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: 2012 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 OVC Scholarship and Leadership (Wings to Fly) Program is a five year Global Development Alliance Partnership between USAID, Equity Bank, Equity Group Foundation, and their other partners, MasterCard Foundation, UKAID and KFW, to support academically gifted but economically disadvantaged and vulnerable children, access high school, tertiary and university education. The program offers comprehensive scholarships to 3,166 academic gifted children from needy backgrounds throughout Kenya. The scholarship provides a comprehensive package to the beneficiaries covering basic needs while at their academic institutions, such as tuition, room, board, books, supplies, uniforms, cost of practicum, stipend etc. This is further complemented with leadership development and mentoring. The mentoring component focuses on achieving academically-oriented goals as well as provision of psychosocial support to boost beneficiaries’ self-esteem. The beneficiaries are recruited from across the country. The scholarships are widely advertised in the media and through community and religious organizations. A district scholarship selection board of 12 local representatives uses a transparent selection process to identify top performing OVCs from each district in the country to join the program. Currently the number has come down to 2644 because 522 of them have graduated from the program. By November 2015 a further 1124 will have graduated; meaning that the program will have 1520 beneficiaries to support.
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.
