHA and OVC. The Plan M&E plan will track process, outputs
and outcome to measure the success of Breaking Barriers' Program in education, psychosocial support,
home-based care in OVC households, capacity building, and in promoting an enabling environment for
PLWHA and OVC. M&E will be coordinated by a team that will include M & E, Program Unit Managers,
Program Unit Program Coordinators, Advisors and other partners. This team will meet quarterly to review
progress towards program objectives and share best practices. In addition, the M&E Coordination team will
refine the program M&E frameworks and tools. They will also develop a joint Program Monitoring Plan that
will include quarterly monitoring visits in which progress will be ascertained, changes identified and
appropriate recommendations made. The M&E plan will incorporate required PEPFAR indicators for OVC
Programming and Program and System Strengthening feeding into the BB and other National indicators.
Tracking tools which disaggregates all OVC reached and other OVC by gender, status and age group will
also help measure progress of the project towards attaining the objectives.
BB will actively participate in the USG OVC forum on a regular basis to prevent duplications and overlaps
and share best practices. In order to ensure sustainability of the services, Plan will continue to strengthen
the capacity of communities and households to meet the needs of OVC.
All FY 2008 targets will be reached by September 30, 2009.