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 will build local capacity at the Ministry of Finance and National Planning (MoFNP) in the form of stronger economic and budgetary analysis for the HIV/AIDS sector and for HIV/AIDS as a cross-cutting issue for all sectors. Currently, MoFNP policy makers have no empirical means to predict the impact of governmental spending on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, or treatment services. Nor can they predict the impact of HIV/AIDS budgeting decisions on national development priorities, such as economic growth and trade, poverty alleviation, agriculture, and education. For instance, MoFNP cannot state in any definitive, objective manner the economic benefit to society of putting secondary school teachers on ART. Such lack of knowledge about fundamental financial decisions could result in chronic deficits in the health-, HIV/AIDS-, and education- related line items of the government's annual budget.
This activity will utilize state-of-the-art economic and budget tools to create an input/output modeling system that will allow the MoFNP (in particular its Investment & Debt Management section) to conduct in-depth cost/benefit analyses for a broad array of social spending categories, in particular those related to mitigating the societal and economic costs of HIV/AIDS. It will allow the MoFNP to allocate public expenditures in the social sectors in a more rational manner so as to recommend budgeting policy-makers the optimal positive impact of investments in HIV/AIDS services on Zambia's economic and social development.
A second key partner is the Parliament, a major decision-maker in the budget process. In FY 2007, the contractor will develop the tools and populate the tools with the most up-to-date budgetary projections and impact data from different ministries. The tools will then be tested and refined. The contractor will then train MoFNP staff and cabinet members in how to use the tools to create scenarios using different budgetary assumptions to assist them in making informed decisions.
On behalf of the United States Government (USG) in Zambia, USAID will develop a scope of work to begin the activity in Zambia. The activity will include design and testing of the modeling tool, installation of the software system at the MoFNP, and training of key MoFNP in its use. The expected timeframe from award to completion of the project is 18 months. Technical assistance in design and implementation of the system will be primarily directed at the MoFNP. Additionally, assistance and capacity building activities will be directed to specific line ministries impacted by the tool, including the ministries of Health, Education, Trade Commerce & Industry, Transport, Home Affairs, Agriculture and Cooperatives, Tourism, Justice, Mining, and the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC).
The activity will leverage further funding from other USAID sectors and other donor activities focused on fiscal reform and other USG programs. The funding requested from PEPFAR will cover only the HIV/AIDS component of the tool and the costs to input HIV/AIDS budget data.
In FY 2006, USAID/Zambia is seeking technical assistance from USAID/Southern Africa to conduct a short-term technical assessment of the current modeling system capabilities within the MoFNP through its indefinite quantity contract (IQC) with The Services Group. The European Union did establish a Computable General Equilibrium Modeling System in the mid-1990s, but that system was not utilized effectively at the time. The Secretary to the Treasury states that the ministry is not using any model presently, but is attempting to provide budgetary guidance to senior policy makers. Evaluating the gaps between the current system and the state of the art modeling tool envisaged in this project is the goal of the short-term technical assessment. Based on the results of this assessment, USAID/Zambia will either continue working through USAID/SA or compete the full activity for FY 2007.
