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.
This activity is related to OHPS (#8911 and #9014) and SI (#8910, #9013, #9011, and #9023). The USG will build on the new formal partnership with the University of Zambia's Department of Social Development and the Department of Community Medicine developed in FY 2006.
In March 2006, the Department of Social Development piloted the first Planning Monitoring and Evaluation short course. The initial course was attended by 45 training participants who consisted mostly of working professionals and a number of final year students selected by the department. Experienced Unites States Government (USG) monitoring and evaluation (M&E) staff provided technical support for this course including overall curriculum design, lectures, and workshop materials. In addition to USG staff, trainers included staff from cooperating partners, including SHARe, UNAIDS, and University of Zambia (UNZA) professors and lecturers. Because of the positive response and success of this initial course, USG Zambia, through CDC, supported this course in FY 2006 to train another 60 professionals and build their skills in critical areas specific to Zambia. The two short-courses will run during the two University of Zambia's mid-semester breaks in December 2006 and July 2007. USG Zambia staff will continue to assist in improving the curriculum and plan to provide lecturers from USG Zambia and CDC-Atlanta for the program. The program will aim to improve competencies related to the continuum of data use, strategic planning, program planning, leading related processes as well as technical aspects of evaluation, and information technology. To encourage sustainability of the effort, the course will be continued after successful implementation in FY 2007 so that the training will be mainstreamed into regular graduate and undergraduate programs from FY 2007 onwards. Students entering this program are often already employed by government ministries, NGOs, or health establishments and bring new skills back to those organizations. For those without existing employment, the program will seek to place a number of students on attachments to organizations expressing need.
The long-term vision is to enable UNZA to become an established sustainable in-country training center to support the HIV/AIDS M&E workforce in to the future. Other international organizations, such as the International Development Research Center (IDRC) have expressed an interest in partnership. Additionally, NASTAD will provide technical assistance to UNZA in developing a business plan for 2007 - 2011. Additionally, UNZA has formed a working partnership with a Rotary-sponsored information technology (IT) program targeting young people entering the workforce. Participants from the IT program can access the M&E program and vice versa, expanding the number of potential employment contacts. In 2006, UNZA conducted a labor market assessment of M&E and IT jobs required to fight HIV/AIDS over the next ten years. In this process, places of possible employment were identified.
Financial assistance in FY 2007 will be allocated to support participants' tuition fees (on a competitive basis), field project stipends, and acquisition of teaching materials, including online data resources to support 80 more students, and thereby support at least 40 different local programs and service outlets with capacity building.
