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: 2013 2014
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.
In August 2012 the Leadership, Management & Governance-Transition Support Project (LMG-TSP) was launched in Vietnam under the headquarters-managed LMG project. LMG-TSP was designed to support the transition of Vietnam’s HIV/AIDS response to greater country ownership and sustainability by facilitating evidence-based transition approaches in the areas of leadership, human resources and financing. LMG-TSP was established to serve as a resource to the PEPFAR team, VAAC and other stakeholders during a period of changing roles and responsibilities for the country’s HIV program. During the first year, a number of avenues were pursued to facilitate discussion around transition; to improve human resource planning; and to explore issues related to country financing. LMG-TSP has helped to develop, manage and analyze PEPFAR HRH inventory for COP Planning and transition planning. The project itself experienced significant challenges throughout implementation, as the roadmap for transition remained a challenging process, with diverse thinking among both Government and development partners about what transition means and at what pace it might proceed. LMG-TSP’s focus in year two is more specific to developing better tools and building capacity for evidence-informed planning in one province (Hai phong), that builds the planning capacity of PAC, DOH and VAAC officials; leads to better human resource and health financing planning; and results in a planning model that can be scaled up to other provinces. The project will close out in September 2014. All results and best practices will be shared with the PEPFAR Join Planning Team for future use and adaptation in other provinces, and the PEPFAR HRH database will be handed over to the PEPFAR Coordinator's Office.
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.
