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.
Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) project is a field support mechnism which aims to: build capacity of US Government (USG) partners to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS, TB/HIV, nutrition, and Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVC) services; build capacity of Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development (MGLSD) to coordinate and oversee implementation of national quality improvement plans and strategies; and to generate new knowledge and best practices in quality improvement as part of a continuous learning and adapting agenda. ASSIST project will: (1) support and strengthen MoH and its Quality Assurance Department to coordinate and oversee the implementation of the national health sector quality improvement framework and strategy; (2) in collaboration with USAID-funded project, Strengthening the Uganda National Response for Implementation of Services for Orphan and Other Vulnerable Children (SUNRISE), ASSIST will support MGLSD, its district structures, and other OVC partners to roll out and institutionalize the national OVC quality assessment, improvement and assurance tools; (3) provide technical assistance and capacity building to all USG implementing partners, including private sector partners, to scale-up quality improvement interventions in supported districts and expand QI approaches to at least, but not limited to, four program areas: voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), TB/HIV, Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) and OVC; and (4) test a range of quality improvement interventions in selected sites to generate new knowledge and evidence-based best practices to be disseminated to all partners as part of a collaboration, learning and adapting agenda.
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.
