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 2015 2016 2017
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 goal of this mechanism is to strengthen the HIV/AIDS and related co-infection laboratory capacity and implement laboratory quality improvement strategies nationally in KZ, KG and TJ. This ongoing activity supports CAR’s PEPFAR Strategy Objective 2. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) will ensure continuity of efforts in building laboratory quality management systems (QMS) – a set of key quality elements that must be in place for laboratory operations to deliver consistent, high quality and cost-effective laboratory services. With the requested funding this cooperative agreement will primarily target national and regional (oblast) level laboratory leaders and quality officers of HIV/AIDS, blood transfusion services and other healthcare structures in KZ, KG, and TJ. It will mark the next stage in QMS implementation in CAR to include the follow-up training and mentoring support for KZ laboratories and to expand the KZ experience to KG and TJ laboratories. CLSI will help the designated quality management staff identify gaps in current laboratory operations, successfully implement and oversee quality initiatives to promote the use of best practices in HIV laboratory testing that are in compliance with internationally recognized laboratory standards. This mentoring approach will give quality managers successful experiences and encourage them to expand their work to ensure the continuation of QMS activities in laboratories over time, allowing a timely exit of the TTA providers. QMS implementation will be monitored and evaluated based on the number of laboratories supported, number of mentoring visits conducted and on review of documented progress on quality improvement projects in those laboratories.
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.
