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.
Active and sustained civil society engagement has been higlighted as a critical and limited component of the HIV/AIDS response across the Caribbean Region. This issue was higlighted during a recent assessment of Trinidad and Tobago which suggested that there was substantial potential for effective collaborations between the national authorities and the civil society partners in the delivery of services and commodities to most at risk populations (MARPs). While these community-based, non-governmental and faith-based organization are in a position to reach and engage vulnerable populations and individuals, there are recognizable limitations in their institutional and technical capacity. Efforts are therefore needed to strengthen the capacity of civil society partners to facilitate their effective and sustained involvement in the national HIV/AIDS response.
USAID has the institutional capacity and implementing mechanisms to effectively address this level of capacity development. Providing technical assistance to local civil society partners will help to: to improve on their capacity to manage fiscal resources; enhance their ability to develop technically sound programs or activities through a participatory process of partner engagement; develop grant applications to fund activities; monitor and report on programs and funding; and faciltate linkages to other services. Building the capacity of these partners in the area of advocacy will also be beneficial to effort to reduce HIV related stigma and discrimination.
USAID will seek to strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of civil society partners to actively engage in the delivery of HIV prevention services and commodities to most-at-risk persons (MARPs). Efforts will be made to build capacity for sustained civil society involvement as a vital component of the national HIV/AIDS response.
