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 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.
Since 2010, ICAP has been implementing the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) program in Zambia which aims to strengthen nursing and midwifery education to increase quality, quantity, and relevance of graduates. ICAP seeks bilateral funding to replicate the 3.5 year combined nursing and midwifery training program in 3 additional nursing schools in Zambia to increase the production of comprehensively trained nurse midwives who will competently manage maternal and child health needs. This training program produces dually trained nurse midwives in less time than the typical program, which requires 6 years of study/service before receiving midwifery skills and status. The program allows schools to rapidly increase graduates and add to the midwifery workforce at all levels of care. This objective is in response to PEPFAR's goal to train 140,000 new health care professionals. ICAP has targeted 2 nursing schools in the Copperbelt and 1 in the Eastern provinces; namely Nchanga, Roan and Chipata Schools of nursing and midwifery respectively. This expansion will enable over 400 students to acquire nurse midwives skills at the end of each training period of 3½ years. The mechanism strategy will include: procurement of skills lab equipment to promote a close to real learning environment, classroom and IT supplies to enable learning, ongoing technical and program planning assistance for schools and faculty implementing the training, as well as organizational capacity building. The M&E of the proposed activity in this mechanism will build on NEPI experience using adapted data collection tools and analysis. Once implemented and capacity built in the nursing institutions, the training program will continue past the funding period and produce midwives more rapidly.
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.
