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.
The goal of Africa Health Placements (AHP) is improved access to quality healthcare for people living in rural and under-served areas of South African through the South African government's public healthcare system and its HIV, TB and primary healthcare treatment programs. Objectives include: (a) Improve access to health workers for people living in under-served rural aead of South Africa, (b) Improve the orientation, induction, rentention and efficacy of rural doctors - those placed by AHP and their colleagues, and (c) Inform human resources in health policy, improve systems and enable rural South Africa to compete more effectively for scarce and mobile health workers. AHP is responsible for maintaining the existing foreign recruitment program in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, North West Province and Limpopo Provinces with expansion of the existing foriegn recruitment program into Mpumalanga and Free State Provinces. Recruitment has been extended to include the recruitment of South-African qualified health workers, provided they do not work for the DoH at time of application. AHP has developed a unique and proven model that is structured to promote the recruitment and retention of foreign skills from developed nations in a manner which attracts and retains local skills and builds sustainable hospital capacity. This model which is already delivering sustainable change in public healthcare facilities, combining long term thinking with short term pragmatism and involves the development of working partnerships between national governements, regulatory agencies, civil society and medical training institutions to ensure that the systems and process that support human resources in health are efficient and effective.
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.
