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.
May 2010 Programming REDACTED
Health Management Information Systems Budget REDACTED
Health Information Systems play a critical role in Health Systems Strengthening activities. In order to build informatics capacity as well as achieve interoperability across reporting systems, Technical Assistance (TA) will be needed to support development of use cases, requirements documents, and messaging standards (e.g., HL7), as well as TA support on technical specifications of data repository, enterprise architecture and use of unique or quasi-unique patient identifiers.
Data Quality Assurance Support -- Budget: REDACTED
A number number of multilateral and bilateral organizations have collaborated to jointly develop a Data Quality Assessment (DQA) Tool. The objective of this harmonized initiative is to provide a common approach for assessing and improving overall data quality. Five key elements of data to be assessed includes: Validity, Integrity, Precision, Reliability and Timeliness.
A standardized tool and support system (i.e. training, supervisory visits and feedback) helps to ensure that standards are harmonized and allows for joint implementation between partners and with National Programs. The DQA Process focuses exclusively on (1) verifying the quality of reported data, and (2) assessing the underlying data management and reporting systems for standard program-level output indicators. The DQA Tool is not intended to assess the entire M&E system of a country's response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis or Malaria. In the context of HIV/AIDS, the DQA relates to component 12 (i.e. Supportive supervision and data auditing) of the "Organizing Framework for a Functional National HIV M&E System". Two versions of the DQA Tool have been developed: (1) The Data Quality Audit Tool for provides guidelines to be used by an external audit team to assess a Program/project's ability to report quality data; and (2) The Routine Data Quality Assessment Tool is a simplified version of the DQA for auditing that allows Programs and projects to assess the quality of their data and strengthen their data management and reporting systems. The TBD partner will closely collaborate with PEPFAR SI team to routinely conduct series of DQAs across all PEPFAR partners to ensure the data is being collected at good quality from the field level, as well as precisely reported to managers at different levels.
