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
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.
Peace Corps DR works throughout the DR in communities to design and implement context-appropriate prevention interventions addressing keys drivers of the epidemic, including risky sexual behavior, harmful gender/cultural norms and promoting behavior change. Volunteers aid community members, and organizations implementing programs, to provide improved reproductive and sexual health education, encourage healthy decision making, promote and link community members to HIV testing and counseling services, and reduce the spread of HIV. Volunteers work side-by-side with community partners to leverage all appropriate and locally-available resources and technology for development of sustainable, community-led responses to HIV/AIDS. Volunteers placed in local organizations strengthen institutional capacities in the areas of communication, financial management, outreach to target populations,M&E and reporting. Volunteers that work in HIV/AIDS prevention activities have access to VAST Grants and participation in ISTs. Volunteers will collect data measuring specific HIV output and outcome indicators from the Peace Corps Health Project framework. Since the HIV prevalence in the DR is 0.7% and the 2013 DHS indicated girls and boy 15-19 have lowest HIV prevalence (0.1% and 0.2%, respectively), Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic will slowly phase out its youth-centered PEPFAR funded activities. Rather, given the higher HIV prevalence in the batey populations (4.5%-11%), Peace Corps, in coordination with CDC and USAID, will strengthen efforts to ensure this higher risk group has increased access to HIV testing and counseling services, including supporting the Ministry of Health and local NGO campaigns to provide testing and counseling services to this population groups. (UPDATED 9/9)
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.
