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.
PC El Salvador will host 3 workshops for, health service providers, PCV counterparts and PCVs on HIV prevention activities, gender equity and stigma and discrimination reduction. One workshop will introduce the Grassroots Soccer (GRS) methodology in HIV prevention. PC El Salvador will continue to reach health care providers, the general population, at risk populations and vulnerable youth directly through the work of volunteers in their site and through implementation of small grants available to volunteers with their communities. All activities will be presented in a Training of Trainers format in order to ensure sustainability and with a monitoring and evaluation plan consisting of pre and post tests for participants. The work with Service providers help to decrease the stigma and discrimination against MARPS and the community work help to reach hidden/hard to reach key populations and link them to testing and other HIV services available. PC/ES place Volunteers in local Government and NG organizations for assignments designed to build community capacity to sustain projects. PC integrates HIV programming as a cross sectorial theme in order to reach populations that are not reached by other USG partners, mainly in rural areas of El Salvador. Volunteers work with local health workers to strengthen their capacity to provide adequate prevention education, counseling and testing services, and dignified care and treatment.
Due to the updated OGAC COP Guidance, Peace Corps is including this IM for the first time even though similar activities have been implemented and tracked in prior years; so, this is why there is a pipeline and burn rate for a new mechanism – to accurately capture the historical data.
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.
