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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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 HIV Prevention for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls activity will be modified and extended for an additional three years to achieve two goals: implement in Addis Ababa an improved version of the domestic workers program, Biruh Tesfa, and expand the evidence base on HIV vulnerabilities for out-of-school adolescent girls. The general objective of this program remains: “to prevent new HIV infections, through addressing the HIV risk among the most vulnerable adolescent girls in Ethiopia, and their partners.” The domestic girls program will support the health, education, life skills, and HIV prevention needs of out-of-school adolescent girls. Twenty-percent of effort in the extension period of the program will continue to address these needs, but with improvements based on the 2013 end-of-program evaluation findings. The remaining effort will concentrate on growing the evidence on the behaviors and social norms that put out-of-school adolescent girls at risk for contracting HIV. This will include quantitative and qualitative data collection among the target population, their employers, family and community members, and other gatekeepers. The information will expand understanding of the excess HIV risk experienced by adolescent girls and will be applied to existing programs such as the modified “Biruh Tesfa”as well as other USAID-PEPFAR partners such as “MULU Prevention Program” and the “Yekokeb Berhan OVC Program.” Activity outputs will promote social norms for investing in girls’ education and economic opportunity and protection against abuse and exploitation which along with the HIV prevention package supports the intentions of the PF Goal 1. This mechanism will receive $ 27,045 from future reprograming to meet its total spend amount of $1,000,000.
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.