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.
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In FY12, NAC will further develop, fully operationalize, and manage the national HIV and AIDS M&E system. Activities will focus on strategic information and systems strengthening in an effort to develop a sustainable and fully functional national HIV and AIDS M&E system which will enable NAC to meet its M&E mandate by providing information for evidence-based decision making.
NAC will continue to coordinate all national M&E activities for HIV and AIDS interventions targeted at the general public for the entire country using national coordination structures of Provincial AIDS Task Force (PATF) and DATF in all the nine provinces and 74 districts. NAC will contribute to systems strengthening by enhancing monitoring capacity among all key stakeholders that provide information to the national HIV and AIDS M&E system, HMIS, and PEPFAR partner reporting systems.
In addressing gender-related issues, the national HIV and AIDS M&E system will monitor access to HIV and AIDS prevention, care, and support services by both genders. NAC will work within existing government structures and decentralize activities to sub-national levels, with greater focus on district and community levels, in order to promote cost efficiency. Findings from the M&E assessment and mid-term review will guide NAC in prioritizing activities.
The national HIV and AIDS M&E plan will guide monitoring of the national response and the implementation of these activities. NAC will facilitate development of annual multi-sectoral work plans to guide implementation of all HIV and AIDS activities, including national M&E activities this fiscal year, monitor implementation of activities on a quarterly and annual basis during joint annual program reviews (JAPR), and hold quarterly coordination meetings with all PACAs.
NAC will monitor the national HIV and AIDS response from provincial, district and community levels using the NAC activity reporting forms (NARF) as a routine program level data collection tool. For all the districts where NAC will implement the NACMIS, the officers will be accessing the system via a web based platform. NAC will print and distribute NARFs on a quarterly basis and follow-up on submission of data. NAC will also conduct quarterly supervisory and technical assistance (TA) visits to all nine provincial centers and approximately 30 percent of districts to carry out data audits, verification, and validation process to facilitate coordination, alignment, and harmonization of data system at all levels.
NAC will also continue with the process of interfacing the NACMIS with key information systems and databases specifically SmartCare, health management information system (HMIS), education management information system (EMIS) Another critical activity meant to strengthen MIS will be the routine maintenance of ICT equipment. NAC will also conduct a feasibility study to assess the most cost effective way of establishing sustainable internet connectivity to provincial and district levels. A virtual private network (VPN) will be set up.
NAC will work to improve user access to HIV and AIDS information resources. Through the resource center (RC) unit NAC will provide HIV and AIDS IEC materials to nine provincial resource centers being managed in partnership with Zambia Library Services. NAC will train provincial and district trainers of trainers in data use for decision making and on the use of various HIV and AIDS information resources from the NAC website and RC.
Activities for NAC will greatly contribute to systems strengthening as they are meant to build capacity to strengthen monitoring of the response among all key stakeholders that feed into the national HIV and AIDS M&E system, HMIS, and PEPFAR partner reporting system. The key partners will benefit from these activities by virtue of being key PATF and DATF members. NAC harmonization and alignment efforts for M&E systems will facilitate strengthening of national systems for reporting and monitoring of the HIV and AIDS response.
NAC will support professional level training in M&E and MIS for six staff in the M&E Directorate. During FY 2012, NAC will conduct EDU training for nine Provincial AIDS Coordinating Advisors (PACA), nine IT/M&E Assistants and 72 District AIDS Coordinating Advisors in. To facilitate rollout of NACMIS, NAC will train nine Provincial AIDS Coordinating Advisors (PACA), nine IT/M&E Assistants and 72 District AIDS Coordinating Advisors (DACA) in NACMIS applications and electronic data management. NAC will also review and update the M&E training curriculum in line with new and emerging issues in HIVand AIDS; NAC will also support operationalisation of the National HIV and AIDS Research Framework, provide technical and material support to reasearch activities at national, provincial and district levels through research institutions and other appropriate channels.
