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
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS
CRS will be providing services to three new sites in Benue and Plateau.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:
This is an ongoing SUN Project activity and will focus on sustaining the scaling up of support to
OVC/caregivers and ensuring the saturation of services in the project sites. CRS is presently implementing
programs in 13 project sites located in eight States namely Abuja, Edo, Kogi, Niger, Nasarawa, Benue,
Kaduna and Plateau. In COP09, CRS will provide support directly to the 3 additional sites created out of
Benue and Plateau in COP08. This is to support the viability of the new sites created out of our 2 largest
existing sites to ensure better saturation of services and assurance of quality standard of care.
The SUN Project will focus on consolidating improved quality of services provided to enhance the quality of
life for OVC and caregivers by providing block grants to service facilities and building capacity of providers,
OVC households, community support structures, and partner institutional capacity. All OVC within a
household will be enrolled into the program and provided with comprehensive services including at least
three of the following: education/vocational support, health care, psychosocial support, OVC protection and
economic strengthening. In COP09, linkages will be sustained for nutritional and educational support with
USG supported wrap-around activities in sites where these co-exist with CRS-SUN.
Education will be supported through teachers' training, and through operational partnerships with schools
that support a more conducive environment for learning for all students, including OVC, as well as the
provision of teaching materials. OVC completing vocational training will be linked to economic strengthening
opportunities including NDE, NAPEP and other viable government initiatives.
Healthcare will be promoted through partnerships with USG IPs, GON, FBOs and AIDSRelief healthcare
centers for growth monitoring and treatment of OIs; and through health education at support group meetings
and home visits. Other services include immunization, provision of preventive care packages comprising
insecticide treated nets and water guard/containers and the treatment of minor ailments during home visits.
Home visitors also refer clients they cannot treat to health facilities. In addition, all HIV positive OVC and
caregivers seeking health care support will be linked to local health facilities for palliative care and to the
nearest ART Treatment sites of their choice, which may include CRS-AIDSRelief sites.
Also with regard to health, a Peer Health Educators strategy initiated in schools and communities will be
institutionalized to create demand for HCT among OVC, caregivers and the general population. This will be
facilitated through the integration of services with the CRS 7D project care and support activities, since both
projects provide support in the same households and communities. The two-way referral system between
these programs and with AIDSRelief will be strengthened. Psychosocial support will be provided through
group counseling, the formation of school HIV/AIDS prevention clubs, the reinforcement of established
youth-friendly centers, home visitation, and through the integration of OVC into community recreational
facilities.
OVC protection support will be anchored by the Justice Peace and Development Commissions (JPDCs) in
each diocese. The specific focus areas of each partner within the domain of protection will vary in
accordance with the local priorities identified in the situation analysis, but will include birth registration for all
under fives enrolled in the CRS-SUN project, the strengthening of the effectiveness of the community justice
system for dealing with inheritance issues, the creation of awareness on child abuse and child rights, and
the linkage of OVC to their siblings and/or extended families. Income generation activities for OVC and
caregivers, volunteers and youth will be sustained and scaled up.
Partner capacity to serve OVC will also be strengthened as CRS supports the Catholic Secretariat of
Nigeria (CSN) to provide leadership, technical support and national coordination. CRS will also provide
mentoring and capacity building in project management, monitoring and evaluation, finance, administration,
and the management of small grants. This support is provided at all levels: for CSN directors, the CSN
Health Unit and provincial structures, including the Diocesan and Parish Action Committees on AIDS
(PACA) in all the project dioceses.
The M&E strategy will be participatory, community driven and aligned to the national Plan of Action on OVC
within the context of the ‘three-ones' initiative. Referral systems will be established with other IPs and with
the relevant GON supervisory agencies to track the quality of each component of the services that the OVC
receive, in accordance with Child Status Index and GoN approved tools. In addition, a more intense and
well-structured monitoring and supervisory strategy will be adopted to further assure the quality of the
services provided. Effort will also be made to saturate services within reasonable and limited geographical
areas by mopping up all OVC in HIV/AIDS affected households within projects sites before expanding to
other communities.
The primary direct targets for this project will be 12,500 OVC receiving at least three components of
services. To this end, refresher trainings will be conducted for 600 PACA volunteers, teachers, SMoWA
OVC desk officers and JDPC OVC protection staff on OVC care and support.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA:
Activities in the program area are focused on strengthening the capacity of families and communities to
provide care and support for OVC. These activities contribute to the USG's PEPFAR five-year strategy of
providing care and support to 400,000 OVC. This is also consistent with the Strategic Framework on OVC
by the provision of services to 12,500 OVC and training 600 service providers within faith-based institutions.
In addition, specific policy and community mobilization capacity initiatives aimed at leveraging national
guidelines and procedures around the critical needs of OVC including school fees will be provided for CSN
leadership, Parish structure and other affiliated institutions.
LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES:
This links to HIV treatment, HIV drugs, basic palliative care, TB/HIV and VCT. CRS ‘7D' care and support
Activity Narrative: projects are implemented in CRS OVC project States. All OVC families receive community-based care and
support from the 7Diocese project. SUN/7D dual referral strategy will be explored where OVC and their
caregivers that are positive will be referred appropriately to CRS AIDS Relief or other IP sites for treatment
while positive OVC from AIDSRelief sites will be referred to SUN sites for appropriate and comprehensive
OVC services. Infants born to PMTCT clients will be followed up through the growth monitoring component
of the OVC support services while children of support group members in the 7D project will benefit from the
OVC services. Through collaboration and referral networks with organizations like Christian Aid and
AIDSRelief, OVCs will access other services and opportunities that are not provided directly by CRS SUN
project.
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED:
OVC, caregivers of OVC, and other children/siblings living in OVC households are the direct project target
while FBOs, religious/community leaders, representatives of government supervisory agencies as well as
community volunteers constitute indirect beneficiaries of CRS SUN project activities. The general population
of youth will benefit as a result of the life skills training that will be conducted in schools. AIDSRelief will also
refer their positive OVC on ART to the CRS OVC project to ensure they receive comprehensive package of
care for OVC on ART.
EMPHASIS AREAS:
An emphasis area is the development of local partner's capacity to better organize activities and support
OVC services. Other emphasis areas are: community mobilization/participation; development of
network/linkages/referral system; information, education and communication, and linkages with other
sectors and initiatives.
This program will strive to address gender issues. It will ensure gender equity in the choice of beneficiaries
and specifically increase women's legal rights through the provision of support for legal fees and advice.
Linkages with community efforts to provide assistance in protecting women and children's legal rights will
also be strengthened. In addition, effort will be made to address issues related to stigma and discrimination
that hamper care and support activities as well as prevention activities.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 13010
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
13010 5407.08 U.S. Agency for Catholic Relief 6367 3713.08 USAID Track $2,500,000
International Services 2.0 CRS OVC
Development
6688 5407.07 U.S. Agency for Catholic Relief 4164 3713.07 OVC $2,400,000
International Services
5407 5407.06 U.S. Agency for Catholic Relief 3713 3713.06 OVC $1,470,000
Emphasis Areas
Gender
* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs
* Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
* Increasing women's legal rights
Health-related Wraparound Programs
* Child Survival Activities
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $591,575
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Economic Strengthening $300,000
Education
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education $550,000
Water
Table 3.3.13:
CRS SUN/OVC (SUN) will collaborate with the CRS 7 Dioceses (7D) project to provide SI activities to
strengthen M&E in 13 sites in eight project states in Nigeria; Edo, Benue, Niger, Nasarrawa, FCT, Plateau,
Kaduna and Kogi States. Activities will focus on program level reporting, Health Management Information
System (HMIS), and quality assurance, and will be aligned with the USG strategic information (SI) data
quality assessment/improvement (DQA/I) and capacity-building plan to enhance reporting, monitoring, and
management of the SUN/7D project.
The SUN project will benefit directly from the collaboration with 7D Project in the design and implementation
of the M&E tools and systems. The financial responsibility of establishing, reviewing and monitoring of M&E
systems will be shared equally between both projects due to the integrated nature of both projects. Across
the 7D and SUN projects, a total of 13 organizations will be provided with TA and 53 individuals trained in SI
-related activities. These targets have been divided between the two projects, which provide joint TA and
training in SI. The SUN project has targeted 6 organizations and 26 individuals.
In addition, the SUN project will continue to provide services to fill identified gaps observed in the OVC
situation analysis conducted in COP07. The Diocesan systems will be strengthened to provide quality
service through conducting organizational assessments to determine baseline performance in terms of
financial, human resource and program management. The result of these assessments will be used to
make management decisions and build organizational capacity.
Systems strengthening with regards to HMIS will be done in collaboration with the 7D project. OVC
mapping activity will continue in the project sites to track success and impact of program on OVCs served.
Quality Assurance measures will be done in collaboration with the 7D Project and will include quarterly on-
site mentoring and supportive supervision in M&E by the CRS M&E Specialists in collaboration with State
M&E officer(s) to provide technical support to the Diocesan sites to ensure effective data collection and
management. M&E support includes ongoing supportive supervision in effective data collection,
management, and utilization, in line with the USG SI data quality assessment/improvement (DQA/I) plan.
Data quality assessments will be done quarterly and data triangulation techniques will be used to ensure the
quality of data being used. Continuous quality improvements of data will be reinforced by establishing
systems for documenting best practices and use of technical SOPs for OVC program area such as Use of
Child status Index to track progress and impact. Efforts targeted at reducing double counting in all program
areas will include coordination meetings with other IPs at the community level in our project areas. The
database systems will also guarantee reduction in errors.
Volunteer motivation will be done in collaboration with 7D project.
The SI activities will contribute improved quality and reliability of data being reported on project activities
and service provision for OVC. Improvement in SI management capacity of existing and new partners will
ensure effective data use and management and will contribute towards the GON and USG strategy for the
provision of quality and timely information for decision-making. This information will serve as a valuable
resource in developing corrective action plans that would enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of
operations and management of the SUN/OVC project. By strengthening the capacity of local partners, SI
activities will further increase the sustainability of HIV/AIDS programs in Nigeria.
SI activity relates to PMTCT, Abstinence and Be Faithful Prevention, Palliative Care: Basic Health Care and
Support, and Counseling and Testing. In addition, links with the GON and other USG IPs will be
strengthened.
This activity targets PAVs, Care givers, OVCs, community based organisations, State M&E officers, CRS
Program staff, faith-based organizations and religious leaders.
Emphasis areas include human capacity development
Continuing Activity: 13011
13011 9914.08 U.S. Agency for Catholic Relief 6367 3713.08 USAID Track $50,000
9914 9914.07 U.S. Agency for Catholic Relief 4164 3713.07 OVC $50,000
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $28,500
Table 3.3.17:
