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
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 Ghana Health Service (GHS), is responsible for hospital laboratories in ten regional and 170 district hospitals as well as the public health laboratory system, comprised of one National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL) and three zonal public health laboratories. The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has made it mandatory for laboratories to obtain accreditation/certification or risk losing the privileges provided by NHIS. Though these services exist, provision of quality laboratory services and conduct of reliable diagnostic testing are still challenges in Ghana. Quality management systems (QMS) in pre-analytical, analytical and post analytical process for laboratories have not been addressed as a whole. In order to leverage and coordinate donor laboratory efforts, USG support was targeted to reinforce the basic scale-up assistance coming from the Global Fund and from PMI. USG support will build national capacity for QMS, trainings and the monitoring of laboratory quality using the tools of external quality assessment (EQA), including Proficiency Testing (PT) programs. CDC Ghana through its implementing partners supports cost-effective, quality laboratory practices to promote reliable and accurate results, thus contributing to effective patient care. This in turn builds a positive attitude by patients towards testing. CDC worked closely with the GOG to support zonal and regional laboratories identified by GHS in preparation for the accreditation process. This included evaluating, developing, improving, and maintaining the laboratories QMS in compliance with WHO requirements for accreditation. This has been a four year process and support for laboratory accreditation is ending 30 March 2015.
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.
