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 2017 2018
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 Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) project supports the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) to adapt practices that ensure sustained delivery of quality HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services through quality improvement (QI) approaches. Building on experience and gains of the past, ASSIST will work with the MOHSW and HIV and AIDS partners at different levels to scale up and widen the scope of interventions to improve pediatric HIV care, PMTCT Option B+, and service integration. The program will leverage funds from multiple health funding streams (MCH, FP) to support an integrated national program that ensures service linkages, appropriate client referrals and improved community engagement to optimize retention. ASSIST will strengthen the QI infrastructure, empowering leadership and motivating Council Health Management Teams to provide oversight and direction for improvement.
At the district level, frontline providers will be capacitated to identify performance gaps in PMTCT, ART, MVC, VMMC, and HIV/AIDS community care, and develop and test change ideas that will result in measurable improvements. They will be trained to maintain documentation of changes and results, analyze records and share learning on a continuous basis. ASSIST will mainstream gender considerations into all activities, work with the structures of MOHSW to build the QI capacity among health management teams and service providers for sustainability of QI initiatives, collaborate with all stakeholders to harmonize work and support the MOHSW to strengthen knowledge management to monitor progress and results of the work plan. The program results will be monitored through quarterly, semiannual and annual program progress reports.
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.
