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: 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.
The objective of this mechanism is to improve blood safety in support of the recently established National Blood Safety Program, contributing directly to the PEPFAR and National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS goal of preventing HIV infections and the Millennium Development goals of saving the lives of mothers and infants.
Safe Blood for Africa (SBFA) will focus on building capacity in five hospitals to turn them into centers of excellence and pilot examples for replication during scale up. The purpose is to build local capacity through technical assistance, rather than to implement blood-safety activities. SBFA will facilitate liaison with all partners active in blood safety (e.g,, the blood banks, Ministry of Health (MOH), National Blood Transfusion Program (NBTP), WHO, Federation of Blood Donor Associations (FECADOBES), etc.) to ensure coordination and enhance management and ownership of the program.
All training follows processes aligned with quality assurance systems and best-practice standard operating procedures that generate M&E data. Activities are reported quarterly. Pre- and post-training assessments will be used to monitor and evaluate the curriculum and training and to make necessary adjustments.
To maximize cost-efficiency, SBFA uses local experts wherever possible and has reduced its full-time staff in six locations in Africa to only 11 persons. Selected experts are used in short-term appointments when needed.
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.
