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 Government of Lesotho procures ARVs and other ART-related commodities with partial support from the GFATM. The National Drug Service Organization (NDSO) - is mandated to procure and distribute all medication for use at all levels of the health system and this needs strengthening. The overall weakness of the national Supply Chain Management (SCM) capacity, that is, from the MoH, DHMTs and to health facilities has subsequently resulted in poor commodity security and rampant RTK stock-outs in the public health sector, hence impacting negatively HTC, PMTCT, HIV care and treatment programs in the country. SIAPS will therefore work with the MoH and NDSO to strengthen the, quantification, forecasting, procurement and supply planning of these commodities. SIAPS will also work to address the weaknesses in the overall capacity, lack of quality assurance, weak SCM-TWG and the non-existence of SCM Unit at the MoH as were identified in the 2013 rapid National Supply Chain Management Assessment.
SIAPS will;
• Provide support to improve the human capacity by increasing the number of pre-service and in-service staff trained using a SCM competency based approach
• Support MOH to strengthen information for SCM strategic decision-making to implement a functional and robust logistics management information system (LMIS) for ART (RxSolution), laboratory and nutrition
• Support the strengthening of the SCM organizational design and improve the performance across all levels in Lesotho. That is, at central level MOH and NDSO, in order to improve quantification, forecasting, procurement, demand and supply
• Support the district and health facility levels through the Supportive Supervision and Mentorship program (SSM) in order to ensure uninterrupted availability of health commodities
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.
