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
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.
Ministry of Health (MOH) plays a significant role in leading the biomedical response to HIV and AIDS largely covering the first three thematic areas of the National Action framework for HIV and AIDS (NAF). The overall purpose of this mechanism is to increase access to quality and comprehensive HIV services which include HTC, pre-ART services, adult and pediatric antiretroviral treatment, PMTCT, VMMC, referral and linkages between all HIV services; TB/HIV integrated services, HIV-related lab services; and national monitoring and evaluation systems. The specific objectives are: 1)strengthen delivery of HIV services through a continuum of care from prevention to care and support at all levels of health service delivery, 2)expand the scope and quality of PMTCT services through effective implementation of Option B+, including strengthening Early Infant Diagnosis (EID), 4)scale up delivery of quality HIV related laboratory services, 5) support critical surveillance activities pertaining to HIV incidence and drug resistance, 6)support effective implementation of male circumcision, and 7) strengthen HIV monitoring and evaluation systems.
This mechanism supports several departments within MOH which include:HIV and AIDS Department (including HTC, ART/PMTCT, VMMC, and HIV unit administration sections), the Central Monitoring and Evaluation Division, the Community Health Sciences Unit Reference laboratory; CHSU Epidemiology Section, the National TB Program, the Nursing Department (Community Home Based Care), the Department of Finance and the Department of Health Technical Support Services (Diagnostics section).
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.
