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: 2008 2009
Spatial and Geographical Mapping to Improve HIV Programs
ACTIVITY REMAINS UNCHANGED IN FY09
COP08 NARRATIVE
As is clearly reflected in the Federal Ministry of Health's (MOH) new HIV plan, Accelerated Access To
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care And Treatment In Ethiopia: Road Map 2007-2008, the national response to
HIV/AIDS is being intensified with the following thematic areas serving as guiding lights: speed, volume and
quality. Currently, a number of major donor agencies support HIV/AIDS programs through many domestic
and international implementing partners. Coordination among all these stakeholders is critical for the
success of the national program. This can occur at different phases of a program including design and
implementation. Joint planning will ensure effective allocation and utilization of resources thereby
maximizing the overall impact of the national response.
Geographical representation and spatial analysis of program-related geographical data is a multipurpose
tool in HIV/AIDS programming. This activity supports a geographical information systems and geospatial
data analysis by: 1) Supporting PEPFAR to present mapping products; 2) Conducting spatial analyses of
existing PEPFAR activities and socio-economic, epidemiological, physical and infrastructural variables
related to HIV/AIDS; 3) Maintaining maps of updated USG activities to determine programming synergies
across technical portfolios; and 4) Responding to requests from US Mission for specialized geospatial
analyses to ensure PEPFAR programming efficiencies.
This activity will assist in stakeholder outreach, standardization of program implementation, and
performance tracking of facility and community services. It will also be critical in the analysis of program
expansion for looking at important factors such as equity, disease epidemiology, and coverage of services.
When used together with other surveillance, survey, and program data, geographic information systems
(GIS) data will result in a more comprehensive understanding of the epidemic and the status of
interventions towards it. It provides information to questions such as the areas where HIV is more prevalent,
whether the number of ART sites in a particular area is commensurate with the HIV prevalence for that
area, and which partners are working where.
This activity will also organize training workshops on basic GIS topics for staff at the US Mission, relevant
implementing partners, and the host government. The training aims to build the in-country capacity on GIS
and spatial analysis as well as to build advocacy by Government of Ethiopia (GOE) policymakers to
enhance their monitoring and evaluation systems. The list of participant organizations will include: the
Ethiopian Mapping Authority, the Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO), and the
MOH's Planning and Programming Department, among others. This GIS activity will strengthen the
strategic information capacity in the country through human-capacity building as well as availing key
information for planning and monitoring of activities. Related to this, this activity will also sponsor a joint
mapping workshop with the host government and other donors to develop a common partner basemap that
includes HIV/AIDS programming as well as tuberculosis, nutrition, and other key interventions.
Some of the outputs of this activity will be instrumental in using spatial reference for data de-duplication.
Understanding where implementing partners in a given program area function in the same geographic
location is a precursor towards efforts to minimize double counting/reporting at the national level.
Finally, as PEPFAR is working closely with other USG programs in several PEPFAR activities which require
targeting of peri-urban sites, the need to clearly define and identify these sites has become increasingly
important. In collaboration with the Central Statistical and the Ethiopian Mapping Authorities, the activity will
provide support to help define and identify peri-urban sites in Ethiopia, which are poorly defined
conceptually and operationally. As part of this process, PEPFAR will provide further guidelines to define the
parameters of the site location during the implementation planning process.
This activity will conduct mapping in accordance with the recommendations contained in "Geographic
Information System Guidance for United States Government In-Country Staff and Implementing Partners
within PEPFAR." Facility identifying data will conform to the signature domain outlined in "The Signature
Domain and Geographic Coordinates: A Standardized Approach for Uniquely Identifying a Health Facility."
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 18054
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
18054 18054.08 U.S. Agency for International 7606 7606.08 GIS Support $120,000
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