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.
Through this mechanism APHL will scale up establishment of Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS) to referral and high volume district hospitals with a focus on introduction of open source systems. Computer literacy of laboratory personnel will be enhanced to ensure full utility and management of LIMS at the fourteen active sites.
The program will strengthen utilization of the equipment management systems an establish a biomedical engineering training center in collaboration with Ministry of health and public-private partnerships. APHL will continue to support centralized procurement of EQA materials and assist Ministry of Health to coordinate monitoring and implementation of EQA corrective actions necessary for accuracy and precision of laboratory results will be promoted at all enrolled laboratories. The program will support specialized training in root cause analysis for laboratory quality assurance testing through SMILE or other similar expert organization.
These activities have a national coverage and will be carried out centrally and at referral laboratories across all counties.
All APHL activities will be entrenched in MOH facilities and reference laboratories. Partnerships with Ministry of Health Departments of laboratory, Biomedical Engineering and Health Information systems as well as local training institutions, universities and colleges, and professional associations will be developed to facilitate long term sustainability of all initiatives.
APHL will implement approaches to timely, and accurate laboratory data made available to Ministry of Health at an integrated data repository and used for evidence based decision making at all levels.
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.
