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.
HHS/CDC is directly engaged in the planning and implementation of PEPFAR funds in Vietnam, as well as being a core participant in the Partnership Framework. It is also involved in strategic information program development through USG and government of Vietnam technical working groups and health systems strengthening activities. As the steward of these prime partner TBD funds, HHS/CDC will select and supervise a partner able to achieve the goals of the activity as described in the budget code narrative.
HHS/CDC will leverage its experience and relationships in Vietnam to identify and supervise technically competent partners to support the national programs. The goal of this mechanism, which is in line with national and PEPFAR priorities, is to establish and to improve high-quality and sustainable strategic information capacity. This support will be national in scope and will focus on national and provincial entities. TBD partners will focus on developing a culture of appropriate data use to enable Vietnam's HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs to become increasingly evidence based, cost effective, efficient and sustainable across donors, implementers and program areas. The objectives will be: 1) to provide technical assistance to the government of Vietnam, the PEPFAR Strategic Information team and PEPFAR implementing partners on best practices for monitoring and evaluation and evidence-based program planning; 2) to support the development of a culture of data use for policy and programmatic decision making; 3) to develop human and system capacity to allow data collection, analysis and program use; and 4) to provide technical assistance to the government of Vietnam for the implementation of the National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, and the Decision 28 National HIV/AIDS Routine Reporting System, for routine program monitoring, evaluation and implementation. Support to these local institutions will be a key component in the Partnership Framework currently being developed in collaboration with the government of Vietnam.
The intention is to transition such support to local institutions as a cost-effective and sustainable strategy, while curtailing external TA to specialized areas when required.
This activity is TBD prime partner and will include two components.
In the first component, CDC will allocate REDACTED to contract the development of software, software components, information systems (IS) and other information technology-based solutions for information system needs as defined by the national IS technical working group (TWG) . Awarded contracts will be based on a detailed set of system requirements and will be competitively awarded to an indigenous Vietnamese company or organization. Local contracting of software development is a key component of the PEPFAR IS strategy to ensure that information systems developed are "Made in Vietnam," which will promote local ownership and operation for sustainability. All solutions provided will be required to meet the standards defined by the national IS TWG and any additional standards defined for PEPFAR systems by the Strategic Information (SI) TWG. Technical assistance (TA) in standards development, requirements gathering, solutions development, project management, and implementation and evaluation will be provided to these contractors and the SI team from international IS partners. Since electronic health management systems development is an identified PEPFAR priority, and middleware and component solutions will be required to connect systems together for information exchange, these funds will be spent through multiple contracts specific to each project's requirements.
CDC will allocate REDACTED to the second component for an international SI TA partner TBD to engage the PEPFAR program in Vietnam in a range of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), information systems and surveillance and survey activities. In order to help build national capacity within the government of Vietnam and indigenous organizations, the prime partner will be required to develop partnership with such local organizations in providing TA to components of the national SI program through the national SI TWGs. Direct TA without this partnership is not sustainable and will be discouraged except in immediate need situations where local partnerships are either not available or not possible.
This TA partner will engage in activities based on the overall SI TWG strategy, organization of all SI partner activities and strengths, and areas of expertise of the partner. This partner will be required to work across technical areas, agencies and geographic areas within their domain of expertise. In order to ensure the coordination of all TA to avoid redundancies, improve quality and standardization of services, and to prevent confusion of supported partners, the selected prime partner will be required to participate in a working group that includes all PEPFAR SI technical assistance partners.
The specific scope of work of this activity will be developed based on the SI partner assessment and work plan development taking place through March 2010.
