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: 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 Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project is a centrally funded consortium implemented by FHI360 that supports evidence-based, gender-sensitive programming to improve economic security and health outcomes of families and children affected by HIV. The mechanism will support the following overall PEPFAR/T objectives for economic strengthening (ES) and social protection assistance in Tanzania: 1) Strengthen the economic stability of households affected by HIV to better care for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and people living with HIV (PLHIV); 2) Address economic and structural factors driving HIV transmission among target populations, including gender inequalities, barriers to financial, and health services; and 3) Build the capacity of government and civil society partners to plan, implement, and evaluate state-of-the-art ES and social protection interventions.
The project, covering eight regions in the mainland (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro, Mwanza, Kilimanjaro and Shinyanga) and Zanzibar will support the provision of specialized technical assistance to national and regional authorities. The technical assistance intends to achieve the following objectives: 1) Build the local evidence base by helping to design and evaluate community ES interventions that improve health and development outcomes; 2) Conduct rapid assessments, analyses, and portfolio reviews of existing ES interventions; 3) Utilize emerging evidence and best practices for ES in HIV programming; and 4) Strengthen the national ES M&E plans.
The Government of Tanzania adopted economic strengthening interventions as complementary to social protection to graduate individuals from cash transfers.
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.
