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
HIV/AIDS Prevention through Abstinence and Healthy Choices for Youth (ABY) in Ethiopia
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS
In FY08, the HEALTHY CHOICES program reached 110,000 individuals with community outreach HIV
prevention programs that promote abstinence and/or being faithful. The program adapted a faithfulness
curriculum that targets married couples in the project area, and reached 3565 individuals during the fiscal
year. Upon completion of the year long modular training, an evaluation was done to measure behavioral
and attitudinal changes among the program participants.
COP08 ACTIVITY NARRATIVE
This is an ongoing Track 1-funded AB only activity in prevention
Food for the Hungry International Ethiopia (FHI/E), is an officially registered Christian Relief and
Development Organization and operating in five regional states of Ethiopia since 1984. FHI/E implements
PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS prevention projects directly and through sub-partners in ten districts of the
country.
In the Healthy CHOICES program, youth leaders are trained on the prevention of HIV/AIDS using a well
structured manual which comprises 12 serial sessions. The content of these sessions focus on life skills
based education aimed at building the confidence and self-esteem of youth, developing their
communication skills, increasing knowledge about sexual health and encouraging youth to practice
abstinence and hence avoid the risks of HIV/AIDS. Upon completion of training, each youth leader will in
turn reach a group of 13 youth using the same curriculum.
This program also includes teaching married couples on faithfulness using a structured manual that will be
given over few days. This particular effort is undertaken by making a house-to-house visit as well as using
various community events.
Apart from shaping youth behavior through the Choose Life curriculum, the project also provides special
attention to females aged 15-24 in such a way that they will be empowered to avoid engagement in cross-
generational and transactional sexual relationships. Sexually active youth, who fail to practice secondary
abstinence, are referred for comprehensive prevention service.
In the first six months of FY07, FHI/E and its sub partners reached a total of 53,307 youth with appropriate
AB messages and 9,541 people were trained to provide HIV prevention education. AB awareness
campaigns were also conducted at mass events like the World AIDS Day. During the same period,
translation to local languages of additional lessons on sexual abuse and trans-generational sex was also
completed, and implementation has been started.
In FY08, the program will continue working to reach more youth with AB messages. Taking in to account
lessons from FY07, the project will revisit the relatively few adolescents who could not commit to abstinence
and provide supplemental sessions on risk reduction options and further behavioral communication
approaches. The program will also strengthen its referral to comprehensive prevention services. More
influential adults and volunteer health educators will be trained on HIV prevention programs that promote
abstinence and/or faithfulness.
The program conforms to the PEPFAR Ethiopia prevention strategy by focusing on promoting AB behavior
with the youth and utilizing existing structures, churches, mosques and Sunday school/youth groups to
promote AB behavior and model positive, non-stigmatizing behaviors among the communities.
Other PEPFAR as well as non-PEPFAR partners currently operate in the three regions FHI work in.
Operational and technical collaboration among these partners is essential for successful implementation of
programs and effecting wider impact.
The program targets youth 10-25 years, and married couples in the geographic areas the partner operates
in. The youth are the primary targets of this project. The project also works with married couples towards
promoting faithfulness in marriage or long term relationship. Influential adults (such as parents, teachers,
religious leaders and other influential people) are instrumental in communicating HIV/AIDS prevention
messages and hence bring about the desired behavior change.
By focusing efforts on empowerment of adolescent and young adult women to refrain from engaging in
unhealthy sexual behaviors, the project seeks to increase gender equity. The curriculum focuses on tools
for prevention of transactional and cross-generational sexual relationships and on other situations of
coercive sex, which also addresses the cross-cutting area of gender, male behavior norms, and female
empowerment.
Sub- partners:
Food for the Hungry International/Ethiopia (Lead Agency for the Project in Ethiopia),
Life In Abundance Ethiopia (LIAE),
Save Lives Ethiopia (SaLE),
Ethiopian Kale Hiwot Church (EKHC),
FAYYAA Integrated Development Association (FIDA)
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 16555
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
16555 5595.08 U.S. Agency for Food for the 7464 608.08 Track 1 $529,000
International Hungry
Development
8093 5595.07 U.S. Agency for Food for the 4699 608.07 Track 1 $295,770
5595 5595.06 U.S. Agency for Food for the 3761 608.06 $449,986
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Addressing male norms and behaviors
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
* Reducing violence and coercion
Human Capacity Development
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
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