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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 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 commodity management system is a weak link in the Ghanaian health sector, resulting in stock-outs or wastage of critical drugs that impedes performance of key programs including malaria, HIV/AIDs, and family planning. Building the capacity and performance of the Ghanaian Ministry of Health is a key priority within the Ghana Global Health Initiative Strategy and also one of the goals of Ghana's Partnership Framework which is to increase anti-retroviral treatment (ART) coverage from 30% to 60%. The USG is a major advocate for procurement and supply chain streamlining. The GOG and other development partners recognize and appreciate the USG role in this effort. There is new interest of the GOG in making major changes in its system to improve performance, so the USG will continue to engage strongly in this effort, including using lessons from the private sector to encourage the implementation of a national plan to reform the structures and modalities of the procurement and supply system.
Through DELIVER, the USG provides long term, in-country technical assistance to the different agencies in supply chain management, with specific components funded by PEPFAR leveraging other investments from population, malaria and nutrition funding streams. The TA is designed to strengthen national capacity in forecasting, managing, monitoring and reporting on use of program commodities. Beyond these key functions, the USG-provided TA also is a trusted GOG partner in advocacy, strategic planning and coordination efforts across the different agencies involved in the system. DELIVER embarks on quarterly commodity stock monitoring to ensure product availability and update supply plans (pipeline databases) for key health commodities to partners.
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.
