UNDPs HIV and AIDS Programme in SubSaharan Africa, 200611

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UNDPs HIV and AIDS Programme in Sub-Saharan
Africa, 2006-11

• Inter-Agency Meeting on Coordination
  Harmonization of HIV AIDS, TB, and Malaria
  Strategies, November 6-8, 2006, Addis Ababa,
  Ethiopia

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Outline

• Process of development of the program
• Goal of the program
• The focus of the program
• Target Groups
• Strategies for Achieving the Goal
• Strategic Partnership
• Management Arrangements and Summary budget.

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Process of Development of the Regional Program

• Facilitated by external consultants
• Reviewed UN and UNDP documents including
  evaluations
• Aligned to with Corporate Strategy
• Held key informant interviews with internal
  external partners, including UNAIDS RST
• Held consultation forum that brought together
  partners from many RECs, UNDP COs HQ
• Consultants presented initial draft
• UNDP RSC HQ refined the draft Regional Program
  document

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Goal of the Regional HIV and AIDS Programme
2006-2008

• The goal of the Programme is to contribute to the
  attainment of the
• MDGs by-
• Reducing the spread of HIV
• Reducing the impact of AIDS-related illnesses
  and deaths on the SSAs development efforts.
• The Programme aims to support and strengthen the
  HIV/AIDS
• response efforts of regional economic and
  political bodies, and
• national partners through 49 UNDP Country
  Offices.

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The focus of the Programme

• The Programme is aligned with the GTT
  recommendations on alignment harmonization
• UNDP has been designated as the lead organization
  in the area of HIV/AIDS, development, governance,
  mainstreaming, human rights and gender
• Programme refocuses UNDPs efforts to deliver on
  this mandate through three service lines and one
  special area
• i. HIV/AIDS and human development,
• ii. Governance of the HIV/AIDS response, and
• iii. Human rights, gender and HIV/AIDS and
• Special area - making the money work

Main Intervention
Enabling Interventions
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HIV AIDS and Human Development

• Gender, HIV AIDS mainstreamed into the core
  mandate of 7 Regional bodies
• Consolidate, strengthen mainstreaming capacity in
  universities and management institutes
• Build a pool of technical assistance in gender
  HIV AIDS mainstreaming
• Gender, and HIV AIDS mainstreamed into sectors
  programs

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Service Line aligned To Regional Focus

• Island countriesLow HIV prevalence, High stigma
  and Discrimination
• French speaking west Africa, low to medium HIV
  prevalence
• English speaking west Africa medium HIV prevalence

• Human rights, gender and HIV
• Human rights, gender and HIV, Governance of HIV
  response
• Governance of HIV response, Human rights, gender
  and HIV, HIV and Human Development

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Service Line Aligned Regional HIV AIDS Status

• Central Africa, medium to High HIV prevalence
• East and Horn of Africa Medium to High HIV
  prevalence
• SADC IHigh HIV prevalence.
• SADC II--- High HIV prevalence

• Human rights, gender and HIV,Governance of HIV
  response, HIV and Human Development
• Human rights, gender and HIV,Governance of HIV
  response, HIV and Human Development
• Human rights, gender and HIV,Governance of HIV
  response, HIV and Human Development

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Target Groups

• The Programme aims to support and strengthen the
  HIV/AIDS response efforts of regional economic
  and political bodies, such as SADC, ECOWAS, IGAD,
  and AU. In addition, through UNDP Country Offices
  in 49 countries, the Programme will provide
  support to national partners and stakeholders.

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Strategies for achieving the goal of the
Programme

• The development, adaptation and transfer of
  concepts, methods and tools to targeted regional
  and national bodies to facilitate capacity
  strengthening for implementation of regional and
  national responses to HIV from a developmental
  perspective.
• Training of trainers at regional level for
  scaling up of each of the service lines as
  contextualized in the regions.
• Direct technical support relating to governance
  of the HIV/AIDS response, new aid modalities and
  their impacts on HIV/AIDS programming at country
  level.

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Continued Strategies for achieving the goal of
the Programme

• Generating and disseminating knowledge from
  lessons learnt and research for scaling up
  initiatives.
• Aligning UNDP global, regional and country
  resources to respond to HIV and AIDS.
• Creating a strategic platform for dialogue around
  emerging issues relating to HIV and development
  such as trade TRIPs, macroeconomic policies,
  PRSPs, as well as governance, gender and human
  rights,

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Strategic Partnerships

• UNDP will focus on building strategic
  partnerships in the region and developing
  regional and national implementation capacities
  to enable rapid scale-up of effective responses.
• In addition to the UN family, it is forming
  partnerships with bi-laterals, NGOs, institutions
  of higher learning research, regional
  organisations, and the private sector.
• In an effort to increase harmonisation, and
  fortify the agreed division of labour, special
  attention is being given to building stronger
  relationship with the World Bank and UNAIDS
  Secretariat.

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Management arrangements, budget and timeframe

• The Regional HIV and Development Programme will
  be managed from UNDPs Regional Service Centre
  (RSC), in Johannesburg a similar outfit is under
  consideration for western central Africa
  (Dakar)
• The programme has a budget of about US12.3
  million for the first two years beginning in
  January 2006. It is expected that the programme
  will be extended until 2011 after the first two
  years, following a mid-term evaluation in 2007
• A Joint Financial Arrangement (JFA) has been
  developed SIDA is key partner so far several
  others have indicated interest

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The Way Forward

• Review and/or up-date policies strategic
  frameworks of/by RECs
• Assess capacity building needs in areas of UNDPs
  comparative advantage GTT recommendations
• Reaching agreement with RECs sign or up-date
  existing MOU, taking into account the outcomes of
  the current meeting
• Agree on modalities of implementation

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Immediate Actions

• Short meeting on Wednesday afternoon to chart
  areas of immediate actions
• Invitation to IGAD, COMESA, SADC GLEA to EACs
  Stakeholders meeting to discuss a draft strategic
  framework, December 4-5, 2006 in Arusha

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Contacts

• lemma.merid_at_undp.org
• vivian.khanye_at_undp.org
• French
• jean.gatali_at_undp.org