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 Ministry of Labour and Social Services (MoLSS) is the arm of government with the statutory responsibility for the care and protection of children. The Department of Social Services (DSS) in the Ministry employs professional social workers to implement policies and protocols such as those pertaining to: foster and institutional care, adoption, protection of children in conflict with the law, child sexual abuse and others. Faced with an increasingly difficult environment for recruitment of key personnel and growing needs as a result of the high HIV and AIDS prevalence and financial and economic challenges, the once robust Government system for protection of vulnerable children has been compromised. In September 2010, the DSS undertook a complete independent audit of the human resource and institutional capacity of the Department of Social Services at national, provincial and district levels to fulfill its obligations for child care and protection with a specific focus on its capacity to respond to the needs of orphans and vulnerable children. The audit was also to recommend a realistic strategy for capacity strengthening which will enable the Ministry to fulfill its mandate to provide effective and quality services. Building on the findings and recommendations of the audit, this mechanism will implement activities to strengthen the capacity of this key GoZ institution to carry out its mandate.
Capacity building and other training support will be given to the Department of Social Welafre at national and district level to ensure that social workers have the capacity to offer care and support services to orphans and other vulnerable children at community level.
