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
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 African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) is a non-government pan-African organization which is responsible for implementing lab strengthening activities. It serves as a professional body to guide laboratory network development and unite medical laboratory professionals in Africa; mobilize resource; develop and guide the process of harmonization and certification of laboratory medicine training; work with WHO on laboratory policies and accreditation guidelines in Africa; organizes annual meetings for laboratory medicine practitioners; strengthen existing laboratory professional associations and societies and aid the development of new associations; and offer a peer-reviewed journal for laboratory medicine in Africa. In Tanzania, ASLM provides national level technical support with an overall goal of building long-term capacity for labs at all levels of the healthcare system in provision of quality services that deliver accurate, reliable and timely laboratory results. ASLM activities are linked to PEPFAR goals on promoting sustainability through strengthening country health systems. With previous funding, ASLM trained 9 indigenous laboratory staff on laboratory quality auditing using the Strengthening Laboratory Quality Improvement Process towards Accreditation (SLIPTA) checklist; this is 90% of the target. Eight out of nine trained auditors were certified as ASLM-Certified Auditors and used to assess 8 labs for stepwise accreditation. SLIPTA auditors enable the GOT to have a pool of local staff able to assess and mentor labs for accreditation. Due to the nature of ASLM's support, there are no applicable unit costs in EA reporting.
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.
