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 2019
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.
CDC Vietnam funding to the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) will improve lab diagnosis and disease monitoring services. ASCP works at national and regional levels, targeting Ministry of Health (MOH) policy makers, lab program managers, and medical universities.
Goals are: 1) Strengthen pre-service lab technology curriculum by adding four universities, updating courses and developing post-graduate programs; 2) Creation of a faculty and student exchange program between Hanoi Medical University (HMU), University and Pharmacy and Medicine in Ho Chi Minh City and US-based universities to strengthen teaching capacity of pre-service and in-service training; 3) Provision of technical assistance (TA) for the development of national EQA programs and training for clinical chemistry and hematology.
This supports the Vietnam Partnership Framework goal 2, section 1B to strengthen lab training and reference institutions.
The lab technology training program’s success is due to the ownership from MOH and HMU. Activities for COP 14 and 15 will build cost-efficient capacity and improve labs at an institutional and organizational level. APHL TA will be monitored by CDC Vietnam through quarterly partner meetings and will include a review of materials produced by the partner. Additionally, the EQA systems strengthened by ASCP can be used as a tool for overall program monitoring during the transition of PEPFAR-supported lab services to GVN financial support.
Pipeline was taken into account when setting the COP 14 budget request. Current pipeline is less than 11 months of funding. An increase in the COP 14 funding request reflects increased activities; COP 14 funding is less than the current rate of outlays, ensuring that pipeline will diminish over time.
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.
