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
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.
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is a membership organization composed of public health laboratories. Its member organizations, with approximately 5,000 professionals, provide a readily available resource of training labs and experienced experts to assist and support others in completing diverse tasks to support HHS/CDC, including strategic planning for national lab networks, implementing training programs, planning and managing renovation projects, implementing lab management information systems and procuring equipment and supplies.
APHL goals are to advance training, recruitment and retention of a competent workforce to meet public health lab needs; enhance the visibility, status and influence of the public health lab community through effective advocacy, partnerships and public relations; improve the informatics and knowledge management capabilities of APHL and its members; and advance the development and use of comprehensive quality systems and practices for public health labs at the local, state, national and international level.
In Botswana, APHL is working with MoH to develop legislative documents such as a lab strategic plan, lab policy and lab standards. APHL works with the Botswana National Quality Assurance Laboratory and six district labs.
APHL’s strategy is to work with local consultants to ensure transition of activities over time and also to build the capacity of MoH to take over those activities that were done by partners. APHL uses M&E personnel at headquarters for monitoring and evaluation of this IM.
APHL has more than 24 months of pipeline funding due to changes in activity and late release of funds; hence, the IM was not funded in FY 2014 COP so as to reduce the pipeline.
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.
