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.
COP 2011 New Activity
The proposed external assessment would consist of several steps as envisioned over a period of six months during FY12:
Step 1: Establish Steering Committee with wide range of GRN and civil society stakeholders to oversee completion of assessment protocol and hiring of consultants.
Step 2: Develop protocol, budget and timeline.
Step 3: Identify two qualified consultants.
Step 4: Field assessment: Intensive two persons with minimum 20 working days in country each.
Step 5: Wide stakeholder consultation at beginning of assessment process.
Step 6: Wide stakeholder consultation for dissemination of results.
Step 7: Final report and follow-up recommendations.
New Activity
Estimated Budget = $200,000
ADDITIONAL DETAIL:
Under the Partnership Framework, the USG has stated its intention to provide technical assistance to strengthen data quality, data utilization and integration of GRN information systems and to support integrated data systems across GRN to increase the quality and efficiency of health care and social services delivery for Namibians. This is in response to the M&E gap analysis conducted for the National Strategic Framework which identified a need to harmonize HIV data bases, including those in the MoHSS and to create a national multi-sectoral database for HIV/AIDS. In addition, the need for integration and linkages of information systems was highlighted in the recent MoHSS review (2008) and will inform the GRN's establishment of an integrated HIS directorate.
An external assessment of existing information systems will identify options to integrate systems to improve the efficiency of data collection, analysis and decision-support systems to support overall health systems strengthening and the multi-sectoral response to HIV and AIDS. There will be specific emphasis on coordinating and linking care and treatment related databases. The external assessment of these multiple data systems will participatory, consulting with end users and stakeholders to ensure that their diverse needs are met.
