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: 2012 2013 2014
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 African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a non-profit organization and networking alliance dedicated to helping Ministries of Health (MOHs) in Africa build strong, effective, sustainable programs and capacity to improve countries’ public health systems and epidemiology workforce through Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETP) and Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTP), which are residency-based programs in applied epidemiology and laboratory practice. Classroom-based instruction and mentored practical work allows residents to receive training in public health surveillance, outbreak investigation, laboratory management, program evaluation and other aspects of epidemiology research and methods.
PEPFAR/B and MOH embrace AFENET’s objectives of 1) strengthening field epidemiology capacity in Botswana, 2) enhancing public health laboratory capacity in Botswana, 3) strengthening surveillance systems for priority communicable and non-communicable diseases (including maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria), and 4) advancing the sharing of national, regional and international expertise in field epidemiology and laboratories.
AFENET will help MOH to institutionalize an FELTP short course into the Institute of Health Sciences (HIS) training program to sustain the program beyond PEPFAR/B’s funding. The short course will be provided to district health workers to equip them with the necessary skills to respond to outbreaks. In collaboration with the MOH, a database will be developed to track the number of people who have graduated and returned to their stations.
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.
This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.
