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 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.
Tulane University’s (TU) goal is to provide technical assistance (TA) building the capacity of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), universities, and Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs) in maintaining sustainable strategic information (SI) systems and adequate human resources for GOE-owned programs. TA by Tulane will continue until an independent evaluation of the national HMIS result is made available and informs future direction. The partner will also continue to strengthen the GOE’s development and implementation of SI training programs including enrolling more training colleges in the diploma-level training of Health Information Officers and Master’s level training in monitoring and evaluation, biostatistics and health informatics. Tulane will assist FMOH finalize the 2009-2020 Human Resources for Health (HRH) strategy. The HRH strategy will also enhance the GOE’s capacity to conduct human resource planning and develop a detailed densities estimate for the health workforce at the woreda level, enabling FMOH to annually update the HRH data base, improve M&E, target in-service training, enhance HR development and career progression, and target deployment of the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) to different agencies within the FMOH. The partner will collaborate with USAID's HRH program through e-learning and training of health information technicians and Masters level training. The partner’s target population is medical doctors, health information technicians, and emergency surgery officers. USAID's HRH program targets nurses and midwives. Tulane University’s program aligns with the goals of the GOE, the USG HIV/AIDS Partnership Framework, and the Global Health Initiative.
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.
