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.
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 is related to National Association for State and Territorial Directors and SHARe, National
AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council (NAC), and Technical Assistance/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). The United States Government (USG) will build on the new formal partnership with the University of
Zambia's (UNZA) Department of Social Development FY 2006.
Expanded Activities: In addition to activities outlined below, additional funding is requested for UNZA to
provide enhanced support for scholarships, faculty and minor renovations for its monitoring and evaluation
(M&E) program. In addition, support for UNZA will be used by the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC)
to ensure that M&E capacity needs are met at provincial and district level, to assist with M&E trainings and
to assist with implementation of the data systems integration project.
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 USG 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 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 to
build their skills in critical areas specific to Zambia. The two short-courses ran again successfully during the
two University of Zambia's mid-semester breaks in December 2006 and May 2007. Additionally, NASTAD
provided technical assistance to UNZA in developing a business plan for 2007 - 2011.
USG Zambia staff will continue to assist in improving the curriculum and plan to provide selected 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 continue to be
mainstreamed into regular graduate and undergraduate programs. 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. In FY 2008,
UNZA also hopes to renovate their training rooms and offices to make them more attractive to the larger
and more diverse audience the program is attracting.
Financial assistance in FY 2008 will be allocated to support participants' tuition fees (on a competitive
basis), field project stipends, and acquisition of more teaching materials, including online data resources to
support 85 more students, and thereby support at least 50 different local programs and service outlets with
capacity building. In an effort to strengthen the use of spatial information in the analysis and presentation of
monitoring and evaluation information, UNZA M&E will, in 2008, provide financial support to the Zambia
Association for Geographic Information Systems (ZAGIS) for maintaining software and hardware in the
ZAGIS Service Center. This will also improve communication and efficiency among many partners creating
and using geographic information to monitor and respond to HIV/AIDS. The increase in the funding amount
is will also cover the hiring and/or assignment of full-time lecturers for the program who can meet the
increasing demands of the growing program. Funds will be allocated towards the refurbishment of current
training room and offices.
