Recap – Day 2

Strategic Planning

Stigma, Thematic areas and multisectoral response

AIDS Strategy and Action Planning (ASAP)

• It is an UNAIDS demand driven partnership program• National strategies need to be prioritized, align external

support, coordinated under Three Ones, clarifying role of civil society and multisectoral partners

• Mechanisms for support include: confidential peer review; technical and financial support for strategy development

• UNAIDS/World Bank financed service• Participants’ concerns: UNAIDS and other partners

need to play an active role in multisectorality; Clarify channels of communication for ASAP

• Website: www.worldbank.org/asap

Group work feedback – ASAP• Build capacity of implementing partners• Procedures need to be streamlined • Key challenge is availability of data for strategic

planning, accuracy and regularity of data reporting• Financing problems for M&E with large countries• Include the M&E system in NSP, especially budget for

implementation• Reinforcement of system for collecting data and

providing resources esp. Human• Interpretation of data for evaluating the needs and

priorities of vulnerable groups, with the vulnerable groups

• Reinforcement of capacity in planning, training, leadership and verification of data

Criteria for choosing priority sectors:

• Identify the vulnerable population within the sector

• Ministries & organs have highest value added in reducing transmission

• Level of coverage by sector

• Leadership of sector in HIV fight

Session II: Thematic Areas and Coordination Challenges

• Where do we start with m-s approach? Do we start with partners and donors and what they want or do we start with the results we want to achieve and then identify who the partners/donors/collaborators will be to achieve those results.

• Without education sector, cannot really address many of challenges effectively

• If always talking about high risk groups and safer sex, condoms are most useful approach but some donors don’t allow condom use – WB should advocate for them to remove these limitations that make implementation more difficult

• Use m-s approach also to address sexual violence issues – need holistic approach to assist females so that cannot be forced (need legislation to make it criminal, need to sensitize army and armed personnel to be aware that this is not right, also work with women themselves to empower them and provide employment so that don’t feel have to accept this to survive, etc.)

Session I – Strategic Planning

Area to be rankedRanking

(1-5)

1. Relevance of this presentation to your current work or functions 78%

2. Extent to which you have acquired information that is new to you 36%

3. Usefulness for you of the information that you have acquired 65%

4. Clarity of the presentation 68%

5. Focus of this session on what you specifically needed to learn 48%

6. Extent to which content of this session matched the announced objectives 66%

7. Overall usefulness of this session 81%

8. To what extent will you adopt the group discussion recommendations 79%

Session II – Stigma and Thematic

Area to be rankedRanking

(1-5)

1. Relevance of this presentation to your current work or functions 69%

2. Extent to which you have acquired information that is new to you 40%

3. Usefulness for you of the information that you have acquired 57%

4. Clarity of the presentation 56%

5. Focus of this session on what you specifically needed to learn 36%

6. Extent to which content of this session matched the announced objectives 53%

7. Overall usefulness of this session 68%

8. To what extent will you adopt the group discussion recommendations 55%