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: 2014 2015 2016 2017
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.
LINKAGES is Angola’s primary KP project. It will strengthen Government and community responses to KPs to help reduce HIV transmission among CSWs, MSMs and TG persons, and will improve capacity and systems required to enroll and maintain KPs in care. LINKAGES will do so by working with INLS and MoH to accelerate emerging GRA programming toward KPs. The GRAs new HIV/AIDS strategy will include KPs, and is currently in its final stages. LINKAGES will also work with Angolan CSOs to plan and implement complimentary services that reduce HIV transmission among KPs and their sexual partners. The objective is to strengthen the care cascade for KPs, leveraging other IMs in high impact sites only, for the three priority provinces of Luanda, Bie and Benguela. The first major step for LINKAGES will build on PEPFAR’s identification of KPs in Angola through more comprehensive surveys and baseline data collection. LINKAGES will then reach KPs through scaling up proven peer interventions, testing, and strengthened facility, community and GRA outreach, with specific focus on minimizing stigma and discrimination.The project will strengthen KP HTC through training health care workers and their managers in PICT techniques, specifically on providing quality services without stigma or discrimination. The USG will continue to coordinate to avoid duplication and will reduce transactional costs with public facilities. LINKAGES will work at the facility and community-level to link new PLHIV to enrollment; retain them on ART; and monitor adherence so that viral count suppression is achieved. LINKAGES will accomplish the objectives within the clinical cascade by improving the quality and breadth of clinical services and by implementing peer support programs that link KPs through the CoR.
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.
