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 the capacity building program is to improve HIV/TB outcomes of priority populations (pregnant women, infants, children, adolescents, and those who are HIV/TB co-infected) through building the capacity of health workers. In the area of HIV/TB health outcomes for priority populations, the objectives are as follows: Objective 1: Provide individual-level capacity building to health workers and relevant stakeholders; Objective 2: Provide organizational-level capacity building through quality improvement strategies to improve provincial and district health system performance; Objective 3: Provide systems and policy-level capacity building through support of national expert dialogue to improve the policy context for capacity building; and, Objective 4: Program evaluation and improvement science research to document evidence-based capacity building activities. The program will provide the following: systems and policy-level support at DOH steering committees and technical working groups; organizational capacity building through QI Learning Collaboratives in the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and Western Cape; and, individual-level capacity building at a national level through university short courses. Program cost-effectiveness will be improved through on-going quality improvement of program activities and focus on high-impact activities that are aligned with DOH priorities. Program sustainability will be addressed through in-service training of DOH staff and institutionalization of training and quality improvement approaches in the DOH structures, such as Regional Training Centers and university courses. Regular monitoring activities will allow continuous monitoring of progress towards achieving program targets, goals and objectives.
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.
