Joint Initiative to Mitigate HIV/AIDS in Infrastructure Sectors: Update from World Bank Transport sector

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Joint Initiative to Mitigate HIV/AIDS in
Infrastructure SectorsUpdate from World Bank
Transport sector

• Julie Babinard
• Transport for Social Responsibility Thematic
  Group Leader
• Videoconference Dialogue Friday March 14, 08
• World Bank, Washington DC
• 800-1030AM ET

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The transport sector experiencein mainstreaming
HIV/AIDS

• HIV/AIDS Prevention/ awareness campaigns
• Retrofitting AFR (25 projects) SA (1
  potential) LAC (1 planned)
• Construction AFR (8 planned) SA (4SPN,5LEN)
  EAP (6 projects, 5 planned)
• Corridor/ mobile populations AFR (Lagos-Abidjan
  Mali-Ghana) MENA (Djibouti) SA (National Trade
  Corridor)
• Border crossing AFR (Lagos-Abidjan) ECA (Safe
  border project) MENA (Djibouti) LAC (1
  planned)
• Treatment care AFR SA
• Strategy for HIV/AIDS mitigation SA (Regional)
  MENA (regional) LAC (Transport)
• Capacity building Training AFR EAP (Workshop
  IEC materials planned) SA (Training of NGOs in
  India)
• Research ME SA (ME tools planned) ECA
  (Balkan truckers study another planned)

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Working with internationaland national partners

• UNAIDS consortium and bilateral organizations
• International Labor Organization (ILO) Code of
  Practice on HIV/AIDS
• International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)
• Seafarers Health Information Programme (SHIP)
• International Road Union (IRU) and other employer
  organizations
• Ministries of Transport and Public Works, Road
  authorities
• Ministries of Health and National AIDS Committees

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WB achievements in transport sector

• Contract clauses have been modified to cover
  general worker safety as well as HIV-AIDS
  awareness
• Clients have sustained programs and initiatives
  (Abidjan-Lagos Shiman Highway project, HIV/AIDS
  unit in National Highway Authority of India)
• Recognition from the WB Global AIDS program on
  sectors role in tackling the epidemic
• World AIDS Day participation (FY05-present)
• Transport Incentive Trust Fund (FY08)
• Full time staff in Africa and six-month
  consultant in India on HIV/AIDS and transport

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Challenges and constraints for scaling up

• Sector-wide mainstreaming remains a challenge
• HIV/AIDS prevention receives low priority in
  sector strategies and interventions
• Mandatory contract clauses in standard bidding
  documents are not always enforced
• Lack of ME mechanisms and difficulty in
  assessing impact of interventions
• Bank financing is critical to mainstreaming
• Lack of systematic data linking transport with
  HIV/AIDS transmission hinders action and
  commitment

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For more information

• World Bank web page www.worldbank.org/responsi
  bletransport
• gtMitigating the Spread of HIV/AIDS
• Resources on
• sector vulnerability and risk
• Interventions and stakeholders
• surveillance and impact
• sector contributions to World AIDS Day 05,06,07
• Links to the
• following websites
• Africa Transport and HIV
• East Asia and Pacific HIV/AIDS
• South Asia Transport and HIV/AIDS
• ACTAfrica
• World Bank Global AIDS Program

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Follow-up to Joint InitiativeWB questions to JI
partners

• What is your institutions typical mainstreaming
  response in the transport sector?
• How do your activities fit within national
  strategies and does your institution cooperate
  with local stakeholders?
• How are projects selected for mainstreaming?
• How do you establish and monitor effectiveness of
  interventions?
• How has your institution incorporated good
  practices in its business strategy?