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: 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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 SMILE Project is a 5-year (April 2013–March 2018) USAID Cooperative Agreement with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). SMILE is designed to scale-up care & support services for OVC and their caregivers in Benue, Kogi, Edo, Nasarawa States and FCT. SMILE seeks to improve the wellbeing of 500,000 Vulnerable Children (VC) and 125,000 caregivers over the life of the project. SMILE is an umbrella granting mechanism (UGM) to CSOs with the capacity to implement Household Economic strenghtening(HES), nutrition and integrated services for OVC and their household with a focus on female caregivers. SMILE will strengthen the organizational systems and technical capacity of 5 State Ministries of Women Affairs and Social Development (SMWASD) & Social Welfare Department of targeted LGAs and will also support 24 local CSOs to develop sustainability plans included in their work plans. Selected CSOs have been assigned to LGAs where they already have infrastructure in order to minimize cost of mobilization for service delivery.Also, the CSOs have developed a volunteer management strategy which will enhance community service delivery using community structures and resources. Furthermore as part of the sustainability strategy, CSOs are required to propose a cost share arrangement for the support of their respective projects. The SMILE project has an embedded staff at the respective SMWASD with the view to enhance and strengthen the capacity of state OVC desk officers for coordination and monitoring of OVC response in their respective States. In addition, SMILE has developed M & E plan that includes regular meetings, monitoring of data from quarterly reports, site visits and project evaluations.
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.
