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.
This new cooperative agreement is intended to support the South African Department of Health (DOH) to provide effective clinical management for adult and pediatric patients with complicated HIV and HIV/TB treatment.
The treatment management includes providing 2nd/3rd line and alternative antiretroviral treatment (ART) through funding; capacitating regional Centers for Advanced Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS; providing high quality referral or tertiary-level HIV and HIV/TB services; and supporting the development of sustainable capacity for effective management of patients with such needs at district level DOH facilities. While the cooperative agreement will support Regional Centers for Advanced Management of HIV/AIDS as referral facilities for more complicated cases, it will also support capacity building for the management of complicated patients at district level and strengthening of up/down referral systems. PEPFAR considers most of the need in this area to be for greater access to expert outpatient clinical management services for patients with complicated ART requirements.
The costs of inpatient services are expected to be covered largely by the public sector. The costs of antiretroviral drugs for patients with complicated ART requirements are also not expected to be covered under this cooperative agreement. Support through this new cooperative agreement will be limited to three provinces (KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, and Eastern Cape) for the first two years of the program, but may subsequently be expanded to additional provinces based on identified need and availability of funding.
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.
