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 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.
In alignment with PEPFAR prioritized support for the implementation of national M&E reporting systems (like DHIS2) and strengthening of host government systems, PEPFAR systems must be compatible with their host government HIS and must also be collected at the level of the local health facility. In order to fully align results between the national program and the PEPFAR HLAB subcomponent, facilities will have to be referenced in a common manner, requiring the development of a Master Facility List and an information management system architecture that allows data entry, aggregation, analysis and reporting from the facility level, district level to national level meeting various monitoring needs of the respective stakeholders.
To support this effort, African Society for Laboratory Management (ASLM) will be contracted to support this HLAB component coordinating the activities of The Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) who is the Uganda MOH lab component manager in the roll out of the national Lab Information Management Systems (LIMS) framework functionalizing it on ground through the implementation of a lab information system network and using relevant platforms that facilitate systems interoperability that can make the sharing of health data across information systems possible. ASLM will work with CDC and MOH in the planning and implementation of BLIS. By the end of the financial year, ASLM will have established a functional information management system covering an estimated three district hubs (2nd tier laboratories) and their network partner laboratories.
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.
