Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Details for Mechanism ID: 16770
Country/Region: Burundi
Year: 2014
Main Partner: University Research Corporation, LLC
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Private Contractor
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0 Additional Pipeline Funding: $2,103,417

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 USAID ASSIST Project will ensure that PMTCT, ART, and OVC services offered respond to quality requirements. ASSIST project will provide technical leadership and country assistance for the application of modern quality improvement (QI) methods. The goal is to make measurable gains in the quality of health care as well as improve health workforce management. This activity will contribute the implementation of the GHI Country Strategy particularly its cross-cutting area related to the quality of health services.

The geographic coverage for this activity is eight provinces already supported by PEPFAR. The target populations of the QI intervention are service providers and recipients in the selected provinces.

Over the course of interventions, the capability of the local advisors and their Ministry counterparts are built so that they may lead QI efforts themselves. The core processes of QI are simultaneously built into the Ministry system to ensure continued QI programs without external financial support.

In addition to the described country technical assistance, ASSIST project will propose a program of research and evaluation related to spread and institutionalization of best practices and improvement methods, accelerating learning and results, improving the efficiency of QI interventions, adapting QI methods to community-level services, enhancing QI team performance, and documenting the cost-effectiveness and cost implications of QI interventions.

Mechanism Allocation by Budget Code for Selected Year
Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS) $0
Mechanism Target Information

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.

MER Indicator MER description Target Fiscal Year Target
QI_SITE By site support type: Direct Service Delivery (DSD): Number of PEPFAR-supported clinical service sites with a quality improvement activity completed that addresses clinical HIV programs and has documented results in the last 6 months 2015 163
QI_SITE By site support type: Direct Service Delivery (DSD): Total number of PEPFAR-supported sites for any HIV clinical service including HIV Care, HIV Treatment, TB care, PMTCT, VMMC, HTC 2015 410
QI_SITE Number of PEPFAR-supported clinical service sites with a quality improvement activity completed that addresses clinical HIV programs and has documented process results in the last 6 months 2015 163
QI_SITE Sum of Numerator Site Support Type disaggregates 2015 163
QI_SITE Total number of PEPFAR-supported sites for any HIV clinical service including HIV Care, HIV Treatment, TB care, PMTCT, VMMC, and HTC 2015 410
QI_SITE_den Sum of Denominator Site Support Type disaggregates 2015 410
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Child Survival Activities
Safe Motherhood
Tuberculosis