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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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 American Society of Microbiology (ASM) is a life science society composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals. ASM's mission is to promote research and training in microbiological sciences and to assist communication between scientists, policy makers and the public to improve health, economic well-being and the environment. ASM goals are to develop and package training tools using new and existing resources through a consensus approach; monitor and evaluate progress and impact to identify best practices and create sustainability at national levels through quality assured programs and work with in-country partners. ASM has worked with Ministry of Health (MOH) to strengthen the microbiology network and establish an external quality assurance (EQA) program for acid fast bacilli (AFB) microscopy. ASM mentors staff at different facilities and enables them to run the program themselves by training trainers in different microbiology disciplines. This ensures sustainability once PEPFAR funding ends. ASM's approach to strengthening lab capacity includes insuring countries have ownership of the programs they develop, as they are ultimately responsible for implementing them; establishing South-to-South collaborations involving sharing of evaluated, culturally appropriate, highly effective strategies and programs and encouraging South-to-North collaborations to strengthen the cadre of highly competent microbiologist mentors.
ASM work covers all laboratories that are doing microbiology and TB in the country. TB/HIV is a priority for GoB, as outlined in the TB and Laboratory Strategic Plans. ASM submits annual reports to CDC and also conducts periodic visits to monitor implementation.
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.
