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.
In 2008, the United States Government (USG) developed a new formal relationship with the University of
Zambia's (UNZA) Department of Social Development through the award of this Cooperative Agreement.
This activity is related to National Association for State and Territorial Directors (NASTAD) and SHARe,
National AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council (NAC), and Technical Assistance/Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
In addition to activities outlined below, funding is requested for UNZA to provide enhanced support for
scholarships, faculty and minor renovations for its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) program. In addition,
support for UNZA will be used by the NAC to ensure that M&E capacity needs are met at provincial and
district level, to assist with M&E trainings and to assist with implementation of the data systems integration
project. Further, since most of the staff working on this program are all part-time, i.e. they divide time
between their normal university work and the CDC project. Additional funding will be required to employ on
contractual basis a full time project staff to be responsible for the day to day implementation of the project.
In March 2006, the Department of Social Development piloted the first Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
short course. The initial course was attended by 45 training participants who consisted mostly of working
professionals and a number of final year students selected by the department. Experienced USG M&E staff
provided technical support for this course including overall curriculum design, lectures, and workshop
materials. In addition to USG staff, trainers included staff from cooperating partners, including SHARe,
UNAIDS, and UNZA professors and lecturers. Because of the positive response and success of this initial
course, USG Zambia, through CDC, supported this course in FY 2006 to train another 60 professionals to
build their skills in critical areas specific to Zambia. The two short-courses ran again successfully during the
two University of Zambia's mid-semester breaks in December 2006 and May 2007. In April and May of
2008, the short course was run which saw the graduation of an additional 63 students. Additionally,
NASTAD provided technical assistance to UNZA in developing a business plan for 2007 - 2011.
USG Zambia staff will continue to assist in improving the curriculum and plan to provide selected lecturers
from USG Zambia and CDC-Atlanta for the program. The program will aim to improve competencies
related to the continuum of data use, strategic planning, program planning, leading related processes as
well as technical aspects of evaluation, and information technology. To encourage sustainability of the
effort, the course will be continued after successful implementation in FY 2007/8 so that the training will
continue to be mainstreamed into regular graduate and undergraduate programs. Students entering this
program are often already employed by government ministries, NGOs, or health establishments and bring
new skills back to those organizations. For those without existing employment, the program will seek to
place a number of students on attachments to organizations expressing need. Additionally, the senate of
the university has also approved the planning monitoring and evaluation course to be offered not on short
time basis but to full time students. It will be open to all students in the school of Humanities and social
sciences and even those in medicine. This is just the beginning of the sustainability mechanism UNZA has
put in place.
The long-term vision is to enable UNZA to become an established sustainable in-country training center to
support the HIV/AIDS M&E workforce in to the future. Other international organizations, such as the
International Development Research Center (IDRC) have expressed an interest in partnership. In FY 2009,
UNZA also hopes to renovate their training rooms and offices to make them more attractive to the larger
and more diverse audience the program is attracting. The program will also provide targeted training for
institutions like the NAC for the development of capacity at the sub-national levels. In 2009, the program
will also pilot the M&E Training for Program Managers, an effort aimed at empowering program managers
with the basic M&E knowledge and its usefulness in program cycle.
Financial assistance in FY 2009 will be allocated to support participants' tuition fees (on a competitive
basis), field project stipends, and acquisition of more teaching materials, including online data resources to
support 100 (since main stream students will need resources for the planning monitoring and evaluation
semester course) more students, and thereby support at least 50 different local programs and service
outlets with capacity building. This will also improve communication and efficiency among many partners
creating and using geographic information to monitor and respond to HIV/AIDS. The increase in the funding
amount will also cover the hiring and/or assignment of full-time lecturers for the program who can meet the
increasing demands of the growing program. Funds will be allocated towards the refurbishment of current
training room and offices. It should be noted that the University has an inbuilt system of sustaining
programs. To this extent, even where funding stops and the projects wind up, the university will have
introduced programs in its system and therefore incorporated as its own and hence guarantee continuity.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 15574
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
15574 3720.08 HHS/Centers for University of 7189 3026.08 UNZA M&E $150,000
Disease Control & Zambia
Prevention
9030 3720.07 HHS/Centers for University of 5018 3026.07 UNZA (New $100,000
Disease Control & Zambia Cooperative
Prevention Agreement)
3720 3720.06 HHS/Centers for National 3026 3026.06 UNZA M&E $55,000
Disease Control & Department of
Prevention Social
Development
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