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.
SUMMARY:
Increasing and strengthening human resources for health is essential not only to meet objectives of the
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), but also for most developing countries to meet their
broader health objectives and health-related Millennium Development Goals. This activity will work with the
national and provincial Departments of Health in South Africa to strengthen their existing Human Resources
Information Systems (HRIS). The system allows policy and decision makers to obtain and use accurate
human resources data for health to quickly answer key planning, policy and management questions
affecting health care service delivery.
BACKGROUND:
Developing countries cannot plan and manage their public health workforce because of information
deficiencies and inaccuracies. South Africa has an HRIS based at the Health Professionals' Council.
However, it is not used to its capability because of a lack of training and equipment. In addition, it is not fully
institutionalized.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
ACTIVITY 1: Training and Capacity Building
Human resources personnel will be trained at the national and provincial level to use the HRIS for program
decision making and planning. Ongoing technical assistance will be provided to support the staff to ensure
that the HRIS becomes institutionalized. The focus will be on data collection, analysis and workforce
planning methods in country-level HR studies to account for different gender roles and life cycle needs in
relation to career progression, deployment and working hours. Policies and plans will aim to address direct
and indirect discrimination and promote equal opportunities to be educated, trained, hired, promoted,
compensated and socially protected without regard to gender.
ACTIVITY 2: Equipment
One of the gaps that the South African government has noted as a weakness in the utility of the HRIS is the
lack of a server to operate it effectively. FY 2009 funds will be used to purchase the required equipment.
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
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