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
Monitoring and evaluation of PEPFAR/South Africa implementing partners has been a priority since the inception of the PEPFAR program and will continue to become an increasing priority as budgets are reduced, efficiencies are sought, and programmatic and financial responsibility for parts of the PEPFAR program are transitioned to the South African Government. In order to strengthen the Monitoring and Evaluation of the PEPFAR program, several information management systems have been developed, each more sophisticated than its predecessor. This proposed program will build on prior investments to develop information management systems for PEPFAR reporting and improve them by modernizing the PEPFAR indicator reporting system. The new proposal will include cost savings measures by procuring a commercial off the shelf (COTS) system that will be web based yet accessible to rural sites with limited internet access. The new system will have significantly lower maintenance costs than the current system, but will use many of the best features of the current system. The newly procured system will also be flexible enough so that PEPFAR implementing partners will be able to modify it to suit other program monitoring needs, thus improving data monitoring processes beyond the PEPFAR reporting process.
