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 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
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 TBD Umbrella Grants Management (UGM) follow-on will be a five-year award for grant management, capacity building, and technical assistance. This mechanism will provide support in implementing activities in accordance with the Partnership Framework Implementation Plan (PFIP) that emphasizes country ownership, technical support to improve SAG capacity, and long-term sustainability of programs that received PEPFAR support. The UGM follow-on will be competed following an evaluation of the expiring UGMs. The solicitation process is in the final stages of completion and a new award will be announced by March 2014. This activity will support local institutional capacity building, technical assistance, and grants administration for indigenous organizations. It will provide support in basic and advanced grant and sub-grant management, good governance, and financial management. Monitoring and evaluation courses will cover basic principles of monitoring and evaluation and internal data-quality assurance. The primary goal is to build sustainable institutional capacity and increase the effectiveness of local partners to achieve expanded and high quality services. The major emphasis is the enhancement of local sub-partner capacity in treatment, care (including support of orphans and vulnerable children), and prevention through the development and implementation of documented organizational systems and procedures and human-capacity development at management and operational levels. This activity will provide capacity building and grant management support at all levels (national, provincial, district) and in all nine provinces of South Africa to strengthen overall health and social services system. This mechanism will strive to become more efficient over time.
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.
