Usaf program element code list

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Definition: Foster and maintain a culture that is generally law-abiding, including through legal literacy, public awareness, constituency building, and citizen engagement in legal processes.

Ensure that the public is educated about laws and regulations, perceives laws as legitimate and worthy of adherence, and respects the authority of law and legal institutions.

Develop citizen demand for an effective and accountable justice system, and develop associations to advocate for all citizens.

This includes programs that spur a culture of lawfulness by changing beliefs and attitudes by socializing people into a rule of law culture and changing norms so that people abide by the law. This includes ROL programs or civil society programs with a very specific focus on rule of law related citizen awareness and education, i.

Definition: Strengthen judicial independence as a means to maintain separation of powers and check excessive power in any branch or level of government. Strengthening judicial independence includes reducing improper influences on the judiciary through: open and participatory processes for judicial selection and appointment; security of tenure; satisfactory budget allocations to ensure adequate infrastructure, training, and working conditions; judicial self-governance including management of administrative, budgetary, ethics, and disciplinary processes and reform; and transparent court operations and judicial processes.

This element also helps ensure that government is bound by law, and government decision-making is in accordance with the law. Work to create an independent and impartial justice system through institutional and behavioral change, and also to promote public respect for the justice system and judicial decision-making. Justice sector actors and institutions include: police, border security, prosecutors, forensics experts, judges, court personnel, public defenders, mediators, arbitrators, conciliators, corrections personnel, private bar, law schools, legal professional associations, and training institutions for each of them.

Support educational and training programs for all justice system actors, to include reform of pedagogy and curricula, continuing and in-service training, support of accreditation and legal professional associations to promote professionalism, and encourage public service. Improve administrative and operational systems, including strategic planning, budget, procurement, and personnel.

Definition: Work towards an equitable justice system by ensuring fairness in law and process. Fairness programs include non-discrimination law fair trial standards, effective administrative law systems to guard against arbitrary government action, and observance by all justice system actors and institutions of international treaties and customary law.

Support monitoring and advocacy by justice sector NGOs, including strategic lawyering, trial monitoring, and policy dialogue.

Improve equitable access to justice through increasing the quality and quantity of state and non-state justice services, with a particular focus on women, youth, the poor, LGBT persons, and other marginalized or vulnerable groups. This includes access to state and non-state dispute-resolution fora; court re-distribution; mobile courts; the removal of language, gender, cultural, sexual orientation, gender identity and physical barriers; circulation of laws and legal decisions; alternative dispute resolution systems; and expanding access to legal services e.

This also includes programs to educate the citizenry about their rights, how to access services, and how to encourage change. Programs primarily focused on trafficking in persons should be captured under PS.

Definition: Governance refers to the exercise of political, economic, and administrative authority to manage a country's affairs at all levels, including the capacity to formulate, implement, and enforce public policies and deliver services. Good governance includes modes of administrative authority that are inclusive, participatory, transparent, responsive, effective, and accountable. This includes support for strengthening legislatures and local governments; capacity-building; security sector reform; separation of powers through institutional checks and balances, between the executive and legislative branches, in particular; and avenues within government structures for accountability, oversight and meaningful public participation.

In conflict or post-conflict environments, this includes support for reconstruction of state institutions and systems. Activities the primary focus of which is combating corruption should be recorded under DR. Definition: Improve the way the legislature and legislative processes and procedures work to uphold democratic practices. Focus on the quality and effectiveness of legislation, including the constitution, codes, laws, and regulations applying to various development sectors.

Definition: Assist institutions at all levels of the executive authority, including offices, ministries, and independent governmental bodies, but excluding security agencies of government which are covered by DR. Assist with policies, procedures, and skill sets including leadership and strategic management to guide operations; implementation and enforcement of laws, regulations and policies; building linkages among executive institutions and between the executive and other branches of government.

Definition: Provide technical assistance and training to strengthen sub-national government functions, including development of budgets, local revenue raising, provision of local public services, community planning, participation, and implementation of laws, regulations, policies, and programs. Definition: Promote governance institutions, processes, and policies that are transparent and accountable across all levels of governance and all development sectors.

Support non-governmental as well as governmental institutions at the national and subnational level including enforcement and investigation entities, independent audit agencies, anti-corruption commissions, procurement agencies, legislatures, line ministries, independent agencies, political parties, judicial actors, as well as civil society organizations, academia, press and the private sector.

Support civic education and advocacy for reform of laws and practices or directly improving accountability and transparency of governance processes covering various development sectors. This element is intended to record funding for programs whose primary focus is combating corruption. Assistance activities that do not primarily focus on combating corruption but that include combating corruption as a secondary or other focus should be recorded in the category of primary focus.

Definition: Support the development of effective, legitimate, and democratically accountable civilian security institutions, to include those governing law enforcement.

Illustrative activities include the following: ministerial reform; national security planning, policy, and budget formulation; training, advising and educating security sector personnel; support for formal legislative, judicial and informal civil society, media oversight of the security sector. Support for non-civilian activities to strengthen military capabilities should be captured under PS. Definition: Promote legitimate contestation for ideas and political power through democratic political processes that reflect the will of the people.

Support free and fair political competition, the constitutional, peaceful transfer of political power, and the resolution of disputes through a democratic and representative process.

Create and support vehicles for people to debate public priorities, air alternative solutions, win support for proposed remedies and provide input to decisions that affect their lives. Definition: In a context of political or other non-conflict related transition or other process requiring broad social consensus, promote societal discourse and agreement on democratic reform, rules, and institutional frameworks.

Promote broad-based participation in determining, defining, and negotiating changes to governing structures and processes. Illustrative examples include promoting inclusive consensus-building processes related to national dialogues, and referenda on key issues.

Programs are designed to incorporate and support mechanisms that advance the mediation, negotiation, and resolution of political disputes in the context of these processes. Funding in support of post-conflict work should be captured under PS.

Definition: Provide assistance that enables citizens to select and replace their leaders through periodic, inclusive, accountable and free and fair elections. This includes support for legal and regulatory frameworks, open and effective election administration, broad public participation and civic awareness, societal oversight of electoral processes, and accountable procedures for election-related grievances and appeals.

Strengthen the ability of political parties and political entities to compete effectively in elections and political processes, including providing technical assistance and training related to political party and candidate campaigning, fund-raising and financial management, mobilizing voter turn-out, and election monitoring. Definition: Support civil society as an effective arena that empowers citizens to advance democratic values of citizen participation and governmental accountability.

Civil society organizations includes, but is not limited to, human rights organizations, youth movements, informal groups, religious organizations, labor and trade unions, professional associations, indigenous organizations, women organizations, LGBT organizations, and think tanks. Definition: Establish legal and regulatory frameworks that protect the freedom of association and assembly and that promote an enabling environment that protects and promotes civil society and citizen participation.

This includes but is not limited to ensuring that legal frameworks enable CSOs to form and operate freely, promoting the sustainability of the CSO sector e. This aspect also includes strengthening advocacy, networks, grassroots coalitions, and public support for reforms related to the enabling environment for civil society.

This does not include funding for activities carried out by civil society related to Rule of Law, Human Rights, or Political Competition, which are captured by areas DR.

Definition: Strengthen the organizational capacity of Civil Society Organizations CSOs for policy analysis and oversight, advocacy, coalition-building, internal governance, membership representation and services, and providing sustainable services that consistently meet the needs, priorities, and expectations of their constituents and communities.

Areas of capacity development may include, but are not limited to, technical expertise e. Definition: Support activities that advance citizen engagement to hold governments accountable and to participate actively in economic, political, governing and other critical processes aimed at creating more peaceful, democratic, and pluralistic societies.

Promote citizen engagement in local decision-making processes, such as through participatory budgeting processes and public-private dialog for economic development priorities. Examples of other activities include, supporting CSO and citizen advocacy efforts; backing citizen monitoring and oversight initiatives; and strengthening citizen engagement in service delivery.

Activities in this element relate to the role of civil society in holding public institutions accountable the watchdog role whereas DR. Definition: Support civic education information on the role of citizens, government officials, and institutions in a democratic society in its role in building a democratic culture and developing an informed citizenry.

Strengthen a political and civic culture which is supportive of democratic institutions and processes; active citizen participation; collective action on issues of common concern; civic virtues, such as tolerance and equality for all; and other civic skills, attitudes, and behaviors.

This includes, but is not limited to, informal and formal civic education initiatives, service learning and volunteering, and community-based civic actions. Definition: Strengthen information- and media-related legal and regulatory frameworks and associated freedom of expression protections, including self-regulatory mechanisms and access to and freedom of information legislation.

Definition: Strengthen normative-legal-regulatory frameworks that enable free media, open information access and freedoms of expression. Strengthen advocacy capacity, digital and physical security awareness and response capabilities, and networking for information, media and related organizations to promote, protect and defend Internet freedom, media independence and freedoms of expression; including but not limited to online, national, and regional initiatives. Definition: Human rights derive from the inherent dignity of the individual and are to be enjoyed by all without distinction as to race, color, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property, birth, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other status.

They include fundamental freedoms of expression, association, peaceful assembly and religion set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They also include rights in labor conventions and provisions of national civil rights legislation.

They reflect a common sense of decency, fairness and justice; and states have a duty to respect and ensure these rights and incorporate them into the processes of government and law. Definition: Support systems to prevent and address human rights violations through early warning, monitoring, investigating, and reporting. Promote respect for human rights and support human rights defenders through utilization of national, regional, and international legal systems for human rights protection and enforcement.

Harmonize domestic laws and policies with international human rights standards; and promote the adoption and implementation of human rights and labor standards; and sponsor legal aid. Harmonize domestic laws and policies with international human rights standards; promote the adoption and implementation of human rights and labor standards; and sponsor legal aid and other assistance for victims of human rights violations.

Support the work of National Human Rights Commission. Integrate human rights into training for security sector actors, teachers, civil society leaders, journalists, religious leaders, and government officials.

Definition: Address legacies of past war crimes, systemic human rights violations, and mass atrocities through transitional justice mechanisms that provide accountability, truth and reconciliation, and redress to enable societies to move forward nonviolently and restore trust in public institutions.

Promote the investigation of past systemic human rights violations and mass atrocities, and other initiatives and platforms to prevent future atrocities. Protection and support for victims of systemic human rights violations or mass atrocities.

Definition: Empower marginalized communities, which include groups that have been traditionally discriminated against because of their race, nationality, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, disability status, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation, to secure their human rights on the basis of equality and with dignity.

Raise awareness on issues affecting marginalized populations, including programs that teach tolerance and acceptance, and build capacity to advocate for the rights of marginalized populations both in and out of the government arena. End discrimination, hostility, or violence against marginalized communities, including promoting robust legal protections against discrimination and hate crimes and seeking redress against discrimination.

Definition: Activities including training aimed at preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, including ARV prophylaxis for HIV-infected pregnant women and newborns and counseling and support for maternal nutrition. Early infant diagnosis should be included under Pediatric Care. Definition: Activities including training to promote abstinence, fidelity, reducing multiple and concurrent partners, and related social and community norms that impact these behaviors. Activities should address programming for both adolescents and adults.

Definition: Activities supporting a nationally-coordinated blood program to ensure a safe and adequate blood supply including: infrastructure and policies; donor recruitment activities, blood collection, testing for transfusion-transmissible infections, component preparation, storage and distribution; appropriate clinical use of blood, transfusion procedures and hemovigilance; training and human resource development; monitoring and evaluation; and development of sustainable systems.

Prevention services should be focused on target populations such as alcohol users; at-risk youth; men who have sex with men MSM ; mobile populations, including migrant workers, truck drivers, and members of military and other uniformed services e. Psychological and spiritual support may include group and individual counseling and culturally-appropriate end-of-life care and bereavement services.

Social support may include vocational training, income-generating activities, social and legal protection, and training and support of caregivers. Definition: Includes exams, clinical monitoring, related laboratory services, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis including medication , as well as screening and referral of TB clinic clients for HIV testing and clinical care.

Services to children years should be based on the actual needs of the child and could include ensuring access to basic education from early childhood development through secondary level ; broader health care services; targeted food and nutrition support, including support for safe infant feeding and weaning practices; protection and legal aid; economic strengthening; training of caregivers in HIV prevention and home-based care; etc.

Programs may be included which strengthen the transition from residential OVC care to more family-centered models. It is important that funding for OVC is not double-counted in pediatric care activities. Definition: Includes activities in which both HIV counseling and testing are provided for those who seek to know their HIV status as in traditional VCT or provider initiated counseling and testing. Definition: This includes procurement, delivery and in-freight of ARV drugs.

All antiretroviral Post-Exposure Prophylaxis procurement for rape victims should be included within this program element. Definition: Including infrastructure, training clinicians and other providers, exams, clinical monitoring, related laboratory services, and community-adherence activities.

Clinical monitoring and management of opportunistic infections is classified under Adult Care and Support. Laboratory services supporting care should go under Adult or Pediatric care and support. Laboratory services supporting treatment should be included under Pediatric or Adult Treatment Services. Definition: Include activities that contribute to national, regional or district level systems by supporting finance, leadership and governance include broad policy reform efforts including stigma, gender, etc.

Please note, as stated in the introduction, other activities will also contribute ultimately to reporting budget attributions to HSS. These calculations will be handled at HQ. Program area-specific monitoring and routine evaluation should be incorporated under the specific program area. Definition: Policy, training, outreach, message development, service delivery, quality assurance, and equipment and commodities related to male circumcision MC. All MC services should include the minimum package; HIV testing and counseling provided on site; age-appropriate pre- and post-operative sexual risk reduction counseling; active exclusion of symptomatic STIs and syndromic treatment when indicated; provision and promotion of correct and consistent use of condoms; circumcision surgery in accordance with national standards and international guidance; counseling on the need for abstinence from sexual activity during wound healing; wound care instructions; and post-operative clinical assessments and care.

HIV counseling and testing associated with male circumcision can be included in either counseling and testing or male circumcision. Definition: Activities including policy reform, training, message development, community mobilization and comprehensive approaches including medication assistance therapy to reduce injecting drug use. Procurement of methadone and other medical-assisted therapy drugs should be included under this program area budget code.

Programs for prevention of sexual transmission within IDUs should be included in this category. Definition: All health facility-based care for HIV-exposed children and their families aimed at extending and optimizing quality of life for HIV-infected clients and their families throughout the continuum of illness through provision of clinical, psychological, spiritual, social and prevention services. Other services — psychological, social, spiritual and prevention services — should be provided as appropriate.

Pediatric care and support services should be counted if they are provided at a facility; community services should be included within programs for orphans and vulnerable children OVC. It is important that funding for pediatric care activities is not double-counted in OVC.

Clinical monitoring and management of opportunistic infections is classified under Pediatric Care and Support. Definition: Support political commitment and sustained financing for TB diagnosis and treatment with supervision and patient support, implementation of patient-centered approaches, engagement of all providers in TB prevention, and diagnosis and treatment including public, private, prison-based programs, etc.

Note: See element HL. Definition: Support for men and women affected by TB to improve their treatment outcome and prevent transmission of TB, especially among the poor; and support for general DOTS implementation not covered in other elements. Definition: Support Phase IIB clinical trials and beyond in the areas of new drugs, diagnostics, vaccines; development of clinical trial capacity; operations research to improve approaches to treatment and care.

Definition: Promote sustainable improvements in health outcomes by reducing key health systems constraints to achieve the goals and objectives of multiple health elements and the health area overall. Turn off Animations. Turn on Animations. Acquisition Community Connection Contribute. Sign In. Join this community. Please Join this community. Follow Sync. It looks like your browser does not have JavaScript enabled.

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