NOTE: The following is taken from summaries released by PEPFAR on the PEPFAR Data Dashboard. They are incomplete summary paragraphs only and do not contain the full mechanism details. When the full narratives are released, we will update the mechanism pages accordingly.

The Supporting Public sector workplaces to Expand Action and Responses Against HIV/AIDS (SPEAR) is a $10M, 6-year award. SPEAR is a USAID/PEPFAR-funded initiative for supporting the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA), Ministry of Local Government (MoLG) and Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) to enhance HIV/AIDS prevention in their respective workplaces through expanded access to and utilization of quality HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care services. World Vision is the prime implementing agency of SPEAR project and works in collaboration with Research Triangle Institute (RTI). The goal of the SPEAR Project is to enhance HIV/AIDS prevention among adults through expanded access and utilization of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care services for selected public sector workers in Uganda. SPEAR ends in June 2014. For the final year the project will continue to implement combination prevention approaches involving multiple prevention interventions of known efficacy in a geographic area at a scale, quality and intensity to impact the epidemic among the target population. To ensure sustainability of its interventions, investments will be made in institutional capacity strengthening, policy and advocacy as a means of engendering a cultural shift at all levels on the importance of protecting the lives of public sector employee and the urgent need for creative and appropriate HIV/AIDS workplace interventions utilizing readily available resources. Project M&E plans include quarterly reports to USAID with identified process indicators to monitor the project’s progress towards achieving results and objectives, as well as PEPFAR semi-annual and annual reporting.

Since COP2014, PEPFAR no longer produces narratives for every mechanism it funds. However, PEPFAR has now included performance targets or indicator information for each mechanism based on the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) system. The MER guidance is available on PEPFAR's website https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. Note that COP years 2014-2015 were under a previous version of the MER system and the indicators and definitions may have changed as of the new 2.0 guidance.