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 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.
The University Research Company (URC) project, Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST), is a five-year project of the Office of Health Systems in the USAID Global Health Bureau that focuses on improving health care, strengthening health systems, and advancing the frontier of improvement science. The overall objective of the ASSIST Project in Botswana is to foster improvements in health care processes through the application of modern improvement methods by the MOH. Through this project the PEPFAR/B team aims to build the capacity of the Botswana MOH systems to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, client-centeredness, safety, accessibility, and equity of the maternal services they provide. Maternal mortality reduction was chosen as the subject for this quality improvement project because: 1) HIV is a large contributor to maternal deaths in Botswana; 2) maternal mortality reduction is the top priority of the MOH, 3) maternal mortality reduction is in line with the Global Health Initiative, and; 4) improving ANC, PMTCT and HIV-free child survival will advance PEPFAR’s goal of an AIDS-free generation for Botswana.
ASSIST provides technical assistance to the Botswana Maternal Mortality Reduction Initiative (MMRI) to achieve Millennium Develop Goal 5 —an MMR of 80/100,000. The ASSIST strategy to support the MMRI was structured to achieve cost-efficiency results from its initial stage through working directly with MOH, supporting the implementation of activities through the country’s own personnel and infrastructure and providing capacity building to MOH personnel to effectively create an environment suitable for implementation of QI approaches at scale in a way that will achieve sustainability and will maintain health improvements over time.
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.
