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: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
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.
Lack of accurate and timely health data is a major obstacle to the design and implementation of public health programs and to the accurate characterization of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Lesotho. Data inter-connectivity among health centers and with the central level of the MOH has not been established. Interoperability is essential for the MOH and donors such as PEPFAR to obtain the accurate and timely data that is necessary to understand the evolution of the epidemic in Lesotho and to optimize program activities to impact the epidemic and meet established goals and objectives. The partner has experience with issues of interoperability of health information systems in southern Africa and expertise working within a complex environment of donors and implementing partners to design a connectivity strategy for the pilot Electronic Medical Records system.
USG has planned $815000 contribution to the partner of which $45788 is applied pipeline. The partner's operational plan will ensure rapid start-up and achievement of project milestones by the end of project year 1, SI data are used regularly and effectively by MOH across the health system to drive the national response in cluding improvements of systems to actively monitoring patients. The partner has identified a highly experienced Chief of Party who will be in place at project start, as well as a Basotho Epidemiologist who will be seconded to MOH to provide ongoing mentorship and to lead hands-on capacity building initiatives. These individuals will be supported by the partner's existing expert technical staff to will facilitate rapid initiation of project activities via intimate knowledge of the local health system, existing strategic relationships with GOL, and vast experience with cutting edge SI techniques.
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.
