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.
The main objective of the Lesotho Quality Assurance project is to assist the public health and clinical laboratories to attain readiness for accreditation through Stepwise Laboratory Improvement Process Toward Accreditation (SLIPTA). NICD will ensure the standard 12 elements of a quality system are used as a working framework. The key areas that will be reviewed include management, QMS systems, document control, technical records, safety, and external services such as referral laboratory testing, internal audits, management review, environmental requirements. Support also includes training, supportive supervision and mentoring, the target is to ensure that the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) is ready for accreditation by the end of 2014.
NICD will implement the project in line with the national laboratory strategic plan. It will coordinate activities with partners to avoid duplication and to strengthen activities where NICD provides specific support that is not provided by partners. The activities that will that require close coordination with partners include QMS implementation and training. NICD provides EQA/PT monitoring for the NRL. NICD will continue supporting local capacity development for long-term sustainability for the scale-up of early infant diagnosis and viral load testing for patient monitoring. Laboratory M&E tools will be developed to support the national PMTCT program. NICD support will facilitate appropriate in-service training using African Centre for Integrated Laboratory Training (ACILT).
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.
