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 MOHSW is a government partner funded to support its mandate to strengthen the national health system. Activities support national HIV and health strategies, the PEPFAR Blueprint and PF Goals 2, 5 and 6. Priority objectives include: 1) strengthening of IPC-IS practices and government ownership at all levels of the health system; 2) enabling coordination and sustainable transition of partner supported M&E systems and activities to the MOHSW ownership and management; 3) enhance the MOHSW technical and policy leadership to deliver a comprehensive package of services for HIV prevention and care among PWID and PWUD; 4) develop and implement a roadmap for a task-sharing policy; 5) support the use of human resources (HR)-related data to inform evidence based decision making; 6) develop critical skills in epidemiology, biostatistics and leadership to facilitate evidence-based decision making at national, regional, and district levels; 7) enable system integration to support e-health planning for HR-related systems; 8) support QI coordination by strengthening the new National Quality Improvement Directorate to promote harmonization of QI approaches and country ownership for sustainability. The MOHSW participated in CDC FY 2013 site monitoring visits to ensure quality and identify areas of service provision needing improvement. Given its role as a national-level coordination and TA partner, MOHSW under this mechanism are not measured with FY 2013 EA direct service provider unit expenditures.
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.
