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 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.
This program focuses on building public health human resource capacity of Nigeria at the leadership and implementation levels. The training model is experiential; producing Public health leaders in epidemiology and management in the same way the US CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program has produced public health leaders for the US public health system.
We seek to strengthen the ability of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to respond effectively to HIV/AIDS and other priority public health problems. The approach is by training in field epidemiology, both through the 2 year (long) course and a 6 months short course. The 2 year training program is a degree-awarding program, while the short course is a certificate awarding program. The former training produces epidemiologists that can effectively perform public health functions to avert the common public health problems. The latter training focuses on producing a cadre that can measure progress/impact of interventions, so as to inform any necessary further policy formulation and planning.
The main goal of the program is to strengthen the health system of Nigeria by providing a pool of public health professionals that can support the implementation of HIV and other priority diseases. The program will therefore contribute directly to the PEFAR goals of HSS through its pre-service training (HRH) and service delivery (program evaluations, surveys and surveillance).
Graduates of these training programs have remained in the country to serve at different levels - state, local government. Others have returned to support the training program, as the number of trainees has been greatly increased to fasten the pace at which we can strengthen Nigeria's disease surveillance and response system.
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.
