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 2018
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 Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI) has a Five-Year Strategic Plan that includes laboratory infrastructure strengthening, research and technology transfer, survey and surveillance activities, and public health emergency management as core objectives. The overall goal of this mechanism is to support implementation of laboratory infrastructure strengthening, survey and surveillance activities. EHNRI will continue to support national laboratory systems with particular focus on standardization of laboratory services, regional capacity development, harmonization and standardization of equipment procurement, support the National and Regional Quality Assessment Programs, equipment maintenance services, specimen referral and laboratory workforce development. EHNRI provides guidance for establishment and implementation of laboratory accreditation systems. EHNRI will play a national leadership role in improving TB laboratory diagnosis.
Strategic information is crucial as there is a need to generate accurate and timely estimates of trends in prevalence, incidence, most at-risk populations (MARPS), and the impact of interventions. EHNRI will lead the national effort to conduct ANC-based HIV surveillance, TB/HIV, STI syndromic and etiologic surveillance, and surveillance of HIV cases among MARPS. EHNRI will conduct evaluation of better diagnostic technologies including point-of-care tests.
EHNRI works in collaboration with partners and Regional Health Bureaus to effectively manage the program. This is the second year of the current cooperative agreement and hence, COP 2013 and reprogrammed funds are the only available pipeline funds. These are core PEPFAR activities that directly contribute to saving lives and preventing new infections.
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.
