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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
The overall goal of MEEPP II is to strengthen HIV/AIDS-related national monitoring and evaluation systems to support the collection of complete, accurate, and timely data that can meet GOU, PEPFAR, and other development partner data requirements. The primary objective is to implement and maintain a comprehensive PEPFAR program performance management system through improved PEPFAR data collection, management, and analysis for program planning and reporting to OGAC and the USG Agencies. Three of the four FY12 SI pivots will be supported by MEEPP II: (1) Alignment of USG-supported systems with the national information system; (2) Strong/robust M&E systems at service delivery points and districts, and; (3) Increased use of data for evidence-based planning and decision-making at all levels in all HIV/AIDS program areas. MEEPPs coverage is national, collecting, managing, and analyzing HIV/AIDS data from all regions in the country. MEEPP activities cover public and private sector health facilities that benefit from PEPFAR support and national-level technical and policy agenda.
Broad MEEPP activities include data collection, collation and aggregation, semi-annual and annual report compilation, data quality assessments, TA for data quality improvement, TA/training for improved M&E systems, special studies, and analysis of program data.
FY12 funding to MEEPP will support three SIpivots. Pivot 1 is an alignment of US-supported systems with the national information system. Since the beginning of FY12, MEEPP has undertaken to align the President Emergency Plan Performance Management Information System (PEPMIS) to the national system. In FY2013, this activity will be prioritized and fast-tracked. It is expected that at end of the next two years PEPFAR will rely on the national system for almost all its data needs.
To ensure sustainability, MEEPP works in collaboration with other development partners supporting national M&E systems, such as DFID, GF, UNAIDS, and WHO to improve national data management systems while continuing to use the current system to report progress. The recent decision of the MOH/Resource Center to adopt the District Health Information Software (DHIS2) was an important breakthrough in the use of the web-based/enabled reporting system. By supporting the national rollout of DHIS-2, MEEPP will be able to compare the outputs from the two systems to determine when the majority of the required reports can be fully generated from the national system. MEEPP will also serve as a key resource partner in the national effort to develop and operationalize the health sector HIV/AIDS M&E framework. In addition, MEEPP will strengthen district-based reporting through the effective use of national tools and adherence to national processes.
Advancing alignment to the national information system supports SI Pivot 2: Create strong/robust M&E systems at service delivery points and districts. MEEPP will continue to mentor all PEPFAR partners on NGIs and national HIV/AIDS related M&E tools, and implement data quality assessments and improvement through this activity.
To support SI Pivot 3 increased use of data for evidence-based planning and decision making at all levels in all HIV/AIDS program areas -MEEPP will collect, analyze, and disseminate quality data to national stakeholders to contribute to effective monitoring of the national HIV/AIDS response. Analysis will be done using district burden tables to facilitate monitoring rational use of resources based on district need and coverage. Following the results of the 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey, leaders as well as program planners have expressed the need and desire to understand trends and early prediction of outcome indicators more frequently than national population-based surveys can provide. USG will play its part through MEEPPs implementation of continuous surveillance through studies of smaller magnitude around key populations coupled with rigorous analysis of routine program data. Activities in MEEPPs FY13 workplan include development and implementation of an analytical agenda for secondary data analysis, simulation modeling and epi-analysis to monitor program impact, conduct in-depth studies to explain quantitative findings and disseminate to stakeholders.
By the end of FY 2013, PEPFAR funded IPs will report on a quarterly basis using national tools in line with the national system. At the end of FY 2014, a comparative analysis of data from the two systems (the national system and the MEEPP PEPPMIS) will be completed and a decision made on the appropriate timing and/or criteria for full transition to the national system. By the end of FY 2015, the national system will be the main source of PEPFAR performance data reported to OGAC.
