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: 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
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.
Mawa (ZERS) is a five-year USAID poverty reduction initiative under the Zambia Country Development Cooperation Development Objective 2 (Reducing rural poverty in targeted areas). The goal of the program is to sustainably improve the food and economic security of 21,500 smallholder households in Chipata and Lundazi districts of Eastern Province through increased and diversified agricultural production for nutrition and markets; improved health and nutritional status and increased income and productive assets. The project addresses gender inequities within households and communities and increase women’s access to, and control over, limited resources. ZERS facilitates household and community gender dialogues to promote shared decision-making and responsibility in farm production, nutrition and health practices and financial management. ZERS will expand to at least one additional district using the increased funding levels under COP14. Expansion of ZERS to additional districts in the Feed the Future zone of influence will increase the population to be reached with agriculture/nutrition activities in Eastern Province. Mawa will continue to seek collaboration with private and public stakeholders in Eastern Province to facilitate sustainability of project interventions. HIV and AIDS is an impediment to reducing poverty and food insecurity in rural Zambia. ZERS recognizes HIV and AIDS as a source of vulnerability and poverty and will track provision of services to people living with HIV and AIDS. Curricula in health, nutrition and gender, in particular, includes messages focused on HIV and AIDS. ZERS looks for synergies across these service areas to strengthen household resilience.
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.
