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 African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) is a pan-African member organization for laboratory professionals that aims to improve health care in Africa by strengthening laboratory services that are pivotal to disease diagnosis, epidemiological surveillance, and effective treatment and monitoring. ASLM partners with governments and international, regional, and national organizations. Strategies include training and certification of lab professionals and clinicians, enrollment of laboratories in the WHO quality improvement program, and development of national public health reference laboratories to facilitate training, evaluation of diagnostic technologies, and development of evidence-based policies.
In Cameroon, ASLM will improve national health programs by strengthening laboratories across the country, with a particular focus on labs that serve vulnerable populations such as women, children, and residents of rural and remote areas. ASLM is working closely with a number of Cameroonian entities, including the Ministry of Health lab unit and Global Health System Solutions, to ensure that programs are owned by local partners.
Formal monitoring and evaluation will occur on an annual basis, and quarterly reports will monitor progress. Please see the formal plan for each activity in the HLAB narrative.
ASLM anticipates increased outlay figures this year due to earlier availability of funds, which will allow it to conduct more activities than in previous years. ASLM will become more cost-efficient over time by implementing multiple activities simultaneously during missions to Cameroon. It will also work closely with CDC/PEPFAR Cameroon to ensure that only essential transactions are conducted to implement programmatic activities.
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.
