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.
The Public Affairs Section (PAS) program for PEPFAR FY09 supplemental and FY2010 funding fall under the areas of sexual prevention and health systems strengthening. The overarching goals of PAS programs are to save lives, improve lives, increase the Zimbabwean publics understanding and awareness of PEPFAR contributions and generally strengthen the health sector in Zimbabwe in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Depending on the arrival of funding support to PAS, we plan to conduct a balanced number of activities throughout the year, reaching a wide geographic region, including less frequently visited regions of the country, and rural and high-density areas that are economically disadvantaged. Our plan is to implement programs in all six geopolitical areas of the country and to partner with Zimbabwean organizations in communities outside Harare to build capacity and to strengthen local healthcare capacity. Target audiences include students, faculty and administrators in academia; key figures in arts, culture and music to reach other artists and to convey messages to the general public; health care practitioners to train and educate program partners and audience members attending events; religious and tribal leaders, and NGOs and civil society organizations.
PAS programs will expand pre-existing PEPFAR programs such as librarian resource center training, World AIDS Day activities and prevention messaging with the media, but also leverage PAS' programming expertise and contacts in the arts, cultural and education fields to promote prevention and health strengthening activities in innovate new ways.
Each PAS program will have an evaluation component. These will include specific measures linked to the project indicators, and may include questionnaires, surveys, questionnaires, testimonials, and tracking of media placements. These results will be reported through the Departments Mission Activity Tracker and through PEPFAR reporting mechanisms. Video and photographs of programs will be placed on Embassy website and social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter when appropriate.
The quality of reporting around HIV/AIDS issues in Zimbabwe is extremely low, often little more than a blend of government pronouncement, NGO self-aggrandizement, rumor, fiction, misstatement, and offensive language. The situation has been made worse because of a high percentage of the country's experienced journalists leaving the country or the journalism field for high-paying jobs in NGOs. There is limited investigative reporting on HIV/AIDS. Most coverage has focused on treatment, where meaningful engagement by government has been witnessed. With 100,000 of the 600,000 reported persons living with HIV/AIDS receiving drugs, media attention has focused on the limited funding availed to treatment. Articles in both government-controlled and private media have focused on the management of HIV/AIDS funds collected internally as well as those sourced from donors, including PEPFAR. This has also included increased attention on Global Fund grants, particularly when NGOs could not access funds for programs as a result of diversion of the funds by the central bank.
Because of the media challenges facing PEPFAR Zimbabwe, PAS programs will include as much media cross-over as possible. Where possible, we will include a media component to promote events, donor recipients and beneficiaries. PAS will invite media to report on events and use PEPFAR resource staff to inform journalists about HIV/AIDS. Press releases and USG official statements will complement all PAS programs. PAS staff will also track media placement and report to PEPFAR.
For FY2010 funds, PAS proposes the following activity: PEPFAR Fulbright Scholarship: a fully-funded scholarship for one pre-service Zimbabwean health profession to study in the United States for a Master's or PhD in fields such as public health, counseling or epidemiology.
1) Week-long training programs for Zimbabwean librarians and resource center coordinators in the rural areas of Beitbridge & Plumtree on HIV/AIDS information dissemination. 2) Media reporting tours to HIV/AIDS partner sites on a monthly basis to highlight PEPFAR projects. 3) Support U.S. artists to amplify prevention and treatment themes at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) and perform at local high schools. 4) HIV/AIDS training workshop for Parliamentary Constituency Information Centers to teach information dissemination skills and increase officer's knowledge of HIV/AIDS information. 5) Support Zimbabwe Aids Network and PAS national speaking tour on youth advocacy for HIV/AIDS, and how to utilize IT in community-based HIV/AIDS work. 6) Support to the Zimbabwe Arts Trust for a music and performing arts group to travel throughout all six regions of the country with HIV/AIDS messages of prevention and behavioral modification. 7) Engage female youth through the Zimbabwean National Association of School Heads (NASH) and Grass Roots Soccer, to learn about HIV through sport. 8) PEPFAR Fulbright to offer a Zimbabwean a fellowship to study for a two-year master's degree in the U.S. in the field of public health, counseling, management, or epidemiology. 9) Work with Community Radio Harare to train 20 radio producers in how to research and produce higher quality HIV/AIDS stories to raise awareness of HIV prevention among the general public. 10) High School Debate on HIV/AIDS and Youth. HIV/AIDS speaker teaches high school students about HIV/AIDS during two week intensive education program. 11) The University HIV/AIDS Peer Educators Partnership Project will work with peer educators groups at four universities to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and promote positive behavior on university campuses
1) Week-long training programs for Zimbabwean librarians and resource center coordinators in the rural areas of Beitbridge & Plumtree on HIV/AIDS information dissemination. 2) Media reporting tours to HIV/AIDS partner sites on a monthly basis to highlight PEPFAR projects. 3) Support U.S. artists to amplify prevention and treatment themes at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) and perform at local high schools. 4) HIV/AIDS training workshop for Parliamentary Constituency Information Centers to teach information dissemination skills and increase officer's knowledge of HIV/AIDS information.
Support Zimbabwe Aids Network and PAS national speaking tour on youth advocacy for HIV/AIDS, and how to utilize IT in community-based HIV/AIDS work. 5) Support to the Zimbabwe Arts Trust for a music and performing arts group to travel throughout all six regions of the country with HIV/AIDS messages of prevention and behavioral modification. 6) Engage female youth through the Zimbabwean National Association of School Heads (NASH) and Grass Roots Soccer, to learn about HIV through sport. 7) PEPFAR Fulbright to offer a Zimbabwean a fellowship to study for a two-year master's degree in the U.S. in the field of public health, counseling, management, or epidemiology. 8) Work with Community Radio Harare to train 20 radio producers in how to research and produce higher quality HIV/AIDS stories to raise awareness of HIV prevention among the general public. 9) High School Debate on HIV/AIDS and Youth. HIV/AIDS speaker teaches high school students about HIV/AIDS during two week intensive education program. 10) The University HIV/AIDS Peer Educators Partnership Project will work with peer educators groups at four universities to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and promote positive behavior on university campuses.
