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: 2013 2014 2015
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.
This mechanism is a CDC-Atlanta Epidemiology and Strategic Information Support (ESIS) task order that was awarded to Columbia University. It aims to determine the change in estimated HIV incidence in Sinazongwe District after rollout and scale-up integrated evidence-based HIV interventions (also known as “combination prevention”) in home and clinic settings. The evaluation includes household surveys to ascertain behavior and use of HIV prevention, care and treatment services at baseline and three years later. Additionally, district health clinic logs will be extracted retrospectively, at mid-line and after scale-up of interventions to document change in service utilization among residents. Clinical data will also be drawn from SmartCare electronic medical records where possible. During COP14/15 the contractor expects to conduct retrospective clinic record extraction and data analysis and dissemination of the first survey (including laboratory testing). The exposure being tested is scale up of combination prevention activities that will be conducted by Development Aid People to People (DAPP) and the Southern Provincial Health office and include home and clinic-based VCT, VMMC, PMTCT (particularly B+), treatment of the negative partner in discordant couples. Prevention scale-up is funded separately from this evaluation.
This mechanism was submitted in COP13, though the activity was included in DAPP’s narrative for COP11. It did not appear in COP12 because the funding allocated during the 2011 reprogramming was sufficient for the first 2 years. This project continues to wait for full ethical clearance with field activities at a minimal level until that time.
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.
