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.
AMREF LAB mechanism started its implementation on September 30th 2012 with the aim of strengthening laboratory capacity and provision of point of care tests. This is a five year project with the following objectives:
Train Laboratory and Non-laboratory Health care workers (HCWs) to perform HIV rapid testing (HRT) and other point of care tests to ensure they perform the tests accurately;
• Provide competency assessments to health care workers performing HIV rapid testing to ensure the quality of testing;
• Build supervision capacity of Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Council and Regional Health Management Teams through joint supportive supervision visits to testing sites.
The goal of this mechanism is to progressively build an indigenous, sustainable response to the national HIV epidemic in Tanzania through training medical personnel to provide quality HIV/AIDS laboratory services by leveraging PEPFAR resources to invest in key cross cutting interventions including Human Resources for Health. The focus group is local laboratory specialists, scientists and technicians who perform essential HIV-screening and confirmatory tests, CD4 tests for disease staging, and basic chemistry and hematology tests for disease staging and monitoring. The training of Laboratorians will complement the accreditation process in earmarked laboratories in line with the PEPFAR Blue Print, the Partnership Framework and GHI to build sustainable laboratory capacity towards accreditation and increased quality coverage of HIV services. Training participants will be drawn from both Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar testing sites. AMREF activities are not measured with FY 2013 EA DSP UEs; however, expenditures reported were in line with programmatic priorities and approved budget.
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.
