USAID AFRICA BUREAU Environment and Natural Resource Management Team

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USAID AFRICA BUREAUEnvironment and Natural
Resource Management Team

• HIV/AIDS and Environment/Conservation Sector
  Activities

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Multi-Sectoral HIV/AIDS and development meeting

• Does NRM and conservation community have a
  comparative advantage in dealing with HIV/AIDS
  epidemic?

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NRM sector advantages

• CBNRM efforts strengthen communities
• NR as source of food and medicine
• NRM long time interest in land tenure
• CBNRM activities serve hard-to-reach populations

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HIV/AIDS Brief and Toolkit

• Toolkits for Ministries
• Provide a methodology for understanding impact of
  HIV/AIDS on sectors associated with the ministry
• Identify opportunities for ministries to
  integrate prevention and mitigation into policies
  and programs 
• Briefs for Sectoral Planners and Managers
• Describe impact of HIV/AIDS on sector
• Suggest responses

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CBNRM Toolkit

• 4-step process to understand the impact of
  HIV/AIDS on the ministry, and identify
  opportunities for action.
• Impact of HIV/AIDS on society and environment
• Internal impact of HIV/AIDS on the ministry
• External impact of HIV/AIDS on the ministry
• Options for identifying a response 

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CBNRM Brief

• Helps CBNRM professionals assess the impact of
  HIV/AIDS on their project area
• Provides an action checklist
• Documenting the impact of HIV/AIDS
• Attending workshops on HIV/AIDS
• Sharing information with communities
• Incorporating mitigation strategies into
  programs
• Incorporating HIV/AIDS assessment into ER
  process

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CBNRM Brief and Toolkit

http//www.frameweb.org/TechnicalInformation/ topi
csectorA.htmlaids
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Environmental Review Brief and Toolkit

• Recognizing that HIV/AIDS not only has a negative
  impact on development,
• but
• development activities also have the potential to
  negatively impact the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Environmental Review Brief

• Propose incorporating HIV/AIDS concerns into the
  ER process.
• Provide a process for assessing if a project has
  the potential to negatively impact the HIV/AIDS
  epidemic, and incorporate those steps directly
  into the ER process
• If the process discovers that a project has the
  potential to exacerbate the HIV/AIDS crisis,
  Brief will propose mitigation options.

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Consider the NRM and conservation communitys
comparative advantage in dealing with HIV/AIDS
epidemic.
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THANKS

• Denise Mortimer
• USAID Africa Bureau
• 1325 G St. NW Wash DC
• 202-219-0250
• Dmortimer_at_afr-sd.org