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: 2011 2012 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.
This program seeks to strengthen national health information systems (HIS), program data quality, and data use in health service delivery. Individual patient level data in electronic format enhances the quality of care provided by health workers. Futures Group will support the maintenance of IQCare, data quality assurance and data use at clinical level. The IM will also support the upgrading of one electronic medical record (EMR) systems identified by the EMR TWG. The additional system will comply with national standards and guidelines developed by the MOH to support health facilities and implementing partners in clinical data management and reporting. The EMRs will be enhanced to be interoperable with other EMRs, Laboratory Information Management Systems and the District Health Information Systems (DHIS II), the national reporting database for aggregate health data. This IM will also support development of the national health data warehouse, cohort analysis, case based HIV surveillance, and other patient monitoring services while building the capacities of facility and implementing partner staffs and the MOH to develop policies around data privacy and confidentiality towards sustainability in HIS.
Futures Group is working closely with other partners including UW-ITECH and USAID funded AfyaInfo to implement standards-based electronic systems to eliminate duplication through interoperable systems and to employ cost efficiencies through innovations in technology and capacity building strategies.
Futures Groups will implement and maintain EMRs that comply with international and national standards by building local partner and MoH capacities to ensure sustainable, appropriate and efficient systems that promote data use by the end of the project period.
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.
