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 2016 2017 2018
This partners main goal is to provide technical assistance to strengthen the information base for public health planning and decision-making, with focused efforts on epidemiology, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation of high-burden infectious disease.This partner directly builds capacity for epidemiology, surveillance, and monitoring and evaluation. Under GHI principles, this partner contributes to the areas of M&E and research and innovation. The MOHSS, NHTC and UNAM activities supported by this partner are national in scope. This partners focus on capacity development will emphasize the transfer of specific skills (e.g., research and scientific writing) to national counterparts. Following each training, UCSF and will play an advisory role to encourage utilization and institutionalization of these skills. This mechanism will work with national counterparts to institutionalize epidemiology, surveillance and M&E activities and reduce Namibias need for external technical assistance. This partner will submit a work plan and annual progress reports in addition to contributing to national reports on the outcomes of activities.
This centrally-managed mechanism will support the following activities:
Surveillance, M&E, Epidemiology Technical Assistance: In COP12, UCSF will provide support to conclude the behavioral survey with MSM and FSW by conducting analysis and scientific writing workshops. Work with data triangulation will continue through 2012 with a final stakeholder workshop. M&E support activities will continue including training regional M&E staff to work with ART cohort data; supporting TCE to conduct an evaluation and upgrade the current M&E reporting methods; and finalizing the second volume of the national M&E plan with indicator definitions and annual plan.
Short- and Long-Courses in epidemiology, M&E and surveillance: Courses will be conducted to complement existing academic programs and may include: 1) Targeted short courses, ideally with a training-of-the-trainer model and with a goal of incorporating material from the short courses into the education curriculum of the institution(s). The courses offered fall under the categories of research methods, ethics in research, scientific writing, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, biostatistics, data management and analysis, and geographic information systems; 2)UCSF-based longer-term training programs in research methods and scientific writing, with hands-on mentoring and technical assistance by UCSF faculty. The research methods course results in a pilot research protocol that the scholar will implement in their home country; and the scientific writing course results in a manuscript to be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal; and 3) A tailored course or series of courses using a combination of in-country workshops and distance-learning modules.
