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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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 the program is to foster improvements in health care processes through the application of modern quality improvement (QI) methods, USAID-ASSIST ‘s mandate is aligned with the health systems strengthening agenda of the Kenyan Global Health Initiative strategy and the PEPFAR Blue Print’s road maps for saving lives and driving results with science. The key focus is establishing country ownership and institutionalization of QI at the national level, providing QI technical assistance to county governments and other USG implementing partners to strengthen the HIV chronic care model and strengthening systems to support the institutionalization of QI in child protection and OVC programs to improve their welfare. ASSIST has national- and county-level coverage.
ASSIST’s strategy for becoming more cost effective over time entails systems approach to QI, focusing on a sample of sub-counties with a spectrum of facilities selected and developed as Centers of Excellence (COE) through which the QI model is applied to generate change ideas that can be scaled up across the system, with 7 sub-counties chosen to develop these QI COEs. In FY 2014-15, ASSIST will support the scale-up the QI model and the COEs’ change ideas to new high volume sites strengthen enrollment and retention of children and adults into HIV care and treatment and strengthen OVC services. ASSIST’s strategy to transition to MOH and county governments entails working with national ministries, and supporting capacity development in 47 counties to establish a standards and quality department that will advance its work beyond the project.
Monitoring and evaluation: ASSIST monitoring and evaluation is linked to the PEPFAR indicators. Data is collated on a monthly basis from the implementing partners.
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.
