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: 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 responsible 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 prevention, care and treatment programs, strengthen organizational capacity to support the delivery of HIV programs, and create sustainability for effective programs.
The NASTAD GP builds the human resource capacity of national, regional, and local health departments through transfer of existing experience and skills. The GP works with local field offices for the provision of peer-to-peer exchanges of AIDS program management skills, experiences and information. This is a unique approach, instead of providing direct HIV services, the GP supports local governments in developing their own infrastructure and systems for the delivery of those same services.
Since 2011, NASTAD has been providing technical assistance and capacity building for work with Key Populations, which are defined as people living with HIV, MSM, transgender people, IDU, CSW and their clients, and prisoners. NASTAD facilitated the approval in June of 2013 of the protocol to conduct a Formative Assessment of HIV Risk and Size Estimation and an integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance among Key populations in Zambia. In this five year cooperative agreement, NASTAD will specifically, assess the barriers to health care access for Key populations in Zambia; understand the social and regulatory issues that create access barriers for these key populations to ensure some success in the fight against HIV in Zambia.
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.
