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 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
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.
These activities facilitate implementation of the national nutrition and child protection strategies at national, regional and district levels. The objectives of this mechanism are aligned with the PEPFAR Blueprint to achieving an AIDS-free Generation, and also contribute to national health goals to achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce maternal and child deaths. At the national level, UNICEF advocates for improved planning and budgeting for child protection and nutrition activities within district council’s budgets and provides technical assistance to policy makers to improve nutrition policy, particularly to promote policies that target HIV-affected and other vulnerable persons. Additionally, UNICEF planning to work with Ministry of Health, Reproductive and Child Health Services to establish a platform for Early Infant Male Circumcision services. The target is to reach 18 UNICEF’s model hospitals in Tanzania, pairing these hospitals with PEPFAR supported community nutrition services to complete the nutrition continuum of care and develop national operational plan and strategies for EIMC. Child Protection services will cover six districts with this support: Mbeya, Mbarali, Makete, Njombe, Iringa and Mufindi.Guided by the recently passed Law of the Child Act (2009) and findings from a national study on violence against children, UNICEF facilitates national coordination and management of the national three-year strategy to respond to violence against children at multiple levels. UNICEF also provides technical assistance to other USAID-funded programs to implement national guidelines and approaches to improve child protection. In particular, UNICEF will support the Department of Social Welfare to develop child protection teams in every district by 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.
