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
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.
Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative’s (REPSSI) program will improve the psychosocial well-being of vulnerable households and will improve the capacity of Department of Social Development (DSD) at national, provincial and district level, to implement a comprehensive child care and protection service through providing technical support to the DSD in mainstreaming psychosocial support (PSS) to operationalize the psychosocial support conceptual framework. REPSSI will collaborate with University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) and DSD at the provincial and district level to select and train 400 caregivers in a Community Based Work with Children and Youth (CBWCY) certificate. The CBWCY course will equip those working at community level with children and youth with skills and knowledge enabling them to support children, youth and their families in their communities. REPSSI’s CBWCY training will increase the number of professionally trained community care givers providing PSS to OVC; and improve access to professional PSS service. At the national level REPSSI will support the DSD to develop PSS guidelines, improve coordination and referral structures for access to PSS and improve the coverage of professional PSS services to vulnerable children and their families. REPSSI will provide technical expertise to DSD in developing and piloting PSS guidelines to strengthen the abilities of vulnerable households to provide care, support and protection for OVC. REPSSI will strengthen the DSD to improve their application and coordination capacity to provide quality PSS services for vulnerable families.
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.
