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: 2010 2011
Objectives:
The objective of this budget line is to make use of a separate existing Implementing Mechanism to provide procurement and infrastructure support to the Data Warehouse Implementing Mechanism. The budget line is marked as 'tbd' since the exact type of infrastructure or procurement support required will be identified in discussion with the MOHSW over the coming months. The main data warehouse activity is a new FOA, currently funded using Partnership Framework 09 funds. This Implementing Mechanism makes use of Partnership Framework 2010 funds.
The overall goals and objectives will be to provide required infrastructure to the Health Management Information System (HMIS) unit of the Government of the Republic of Tanzania's (GoT) Ministry of Social Health and Welfare (MOHSW) in order to:
Improve the capacity of the MOHSW to collect, manage, and analyze aggregate program monitoring and evaluation.
Support the creation of a data warehouse, which brings together information from aggregate data collection systems, surveillance and evaluation studies, transactional systems and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This collection of data must be designed to enable data mining and detailed longitudinal and population-based analysis of multiple concurrent data sets to inform policy formulation, resource allocation, and decision making processes.
Support application of data analysis in dissemination papers, abstracts, and report cards.
Support the use of policy analysis, projections, and modeling techniques to build evidence-based policy formulation, programmatic resource allocation, and decision making across the health sector and at all levels.
Infrastructure includes the physical construction or rental of office space to house servers and communications equipment, office space for HMIS or data warehouse employees, information technology hardware, software, switches, routers etc or any other infrastructure related procurements required for the Data Warehouse activities.
Contributions to Health System Strengthening:
The ability to access timely, relevant and accurate information and carry out analysis of the sector as a whole is vital to any long term health system strengthening effort. Health Systems must aim to achieve continuous improvement by basing and justifying all decisions, budget allocations, policies and strategies on empirical evidence.
Cross-cutting Issues:
Building on investments in HIV-specific systems, the USG SI Team will ensure that its data warehousing activity works closely with GoT to establish a strong unit within the MOHSW that can help bring multiple data sources together and create meaningful feedback products for the sector as a whole. Information sources include internal and external data sources (from an MOHSW perspective, aggregate data systems and operational data systems from all vertical programs, and link with other GOT entities like President's Office-Public Service Management (POPSM) Prime Minister's Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, (PMO-RALG ), and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Cost Effectiveness over Time:
The IM will focus on the initial set up costs and work on achieving a cost efficient service model that can be sustained by the MOHSW over the long term. This IM will focus on building capacity within the MOHSW to maintain the data warehouse environment and to manage external contractors or suppliers to provide technical assistance in the future. The long term objective is to help create a unit within the MOHSW that can sustain the warehouse and have expertise to increase use by providing a service to all other vertical programmes
Geographic Coverage:
The data warehouse will include data from all districts and be designed to serve the data analysis needs of the all levels. Dissemination strategy must specifically have plans to provide information to all levels and include national coverage.
Links to Partnership Framework:
This IM is a direct implementation of the sixth goal of the partnership framework (Evidence-based and Strategic Decision-making goal) and contributes to the following areas of support:
Enhance and coordinate multi-Sectoral M&E systems to ensure quality vertical and horizontal flow and use of data through the HIV & AIDS, Health, and Social Service sectors
Adopt best practices in evidence-based and strategic decision-making
The Data Warehouse IM is primarily an effort to increase use of data by ensuring the data is accessible and presented in a way that meets the needs of the separate disease programs and directorates. The infrastructure IM will be ensuring the MOHSW and the new partner have access to the infrastructure hardware, software and space within the MOHSW HQ required to achieve the Data Warehouse IM objectives.
Monitoring and Evaluation Plans:
As a system building activity the monitoring of performance for the data warehouse mechanism will be based on the achievement of milestones. Monitoring and Evaluation of the procurement and related infrastructure work will be based on the timely delivery and overall quality of procured items.
?Infrastructure, rent, or training funds to support Datawarehouse effort
