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.
The University of Zambia, Department of Population Studies will in COP 14, continue to make concerted efforts to build capacity of government institutions and other partners to utilize their HIV/AIDS and other health data for program planning to contribute to the strengthening and harmonization of Zambia’s health information systems. The objectives of the project are to; expand the number of courses offered, develop staff at COE to be able to support the development of national level capacity building and analysis efforts, carry out monitoring and evaluation of the impact of the health sector, develop structures for the delivery of the courses , mainstream M&E training into existing programs and develop new M&E programs to fill existing gaps in training and expand the current training to unreached geographical areas in the country.
The project will be implemented at national level. The trainings that will be offered will target cadres working with health related information in government and other partner organizations. To become more cost efficient over time, the M&E short courses will be fee based. To ensure program sustainability and transition we will: integrate some of the courses into the mainstream Demography courses; continue to establish collaborative partnerships and linkages with training institutions and other agencies. The trained personnel will be available to offer training at both undergraduate and post graduate and in short courses that will be offered as they are part of the Department’s establishment.
For successful program implementation, UNZA has a clear M&E system to track resources, results and measure outcomes of the project. This will be achieved through the development of tools that enable regular reporting on planned activities.
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.
