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.
Health Research, Inc/New York AIDS Institute (HEALTHQUAL) provides technical assistance (TA) and coaching and mentoring (C/M) directly to the Ministry of Health (MOH) with the goal of building capacity for the development, implementation, management, and expansion of a country-owned national quality management program (NQMP) for HIV care and treatment. HEALTHQUAL will assist and support MOH in the following objectives:
-regular clinic-level performance measurement (PM) of quality indicators based on national standards of care;
-immediate use of PM data by clinics to conduct quality improvement (QI) interventions aimed at improving care and patient outcomes, with a coaching structure in place to support clinics in the same; and
-central-level management of the program with clearly defined timeline of activities, methods of follow-up, and monitoring and evaluation of progress.
TA and C/M to targeted MOH staff and leadership are conducted in-person by HEALTHQUAL staff through TDYs, or virtually via email/phone. M&E is conducted through an annual national organizational assessment of the NQMP. Opportunities for MOH peer exchange/learning with other HEALTHQUAL countries are facilitated virtually and in-person as a means of accelerating uptake of successful strategies for implementation and management. Knowledge management activities conducted by the HEALTHQUAL New York City office keep MOH staff abreast of innovation within the larger improvement science field, with little or no cost incurred against the COP allocation. TA is provided to integrate such knowledge contextually into the NQMP. With no sustained in-country presence, HEALTHQUAL provides a lean, cost effective method to strengthen health systems and build national capacity for quality to improve patient outcomes.
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.
