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: 2013 2014
U.S. CDC and UNAIDS will continue to collaborate on priority activities consistent with USG strategy and in support of the Chinese national HIV/AIDS program. Particular areas of collaboration in FY12 will include support for civil society engagement in the national response to HIV/AIDS and population size estimation for MARPs. In terms of civil society engagement, this year will be a critical one for China. In response to findings from the Global Fund Secretariat, China will be identifying a civil society sub-recipient for a significant portion of its Global Fund resources and that sub-recipient will be expected to rapidly transition to principal recipient status. Civil society is not well-developed in China, and those organizations that engage in Global Fund programming will need significant support in developing their technical and management capacities. A specific focus for collaborative work between U.S. CDC and UNAIDS will be the development of HIV/AIDS program monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approaches and training for civil society organizations. U.S. CDC and UNAIDS are uniquely positioned to do this work, as a result of U.S. CDCs close institutional relationship with China CDC (the current principal recipient for Global Fund) and technical abilities, and UNAIDS normative role and leadership in Chinas Global Fund Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM). U.S. CDC and UNAIDS will also continue to collaborate on issues related to the CCM and the development of strategic information to help inform policy guidance and technical support to the Government of China (GOC).
This implementing mechanism will support program monitoring, evaluation, and reporting by civil society organizations (CSOs). In particular, UNAIDS will coordinate the development of M&E guidelines for CSOs, including core indicators, reporting formats, processes and systems to integrate civil society contributions into the national reporting system.
In addition, UNAIDS will build the capacity of national and provincial staff to track and assess HIV/AIDS expenditures and provide technical support to provinces on data collection and analysis for the HIV/AIDS expenditure tracking exercise.
Civil society is not well-developed in China, which limits the engagement necessary to further increase coverage and improve quality of HIV prevention, care, and treatment services. This implementing mechanism will support civil society engagement in Global Fund programs by building the capacity of civil society organizations, particularly in monitoring and evaluation, and by documenting their contribution to the national response to HIV/AIDS.
This implementing mechanism will also improve strategic planning and resource utilization by building the capacity of national and provincial staff to track and assess HIV/AIDS expenditures. The lack of comprehensive and rigorous assessment of HIV/AIDS spending is a key gap in China's national strategic information. UNAIDS will support the roll-out of an HIV/AIDS expenditure tracking exercise in eight provinces and produce a report on HIV/AIDS expenditure assessment with recommendations to improve resource utilization at national and provincial levels.
