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 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.
The comprehensive prevention program goal of SCI is to decrease new HIV infections in selected areas of Northern Cape(in Frances Baard SCI will continue to run the Families Matter program), Gauteng and Mpumalanga.
The key objectives include: decrease new HIV infections in 3 high prevalence districts (Ekurhuleni, Tshwane and Nkangla) by 2016 by:
1. Building community and health provider competence to address the key drivers of the epidemic; creating demand in communities and increase uptake into prevention services
2. Strengthening community action to address key drivers, building partnerships with government and partners to ensure sustainable delivery of prevention services
3. Change unsafe sexual behaviors including decreasing multiple partners; decrease HIV and TB transmission between sero-discordant couples; create an enabling environment for social change through dialogues, discussion, mass media and events that will shift norms and enable communities to tackle HIV prevention issues at a local level.
SCI will pilot social clubs for young women in 3 districts, to create a supportive environment for safer sexual behavior, and increase social support for health seeking behaviors. The pilot will be implemented in 10 informal settlements and evaluated in 1 year. SCI will train health workers to understand and implement the NSP. The Heartbeat magazine will improve the communication and help motivate them.
Creating demand for services will be accomplished through a campaign that includes mass media, local materials,120 community dialogues and local events. Every 3 years a national communication survey is conducted and SCI participates enabling evaluation of the work we do with an excellent sample. FY2014 will begin the process of the NCS to be implemented in FY20
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.
