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.
The Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA) is the oldest professional association in Ethiopia. One of EMA’s missions is to enable medical professionals to improve their professional practices through continuing education. They work with the government and other partners to improve the quality of health services. The objectives of this project are: To improve health professionals’ knowledge and skills to better provide healthcare/HIV/AIDS services; and build laboratory system strengthening.
Strategically, the partner will work in collaboration with USAID/JHPIEGO/HRH program to reduce duplication and leverage available resources. The partner will also work in collaboration with Mayo Clinic to create a country platform for the online HIV/AIDS Continuing Medical Education (CME) program based on county-led priorities. The geographic coverage will be national and the target populations are primarily health professionals working in the area of HIV/AIDS. The partner will develop an updated M&E system to track routine and periodic performance data on HIV/AIDS, CME , and laboratory system strengthening.
This project supports the third goal (creating a better-functioning health system) of the HIV/AIDS Partnership Framework. This project is also in line with many of the GHI principles, as it encourages country ownership, invests in country-led plans, builds sustainability through health systems strengthening, improves metrics, monitoring, and evaluation, and increases impact through strategic coordination and integration.
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.
This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.
