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.
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The Improved School Effectiveness (ISEP) Program includes a PEPFAR-funded component to promote Abstinence/Be Faithful (AB) interventions to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on Zambias student population. ISEPs geographic coverage is limited to schools in the Eastern and Northern Provinces. Geographic coverage is linked to the focus and concentrate mandate of the new Country Development and Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for Zambia.
ISEP will train school staff in the development and delivery of AB messages as part of a comprehensive school-based health management approach. ISEP will leverage and build from other PEPFAR funded interventions such as the MOEs HIV/AIDS workplace program. Schools will develop guidance and counseling support systems to counteract negative socio-cultural norms and risky behaviors. ISEP schools will be eligible for grants to develop school health management support structures to deliver prevention activities and psychosocial support to school children affected by HIV/AIDS. ISEP will also build on formative research conducted in 2009 with school staff and faculty on their HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices (KABP). The findings offer rich data on which to base the design and implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
To ensure sustainability, ISEP will work with the MOE to integrate HIV/AIDS interventions for students into its planning and budget processes. Monitoring and evaluation plans as well as additional research studies to advance the approach will be developed with the awardee, the MOE and USAID/Zambia staff. All MOE workplace programs will be led by the MOE to ensure buy-in and transition to MOE funding by 2015.
ISEP will implement AB interventions in line with the MOEs plan to roll out and institutionalize its school-based response to HIV/AIDS. The MOE has made progress in disseminating messages to Zambias students on the HIV/AIDS virus and its various modes of transmission. Unfortunately, these efforts do not begin to address the complex information and counseling needs that have arisen in the midst of the countrys HIV/AIDS crisis. ISEP will mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on students through school-based guidance and counseling support systems and work directly with the MOE to develop mechanisms for improving the capacity for school managers to respond to HIV/AIDS issues affecting their students. ISEP will train education managers and teachers to promote a comprehensive school health approach to counteract negative socio-cultural norms and risky behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse, gender-based violence, sexual abuse, transactional sex and other activities that potentially expose students to HIV/AIDS.
Evidence in Zambia has shown that many school-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs are limited in scope and often operate outside a coherent school health management framework. ISEP will promote HIV/AIDS prevention and support a student referral system for psychosocial counseling and support. ISEP will use both pre-service and in-service teacher training structures to address risky behaviors among the student population. Positive behavioral changes will advance the program goals and ultimately keep students in school, reduce teenage pregnancies, and increase student performance and academic success.
ISEPs geographic coverage will be focused in rural and some peri-urban areas in the Eastern and Northern Provinces. The geographic focus of the program in these provinces is directly linked to the focus and concentrate mandate of the new Country Development and Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for Zambia.
In order to ensure the sustainability of this intervention, ISEP will work with the MOE to integrate HIV/AIDS interventions for students into its planning and budgeting processes.
ISEP will also assist the MOE to develop and carry out a results-based evaluation plan as a part of the implementation of guidance and counseling interventions. This data is useful in ascertaining the impact of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs on student knowledge, behavior, practices, attitudes about HIV/AIDS.
Monitoring and evaluation plans as well as additional research studies to advance the ISEP approach will be developed with the awardee, the MOE and USAID/Zambia staff. All ISEP interventions will be carried out in collaboration with the respective MOE offices, schools and staff to ensure sustainability and linkages with the MOEs response to HIV/AIDS. ISEP will also build on formative research conducted in 2009 with school staff and faculty on their HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices (KABP). The findings offer rich data on which to base the design and implementation of HIV/AIDS programs and policies. The ISEP program will be embedded in the MOE to ensure buy-in and sustainability. ISEP interventions will transition to MOE funding by 2015.
