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: 2014 2015
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 SCASO project is a two year OVC grant working mainly in ten Districts within two Regions of Ghana; Western and Eastern Region. The project is aimed at contributing towards the national goal of OVC, which is to ensure that ‘vulnerable children are supported to continue to live with their families within their communities through social protection interventions and improvements to health and Early Childhood Development Services and also to improve the capacity of the state and other stakeholders to promote the rights and wellbeing of OVC. The Ghana OVC 3-year national action plan provides strategic areas of capacity strengthening of institution and caregivers of OVC, improving advocacy, providing psychosocial support to OVC, increasing OVC access to education and strengthen monitoring and evaluation of OVC activities. The SCASO project outcomes and activities go a long way to contribute to the realization of the national objectives. There have been consultations with the national Departments of Social Welfare, Ministries of Health (MoH), Education and Children towards the achievement of the project goals and its impact on the national goals for orphans and vulnerable children. The project goal of “strengthened sustainable community support to OVC for formal, vocational and HIV/AIDS prevention education “has three (3) main outcomes below which also feeds into the national strategic plan 2011-2015;
1. Community Based Organizations and groups strengthened to support education and HIV prevention for OVC in 10 districts
2. Increased OVC enrolment in basic, secondary and vocational training schools
3. Increased OVC awareness of HIV prevention and Behaviour messages,
This mechanism has been cost extended using pipeline funds and will end July 2015.
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.
