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.
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 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is the only U.S. national organization representing the deans, faculty, and students of 50 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accredited universities and the eight universities currently seeking CEPH accreditation as schools of public health. To receive funding through the ASPPH-CDC cooperative agreement, the Principal Investigator must be a fully appointed faculty at one of the CEPH accredited schools of public health that ASPPH represents. In 2012, the ASPH successfully re-competed for the current ASPH/CDC Cooperative Agreement. This collaborative effort enables schools of public health, both directly and indirectly via ASPH, to further develop the public health workforce and improve the interaction between public health practice and academicians. The ASPH cooperative agreement supports U.S. universities to advance public health research and programs domestically and overseas. The co-ag supports projects within schools of public health through the projects such as CDC Workforce Improvement Projects (WIPs).
The scope of work of the ASPH co-ag includes health workforce development and specifically the African Health Profession Regulatory Collaborative (ARC) for Nurses and Midwives. Since its inception in 2010, ARC has collaborated with seventeen different African countries in strengthening nursing and midwifery regulation, such as scopes of practice (SOPs), developing legal frameworks related to expanded provider services, establishing continuing professional development (CPD) programs, and designing systematic approaches for evaluating progress. ARC provides this assistance through regulatory improvement grants, intensive in-country technical assistance visits, remote support, and regular
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.
