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
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 5-year agreement with GAIA is aimed at strengthening the national HIV/AIDS response through provision of pre-service nursing scholarships and capacity strengthening of training institutions. GAIA supports the Health Systems Strengthening goals of the USG’s GHI strategy and Partnership Framework (PF) focusing on HRH. In COP14, GAIA will continue to support 178 ongoing pre-service students which include 87 Bachelor of Science Nursing students, 84 Registered nurses and Nurse Midwife Technicians, and 4 post-graduate nursing midwifery students. GAIA will continue to provide support for mentoring of nursing faculty at Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN) in Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEmONC), and Triage to strengthen quality of training and assist faculty and students to adopt and practice changes in the nurse training curriculum in response to emerging issues in the HIV sector. GAIA offers faculty support through exchange visits from University of California San Francisco (UCSF). GAIA also provides in-service trainings in ART to selected facilities in the southern region of Malawi. GAIA’s scholarships are offered in selected nurse training schools, and target both male and female candidates. GAIA’s strategy to offer scholarships, faculty, postgraduate and student preceptorship support simultaneously enables targeted schools to better manage increasing student intakes. Faculty that has received mentorship and training will continue to train future students. Post-graduate nursing students add to the pool of local faculty. GAIA is therefore strengthening knowledge and skills for local tutors and building a faculty base to support increased student intakes. GAIA monitors and reports key USG and national indicators on HRH.
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.
