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
The UN in Vietnam plays a key role in providing high-level advocacy to strengthen the national HIV response. Its work, implemented primarily by UNAIDS and WHO, supports targeted prevention interventions for MARPs and treatment, care and support for PLHIV. In COP 12, the UN Resident Coordinator, which serves as the secretariat for all UN agencies in Vietnam, will continue to strengthen the coordination of donors and the government of Vietnam (GVN) across the HIV sector at all levels. UN activities also will provide key strategic information interventions to strengthen the evaluation capacity of GVN and increase the involvement of key populations to understand the epidemic. Geographic coverage will be at the national level. Hiring vehicles to support program implementation and monitoring is required from time to time. Vehicles for staff transportation will ensure timely, effective and quality delivery of project activities implemented in collaboration with government and other local partners.
In COP 12, a key focus of the UN will be to further facilitate capacity-building efforts for data analysis, and to promote evidence-informed resource allocation through provision of technical assistance (TA) at the national and regional level (through the Regional Institutes). Key COP 12 activities will include: -Support WHO in hiring a mid-level health information systems (HIS) technical advisor. The advisor will provide technical support in the application of qualitative and quantitative methods in the conduct of eHealth and HIS architecture, information and communications technology (ICT) project management, and analytic studies related to the use of health information for decision-making. The advisor will increase the health informatics capacity of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) in planning, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating eHealth and HIS solutions, management and sharing; integrating evidence into the management processes; and in promoting the application of appropriate health information technologies; -Support the finalization of the new National HIV Strategy 2011-2020, and support the VAAC and the National SI/M&E TWG in the implementation of the National M&E plan and its program of action under the new national strategy. -Continue work with the VAAC to develop a set of geographic prioritization criteria to classify different geographic areas according to the type or severity of the HIV epidemic, to prioritize provincial-level resource allocations. -Improve routine HIV surveillance by providing trainings and expert TA to develop a new sentinel surveillance protocol that relies on more rigorous methods and includes training materials. -Provide technical support to country efforts to improve the routine M&E system by addressing the link of HTC to case reporting and data collection systems unifying paper/pencil and digital reporting. UN will also support the field test and expand the PMTCT monitoring system that includes measures of impact, cross-cutting with the MTCT program by supporting better retention of exposed infants.
In COP 12, the UN Resident Coordinator will continue to leverage comparative advantages in policy advocacy and partnership building among government, civil society, international partners and other stakeholders. It will cement existing strong relationships and build new relationships with new leaders at central and provincial levels, focusing in particular on strengthening commitment and capacity for a sustainable HIV response (through the use of proven harm-reduction practices; the involvement of key affected populations; and mainstreaming HIV into socioeconomic development planning) and increased domestic resources for the response. Priorities include: 1) Ensure that new leaders at all levels have knowledge of HIV and the response in Vietnam; 2) Continue support to the National Committee on AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control to build its capacity to advocate for a sustainable response and national funding; and 3) Support targeted provinces to increase coordination and the sustainability of provincial responses, and provide best practice examples for other provinces. COP 12 OHSS activities also will strengthen the capacity within the Ministry of Health (MOH) to: 1) Provide technical support to facilitate the establishment of Health Partnership Group (HPG) TWGs in key areas of the sector (health information, HRH, health financing, environmental health management, etc.); 2) Promote high-level policy dialogue in health among all relevant stakeholders through quarterly HPG meetings, HPG core group activities and TWGs; 3) Facilitate the review of the implementation of aid-effectiveness principles in Vietnams health sector, including through the Statement of Intent, and ensuring the participation of provincial stakeholders, as well as disease programs; and 4) Promote the use of the Joint Annual Health Review (JAHR) as a basis for stronger and more effective policy dialogue among all stakeholders in health, including through a stronger linkage between JAHR and the planning process, as well as greater involvement of Ministry of Health (MOH) departments and disease programs in the process.
