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: 2012 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.
Efforts to improve the quality of laboratory services in South Sudan have been hampered by inadequate number of skilled laboratory workers, absence of standardized training curricula, lack of mentorship program and regulatory body to supervise graduates, absence of continuous professional education, and insufficient government fund to meet the recurrent costs for training. This implementing mechanism (IM) is meant to provide the Ministry of Health (MoH) with the technical expertise required for improving the laboratory human resource capacity. The objectives of this IM are to review the curricula for laboratory pre-service training at certificate and diploma level, support and monitor the implementation of the new curricula, and develop an in-service training curriculum.
Being national curricula, the review and development process will be done jointly with staff from the MoH and training schools to ensure country ownership and easy implementation. The implementing partner will develop the tools required for monitoring the implementation process and mentor the staff at the directorate of training and professional development in monitoring the implementation of the curricula at all training schools. At the end of the project, the partner will have developed pre-service curricula for certificate and diploma training in laboratory sciences and an in-service training curricula, the new curriculum should have been approved and in use by all training schools. The project will be monitored through support supervisory visits to training schools, interview with trainers and students, and checking assessment methods and contents and from the partner reports.
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.
