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
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 Burundian Ministry of Public Health and Fight against HIV/AIDS (MPLS) leads the implementation of HIV/AIDS programs. However, it still needs the organizational capacity to effectively fulfill this role. Indeed, in its second National Health Plan 2011-2015, the ministry has acknowledged the need to reinforce its leadership as well as ensuring better multi-sectoral collaboration. The implementation of HIV/AIDS activities is also hampered by the weak capacity of the MSPLS to coordinate the financing and activities of all stakeholders in the sector. There is a lack of monitoring, with limited supportive supervision taking place in the field. These challenges exist at the central, provincial, and health district levels.
Within MSPLS, there is recognition of the need to build the capacity of the national HIV/AIDS Program (PNLS) to enable it to better plan, implement and monitor HIV/AIDS programs and activities.
HFG’s technical assistance will contribute in addressing the above described challenges by focusing on two main areas:
• Strengthen the organizational capacity of the PNLS as a whole to enable it to fulfill its mandated role in leading, managing, monitoring, and coordinating HIV/AIDS activities. This activity will initially target the national level, later extending to the subnational level, to help strengthen HIV/AIDS programs at the provincial and district levels and improve coordination between the different levels.
• Support health financing, starting with the generation of accurate costing data of PMTCT services. In this area, a technical assistance for the mid-term review of the national AIDS strategic plan as well as the support in the elaboration of the national health accounts will be provided.
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.
