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: 2008 2009
The funding level for this activity in FY 2008 has increased since FY 2007. Narrative changes include
updates on progress made and expansion of activities.
This activity relates to: Ministry of Health (MOH), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The FY 2008 plan aims to build-up and sustain the Central Statistical Office (CSO) and staff expertise in
vital registration in Zambia. An important FY 2008 activity is the continuation and expansion of the Sample
Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY) System in selected regions in Zambia. The FY 2008 activity
builds upon the Feasibility Study funded in FY 2007 by CSO in collaboration with the CDC Global AIDS
Program (GAP) in Zambia, utilizing SAVVY tools and materials developed by the US Census Bureau and
Measure Evaluation. In FY 2008, the CSO will collaborate with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of
Home Affairs National Registrar's Office, Ministry of Local Government and Housing, and the Ministry of
Community Development and Social Welfare (MCDSS) to expand its surveillance of vital events in Zambia
by increasing areas of coverage, examine and support the existing data sources and data capture systems,
refining and validating the verbal autopsy questionnaire, and evaluating the implementation process of the
SAVVY system in Zambia. This vital registration system builds upon current expertise of the CSO and that
of other line Ministries in demographic surveillance to estimate the number and causes of deaths in
sampled areas with baseline census information. In addition to establishing (and re-establishing) the
infrastructure to obtain mortality data alongside census data in additional targeted samples, this effort will
aim to validate the verbal autopsy interview instrument used, and train 80 staff from CSO and other
ministries. These will include office staff, interviewers, census enumerators, community workers, verbal
autopsy interviewers and supervisors, nosologists, and other health workers. Beyond training of individuals
in SAVVY methods, this activity will yield information on the number of deaths ascertained by the
community informants, number and quality of verbal autopsy forms completed by interviewers, the number
and quality of verbal autopsy forms coded with cause of death. The estimate of duration of time from death
to notification and completion of verbal autopsy, and time to cause of death coding, will also be captured.
The estimated mortality rate observed in the SAVVY areas and communities will be calculated. The ability
to capture specific causes of death of interest using the verbal autopsy form will also be examined, with
observed strengths and weaknesses of the verbal autopsy form used in Zambia.
