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 2015 2016 2017 2018 2020
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.
Vietnam Administration of Medical Services (VAMS), located within the Ministry of Health (MOH), is the authoritative body managing and overseeing the hospital health care system in Vietnam. They develop care and treatment service policies, including HIV/AIDs services, in hospitals. In COP14, funding to VAMS support: 1) Strengthening quality management and improvement systems within the hospital system for labs and hospital-based HIV clinics, and other clinical services, 2) Establish and implement policies, laws, guidelines and technical standards for the hospital lab system, 3) Support development of guidelines and technical standards for diagnosis, care and treatment for hepatitis mono- infection and co-infection with HIV.
These activities contribute to health system strengthening at a national level and target the Ministry of Health (MOH), hospital leaders, doctors, nurses, lab staff, and other health care workers. Activities contribute to increased coordination in the implementation of national strategic plans, and integrating improved health care services into the healthcare system.
Activities will be monitored by CDC Vietnam staff in quarterly meetings with the partner. CDC VN staff will review the quality of materials developed by VAMS. Monitoring and evaluation will be integrated into routine program functions. Thus, this activity will focus on developing capacity at the site level, and within VAMS to use data to monitor progress and quality of health services. This includes paper-based and/or electronic systems.
Pipeline was taken into account when setting the COP 14 budget request. A six-month, no-cost extension will use up existing funds through March 2015. New funds will be obligated for year one of the follow-on coag in April 2015.
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.
