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: 2014 2015
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.
The “USAID Community HIV Link – Southern” activity enlists an experienced local Vietnamese nongovernmental organization to identify and improve capacity of civil society organizations (CSO) working with key populations. It will strengthen CSO provision of HIV services to support a sustainable national response by realizing the following objectives:
1) Deliver effective community-based HIV services;
2) Strengthen capacity for CSOs working on HIV; and
3) Facilitate coordination of CSOs with key HIV stakeholders.
This new mechanism will be implemented in three PEPFAR provinces, HCMC, Can Tho, and An Giang, serving key populations including people who inject drugs (PWID), female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their sex partners.
The PEPFAR goal of transition from direct service delivery to technical assistance requires strengthening the role of CSOs. Due to their unique ability to reach and address the needs of key populations, CSOs are well placed to provide efficient and effective HIV services. With improved organizational and technical capacity, CSOs will have motivated human resources, raise their own funds, reduce the need for public sector staffing costs, improve uptake of high quality services and generate government recognition of the role and value of civil society.
A combination of routine data collection, internal data quality assessment exercises and regular field visits will be used to monitor and evaluate performance against key indicators identified in the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP). The Activity will also monitor spending against the budget to ensure that implementation and results are keeping pace with spending.
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.
