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
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.
World Health Organization (WHO) provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MoH) towards the establishment of a National blood transfusion service (BTS). BTS in South Sudan is based on family replacement donation due to lack of an established, nationally coordinated BTS, inadequate number of skilled personnel, poor infrastructure and absence of policies to guide the collection, transportation, processing and utilization of blood and blood products.
The goal of this implementing mechanism (IM) is to support the establishment of a semi-autonomous and sustainable National BTS that can provide adequate, safe and accessible blood and blood products to the people of South Sudan. The objectives are to assist the MoH to a) increase blood collections from low risk donors; b) improve blood testing; c) improve monitoring and evaluation; and d) determine training needs and plan a multi-level training program. These objectives are in accordance with the MoH National Laboratory Policy and Strategic Plan that indicates the need to establish a semi-autonomous National BTS based on regular, voluntary non-remunerated blood donors.
The IM will focus on operationalizing regional Blood transfusion Centers (BTC), and later expand to all State and County hospitals. In order to ensure country ownership, the MoH has assigned a Director for BTS who over-sees the implementation of BTS activities. It has recruited staff for the regional BTC and established positions in the Public service for recruitment of more staff to run the BTS.
By the end of the project year, it is expected that all policies and guidelines on blood transfusion are developed and in use, staff trained and competent to work in the BTS, and a system for sustainability is in place.
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.
