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 mothers2mothers (m2m) programme is improved MNCH (PMTCT) outcomes among HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers. m2m will build the capacity of the Government of South Africa to intitutionalise and scale up provision of PMTCT education and psychosocial support in public health facilities at the district level. The Mentor Mother (MM) model will be integrated within the broader PMTCT/MNCH programme. The strategic result areas of these interventions are: (i) Quality mentorship and peer support systems for pregnant women, new mothers, their babies and male partners institutionalised and scaled-up by District Health Management Teams (DHMT); (ii) Best practices and innovations generated at m2m model sites shared and scaled-up to improve client health outcomes and PMTCT service delivery in targeted districts. It will contribute to the National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB (2012-2016) objectives to reduce HIV infections, mother to child transmission, HIV-related maternal and infant mortality and improve maternal and child health outcomes. The program will target pregnant women, new mothers and infants. Through the MM model, women living with HIV will be employed, trained and placed in facilities to work with clinical staff, providing PMTCT education and support to women to access comprehensive services. Focus will be in 7 Districts across 5 provinces (Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Gauteng, and North West) with 25 model sites designed as centres of excellence to provide for demonstrated learning and orientation to support capacity building of DHMTs. The sites will also serve as centres for operations research and model development for continued learning and enhancement of the MM model.
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.
