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: 2011 2012 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.
The overall goal of the Masters of Public Health (MPH) program is to assist the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW) to create a permanent capacity to recruit, train, and employ public health practitioners to sustain the public health infrastructure. The program activities assist to increase the capacity and skill set of public health practitioners in Public Health Leadership, Policy development and Response to Public Health events.
The coverage of this project is national. MPH students are recruited nationally, and for the fieldwork portion of the degree program they are deployed to all provinces where they engage in planning, implementation and evaluation of public health interventions.
Cost-efficiency strategies include bulk production of training materials for the program. Resources that are already in place are utilized as much as possible and maintained as needed throughout their life span. Technical assistance from other partners is utilized at no extra cost.
The Zimbabwe 2 year MPH program has enjoyed a unique close collaboration and support from the MOHCW from inception. This support comes in form of office space, stationery, transport and other logistics. Most of the site supervisors are graduates of the program and understand the program structure, field expectations and needs.
Monitoring and evaluation of program activities will be accomplished through field supervision visits, monthly meeting feedback from the trainees, and documentation of student progress. This information will be presented in quarterly reports. Regular site visits and data quality assessments will be carried out by the funding partner.
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.
