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 2012 2013 2014
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.
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) represents the United States’ (U.S.) chief state health agency staff who have programmatic responsibility for administering HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention, education, and supportive service programs. The NASTAD Global Program (GP) works internationally to enhance indigenous leadership to plan, manage and evaluate evidence-based HIV programs, strengthen organizational capacity to support the delivery of HIV programs and create sustainability for effective programs.
Since 2005, NASTAD has worked in partnership with the Zambia’s National AIDS Council (NAC) at the national level to build capacity for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and decentralized community planning among subnational structures at provincial, district and community level. In 2007, NASTAD broadened the scope of its work by partnering with The University of Zambia (UNZA)’s M&E Centre of Excellence (COE) to, scale up the provision of the three weeks Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) training, and partnerships with international Universities.
In the last three years, NASTAD assisted NAC with the development and implementation of National AIDs Report Forms (NARF), online reporting and the NASF 2011-2015 and has continued to support the development UNZA M&E Short course curriculum. NASTAD also contributed significantly to the development and delivery of the Epidemiology for Data Users (EDU) and Quality Improvement through Data Use curricula for MoH and NAC staff.
NASTAD’s model of TA provides transition capacity to its partners through assistance to developing their infrastructure and systems for the delivery. To do this, our TA efforts are participatory in order to build capacity, easier transition, and ownership.
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.
This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.
