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: 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.
In FY 14 ASSIST will work with FANTA and LIFT II to strengthen the capacity of the District Community Medical Offices (DCMOs) in Kitwe District (Ndola Province) and Mansa District (Luapula Province) as well as health care workers to apply quality improvement principles to integrate NACS into health services for pediatric ART and TB clients. ASSIST will continue to work in Kitwe District providing QI technical assistance to original 8 learning sites as well as new sites in Kitwe and expand to Mansa District. ASSIST will improve management and nutritional status of malnourished HIV clients by applying improvement principles to integrate NACS into facility-based ARTand TB services and strengthen the capacities of district and provincial managers and care providers to apply improvement skills. The starting point for the QI model is for the teams to define the problems in their work and brainstorm solutions which would improve services to patients. This model by design strengthens staff capabilities and system capacity to continuously improve thereby increasing sustainability of the QI model. The role of the MOH national and district coaches will be to continuously provide support to facility teams. ASSIST will strengthen the capacity of these coaches to be able to plan and conduct visits to support the teams using the available government resources. ASSIST will support the MOH and MCDMCH to organize stakeholder meetings which shall provide a forum for discussing existing gaps and how to address the gaps.
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.
