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 African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) a pan-African professional organization based in Addis Ababa was established with the mission of advancing laboratory medicine through partnership with governments and relevant organizations. The objectives of this mechanism are to:
1)Strengthen the national laboratory accreditation system.
2)Develop a sufficient pool of national laboratory assessors.
3)Standardize laboratory mentorship for accreditation.
4.Facilitate the adoption of technologies that include point-of-care tests.
To strengthen laboratory systems in Africa, the WHO-AFRO and its partners have established the WHO-AFRO Stepwise Laboratory Quality Improvement Process towards Accreditation (SLIPTA). The SLIPTA framework provides a pathway that recognizes compliance with standards over time. WHO/AFRO has signed a memorandum of understanding with ASLM for the implementation of SLIPTA. SLIPTA intends to encourage, support, and recognize implementation of a quality management system (QMS) in laboratories so that they can provide safe testing, timely and accurate results.
With this vision, ASLM will work with the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI), CDC-Ethiopia, professional associations and Ethiopian National Accreditation Office (ENAO) to facilitate implementation of this accreditation scheme and to establish a sustainable national system.
These are core PEPFAR activities that directly contribute to saving lives and preventing new infections. To be more cost efficient, ASLM will use technical experts in its office based in Ethiopia and support local organizations. ASLM is in the second year of implementing activities in Ethiopia hence their COP 2013 budget is the only available pipeline.
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.
