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
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 Health Policy Project (HPP) is USAID’s global flagship project that strengthens in-country capacity for policy, financing, leadership and advocacy, multi-sectoral coordination, use of data for decision-making, and promoting country ownership of programs. For Tanzania, HPP aims to support, in alignment with the country’s GHI strategy, the GOT to build an enabling environment for the sustainable scale-up of quality and updated prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and AIDS activities, and the continued advocacy for family planning, maternal, child and reproductive health. Specifically, the project will conduct topic-specific policy reviews, such as legal and costing analyses of specific regulatory frameworks for target population groups, intervention areas, or cross-cutting issues, such as health systems strengthening including health financing, human resources for health, and procurement systems. As its focus is on specific policy analysis activities, the project has a national scope.
Over time, the project will be more cost-efficient by working through local institutions rather than having an in-country office. In doing so, HPP will transfer skills and strengthen the capacity of local NGOs and academic institutions through joint planning and focused support to identify, improve, and sustain institutional competence for effective participation in policy analysis, data use, and advocacy. This mechanism will tap into existing local expertise and experience to move forward policy goals and objectives as defined in the Partnership Framework.
Plans for monitoring and evaluation will be developed that align with PEPFAR/T’s policy tracker and incorporate health systems strengthening metrics.
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.
