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: 2012 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 Multi-sector Alliances Program (Alianzas), implemented by RTI International, is a public private partnership in the region. In Guatemala, USAID has pooled funds from the education, family planning, maternal and child health and HIV programs for this project. Alianzas will leverage these funds at a 2:1 ratio on the total USAID investment over the life of the award. Alianzas will negotiate and manage alliances and ensure that resources for health, education, HIV reach the most vulnerable beneficiaries at the community level. The approach will permit USAID to achieve cost-savings and also coordinate with a bilateral USAID flagship project for health and education. The HIV component of the Alianzas project will work through ASAZGUA, the association of sugar cane workers in Guatemala, to focus on the implementation of BCC campaigns that prevent or mitigate infection among migrant sugar cane workers and help reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS. RTI plans to begin negotiations with the association of banana workers next. RTI has proposed a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan that will provide new insights into the success of this innovative approach and allow USAID to monitor progress towards key GHI and Partnership Framework objectives. Sustainability: Through collaborations with the USAID policy project, PASCA, the sugar and banana industries have approved workplace policies related with HIV/AIDS. The prevention actions implemented by this Alianzas project are included in the policies. The goal of the project is after 2-3 years of assisting in one factory they will institutionalize the HIV prevention program for the workers within the factory and the industry will take on the responsibility for implementation.
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.
