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: 2009 2010 2011
ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
The Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) was initiated in FY 2008 and was well
received by the public health community in Tanzania. The activities undertaken in FY 2008 concentrated on
building the foundation of the program. The major achievements for FY 2008 include approval of the Master
of Science course (MSc) by Muhimbili University School of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS);
enrollment of the first cohort of 11 Msc resident students; and the formation of a steering committee to
provide oversight on all matters related the goals and policies of the FELTP. The program has also begun
collaborating with the Tanzania Phones for Health program, a public-private partnership, to strengthen
better management of and timely reporting on disease outbreaks.
In FY 2009 the FELTP program will step up support for training and will greatly increase the intake of
students. The FELTP will support year two of training for the 11 students who enrolled in FY 2008. The
program will also support a second cohort of 10 new students (of whom five students will be epidemiology
students and five will be laboratory students). In addition, 60 students will participate in trainings provided
through short courses. Overall a toal of 81 students will receive training through the FELTP in FY 2009. In
FY 2009 the FELTP will continue to focus on provision of practical field-based training and on ensuring the
training provided by faculity is of the highest quality.
*END ACTIVITY MODIFICATION*
TITLE: Establishment of Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP)
NEED and COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: The Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW)
has identified a need at the national, regional, and district levels to develop a cadre of competent field
epidemiologists and public health laboratory managers who will help strengthen surveillance and the public
health response to priority communicable and non-communicable diseases particularly HIV/AIDS. To build
this capacity the MOHSW will establish a FELTP in Tanzania.
Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) is an applied epidemiology
program that helps countries develop and implement dynamic public health strategies to improve and
strengthen their public health system and their infrastructure. Currently South Africa and Kenya have
established programs. The Kenyan FELTP program, which will graduate four Tanzanians next year, is
unable to continue to accept Tanzanians into its program as the demand for space is so high.
The vision is to build a sustainable and independent program that will provide graduate training. The
program will be funded by PEPFAR, President's Malaria Initiative, and other bilateral partners. Graduates
of the program will be public health leaders in disease control and prevention and public health laboratory
management. They will be able to investigate disease outbreaks, strengthen surveillance and routine
program monitoring and laboratory systems, and serve as mentors to others. FELTP differs from traditional
trainings as students spend 75 percent of the second year undertaking practical fieldwork. The Tanzania
FELTP will be a degree granting program in collaborating with Muhimbili University of Health and Allied
Sciences (MUHAS).
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: This is a new activity for the MOHSW. However, in past years PEPFAR, through
the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), supported training for four Tanzanians at the Kenyan
FELTP program. Current students include: one who will return to strengthen the Zanzibar AIDS Control
Program in Zanzibar and one who will work in the Laboratory Diagnostic Unit of the MOHSW on Mainland.
These students, who will graduate in 2008, will pay a key role in the establishment of a Tanzania FELTP.
ACTIVITIES: FELTP is a two year, full-time training and service program, which involves classroom
instruction and field assignments. During the first year of the program short courses will be offered and a
cadre of ten students will be admitted. The first short course will be on routine program monitoring,
surveillance and outbreak investigation, laboratory quality assurance, as well as management. Participants
will include field epidemiologists, public health laboratory managers, and veterinary workers from various
regions working in HIV/AIDS and malaria.
Course participants will be required to conduct an applied learning project in Tanzania after which they will
present their work and receive degrees. The initial cohort of students will take classes in epidemiology,
communications, economics, management and will learn about quantitative and behavior-based strategies.
Field work will include: epidemiologic investigations and field surveys; evaluating surveillance systems; and
performing disease control and prevention measures.
FY 2008 funds will be used to support: a) ten students; b) provision of short courses; c) initial steering
committee and stakeholder meetings; d) travel cost related to FELTP seminars, outbreak, research and
surveillance evaluations, select conferences; and e) operations costs including stipends for fellows,
development and maintenance of field sites, accommodations for residents, tuition and honoraria.
An in country resident advisor for a number of years will be provided and funded through AFENET (African
Field Epidemiology Network) to help guide training and technical assistance. AFENET is a non-profit
network of organizations that share resources and best practices among FELTPs in Africa.
CDC Atlanta will provide technical assistance in the first year of the program in the form of physicians,
epidemiologists, public health advisors, instructional designers, and health communications specialists to
provide additional training and technical assistance.
LINKAGES: Developing partnerships is an important element of establishing, supporting, and sustaining the
program. Costs for establishing the Tanzanian FELTP program will be shared by African Field Epidemiology
Network (AFENET), the President's Malaria Initiative, MUHAS, NIMR, CDC Atlanta, and USAID
Washington.
Activity Narrative: SUSTAINAIBLITY: FELTP Tanzania will allow for key public health specialists to undertake training
incountry
rather than traveling abroad. FELTP graduates will be field trained epidemiologists and laboratory
managers who will be competent in practical applications of epidemiologic methods. This will lead to
sustainable improvements interventions, implementation, surveillance and epidemic investigation and
response and overall supervision of the HIV/AID epidemic.
M&E: In order to ensure that FELTP is effective in developing personal to meet the human resource
shortage in Tanzania and is a sustainable program, a system for periodic monitoring and evaluation of
outputs and outcomes is critical. The an evaluation workgroup, with input from Atlanta and field-based staff,
has developed programmatic indicators for this activity. This M&E plan will allow the MOHSW to document
program activities, monitor and evaluate the program, implement program improvements, adjust the
program to changing priorities, and ensure the program is meeting the long-term priorities. In addition, a
database has been developed to support program management and the tracking of programmatic
indicators. All PEPFAR indicators necessary will be also incorporated into the monitoring system.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 16365
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
16365 16365.08 HHS/Centers for The African Field 12089 12089.08 AFINET $625,000
Disease Control & Epidemiology
Prevention Network
Emphasis Areas
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $1,125,000
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
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