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: 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.
ACLEM will be a regional and Pan-African Training Center for Excellence. Laboratories are central to a functional national health system and play a critical role in accurate disease diagnosis, timely patient care, and the determination of appropriate therapy. The lack of functional equipment frequently results in prolonged disruption of routine lab testing services for hospitals and clinics. To address these issues PEPFAR is developing the African Centers for Laboratory Equipment Maintenance (ACLEM) as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen laboratories, build indigenous capacity, and locally sustainable programs. The ACLEM program will train cadres of skilled technicians to provide in-country support of laboratory and medical equipment. Laboratory equipment maintenance will facilitate critical disease surveillance and diagnostics for PEPFAR’s scale up efforts of EID, PMTCT, and HIV opportunistic infections. Therefore the maintenance of lab equipment is critical to safeguard PEPFAR’s investment, the achievement of an AIDS free generation. Improper functioning lab equipment may lead to errors in test results that negatively impact patient monitoring and that ultimately may have harmful effects on patient care and treatment. ACLEM will serve as a cornerstone for building indigenous capacities to service, repair, certify and sustain Africa's laboratory equipment. PEPFAR CDC (Nigeria & HQ) and the Canadian - Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) are the primary partners and DFAIT-Canada has already funded the facility design (parts 1 & 2) of the training center and site preparation for the project and in follow-up, CDC-Nigeria will fund the construction of Part-1 of training center (10455 Sq Ft)
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.
