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: 2011 2012 2013 2014
MEASURE Evaluation Phase III continues the programs ten year initiative to improve the collection, analysis and presentation of data to promote better use in planning, policymaking, managing, monitoring, and evaluating of population, health, and nutrition programs. The program aims to accomplish this through achieving the following six results: increased user demand for data and tools, increased individual and institutional capacity in monitoring and evaluation; increased collaboration and coordination in obtaining and sharing health sector data; improved tools, methodologies and technical guidance; increased availability of data, methods and tools, and increased facilitation of data use.
In Botswana in 2010, MEASURE Evaluation provided training and support to introduce routine data quality assessments (RDQA) to PEPFAR implementing partners. The next step will be to guide the Government of Botswana to develop a strategy, tools and implementing plan to institutionalize RDQAs in the Ministry of Health (MOH) Monitoring and Evaluation system. With FY 2011 funding, the preliminary plan has been developed and a series of pre-testing and training activities are set to begin in early 2012. Funds will be need in FY 2012 to fully fund the program so that it will be institutionalized within the MOH.
Quality data is a cornerstone for evidence-based decision making. Although Botswana has a relatively well-developed IT infrastructure, there are serious problems with data capturing, processing and reporting. Staff engaged in routine data capturing and reporting do not have the necessary training and skills. At management level, there is little understanding and support for data quality assessments.
To ensure that the data reported by different stakeholders implementing health programs meet the minimum standards for data quality, PEPFAR Botswana provided FY 2011 funds to the USAID Measure Evaluation project to support the MOH Department of Health Policy Development Monitoring and Evaluation (DHPDME) and the Technical Working Group for data quality to: 1) assist MOH to finalize the National Data Quality Action Plan; 2) adapt routine data quality audit tools to the Botswana context ; 3) develop standard operating procedures for data management; 4) Pilot test the tool and disseminate the SOPs: 5) develop M&E matrices for all MOH Programs; and, 6) develop a Health Data Management Strategy.
COP12 funds will support the last phases of implementation of the developed strategies and standard operating procedures. Support will also go towards building capacity of MOH staff to independently conduct data quality audits and to implement data quality improvement plans.
