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.
Systems Transformed for Empowered Action and Enabling Responses for Vulnerable Children and Families (STEER) project aims at improving the well-being of OVC in Northern Nigeria. It is a consortium of 5 organizations; 1) the Association for Reproductive & Family Health (ARFH), 2) American International Health Alliance (AIHA), 3) Management Sciences for Health (MSH), 4) Mercy Corps, led by 5) Save the Children. STEER will create greater country ownership and leadership through capacity building of governments, civil society and families to mitigate HIV and AIDS impact on Nigerian children and families. It uses a capacity-building approach that emphasizes sustainability of systems and structures designed to support the most vulnerable children, along with a management strategy that co-locates STEER Organizational Development (OD) staff in the State Ministry of Women affairs & Social Development, and sub grants that allows CSOs to access technical assistance based on needs . STEER works in Kaduna, Sokoto, Kano, Bauchi and Plateau. STEER will build the capacity of Government/ Communities through trainings and mentoring in order for them to continue supporting OVC after the project ends. STEERs work is based on the principles of strengthening families as primary caregivers of children, strengthening systems for community and country ownership and ensuring prioritization of interventions that address children’s most critical care needs. STEER will cover three additional states where MSH CUBS, PACT REACH and Links for children will be closing out. STEER has developed a M & E plan 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.
