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: 2011 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 purpose is to provide technical assistance and financial support to address specific constraints hampering the health system. The mechanism focuses in four objectives: Increase health governance effectiveness through improved planning management and budget execution; Improve health financing to ensure mobilization of additional resources, rational allocation and spending of resources; increase sustainable operations capacity by improving skills, knowledge and tools in finance, governance to improve service delivery at all levels; and, improve HR management and retention through strengthening institutional capacity to distribute, retain and train heath managers, community health workers (APEs), social and para-social workers. The mechanism will contribute to PFIP’s Goals II & III by improving GOM capacity to effectively utilize available resources and increasing the number of social workers. The activity also supports the GHI focus areas I and II. The mechanism will build governance and financial management capacity of local institutions, enabling them to receive direct USG funds in the coming years, reduce transaction costs over time, and efficiencies across the USG portfolio in Mozambique. Giving its focus on TA to central level, and without specific targets it was not part of the recent expenditure analysis and moved from a global to a local AA over FY11-12. The mechanism focuses mainly on systems strengthening through capacity building (CB).This mechanism contributes to the PEPFAR capacity building framework and approach to country ownership, as it aims to build GOM capacity and address weaknesses in the HS.
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.
