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: 2011 2012 2013 2014
This implementing mechanism (IM) is a cooperative agreement with the Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) in its third year of implementation. The awards objective is to mobilize and sustain community-based responses to the needs of OVC, in line with envisaged impact mitigation results under the Partnership Framework. The IM targets OVC and their caregivers in 12 regions in Namibia. CAFO is an indigenous CSO, formed as an interdenominational umbrella organizations devoted to promote local action by church congregations and communities to mitigate the impact of HIV on children. CAFO has over 500 member congregations across the country.
To be cost-efficient, the IM works through existing community and church projects organized under ecumenical committees. CAFO provides capacity building for these projects to ensure quality service delivery, and technical assistance for levering of local level resources.
In line with the GHI strategic focus area of transition and increasing access to services, the IM is facilitating access to government child welfare grants for eligible children as well as to education and health services. All projects will develop graduation plans.
Routine monitoring activities will take place at project and regional levels via regional committees and regional support officers, and will feed into the IM national data base. The national monitoring and evaluation team will be responsible for data quality assessments. Implementation will be guided by the IM mid-term evaluation scheduled for the end of FY12.
No vehicles are scheduled to be purchased under this IM.
The partner Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) is an indigenous faith-based organization (FBO) constituted as an umbrella body to advocate for rights and services for OVC. CAFO has over 500 member congregations across the country, and technical and financial support is channeled through member congregations.
The project combines capacity building for service delivery through community grants and training with advocacy and referrals to service providers. Service delivery at community level focuses on psychosocial support, nutrition and behavior change communication for HIV prevention for OVC. Training for community projects also focuses on engaging OVC caregivers. Capacity building targets community projects as well as regional committees and focuses on basic organizational development to ensure projects have transparent structures, as well as strategies and skills to become sustainable. The project will reach approximately 10,000 OVC in nine regions.
CAFO provides small grants to community projects which are selected based on proposals evaluated against technical criteria. Sub-granting for service delivery is supplemented with facilitation of linkages of community projects with key government officials (schools, social workers), NGO and business entities, and with technical assistance for measures promoting service sustainability including economic strengthening/income generating activities and levering private and public sector resources. An additional component is the development of tools for church congregations (sermon sketches) to galvanize church communities into action to support OVC. The implementing mechanisms (IM) approach has been shaped by an evaluation of the IM preceding the current cooperative agreement with CAFO.
Prevention interventions target vulnerable and orphaned adolescents aged 10 to 18, who are at risk of early sexual debut and unsafe sex due to transient or instable family situation and resultant lack of parental and adult support, as well as due to poverty. Sexual prevention for female and male adolescents (OVC) will be implemented with evidence-based social and behavior change communication (SBCC) methodology through 12-18 interactive group sessions focusing on delay of sexual activity and for caregivers of OVC to improve parental communication with children on drivers of early sexual initiation and related social norms.
HIV prevention activities will be integrated with OVC support interventions, especially psychosocial and educational support, and referrals to protection and health services, including HCT. Intervention sites will be select community projects run under the auspices of church congregations in four regions.
Quality assurance will be promoted through the use of standardized materials developed by C-Change, and through supportive supervision by CAFOs Regional Support Officers and by local ecumenical committees.
Monitoring tools will be developed to be administered in conjunction with mechanisms to monitor other OVC services.
