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: 2011 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.
IM 14824: OVERVIEW NARRATIVE
The first component of PNLS activity is aimed at providing reliable and accurate HIV data for planning and evaluating the impact of the HIV/AIDS interventions in DRC by conducting consecutive annually rounds of ANC sentinel surveillance targeting pregnant women. Reports including HIV prevalence trends will be produced and disseminated among the MOH and all the stakeholders for planning and program evaluation purposes.
The second component focuses on the setting up and the management of an unique countrywide reporting system using standardized forms starting at service delivery points, at the intermediate level to the central M&E level at the PNLS. This information will be made available through a web-based reporting system. The system will be led by the PNLS, as the National AIDS Control Program and will therefore be used throughout the country in order to get reports on-time, avoid reporting delays and make DRC's relevant data available for PEPFAR’s partners and all stakeholders.
The third component is to develop and manage a quality assurance system at the national referral lab (the lab branch of the PNLS) which will provide QA/QC services through 3 of its provincial labs and subsequently to some labs involved in HIV testing and HIV /AIDS disease monitoring.
PNLS will work closely with CDC/DRC and key partners to achieve the goals of this project. For this purpose, a focus will be maintained on the strengthening capacity of the PNLS in PEPFAR program management. Lastly, PNLS is tasked with ensuring smooth run of PMTCT Option B+ scaling up and the Early Infant Diagnostic Lab in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi in Katanga Province, and Kisangani in Oriental province.
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.
