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 PEPFAR Prevention Small Grants program is designed to assist communities and local organizations with projects that promote HIV/AIDS prevention within communities at a grassroots level. The communities will design and implement prevention activities as well as set up monitoring indicators to measure their success in consultation with the PEPFAR team. The goal of this project is to build on the success of prevention efforts to date, by further reducing the acquisition and transmission of HIV through higher quality, more effective, and community identified and led sustainable prevention activities.

These funds could be accessed by well organized community groups who have agreed to pursue common goals of ensuring that the incidence rates or some other agreed upon measures, within their catchment area are reduced. The Prevention Small Grants program will help to build local capacity by encouraging new partners to submit applications for review. Applicants will be encouraged to work closely with current USG partners that are Prevention oriented to establish sound referral systems and to ensure continuity of services. The Prevention Small Grants Program will target an average of 25-30 innovative, evidence-based, community approved prevention activities to reach a total of 10,000 (depending on the definition of the “community”) people. Community-based groups, women's groups, youth groups, faith-based organizations (FBOs), groups focusing on gender issues, and groups of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) from all 9 provinces are among the groups that will be encouraged to apply.

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.