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.
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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
Luapula Foundation is a New Partnership Initiative (NPI) partner in Zambia. Luapula Foundation has been
implementing an abstinence and being faithful (AB) program in Mansa District, Zambia, since October 2001,
and scaled up the program to all districts in Luapula Province with NPI funding beginning in December
2006. NPI funding will come to an end on November 30, 2009 and Luapula Foundation will closeout NPI
funded AB prevention activities and scale down operations.
During the last three years of NPI funding, Luapula Foundation executed AB activities following national
campaigns and using approved IEC materials in Luapula Province in close collaboration with the Ministry of
Education (MOE), the District Health Management Teams (DHMTs), the District AIDS Task Forces
(DATFs), and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and churches. In addition, Luapula
Foundation worked in close collaboration with community leaders who include traditional chiefs and
headmen/headwomen in an attempt to identify and change local traditions and customs that prevent/prohibit
abstinence and being faithful, such as early marriage for girl children and sexual cleansing ceremonies.
With NPI support Luapula Foundation's AB program supported peer-to-peer education and child mentoring
outreach by educators and adult mentors. The peer educators provide age-appropriate AB messages to
fellow peers through outreach activities. The 144 adult mentors (teachers) who were trained in the use of
the Life Skills Education manual provided guidance to peer educators in their planning and implementation
of peer education activities and promoted parent/adult/child dialogue on sexuality issues, with an emphasis
on abstinence and fidelity as key HIV preventive measures among youth and adults. Peer educators
reached a total of 10,000 basic and high school youth with the AB preventions message over the three
years of implementation of the project.
Luapula Foundation's AB program followed the national prevention strategy and campaigns by teaching
youth to correctly identify ways of preventing sexual transmission of HIV and by encouraging abstinence in
school going youth, as well as stressing faithfulness in sexually active couples.
Utilizing the networking approach to HIV/AIDS programming, Luapula Foundation encouraged teachers and
peer educators to collaborate with other stakeholders in the field to ensure quality services for youth and to
avoid duplication of activities. Luapula Foundation's counseling and testing (CT) program referred sexually
active young people and adults who desired CT and created awareness about the availability of CT
services.
Luapula Foundation's NPI Cooperative Agreement ends on November 30, 2009. Activities for the two
months of FY2010 will concentrate primarily on close-out of the project and review and strengthening of
sustainability measures.
Luapula Foundation's AB prevention program was designed with inbuilt sustainability consciousness. To
ensure sustainability, Luapula Foundation initiated the AB Prevention activities in collaboration with the
Ministry of Education. The program trained 144 facilitators for peer educators in schools in all seven
districts of Luapula Province. Life Skills Education clubs were formed in 140 schools and the clubs elected
student management committees in the various schools; these committees are supervised by the HIV/AIDS
Committee (consisting of teachers and PTA members) at the school. The club members meet during
Ministry of Education mandated ‘Club Day' in the school week. Each club designed a suitable income
generating project, and Luapula Foundation provided the clubs with the materials necessary to initiate the
projects which will help to ensure their sustainability. Funds from the income generating activities are used
to purchase stationery and other necessary supplies for the clubs.
The life skills education activities will continue after the NPI project comes to an end in November 2009.
The Ministry of Education has formed Anti-AIDS committees that spearhead the operation of the activities
aimed at reducing the spread of HIV infection. Each school, in every week's calendar, provides a day for
HIV/AIDS prevention activities. The national education policy supports this activity. The teachers trained by
Luapula Foundation will continue to lead the activities of the clubs, using IEC materials designed for
Zambian audiences to teach abstinence and/or being faithful.
Gender issues will continue to be a primary focus in the implementation of the program. The program
incorporates gender concerns, as HIV/AIDS affects males and females differently. The communication
strategy ensures adequate consideration of HIV concerns for both genders such as multiple sexual
partners, sexual abuse and violence, male norms, early marriage of girl children, and transactional sex.
The program uses complementary approaches, including peer education and mentoring outreach along with
AB messaging through drama groups and radio programming.
During the closeout phase of the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program Luapula Foundation will
organize stakeholders meeting to share best practices and program challenges. This activity will include
collecting testimonies from community members and program beneficiaries so that Luapula Foundation can
share program successes and failures.
In addition, Luapula Foundation will continue to provide technical assistance to stakeholders to enable them
to handle possible challenges once NPI funding ceases. Luapula Foundation's base of other donors,
including Firelight Foundation, American Jewish World Service, Zambia National AIDS Network, and
Stephen Lewis Foundation will allow for continuation of support for the AB program. Other partnerships are
being actively pursued. Equipment purchased with NPI funds will be necessary in order to continue this
prevention program, which will include monitoring of club activities and further training of peer educators at
a reduced rate.
Luapula Foundation will also review challenges identified in the 2008 mid-term evaluation to determine if the
project has successfully developed interventions for sustainability of the activities in the communities/ sites
in which the project was undertaken.
Luapula Foundation will reach no new NPI targets in this closeout phase of the project.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 15176
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
15176 15176.08 U.S. Agency for Luapula 7070 7070.08 Luapula $0
International Foundation Foundation
Development
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Addressing male norms and behaviors
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.02:
Luapula Foundation is a New Partner Initiative (NPI) project in Zambia. Luapula Foundation has been
implementing an OVC care and support program in Mansa District, Zambia, since October 2001, and scaled
up the program to all districts in Luapula Province with NPI funding beginning in December 2006. NPI
funding will come to an end on November 30, 2009 and Luapula Foundation will close out NPI funded
activities and scale down operations. During the last three years of NPI funding, Luapula Foundation
provided care and support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Luapula Province in close
collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Zambia Police Victim Support
Unit, and other NGOs working with OVC projects. In addition, Luapula Foundation worked in close
collaboration with community leaders such as traditional chiefs and headmen/headwomen, churches,
schools, and health facilities to identify the vulnerable children to assist and to identify the needs of the
children.
The primary goal of the activity was to provide support to OVC in a sustainable manner that included
empowering OVC caregivers' households to become self-reliant and able to provide educational, nutritional,
and psychological support to the OVC for whom they were caring. Luapula Foundation provided the
following support for OVC: primary and secondary level education bursaries and school supplies;
nutrition/food by training guardians in conservation farming techniques for economic and food security;
functional literacy classes and skills training for out of school OVC; entrepreneurship training and providing
small start up material grants to trained OVC and caregivers; training of teachers and OVC caregivers in
child psychosocial needs, facilitation of legal assistance, and facilitation of child health care.
months of FY2010 will concentrate primarily on scaling down of the project and review and strengthening of
Luapula Foundation's OVC program was designed with inbuilt sustainability consciousness. In the three
year period of the Cooperative Agreement, Luapula Foundation supported a total of 6,774 OVC primarily
with educational support, psychological support, economic strengthening and nutritional support.
Educational support included payments for school fees and supplies. This project was monitored by the
Guidance and Counseling teachers in each school. Payment of school fees and supplies is not a
sustainable activity. However, Luapula Foundation will liaise with cooperating partners, and other
stakeholders including donors in an attempt to ensure that the OVC who have been placed in school will be
able to continue.
Luapula Foundation trained 97 Guidance and Counseling Teachers in High Schools and Basic Schools in
psychological counseling of children. Training the teachers to provide this service to the OVC ensures
sustainability of the program. Luapula Foundation has gone further in creating awareness in the zones by
orienting coordinators in order to build capacity of Zonal Insert Coordinators in the programs under
implementation. Luapula Foundation is working in conjunction with the District Education Board Secretaries,
who strongly support the training of the teachers. OVC in Luapula Province schools will continue to receive
psychological support after project closeout due to the training received by the teachers.
The program supported 150 out of school youth, are implementing livelihood activities such as tailoring,
baking, hair plaiting, gardening, carpentry, etc. These activities were chosen by the youth because they
had been implementing them prior to Luapula Foundation's intervention, but with financial and material
constraints. Luapula Foundation supported the youth with material support in order to strengthen their ability
to operate in a manner that would provide for their independence. In addition, the youth have been attached
to local mentors trained in assisting the youth to manage resources and plan for the future. The youth were
trained in entrepreneurship so that they could manage their own businesses in groups that they have
formed. Those involved in gardening were attached to the agriculture extension officers so that they could
be taught and supported with technical skills in their communities. The OVC in this program have attained
financial security and do not require additional assistance; they will, however, continue to be monitored by
the local mentors.
The program provided training to 468 primary caregivers for OVC enrolled in the education program and
trained in conservation farming techniques. The caregivers produce food with the use of simple techniques
such as fertilizing crops with use of organic fertilizers. The caregivers use local, non-hybrid seeds (maize,
beans, soya beans) and non-chemical, natural insecticides that are readily available in the environment.
The OVC caregivers' households have been economically strengthened such that they are able to provide
for the nutritional needs of all family members, as well as to purchase other items needed in the house,
such as soap, cooking oil, etc. In some cases, the caregivers have attained capacity to meet school needs
for their OVC. OVC currently being supported by the NPI program, depending on their ability as well as the
ability of the caregivers to support their OVC will continue to receive educational support from Luapula
Foundation with the assistance of other donors, though in a more limited manner.
Fourteen extension officers in the Ministry of Agriculture were trained in conservation farming technical
assistance support to ensure sustainability of the program. In addition, the caregivers have been organized
into groups and a core group leader in each area was chosen who was then trained in leadership and HIV
prevention. These core group leaders support trained caregivers and other local community members who
are interested in beginning conservation farming. The program contains simple techniques that can be
transferred from one household to another among the marginalized community members. All caregivers
enrolled in the program have achieved food security and have been economically empowered. In addition,
they have received training in child rights and in the psychological needs of children.
During the closeout phase of the NPI OVC program, Luapula Foundation will organize stakeholders
meetings to share best practices and program challenges. This activity will include collecting testimonies
from community members and program beneficiaries so that Luapula Foundation can share program
successes and failures. Exploration for the continuation of the OVC program beyond NPI funding will be
investigated with other stakeholders, and cooperative agreements pursued. Luapula Foundation will stress
to stakeholders, partners, and potential partners the commitment of providing gender equity services and
Activity Narrative: the importance of girl-child education, and will encourage partners and stakeholders to adopt this
commitment. Currently Luapula Foundation receives minimal support for its OVC program from Firelight
Foundation, American Jewish World Service, Stephen Lewis Foundation, and Zambia National AIDS
Network. Other partnerships are being actively pursued.
to handle possible challenges once NPI funding ceases.
Luapula Foundation will also review mid-term challenges to determine if the project has successfully
developed interventions for sustainability of the activities in the communities/ sites in which the project was
undertaken.
Luapula Foundation will reach no new NPI targets in this closeout phase of the project. Luapula Foundation
will continue to operate its OVC program through the support of other donors who have provided support as
cost sharing with the NPI program. Equipment purchased with NPI funds will be necessary in order to
continue this OVC program at a reduced rate.
Continuing Activity: 15177
15177 15177.08 U.S. Agency for Luapula 7070 7070.08 Luapula $0
Table 3.3.13:
implementing an HIV Counseling and Testing program in Mansa District, Zambia, since October 2006, and
scaled up the program to all districts in Luapula Province with NPI funding beginning in December 2006.
NPI funding will come to an end on November 30, 2009 and Luapula Foundation will closeout NPI funded
activities and scale down operations. During the last three years of NPI funding for its CT program, Luapula
Foundation implemented counseling and testing (CT) in close collaboration with the Society for Family
Health (SFH) using their New Start brand for provision of CT. In FY 2008 Luapula Foundation purchased a
New Start mobile franchise from SFH for the use in delivery of CT services. Under the New Start franchise,
SFH provided supplemental services such as quality assurance and provision of supplies. The activity was
also closely linked with the Ministry of Health (MOH), and Mansa Diocese Home Based Care (HBC) who
provide care and support of the HIV positive clients, and with United States Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs)
who assisted in mobilizing communities to access the mobile CT services offered. To avoid duplication,
Luapula Foundation collaborated with other USG partners, MOH under-five and maternity clinics, Zambian
Army, Zambia National Service, Prisons Service and Police Service to provide mobile CT.
Over the course of the past three years of implementation of the project, Luapula Foundation has trained
148 lay counselors in all seven districts of Luapula Province. An internationally approved training curriculum
was used and the trainings were conducted by qualified trainers contracted for the purpose. All trained
counselors achieved certification through the Zambian Counseling Council. Luapula Foundation continued
to provide group and individual supervision and refresher courses to ensure quality service delivery. These
trainings will assist to provide for a sustainable exit strategy in the various districts by enabling well-trained
counselors to continue to provide high quality CT at public health facilities.
Over the course of the three years of the project, Luapula Foundation scaled-up the CT program to provide
mobile CT to all districts of Luapula Province. Many rural villagers in Luapula Province had no access to CT
services other than through the mobile unit provided by Luapula Foundation, due to distance from fixed site
centers and lack of transport. Luapula Foundation provided a CT service to 15,000 adults that offered same
day results to the clients. Luapula Foundation augmented government efforts to provide CT to as many
citizens as possible by using protocols designed by SFH New Start following national guidelines.
Luapula Foundation, in cooperation with stakeholders, built strong referral systems and created referral
directories in all districts served.
Besides the general adult population and adolescents over the age of 16, Luapula Foundation targeted
community, business and church leaders, and caregivers/guardians of OVC in order to encourage the
general population to come forward for CT. Luapula Foundation worked closely with communities to plan
and implement CT activities and referral systems. Luapula Foundation strengthened linkages with
community leaders, community-based organizations (CBOs), District AIDS Task Forces (DATFs), and rural
development committees.
Luapula Foundation's NPI Cooperative Agreement ends on November 30, 2009. NPI activities for the two
The 148 lay counselors trained by Luapula Foundation have been supervised by Ministry of Health
Counselor supervisors. In its mobile Counseling and Testing program, Luapula Foundation worked closely
with the Ministry of Health (District Health Offices). The lay counselors have been providing counseling
services at their local area rural health centers in the times that the mobile activities were not being provided
by Luapula Foundation. The lay counselors have also been linked to home based care services in the
districts close to the sites to which they report. Local rural health center staff are providing technical
assistance to the lay counselors. The Ministry of Health provides the reagents for the testing activities.
Therefore, in the absence of mobile CT in rural areas, CT will be provided at RHC.
During the closeout phase of the CT program Luapula Foundation will organize stakeholders meeting to
share best practices and program challenges. This activity will include collecting testimonies from
community members and program beneficiaries so that Luapula Foundation can share program successes
and failures.
Luapula Foundation will also review challenges identified in the mid-term evaluation report to determine if
the project has successfully developed interventions for sustainability of the activities in the
communities/sites in which the project was undertaken.
Luapula Foundation will reach no new targets in this closeout phase of the project. However, in FY 2009
Luapula Foundation began exploration of partnerships with the Ministry of Health and the Mansa Diocese
Home Based Care program in an effort to provide a comprehensive package of care to HIV positive persons
in Luapula Province. This program is expected to provide counseling and testing, treatment, and home
based care to those suffering from AIDS. This program will be built on the base of the CT program begun
with NPI funding, and funding for the program is actively being sought. Luapula Foundation will continue to
stress to stakeholders, partners, and potential partners our commitment to providing gender equity services
and will encourage partners and stakeholders to adopt this commitment. This comprehensive program is
currently being implemented on a small scale as a pilot in one district with funding obtained from the
Stephen Lewis Foundation and additional funding is actively being sought from other sources. Equipment
purchased for the NPI Counseling and Testing program with NPI funds will be necessary in the execution of
this comprehensive program.
Continuing Activity: 15178
15178 15178.08 U.S. Agency for Luapula 7070 7070.08 Luapula $0
Table 3.3.14:
