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: 2011 2012 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.
The Community Compact project is an attempt to address gaps in current HIV prevention activities. Its aim is to increase the number of individuals and couples who know their status and who receive information and services that will help avert new infections in Kanyama township in Lusaka and Kalabo district in Western Province. The Community Compact is a community sensitization and mobilization project that develops and supports community-led HIV prevention strategic plans. Prevention program activities are developed in collaboration with community teams in Kanyama and Kalabo.
These teams have been trained in HIV/AIDS basics and prevention with positives core messaging. Teams have also been trained in key messaging on male circumcision, treatment and adherence, pediatric care, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission, voluntary counseling and testing (CT) and TB.
CT is provided by trained lay counselors. As an integral part of the project, the community teams work with staff at health centers to improve referral to HIV treatment and care for those who test positive. Improvements have been identified to reduce clinic-based barriers that prevent those that test positive from accessing treatment.
The project provides CT for couples in the community and provides support for discordant couples. Therefore, it is crucial to promote CT integration with other care and prevention services and provide condoms and safer sex messages to discordant couples.
The Community Compact will also include aspects of health systems strengthening. The project will try to improve coordination between community teams and the staff at the health centers and between the various departments in the health centre itself, e.g., PMTCT and antiretroviral therapy clinics.
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.
