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.
PEPFAR in South Africa has had an information system in place since 2004, originally called the PEPFAR Data warehouse, to routinely track and report on implementation of PEPFAR funded programs on a quarterly basis. With the advent of the signing of the PEPFAR Partnership Framework between the USG and South African Government (SAG), PEPFAR decided to have a strategic information system developed to monitor the implementation of this new framework, while meeting the routine reporting requirements of the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC). The system, dubbed the Partnership Information Management System (PIMS), began development in 2011 and its current contract which started in June 2013 will end in May 2016. PIMS is necessary for the PEPFAR program to report the program results to the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) twice per year – the semi-annual progress report (SAPR) and the annual progress report (APR). PIMS is intended to catalyze the movement toward PEPFAR sharing data with the South African data collection systems such as the District Health Information System (DHIS) and facilitate alignment of indicators and reporting needs between SAG and the USG. PIMS collects and provides information on activities, results, partners, sub-partners and staff supported through PEPFAR funding in each sub-district throughout the country. PIMS is linked to an internal GIS website that utilizes PIMS data to create geographic representations of PEPFAR program results.
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.
