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: 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.
This is a continuing mechanism. Haramaya University (HU), in eastern Ethiopia, is one of the local university GOE partners. Urban HIV prevalence in Harari region is 4.1%. HU is among the major local universities in Ethiopia that are contributing to the scale-up of skilled human resources for health in Ethiopia. Through its cooperative agreement with HHS/CDC, HU has been strengthening its HIV/AIDS services to the university and surrounding community. HU is working to build its capacity and engage in programmatic activities such as pre-service and in-service trainings, as well as high yield HIV counseling and testing activities.
In COP 2014, CU-ICAP support to the site-level will phase out and HU will take-over the technical support for specific HIV/AIDS program activities (HIV treatment, HCT, STI, pre-service training) to Hiwot Fana Hospital, which is HU’s own teaching hospital. HU will strengthen institutional capacity and increase its collaboration with the Regional Health Bureau, supporting it by providing in-service training, and direct technical assistance as appropriate. HU will also work to strengthen pre-service training. HU will conduct monitoring and evaluation activities, including site visits, organizing joint meetings, issuing reports to document best practices and analyze performance. The activities implemented through this cooperative agreement are aligned with the goals of the GOE and 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.
