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.
The purpose of this mechanism is to assist governments within the region in the establishment of Laboratory Strategic Plans. This activity will directly support the governments of Barbados, Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to develop National Laboratory Strategic plans that align with the proposed regional tiered laboratory network.
This implementing mechanism is in direct support of USG Caribbean Partnership Framework Laboratory Goal 3 (objective 3.2: Improve laboratory services and systems, sub-objective 3.2.1: Laboratory Strategic Plan and Policy).
Laboratory testing guidelines including issues relating to patients overall protection, privacy and confidentiality, timely release of results and reliability of results are not well documented in countries within the region. Also, there is a need for the larger islands with more than one testing facility to develop in country guidelines that will provide a tiered laboratory referral system and ensure efficient sample referral and testing within appropriate turnaround time. Laboratory strategic plans will outline national organizational structures and identify infrastructure that integrate public health laboratory services, reference testing services, quality management and bio-safety, and in-service trainings.
Development of laboratory strategic plans across the countries will take at least one year to fully implement and will be monitored by the number of countries that have fully implemented the Laboratory Strategic Plan at the end of one year.
USG will support, through AFENET, the development of five year national laboratory strategic plans for the following four countries; Barbados, Bahamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The strategic plans will provide a chartered course for improvement and strengthened laboratory services and systems that include multiple coordination and regional referral units which ensure equitable access to quality laboratory services. AFENET will first meet with senior government officials to introduce the notion, process, advantages and implications of a laboratory strategic plan for the country. AFENET will work with government to establish a Laboratory Strategic Plan Working Group (LSPWG). AFENET will then work with the LSPWG and other stakeholders to identify source documents; review current national laboratory policies and practices; develop an implementation strategy; collect source elements,; draft the National Laboratory Strategic Plan; and coordinate with the government on the approval and adoption of the National Laboratory Strategic Plan.
