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
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.
Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Ministries of Health in Africa to build strong, effective, sustainable programs. It is currently supporting 19 African member countries in field epidemiology training programs and field epidemiology/laboratory training programs which both build capacity and support the Ministries of Health. It also supports the public sector to build capacity to improve public health systems on the African continent. The AFENET CDC cooperative agreement is a mechanism through which applied field epidemiology capacity and public health management is expanded and strengthened in Africa to build an effective and responsive public health system.
Programming in Uganda with AFENET will focus on supporting the Ministry of Health and Makerere University School of Public Health to establish a post-MPH Fellowship initiative for embedding technical assistance positions and for the new MPH program in public health informatics. The focus of these fellowships could include, supporting operations research for an AIDS-Free Generation, establishing case-based surveillance for HIV at the district level, strengthening integrated disease surveillance and response to achieve International Health Regulations compliance, and priority initiatives of the MoH. These fellowships will allow for continued development of cross-cutting skill-sets in applied epidemiology, informatics, management, monitoring and evaluation, and laboratory systems, in a learning-through- service model. Due to its established rapport with the MoH and history of successful support for Government of Uganda imperatives, the AFENET CDC CoAg is an ideal mechanism for supporting this initiative.
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.
