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
Hanoi School of Public Health (HSPH) will focus increasingly on transitioning towards being a technical assistance (TA) provider to GVN partners rather than on direct implementation of training activities. This approach will include promoting institutionalization of the curricula developed on management, impact evaluation, and total quality management to GVN at the regional and provincial levels. Participating provinces will be chosen in line with PEPFAR transition plans nationally.
Institutionalization will occur at multiple levels, ensuring that courses are offered to students at the HSPH and other health, medical and training institutions. This includes the nationally mandated in-service curricula for HIV staff at the health service delivery level. Technical and financial support will be given to the regional training centers in the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute and the Danang Preventive Medicine Center, as well as the Vietnam Public Health Association to provide these trainings and follow-on mentorship and coaching. In line with transitioning to a TA resource for the country, HSPH will collaborate and guide other Vietnamese partners implementing PEPFAR-supported training programs, notably with the Vietnam Administration for AIDS Control (VAAC) in the MOH to provide TA in the roll-out of HIVQUAL, focusing on measurement of impact, follow on training and support to trainees, and network development. HSPH will support a similar initiative with the Ministry of Defense TQM training program developed with COP 11 and COP 12 funding.
The HSPH currently has bachelors, masters, and doctorate level degrees in public health, as well as a wide range of in-service training opportunities to serve health professionals on a national scale. COP12 funds (year two of a five year cooperative agreement) will be used to further develop and enhance the capacity of the HSPH to train and develop a high quality and relevant public health workforce for Vietnam. Specific activities include: Continue to develop a Bachelors of Public Health Informatics (PHI) track within the existing HSPH undergraduate curriculum. This curriculum will be based upon standardized competencies that are appropriate for Vietnam. This program seeks to increase capacity and availability of public health workers to improve the acquisition, integration, and display of information, with the goal of improving both individual and population health. This program will train between 15-25 students per class. In 2011, HSPH conducted need assessments on a national scale to analyze the current demand for this track. The long-term view is that PHI will soon be an institutionalized course for not only the undergraduate but at the graduate level as well.
In collaboration with local and international institutions, the HSPH will seek to enhance the quality of its epidemiology training by a systematic review and adjustment of its current course offering, increased training of existing faculty and partner staff, faculty exchanges with external institutions, and increasing the availability of hands-on research opportunities for faculty and students. In the year 2011, with technical support from UCSF, HSPH organized successfully 3 training workshops in the field of Epidemiologic/Biostatistics for a total of more than 80 participants coming from different institutes, universities, government and non-government organization across Vietnam. In 2012, HSPH will continue to provide these training models but will focus more on practical exercises. We will also extend the training/research collaboration with local institutes such as Pasteur Ho Chi Minh (South) and Pasteur Khanh Hoa (Central) in the field of applied Epidemiologic/Biostatistics.
OHSS funds will be used to consolidate the Vietnam Leadership and Management Training Program (VLMTP) as a TA repository for capacity development training systems in the country. Building on a program of impact evaluation and piloting different leadership approaches at the provincial level, HSPH will develop and pilot monitoring and TA tools, including manuals on tailoring curricula, pre- and post-test assessments, gathering baseline indicators and appropriate ME framework for management and leadership training provided at the provincial level. The tools will be shared with academic and medical institutions to promote similar management curricula in their undergraduate and graduate programs.
The VLMTP, in collaboration with CDC, has created a monitoring and evaluation tool to evaluate the training programs supported by HSPH. This tool will capture the participants improved knowledge and skills along with the progress of their applied projects.
In addition, a smaller proportion of OHSS funding will go towards capacitating faculty within the Social Behavioral Sciences Department to design, implement and evaluate HIV related socio-behavioral science courses in partnership with other local institutions. The course topics will be chosen based on a needs assessment and coordination with the Ministry of Health.
