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
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.
In order to address the shortage of critical health workers in the republic of Uganda the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) received a 5-year grant (2011/12-2015/16) from CDC/PEPFAR; now in its fourth year of implementation. Baylor SAINTS worked closely with the MoH, Supported And Improved National Training Systems (SAINTS) for health workers in Uganda. Under this partnership the mechanism would address the following HRH challenges highlightedby the SAINTS below: 1) Improve the Uganda’s health care system that was lacking in many ways including efficiency and sub-optimally utilized health services. 2) The filled positions in the health sector structure is as low as 58%. 3) Train key staff to meet the critical shortages among the laboratory staff, midwives and nurses. 4) Support the weak National and Institutional arrangements for coordination of all stakeholders. The SAINTS project goal was to increase on the availability and lead to equitable distribution of well-trained health care workers in Uganda and strategically to: a) Support the existing pre-service training institutions to increase on the production of new health workers; b) Strengthen national systems for planning, coordination, standardization, certification, accreditation and supervision of both pre- and in-service training of Health Care workers and regularly consulting other partners engaged in capacity building like the Uganda capacity Project (USAID funded) and c) Improve the capacity of in-service training institutions.
Successful implementation of this program would improve HIV programming and provide a spillover effect to the national health care system and a long-term benefit to the entire Health sector and more so the PHC 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.
