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.
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.
John Snow Inc. implements the USAID|DELIVER Project Task Order 4, aims to strengthen essential health commodity supply chains by strengthening logistics management information systems, streamlining distribution systems, identifying financial resources for procurement and supply chain operation, and enhancing forecasting and procurement planning. The project seeks to strengthen supply systems for all essential health commodities, including drugs, diagnostics, supplies, and to create conducive environments to supply chain sustainability. In addition, the project aims to support the strengthening and harmonization of health management information systems in accordance with the GHI strategy and UNAIDS three ones’ principles.
The project has developed an electronic Logistics Management Information System (eLMIS) to support MOHSW to improve the collection, management, and use of logistics data for decision-making. The eLMIS will facilitate tracking patients on treatment, as patient- level data can easily be shared among facilities. The long-term plan is to align all PEPFAR/T-supported information systems, many of which straddle multiple ministries, to a harmonized vision for health and health-related information systems’ enterprise architecture. This will include the establishment of an information exchange platform for information sharing (interoperability) among other information systems such as the Human Capital Management Information System, Local Government Human Resource Information System (LGHRIS), Financial Accounting Information system (Epicor), and electronic Logistics Management Information Systems (eLMIS). Evidence shows that systems interoperability will result in greater health workforce efficiency, lowering cost and improving quality of care.
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.
