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: 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.
In COP14, PEPFAR, in partnership with Ministry of Health (MoH), will provide Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services in 11 districts through six implementing partners (IP). Uninterrupted VMMC service delivery requires that VMMC commodities and drugs are delivered to VMMC IP on a routine basis. While there are efforts to strengthen national supply chain management systems to support national VMMC scale-up, the government’s ability to ensure continual availability of essential VMMC commodities to priority districts remains a significant challenge. With increasing demand for VMMC services, the “pooled procurement” of commodities through Supply Chain Management Systems (SCMS) mechanism has increasingly become critical in guaranteeing timely availability of these supplies and for cost-savings.
SCMS is a central mechanism that ensures a reliable, cost-effective and secure supply of high-quality medicines and health products for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment. In COP14, a basic package of VMMC commodities will continue to be procured through SCMS to reduce costs and ensure commodities are in place for efficient service delivery across all USG IPs, particularly during campaign seasons. USAID/Malawi and SCMS will work together to procure appropriate amounts of basic VMMC commodity packs which will include circumcision kits, STI drugs, pain killers and HTC kits as required. These commodities are forecasted by IPs and orders are made through USAID. VMMC commodities are packaged for IPs, and delivered to certified IP warehouses for storage. IP monitors consumption of commodities received and report to USAID on a quarterly basis to facilitate future procurements.
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.
