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.
Goals and objectives:
The following are the objectives of this mechanism:
Objective 1. Strengthen Capacity and Leadership of the Central Microbiology Reference Laboratory
This will involve continued training of CMRL staff in support of WHO/AFRO accreditation efforts. Key activities include onsite training in new reference or specialized diagnostic microbiology procedures; mentoring in quality management systems to ensure quality, efficient operation and workflow. CMRL policies will be strengthened to support leadership in IDSR activities.
Objective 2. Strengthen Microbiology Services for the Laboratory Network. A key activity will be to establish a local microbiology mentoring program to oversee county labs. This will build capacity for diagnosis of opportunistic infections in HIV infected persons.
Objective 3 – Strengthen microbiology training capacity of medical training colleges and a key activity will be training college faculty mentors in microbiology.
Coverage:
This activity with national coverage will be carried out at two reference laboratories, in six provincial and four county/district level laboratories as well as at up to ten KMTC training colleges.
Transition to country partners:
All ASM activities will be entrenched in MOH facilities and reference laboratories. Partnerships with local training institutions, universities and colleges, and professional associations will be developed to facilitate long term sustainability of all initiatives.
No vehicles will be procured in this activity. This activity supports GHI/LLC.
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.
