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: 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 goal of PEPFAR Cameroon support for this central mechanism, expected to be awarded by April 2015, is to improve integrated PMTCT / mother and neonatal health care (MNCH) with linked HIV/AIDS care and treatment through organization of a national conference allowing stakeholders to share and document experiences and good practices.
UNICEF, which has used previous PEPFAR funding under an existing award to support training and development of tools and standards, will continue its leadership role in PMTCT/MNCH by advocating with and supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) / National AIDS Control Committee (NACC) to lead the organization of this national conference and advocating with stakeholders to support it.
Such a conference, expected to become a yearly activity, will improve PMTCT/MNCH and other HIV/AIDS services by enabling partners to discuss their approaches to care and ART initiation and retention for eligible HIV-positive pregnant women and infants. Partners will be able to learn from one another and identify good practices for quality improvement, e.g. in HIV testing and counseling, use of more effective ARV regimens, access to CD4 testing, and evidence-based interventions to reduce incident HIV infections during pregnancy.
Sustainability will be promoted through involvement of the MoH, civil society, and the private sector in conference organization; through the documentation of conference results, and through its contribution to building a culture of documenting and sharing health care practices and experiences as a way to promote continuous quality improvement in health programs.
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.
