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 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.
American International Health Alliance (AIHA) will continue to address unique HIV prevention needs of Kenyan youth in primary school within 25 Dioceses of the Catholic Church across all seven Kenyan provinces but will focus in counties with high to medium incidence of HIV, including Nairobi, Homa Bay, Kisumu, Mombasa, Lodwar/Tukana, Kisii and Bungoma. AIHA currently implements Making Life's Responsible Choices (MLRC) program, a school-based abstinence and behavior change program for Kenyan youth (ages 11-14) that builds on elements and activities from characteristics of effective HIV prevention interventions and standard HIV prevention information/activities from Kenya’s Ministry of Education Science and Technology’s National AIDS Education Syllabus.
This program is largely made possible through volunteer-driven efforts contributing to cost-efficiency. Activities occur with low overhead and administrative costs because organized volunteer efforts fall within the existing administrative structures at The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB).
Quality assurance is promoted through rigorous training and certification of facilitators, ongoing process monitoring with standardized tools, and QA site visits by CDC technical experts. Use of approved national curricula, emphasis of importance of fidelity to the curricula, trained/certified facilitators, certified national trainers, observed practice of implementation, and regular field visits by trained program staff all add to ensure quality assurance.
The partnership has built an extensive M&E system across national, diocesan, and school/local levels and has also undergone a targeted evaluation of the program to measure changes in participating youth’s HIV-related knowledge, attitudes and risk behavior.
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.
